Jersey Live news

First-aiders were kept busy on day one of Jersey Live with a succession of more than 30 festival-goers suffering wasp stings.

In all 89 people needed some kind of first aid and six were taken to hospital. Police believe that two of the hospital cases were drugs related.

Overall police say the first day of the event passed peacefully. There were six arrests - two of them for drugs offences. And 47 people were ejected from the festival site for bad behaviour or not having a ticket.

Crystal Castles have pulled out of today's (Sunday) line-up. (from Cionline)

THIS year’s Jersey Live music festival will have more police officers than attended Glastonbury – even though the UK festival was 17 times the size.
Scores of officers, both States and honorary, will join stewards and security guards for the event today and tomorrow. Specially erected CCTV cameras will also be filming the crowds, as they did last year.
Up to 10,000 people are expected to attend the Royal Jersey Showground for the event, compared to the 177,000 who attended Glastonbury this year. And the organisers have said that Jersey Live continues to be the ‘most policed event within the country’ after being made to contribute towards the cost of paying police overtime.
Last year officers from outside the Island were brought over, which led to a number of the high-profile bands appearing criticising the size of the police presence.





Jersey Live organiser and founder Warren Le Sueur said: ‘We don’t know if there is a need for the CCTV. The States police carried out the installation. From a crowd point of view, there are no statistics to suggest that anything will happen, but the cameras are a requirement of the police.
‘We also have to make a donation to the police for overtime costs. I wonder where the balance is for an Island that doesn’t boast high crime statistics but still has a high police presence for this event.’ (from thisisjersey)