Jersey Live
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Jersey Live is an indie/dance
music festival
held annually at The Royal Jersey Showground
in the parish of Trinity
, Jersey
. The festival has grown in popularity and size each year and has drawn interest from people outside the Channel Islands
with overseas visitors making up approximately 25% of the crowd.
"Surreal, Sexy & Super Cool! We wanna come back again!!" - Tom Meighan
- Kasabian
"More pulling power than any other small festival!" - Edith Bowman
- BBC Radio 1
(2006)
Confirmed to date:
Main Stage hosted by Mani
(Stone Roses/Primal Scream).
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
held annually at The Royal Jersey Showground
Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society
The Royal Jersey Agricultural & Horticultural Society is an agricultural association in Jersey. It has been instrumental in the development of the Jersey cow and its success throughout the world, and today is responsible for management of the breed in its Island home.The Royal Jersey Showground,...
in the parish of Trinity
Trinity, Jersey
Trinity is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is in the north east of the island.Trinity has the reputation of being the most rural of Jersey's parishes, being the third-largest parish by surface area with the third-smallest population. The parish covers 6,817 vergées...
, Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
. The festival has grown in popularity and size each year and has drawn interest from people outside the Channel Islands
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...
with overseas visitors making up approximately 25% of the crowd.
Organisation
The Jersey Live Festival has been organised by Warren Le Sueur and Warren Holt since 2004. In 2006, there was a huge demand for tickets and subsequently, Positiv applied for licensing permission for an extra day for the festival. In 2010, the event sold out for the first time since being granted a 10,000 visitor capacity."Surreal, Sexy & Super Cool! We wanna come back again!!" - Tom Meighan
Tom Meighan
Thomas Peter Meighan is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist for Indie Rock band Kasabian.-Career:Meighan has been the lead vocalist of Kasabian since the band's inception in Leicester in 1999...
- Kasabian
"More pulling power than any other small festival!" - Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music...
- BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
(2006)
2011 Line-up
The festival was once again sponsored by Jersey Telecom, and was held on 3 and 4 September 2011.Confirmed to date:
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2010 Line-up
Jersey Telecom renewed their sponsorship agreement of Jersey Live for a fifth year.Main Stage hosted by Mani
Gary Mounfield
Gary Manny "Mani" Mounfield , is an English rock bassist of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream. He has a distinctive playing style that combines a fast moving rock style with a dance rhythm or dub groove...
(Stone Roses/Primal Scream).
Main Stage | Dance Arena | Hospitality Stage | Les Inrocks Magic Stage | Wild West Tease Stage | |
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Sat 4 September |
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Sun 5 September |
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2009 Line-up
Around 9,000 people attended in 2009.Positiv Main Stage | Theory Dance Arena | Les Inrocks Stage | VIP Spiegel Tent | The Big Tease Tent | |
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Sat 5 September |
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Sun 6 September |
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2008 Line-up
Positiv Main Stage | Theory Dance Arena | |
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Sat 30 August |
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Sun 31 August |
The Prodigy The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s... The Go! Team The Go! Team are a six-piece band from Brighton, England. They combine indie rock and garage rock with a mixture of blaxploitation and Bollywood soundtracks, double dutch chants, old school hip hop and distorted guitars similar to the style of Sonic Youth. Their songs are a mix of live... Goose (band) Goose are a Belgian electro rock band consisting of members Mickael Karkousse, Dave Martijn, Tom Coghe, and Bert Libeert. They are currently signed to !K7 Records.- History :Goose was formed in the summer of 2000 in Kortrijk, Belgium... Crystal Castles (band) Crystal Castles are an experimental electronic band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of producer Ethan Kath and lyricist and vocalist Alice Glass. Crystal Castles are known for their chaotic live shows and their lo-fi home productions. The duo released many limited EPs between 2006 and... Black Kids Black Kids is an American indie pop band from Jacksonville, Florida. The band's debut EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, received favorable critical response in 2007, and was followed by the Partie Traumatic album, which debuted at #5 on the UK Albums Chart in July 2008.-History:Black Kids formed in Jacksonville... Cage the Elephant Cage the Elephant is an American rock band from Bowling Green, Kentucky, that formed in mid-2006. Since their formation, the band has gained a large following in the US as well as the UK and Canada for their sound and their high-energy live performances. The band released their self-titled debut... |
Kissy Sell Out Kissy Sell Out an English DJ, producer and graphic designer. Kissy Sell Out quickly gained notability in 2006 for his eccentric electro productions and energetic DJ style. In 2009 Mixmag described him as "one of the most exciting, charismatic and entertaining DJs of the decade"... Sébastien Léger Sébastien Léger is a French house DJ and producer. Currently ranked 138 on The DJ List, his singles "Hit Girl", "Hypnotized" and "Aqualight" have become hit dance singles played in clubs across Europe.-Style and history:... |
2007 Line-up
Positiv Main Stage | Theory Dance Arena | |
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Sat 1 September |
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Digitalism (band) Digitalism is a German electro house duo founded in 2004 in Hamburg and consisting of Jens "Jence" Moelle and İsmail "Isi" Tüfekçi. They are signed to French label Kitsuné Music, and have released four singles to date: "Idealistic", "Zdarlight", "Jupiter Room", and "Pogo"... Boys Noize Boys Noize is the stage name of Alexander Ridha, a German electronic music producer and DJ. It is similar to the name of Ridha's label, Boysnoize Records, which he established in 2005... Optimo Optimo was a weekly Sunday-night club based in Glasgow, Scotland at the Sub Club on Jamaica Street, as well as a collective moniker for the night's resident DJ duo. Having run every week since it was founded in 1997, on Thursday 11 March 2010, it was announced on the official facebook page that... Justin Robertson Justin Robertson is a British DJ, remixer and electronic music producer from Manchester, England. He has remixed dozens of high-profile music artists as himself or as The Prankster, fronted the group Lionrock and has released albums and singles of original music under his own name and the name... |
Sun 2 September |
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Steve Lawler Steve Lawler is a British house music producer and DJ born in Birmingham, England. He has held residences at many popular dance clubs such as Space, The End and Twilo. Because of his successful performances at Space in Ibiza, he has been nicknamed "King of Space". Lawler has released several mix... DJ Format Matt Ford, better known as DJ Format , is a hip hop DJ born in Southampton, England who lives in Brighton... |
2006 Line-up
In 2006, 7,500 people attended the festival.Positiv Main Stage | Theory Dance Arena |
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James Lavelle James Lavelle is a DJ, electronic recording artist and record label boss.-Early years:Born into a family with a strong tradition of music, Lavelle first began by learning the cello with his grandmother in Oxford.... Ivan Smagghe Ivan Smagghe is a French DJ and producer. He was originally known as Ivan Rough Trade, after his job in the Rough Trade record store in Paris. His musical style has been described as electrohouse and "minimal electro.". Smagghe's Death Disco compilation was a key release in the electroclash... Erol Alkan Erol Alkan is a London-based electro DJ of Turkish Cypriot descent.-DJ and club promoter:In 1993, Erol Alkan started DJing in various Indie nightclubs in London.... C2C C2C is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:* c2c, a British train operating company* Cam 2 cam, Web cam chat, from the instant messaging shorthand "cam-to-cam", usually spelt in lower case "c2c"* Coast to Coast AM, a syndicated AM talk radio show... |
2005 Line-up
Positiv Main Stage | Theory Dance Arena |
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2004 Line-up
Positiv Main Stage | Theory Dance Arena |
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External links
- http://www.jerseylive.org.uk The official Jersey live website
- BBC Jersey Website: Jersey Live
- http://www.channelonline.tv