IFF 2025: The Festival Season
Executives from Mad Cool, Sziget, Wasserman Music, WME & Rock in Rio Lisboa pored over the summer's biggest talking points
News By James Hanley | 10 September 2025
A crack panel of promoters and agents gathered at the International Festival Forum (IFF) to run the rule over the 2025 season.
Chaired by IQ Magazine‘s James Drury, today’s opening session in London Bridge united Cindy Castillo (Mad Cool), Virag Csizar (Sziget), Jesse Fayne (Wasserman Music), Josh Javor (WME) and Luis Soares (Rock in Rio Lisboa) to discuss the biggest talking points to come out of the year.
Fayne, who is VP of global festivals at Wasserman, remarked that…
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