Jersey Live chart-toppers point to another big year

Tuesday 21 July 2015

Jersey Live act Years & Years are topping the album chart with their debut Communion.

Organisers say that they’re hoping that the coverage and hype behind “Communion” will boost what already looks likely to be a sell-out festival.

Warren Le Sueur said: “It will definitely give it a boost.

“They’ve won the BBC Sound of 2015 and we’ve managed to get them just at the right time.

“The other hot act that everyone’s raving about is Wolf Alice. Their debut album was only kept off the top spot by Florence and the Machine, who had that amazing Glastonbury performance.”

And he added that part of the job of booking acts for the festival – which takes place this year on 5^th and 6^th September - was about blending the right established names and up-and-comers, as well as some leftfield choices.

He said: “There’s a wide demographic at Jersey Live, it’s an all ages event now, so we are very conscious during the programming and booking that we have to do stuff that’s relevant to different groups.

“We’ve gone back a few years with the Stereo MCs and the Proclaimers, we’ve remained very current with Rudimental, George Ezra and The Vaccines, who have all had great success in the last couple of years, and newer acts like Years and Years.

“Old Men Grooving were targeted more to give the families something as well – obviously we all saw them on Britain’s Got Talent. It wasn’t just the show itself, it was also the music montage that they were dancing to.”