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In just over a weeks time I’m going to be covering the Jersey Live music festival. It is a two day festival on for about twelve hours per day and I will be there for the whole thing. The weekend kicks off on Saturday when I present a two hour live radio show from one of the smaller stages at the festival. I will have four live bands performing and [...]

 

The simple interview format

Every year at the Jersey Live music festival I get an opportunity to interview, in person, a fairly good number of the acts taking part in the annual event. As I’d actually been pretty proactive this year and interviewed most of them before the festival – I didn’t really have a lot to say that I hadn’t already said – or at least that THEY hadn’t already said. But I [...]

 

Covering a music festival - socially

A weekend for me is usually a fairly predictable affair; I wake up on a Saturday and spend the day looking after my (nearly) six year old son while my wife goes shopping with our eight year old daughter and toddler. Then on Sunday we spend the day together as a family – go the park, sometimes to the zoo and usually have a Sunday roast at around 2pm – [...]

 

A full on summer

I’ve been working in Jersey for about nine years now and seven of those have been spent at the BBC doing everything from live blogging elections (first one was seven years ago) to photographing a street carnival in the form of the Battle of Flowers. There is also the Jersey International Air Display – one of the largest free air displays in Europe. In the last few years a number [...]

 

Social media festival coverage

Let me tell you about my weekend and the reason I haven’t blogged much in a few days. It all starts with an ftp client and a wristband.