The SuperSwell Podcast

Welcome to another special episode of the SuperSwell Podcast. In November 2025, the SuperSwell was invited by the Future Of Festivals Conference in Berlin to host a series of one-to-one interviews with leading professionals from the live music industry, to take place over 2 days at the Roundtable Stage in the heart of the event. Part 1 of this 2 part series brings together four conversations with people tackling some of the biggest challenges facing festivals, venues and touring today. From t...

Welcome to Part 3 of this short series of podcasts brought to you by TicketSwap, the safest and fairest way to buy and sell tickets online. In this episode, we speak with Phil Simpson, a passionate concert-goer and sports fan whose calendar is packed with gigs, festivals and football matches across Europe. From intimate club shows and forest festivals to major arena tours and international sporting events, Phil represents the modern event consumer: informed, enthusiastic and increasingly cons...

Welcome to Part 2 of this short series of podcasts brought to you by TicketSwap, the safest and fairest way to buy and sell tickets online. In this episode, we speak with Jannik Badnowitz, a co-creater of Shifted Festival, the independent techno festival that has grown from a group of friends organising Berlin club nights and free raves into one of Germany's emerging community-focused electronic music events. While the conversation explores the story behind Shifted Festival and its rapid gro...

Welcome to Part 1 of this short series of podcasts brought to you by TicketSwap, the safest and fairest way to buy and sell tickets online. In this episode, we explore the world of live events and ticketing with Christoph Radjeh, TicketSwap's regional lead for Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Our conversation examines how the ticketing landscape, and resale in particular, has dramatically evolved, from risky exchanges on Facebook or tense chats outside venues to becoming an every day, estab...

This is the eleventh edition of The Delicates' Lounge - a podcast for all us music event tourists who love to be where the action is and occasionally like to grumble about having to queue for our passes or a beer or to get into a venue. You know, all things that we missed for so long during the pandemic (remember that?). Now and again we’ll get together with a handful of delicate delegates at one of the many events we love to go to. This time we're joined by: head of Bella Union, Cocteau Twi...