Recently I was asked by Glastonbury FM the local radio station I have been volunteering for, If myself and presenter Liz Janaway would help out at the emerging talent competition, which is an annual event held by glastonbury festival and is designed to unearth unsigned bands and give them a chance to win a slot on the main pyramid stage. Previously the competition has given prominence to winning bands such as Scouting For Girls and Stornoway.
Twelve bands compete in the finals which are held over two nights at the Pilton Working Mens Club six bands compete each night in front of a panel of judges. Our job was to interview the bands back stage in the waiting room before they went on stage, Most of the bands had already had a main interveiw during the day with Worthy Fm ( the festivals official radio station who join forces with Glastonbury Fm to cover the event) We were asked to do an in formal interview which most band members were more than happy to do, although there was one band who wanted to 'have some space' before going on stage, with those guys we waited until after their performance.
We had a few technical issues one of them been that one of the stage crew kept walking in out of the room, everytime he opened the door we got a loud blast of noise come in from the stage, which ruined parts of some of the interveiws and resulted in me having to cut out large parts of the interveiw during editing. I was only given a couple days in which to edit down all the material, I kept it short and each band interveiw was narrowed down to approx 3 minutes each. I was pleased to hear that Steve bilborough used all the material in his show and was happy with the results.
The line up was of a high standard and I would of struggled to pick between some of the acts. The winning band was Ellen and the escapades (one 0f my favourates). Ellen was a sweet little girl with voice of an angel, she was very shy and we didnt manage to get much of an interveiw with the band but we did get a live recording of them warming up just bfore going on stage.
The line up was of a high standard and I would of struggled to pick between some of the acts. The winning band was Ellen and the escapades (one 0f my favourates). Ellen was a sweet little girl with voice of an angel, she was very shy and we didnt manage to get much of an interveiw with the band but we did get a live recording of them warming up just bfore going on stage.
The whole experience was enjoyable and very rewarding, there was talk of us working with worthy fm during the festival as roving reporters, they will be following up the six winning bands that earned themselves slots on the smaller stages
