Jersey Live

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Jersey Live Music Festival
Location(s) Jersey, Channel Islands
Years active 2004–present
Founded by Warren Le Sueur and Warren Holt[1]
Date(s) First weekend of September (2 days)
Genre Rock, Alternative rock, Indie rock, Dance.
Website http://www.jerseylive.org.uk

Jersey Live Music Festival (alternatively Jersey Live) is a music festival held annually at The Royal Jersey Showground in the parish of Trinity, Jersey since 2004.

Overview

The brainchild of local promoter/DJs Warren Holt and Warren Le Sueur, who were inspired by annual visits to Glastonbury Festival, Jersey Live started out as a 4,000-capacity, one-day event in 2004 with music across two stages. The festival now takes place over two days (typically the first weekend of September) and has grown in size each year, with six stages featuring live music, DJs and as of 2013, comedy and spoken word. Jersey Live now has capacity for an attendance of 10,000 people, selling out at that capacity for the first time in 2010. The organisers have expressed a desire to expand the capacity, and include on-site camping.[2]

The festival has been sponsored each year by local telecommunications company JT, who host the JT Recharge Arena at the festival. The other five stages are the Main Stage, Dance Stage, Folklore Stage, Hospitality Stage and Full Flow Locale Tent. The festival has featured performances from a number of major stars of indie and dance music since 2004 including Noel Gallagher, The Prodigy, Kasabian, Dizzee Rascal and Chase & Status. The festival's line up is typically composed of established mainstream indie and dance acts on the Main and Dance stages, with up-and-coming artists of a wide range of genres spanning folk, hip-hop, punk, ska and reggae, as well as a number of local acts, making up the lineup elsewhere at the festival. Amongst the artists to have performed at Jersey Live in the early stages of their careers before going on to become considerably higher in profile, are Foals, Tinie Tempah, Jake Bugg, Ed Sheeran and Kasabian.

Jersey Live has been described as "Surreal, sexy and super cool" by Kasbian's Tom Meighan, as having "more pulling power than any other small festival" by BBC Radio 1's Edith Bowman. Bowman, along with Zane Lowe, hosted the Main Stage in 2006 and has been followed in subsequent years by Huw Stephens, Craig Charles and Mani of The Stone Roses, who have all acted as Main Stage compere at the festival.

Jersey Live is attended by locals and visitors to the island, with non-locals accounting for a quarter of the attendance.[citation needed] Set in the rural heart of the island of Jersey, Channel Islands, only 14 miles from the coast of France, Jersey Live is the British Isles' most southerly festival.

Stages

Since 2009, the festival typically has the following stages;[3]

  • Main stage
  • Dance stage
  • Sobe stage
  • Hospitality stage – entry restricted to specific ticket types.
  • Recharge stage
  • Tease stage – a small fancy-dress themed stage.

2013

A festival is planned for the weekend of 31 August and 1 September 2013.[4] For the first time, the festival has been granted permission to provide a campsite.[5] The campsite is located in Saint Helier, off Trinity Hill, approximately 1 mile from the festival site.

Main Stage Dance Stage JT Stage Folklore Stage Hospitality Stage
Saturday 31 August
Sunday 1 September
  • Pete Tong
  • Dusky
  • Waze & Odyssey
  • Hot Since 82
  • Russ Chimes
  • Sammi on Standby
  • Lewis Watson
  • Wolf People
  • Teddy
  • Billy Rowan
  • Neville Staple
  • Howard Marks
  • Simon Evans
  • Monty Taft

2012

The festival was held on 1 and 2 September 2012.[7]

The table below lists the acts that performed.

In May, Trinity's Constable John Gallichan declared that festival goers below the age of 16 would have to be accompanied by an adult, at the 2012 event, as measure to reduce underage drinking.[8]

Main Stage Dance Stage JT Stage SoBe Stage Hospitality Stage
Sat 1 September
  • Friends
  • Bwani Junction (UK band)
  • The Valentines
  • The Bloody Battle
  • The Centeniers
  • U.G. & B-Eazy
  • BBC Jersey Live Show
Sun 2 September
  • The Janice Graham Band
  • Bwani Junction
  • Brave Yesterday
  • Ed & BJ
  • Monty Taft
  • Jake Bugg
  • Nina Nesbitt
  • The Recks
  • Badlabecques
  • Rosie Barrett

2011

The 2011 festival was held on 3 and 4 September 2011, and sponsored by Jersey Telecom.

The attendance was 10,000 per day.[2]

There were disputed reports of excessive drinking by under-age people.[13]

Main Stage Dance Arena Sobe Stage Tease Stage Hospitality Stage
Sat 3 September
Sun 4 September

2010

Jersey Telecom renewed their sponsorship agreement of Jersey Live for a fifth year.[15]

Main Stage hosted by Mani (Stone Roses/Primal Scream).

Main Stage Dance Arena Hospitality Stage Les Inrocks Magic Stage Wild West Tease Stage
Sat 4 September
  • Caspa & MC Rod Azlan (Headline)
  • DJ Switch[16]
  • Teenage Bad Girl
  • Rico Tubbs
  • DJ Rafik
  • Schema
  • Brobots
  • Ryan Herve
  • Sasha Le Monnier
  • Tharindu Elkin
  • Jamaica (Headline)
  • Here We Go Magic
  • Rubin Steiner
  • We Are Enfant Terrible
  • Muchuu
  • The Valentines
  • Pirate Video Company
  • The Hats
  • Bones
  • The Valentines
  • Dinosaur Collective
  • Quick & The Dead
  • Last Of The Light Brigade
  • The Wizz
  • The Midnight Expresso
  • Lloyd Yates Band
  • The Centeniers
  • Benny The Moth
  • Clockwork Sodomy
  • Tom Butel
Sun 5 September
  • Count Sizzle
  • Darwin Deez
  • Rubin Steiner
  • We Are Enfant Terrible
  • Hip Hoperation
  • Lloyd Yates
  • Comedy
  • Sound of Guns
  • Brave Yesterday
  • The Bloody Battle
  • Hold Your Fire!
  • Lizzard Channel
  • Little Big Band
  • Kevin Pallot & The Pinnacles
  • All In Human Trainwreck
  • The Mulburys
  • The Hype
  • Didgeridoo Bruce

2009

Around 9,000 people attended in 2009.[17]

Positiv Main Stage Theory Dance Arena Les Inrocks Stage VIP Spiegel Tent The Big Tease Tent
Sat 5 September
  • Marvel
  • Black Stats
  • The Valentines
  • The Speedways
  • The Little Big Band
  • Kevin Pallot & The Pinnacles
  • Banquet
  • The Blind Drivers
  • The Freewheelers
  • Off Limits
Sun 6 September
  • Emily Loizeau
  • Gablé
  • Cocoon
  • The Valentines
  • Bruce Carnegie
  • Oneofakind
  • Count Sizzle
  • Brave Yesterday
  • The Dirty Aces
  • Celadores
  • The Centeniers
  • Lloyd Yates
  • The Porcupine Effect
  • Benny The Moth
  • Laurel Canyon
  • The Empty 7
  • Annie Law

2008

Main stage in 2008.
Positiv Main Stage Theory Dance Arena
Sat 30 August
Sun 31 August
  • Kissy Sell Out
  • Sebastien Leger
  • D Ramirez
  • Caged Baby
  • Black Grass
  • Oneofakind
  • Gaz & Steve
  • Carrie Cooper (of BBC Jersey)
  • Ritchie SDS

2007

Main stage in 2007.
Positiv Main Stage Theory Dance Arena
Sat 1 September
Sun 2 September

2006

In 2006, 7,500 people attended the festival.

Positiv Main Stage Theory Dance Arena

2005

Positiv Main Stage Theory Dance Arena
  • 2 Many Djs
  • Whitey
  • The Glimmers
  • The Mixologists
  • THEORY Residents

2004

Positiv Main Stage Theory Dance Arena
  • Theory
  • Hi-Fi Sushi
  • Rhumba
  • Pandemic
  • Ashford & Mock
  • Terminalstate
  • O.O.T.W.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jersey Live 2011 sponsorship confirmed". Ifcfeed.com. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2012. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "BBC News – Move to expand Jersey Live to three days". BBC. 5 September 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2012. 
  3. ↑ "Jersye Live Festival of Music 2011 Official Programme". Issuu.com. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2012. 
  4. ↑ Jersey Live Festival of Music 2013
  5. ↑ "BBC News - Jersey Live festival gets camping approval". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-06-19. 
  6. ↑ "Jersey Live headliner confirmed as Fatboy Slim". Jersey Live headliner confirmed as Fatboy Slim. BBC. Retrieved 12 April 2013. 
  7. ↑ "BBC News - Thousands see Noel Gallagher and others at Jersey Live 2012". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-09-04. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  8. ↑ "Stricter rules at this year's Jersey Live says Constable". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  9. ↑ "Rizzle Kicks to perform at Jersey Live music festival". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  10. ↑ "Jersey Live announce James Zabiela for the Dance Arena". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  11. ↑ "New Additions to the Jersey Live Line Up: Rizzle Kicks, David Holmes and many more". Jersey.com. 2012-06-01. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  12. ↑ "Noel Gallagher to headline Jersey Live music festival". Bbc.co.uk. 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  13. ↑ "BBC News – Jersey Live organisers dispute drinking comments". BBC. 8 September 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2012. 
  14. ↑ "Little Big Band and Bloody Battle win festival slot". Bbc.co.uk. 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  15. ↑ "JT to sponsor Jersey Live for fifth year". Channelonline.tv. Retrieved 2 May 2012. 
  16. ↑ "More Acts Added To Jersey Live Line Up!". Jersey.com. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 
  17. ↑ Howells, Max (7 September 2009). "Curtain falls on Jersey Live". BBC News. Retrieved 2 May 2012. 
  18. ↑ "Fratellis". Bbc.co.uk. 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2012-10-07. 

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