Online festivals publication This Festival Feeling relaunched its website ready for the 2010 festival season this morning, and has also confirmed the appointment of Bearded magazine founder Gareth Main as editor of its interactive monthly digital magazine, which sits at the heart of the site providing magazine-style feature content about all things music festivals. The first of those magazines for 2010 will be published online in March, and will feature an interview with Festival Republic big cheese Melvin Benn and Radio 1 DJ and Swn festival organiser Huw Stephens.

Commenting on Main's appointment as editor, This Festival Feeling publisher Leon Wingham told CMU: "Gareth's attitude, contacts book and skillset set him apart from the crowd. His devotion to old and new media, to the independent music sector and his understanding and knowledge of all parts of the musical landscape worldwide, as well as his determination and guile to grow a publication from the ground up, made him a perfect addition to take TFF by the horns and make us the best festival publication in the world".

Main notes that today's launch of Apple's iTablet - which some reckon will kick start the long mooted growth of bigger-but-still-portable all-genre-encompassing digital content devices - will make the delivery of content through digital magazine style set ups, rather than traditional websites, all the more attractive.

He told CMU: "This is an amazing challenge for me. Given the sudden surge in interest in the digital magazine market, and Apple's iTablet announcement this week, the prospect of taking such a forward-thinking publication headfirst into this exciting world is too good to pass up. With my heart firmly in print, the sheer possibilities of how a digital magazine can change music journalism for the better are simply endless, not to mention salivating".

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