Bands at Jersey Live

August 27, 2007

As well as just getting a new laptop to play with - this week is the run up to the Jersey Live music festivals - the second biggest event in my ‘coverage’ diary. That is, events I need to cover for bbc.co.uk/jersey.

The biggest is the Jersey Battle of Flowers which happens in the middle of August - but the difference between the Battle of Flowers and Jersey Live is that the Battle of Flowers coverage is organised by the BBC Jersey management team and the Jersey Live coverage is organised by me and Claire.

This is mainly due to the fact that an indie music festival doesn’t really fall within the remit of a radio station targetted at people over 45 - so it falls within the remit of the website team which is targetted at 18 - 35 year olds.

Over the course of the next five days I would normally be working flat out on band previews, news from the festival, preperation galleries and interviewing the bands and DJs taking part.

This year we haven’t had time to organise interviews in advance so hope to catch the bands backstage at the festival and I’ve just spent all weekend putting together an interactive band guide.

Check out the guide >>>

If you’re into any of the bands playing the festival feel free to have your say on that bands page. It’s basically using the same template set up for Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds and the BBC Radio 1 weekender event.

This year we’re doing a couple of other things differently - each band page in the guide, after the festival will include a two paragraph review of their performance and photos we’ve taken of them on stage/around the festival - that and if we catch them and interview.

We’ll be out with our video camera asking people what they think of the festival and if I can get it working we’ll be posting photos of festival goers to our mobile portal during the two day event.

If we can’t get the mobile portal thing working then we’ll be posting the photos to bbc.co.uk/jersey and to our flickr page at flickr.com/photos/bbcjersey.

We’ll also be setting up flickr and you tube groups so you can share your photos/videos with us and if you tag them forpublication we’ll put them on bbc.co.uk/jersey with a link and credit.

So that longwinded explanation is why I’m not going to be blogging much this week - that and the fact that my parents have come over for a suprise visit - so I’m working half days until Friday.

Then of course It’s all weekend on Saturday/Sunday, lates on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then on Thursday we start preparing for the Jersey International Air Display and the Jersey Marathon.

Isn’t life fun