Festival Season

A summer of festivals is that of the norm for Anna and I. this is not to say that we are purely hedonistic however. Exit was an exception to our normal working festivals. Since graduating we both worked at Big Chill. Working is the best way to enjoy the festival. You get a free ticket, meet loads of new people and to top it off Jam Events, the company we work for pays us too! Hats off to them. Chromeo were amazing, Cinematic Orchestra and Kruder and Dorfmeister stand out in my mind and I can't not mention the Soulman himself- Isaac Hayes. It was the first truly sunny festival of the year and my favourite Big Chill so far...








Following Big Chill, Anna went to Reggae Sundance in Holland (ok so maybe that is two festivals without working...ahem) and I got promoted to be a manager of one of the bars at Green Man Festival. Lots of working and new things to learn but (muddy) fun too. Joanna Newsom was incredible, even in the pissy rain and I discovered a new band I now love called 'My Brightest Diamond'- check them out on Myspace. Glanusk Park in the Breccon Beacons is probably the most beautiful festival site I have experienced. The festival was small and chilled and a warm-down from the other bigger festivals...

UNTIL We were given BBC press passes for this weekend's Bestival on the Isle of Wight. Just as we thought we could pack away our tents until next year...Now we are going to, what will hopefully be the best festival of the year...and the festival that ends the summer each year. We will be helping to interview and photograph The Cuban Brothers, The Dub Pistols, Rob and Josie Da Bank. This work comes as an unexpected and exciting new project through a couple of friends who we will be working for in the future. They are starting a magazine and we will be Art Directing the front covers and hopefully getting involved in some other creative aspects of its content. It will be launched this winter so watch this space for more info. We are both really excited about being involved in a new project starting up and the fact that we will have a lot of creative freedom. There is also a chance we might do some work on a couple of music videos with an up and coming art director. Ho-hum, lots of possibilities...all very exciting. We will both feel a lot better when our website is re-launched so that we can start promoting ourselves properly again. Until then you can see what we are getting up to on this blog.