by John Pearson | Aug 23, 2022
In 2009, BBC 6 Music formed a partnership with London festival The Camden Crawl. For years the Camden Crawl organisers had tried unsuccessfully to persuade local legends Madness to play their festival. So I came up with a novel approach—The Madness World Tour of...
by John Pearson | Aug 23, 2022
In March 2012 BBC 6 Music celebrated its tenth birthday, and I developed and produced a live music event to mark the occasion.The one-night event at London’s Southbank Centre comprised two separate music performance areas, headlined by Public Image Ltd and Laura...
by John Pearson | Aug 23, 2022
The BBC’s Biggest Weekend was a one-off music festival in 2018, staged across four sites around the UK. It took place over four days, with all four sites in operation simultaneously to host more than 175,000 ticket holders.I led the production of the live music audio...
by John Pearson | Aug 23, 2022
The BBC has a close working relationship with Glastonbury Festival which stretches back for decades, and it has always been one of my favourite live music events. I worked on broadcasts from site every year that the festival took place, from my first in 1993 as a...
by John Pearson | Aug 23, 2022
In order to build my experience of broadcasting orchestral live music, I arranged a secondment to the television production team at the BBC Proms. I worked on various productions including this candlelit performance of Renaissance music in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre,...
