Wakestock to be first UK festival to use wristbands - BBC News
Wakestock will become the first multi-day festival in the UK to use wristbands instead of paper tickets this summer.
The event takes place between 6-8 July at Cardigan Bay in north Wales.
Red Hot Chili Peppers will be the first band to use wristbands instead of tickets at an outdoor concert in the UK at Knebworth House this Saturday.
Wireless and the Isle of Wight Festival are both also planning to use cashless payment systems this year.
Wristbands are scanned as music fans enter and leave venues or areas
Wristbands are already widely used at concerts in north America.
Coachella in California has used ticketless systems since 2010 which include integrated social media tools so festival-goers can check-in.
Wristbands arrived in Europe earlier this year and were used at Eurosonic Noorderslag festival in Groningen, The Netherlands.
SmartphonesThe wristbands look like standard material festival bands but are fitted with a microchip instead.
It is a similar technology to London's Oyster card public transport swipe cards and uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
People are registered in and out of venues or arenas with either turnstiles or hand-held devices scanning their wristbands, with organisers able to track the data.
Wakestock is a wakeboarding and music festival
Glastonbury's Michael Eavis was one of the promoters taking a look at the technology in January at Eurosonic Noorderslag festival and says it could be used at Worthy Farm in the future.
At Wakestock, festival-goers can choose to link bands to their social media profiles or used to enter competitions associated with the event.
The promoter of the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and Wakestock, Stuart Galbraith, said: "We've been waiting for the opportunity to use RFID technology for a while.
"It's a great way to enhance and grow the customer experience for concerts and festivals of the future.
"We are very excited to be working with Samsung and Intellitix in being one of the first UK promoters to embrace this new technology and look forward to developing adaptations across many events."
Samsung says festival-goers will be able to use their smartphones as tickets soon as well.
Modi-Nitish Row: RSS says Hinduism, secularism not contradictory - New Kerala
New Delhi, Jun 20 : The RSS today justified its chief Mohan Bhagwat's comments supportive of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying that there was no contradiction between Hinduism and secularism.
Mr Bhagwat, while addressing RSS workers at Latur in Maharashtra, said, "What is the problem if a political leader with Hindutva leanings becomes Prime Minister of the country." His remarks are believed to be an answer to Bihar Chief Minister and NDA ally JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar's opposition to Narendra Modi's candidature for prime ministership on the ground that a prime minister of this country should have impeccable secular credentials.
Replying to questions from reporters here, RSS Spokesperson Ram Madhav said what Mr Bhagwat had said in Latur was not something new, but the considered stand of the RSS in the Hinduism-Secularism debate.
"Hinduism is liberal and all embracing, and includes the premises on which secularism is based," he said.
The RSS sees no contradition in the two view points, he said, stressing that "Mr Bhagwat was only speaking about what the Sangh had been propagating since its inception that Hinduism was all inclusive, and his comments should not be linked to the current political discourse about the candidates for prime ministership." The RSS Chief is also reported to have said, "to sustain the Hindutva ideology, the Hindu samaaj should come together. And the country should have a Prime Minister who believes in that ideology or propounds that view." Mr Madhav said propopagation of the Hindu ideology in no way meant the exclusion of any section of the society as Hindusim was "all embracing". (UNI)
RSS backs Narendra Modi as prime ministerial candidate - Daily Pioneer
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat Wednesday backed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a candidate for the prime minister's post and said that the country should have a PM who propounded Hindutva. "To keep alive the Hindutva ...RSS justifies chief's statement on PM candidate - in.news.yahoo.com
New Delhi/Nagpur, June 20 (IANS) Justifying the RSS chief's statement that the country should have a prime minister who propounded Hindutva, the organisation's spokesman Wednesday said the views should not be linked to "day-to-day political happenings".
"We always held that Hindutva, the ideological anchor of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is a liberal, all-embracing and secular idea," spokesman Ram Madhav told reporters in New Delhi.
"To portray it as anti-secular or narrow-minded is not correct. Hindutva in reality is a true synonym for secularism," the RSS spokesman maintained.
"This is our ideological position which we have been articulating from time immemorial and the chief of RSS (Mohan Bhagwat) has only reiterated that position," Madhav said.
"It is totally, utterly uncalled for to link the views expressed before the swayamsevaks to day-to-day political happenings in the country, to individuals or leaders. This is uncalled for and not appropriate," he said.
Earlier in the day, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had told cadres in Nagpur: "To keep alive the Hindutva ideology, the Hindu 'samaaj' (society) should come together. And the country should have a prime minister who believes in that ideology or propounds that view."
Bhagwat's comments come a day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said the Bharatiya Janata Party-led opposition National Democratic Alliance should announce a secular prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Bhagwat had hit out at Nitish Kumar too, saying he was scared to call himself a Hindu and questioned his right to decide what sort of person would make a good prime minister.
What is wrong if a Hindutva leader becomes PM: RSS Chief - SamayLive
Speaking at a function of Swayamsevaks in Latur Mr Bhagwat asked “what is the problem if a political leader with Hindutva leanings becomes Prime Minister of the country.”
He also questioned Nitish rights to decide who is secular and who is not. Bhagwat wondered if in Nitish Kumar’s imagination, former prime ministers of India were not seculars.
Obviously, Nitish words on Narendra Modi has not gone down well not only with the BJP but also with RSS.
In an interview given to a business daily on Tuesday Nitish Kumar has categorically said that any body wishing to occupy highest post should have impeccable secular credentials.
A political leader whose vision is narrow and frame of mind pigmy would not fit the bill, he is reported to have said.
His other declaration that NDA must announce its Prime Ministerial candidate before the 2014 election also led to heated political exchange.
Two Ministers of BJP in Bihar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi and Giriraj Singh are speaking at tangent. Modi was quick to obliquely endorse Nitish Kumar with the words “ a leader should have the secular credentials similar to that of Atal Behari Bajapai.
Giriraj Singh, another minister was quick to add that “ no body could be more secular than Narendra Modi.
Sushil Modi is held to be close to Nitish to the extent that he risks his relation in his own party, said political watchers in Bihar.
The fight within the BJP and the fight with allies like JDU are bound to worsen over a period of time.
The matter may come to a head when NDA meets on Wednesday to arrive at a consensus for Prez candidature which has eluded it so far.
RSS flays Nitish Kumar's remark on secular PM candidate - Daily News and Analysis
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Amid the flutter created by Nitish Kumar's remark that NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate should have secular credentials, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday hit out at the Bihar Chief Minister, saying he was pandering to his vote bank. "Nitish Kumar has ...
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