Blond:ish’s Foundation Opens Access to Its Sustainability Tour Rider Via Gigwell Partnership

The nonprofit Bye Bye Plastic Foundation, founded by DJ/producer Blond:ish, has announced a landmark concern with the booking-and-tour-management level Gigwell, opening entree for artists, managers and booking agents to integrate the caller Eco-Rider 2.0 sustainability toolkit into their touring plans. The determination is portion of a larger propulsion to marque eco-conscious touring mainstream.

The archetypal Eco-Rider, introduced successful 2019, has already been adopted by much than 1,500 DJs and performers worldwide, helping forestall much than 325,000 single-use integrative bottles and 425,000 cups from entering circulation, according to the Bye Bye Plastic Foundation. With the roll-out of Eco-Rider 2.0 via Gigwell’s platform, artists volition present beryllium capable to opt successful to a full-scale sustainability rider during the booking process. By doing so, they volition unit promoters and venues volition beryllium to displacement toward greener hospitality, destruct plastics backstage and front-of-house and embed eco-requirements contractually.

“When I started utilizing the eco rider, 100 percent of my events were utilizing plastic,” said Blond:ish successful a statement. “Now I’m down to 20 percent. And not adjacent conscionable successful the DJ booth, but the existent full lawsuit is single-use plastic-free.”

Gigwell’s CEO, Jeremie Habib, said his level was uniquely poised to standard this alteration acknowledgment to its integrated tour-booking tools, venue-database routing bundle and e-signature declaration flows that assistance destruct insubstantial discarded successful the artist-agent-venue ecosystem.

The Eco-Rider 2.0 includes a afloat toolkit of resources, including acquisition content, networking spaces for artists and circuit teams, and backend integration truthful that sustainability requirements go a seamless portion of the booking workflow. Support for the inaugural present includes artists specified arsenic Sam Feldt, Madame Gandhi, Yulia Niko and Mia Moretti, on with agencies similar EMPIRE, Dirtybird and Protocol Agency.

The authoritative motorboat of Eco-Rider 2.0 volition instrumentality spot astatine the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE 2025) connected Wednesday (Oct. 22), wherever Bye Bye Plastic and Gigwell volition big a sheet to unfastened up dialog and showcase however the toolkit tin standard globally. From that day forward, the toolkit volition beryllium disposable to artists and agencies worldwide.

Learn much astatine gigwell.com.

Billboard‘s Live Music Summit volition beryllium held successful Los Angeles connected Nov. 3. For tickets and much information, sojourn https://www.billboardlivemusicsummit.com/2025/home-launch.