2012
There’s no better place to explore the exciting world of the music festival than Southampton Solent University
Whether you want to write event programme copy for major festivals like Bestival, or you want to be a part of the website writing and production teams for smaller events like Blissfields. Southampton Solent University has unparalleled links with some of the UK’s biggest music festivals to help these dreams come true.
Solent’s involvement with the world of music festivals stretches back almost ten years through our work at Glastonbury Festival as one of its major broadcast media producers.
We now have a unique partnership with Bestival and Camp Bestival, which provides our students with enviable work experience opportunities. We also have links with a number of smaller festivals including Blissfields, Glade and Pulse. Furthermore, Solent also enjoys an exclusive working agreement with the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), which will provide Popular Music Journalism students with access to music festivals throughout the UK and Europe.
In recent years students on the Popular Music Journalism course have worked on live briefs for a number of events. These have included writing website content and producing event programmes for Glade in 2009| and Blissfields in 2010|, and producing a documentary for Blissfields, which will be used in the promotional campaign for the 2011 event.
With Solent’s Music Festival links now including a host of British and European Festivals, there is no better place to explore future journalism employment possibilities within the exciting world of the music festival than at Southampton Solent University.
What our students say:
“I was asked to help out on the journalism team to write the programme and create a documentary for Blissfields 2010. The project let me put a lot of skills I’ve learned into practice and it was the first time I’d felt like a real practicing music journalist. Being part of a well structured team, getting in to the festival for free, having a press area to work in and hanging out with band after band in quick succession, gave me a real taste of what it might be like to do this as a career and it was definitely something I’d jump at the chance of doing again.”
Andrew Sheppard, BA (Hons) Popular Music Journalism