● 12 hours of live streamed live local music through the Loving Weymouth & Portland
● Quayside Music Festival is one of Weymouth’s most popular annual events, loved by
thousands
● Virtual Quayfest is a way of keeping the party going, making sure everyone stays
safe at home, but can still spend the day partying, enjoying a drink and listening to
great local musicians.
● We want to help thank our front line staff through this. We are asking anyone who
can on the day to make a donation to our Just Giving page raising money for Dorset
County Hospital Charity. Web address: www.justgiving.com/team/virtualquayfest
How Virtual Quayfest going to work
● Live Stream is exclusively through Loving Weymouth & Portland. Performers will be
going “live” directly through this page from midday on Sunday April 12th.
● People will be able to listen and watch live, interact with the performers, create
“watch parties” to watch with friends, and stream the music live to their home devices
such as Alexa and Google Hub.
● Between perfomer sets, Steve Mullins and others will be giving “shout outs” to those
watching.
● Live Stream will go on until midnight. That’s 12 hours of live streamed local music.
● We are aware that Facebook’s live stream platform can go down after a while, that’s
why we have a top tech team (Steve, Jack, Andy Senior, Dan Roads) working with
back end servers to ensure minimal to no drops - it’s magic!
Organisers
Billy Hutchinson - local musician, band member of The Leggomen, member of the musical
duo Billy & Olly, headlined Quayside Music Festival, appeared on BBC Introducing, created
the fan page Weymouth Virtual Fest, responsible for creating the schedule of performers for
Virtual Quayfest.
Olly Coe - local musician, band member of The Leggomen, band member of The Flying
Camels, member of the musical duo Billy & Olly, appeared on BBC Introducing, created the
fan page Weymouth Virtual Fest, responsible for creating the schedule of performers for
Virtual Quayfest.
Andy Cooke (Senior) - owner of Facebook fan page Loving Weymouth & Portland with over
38,000 fans, the largest fan page for the area, accompanying website
www.love-weymouth.co.uk , also popular local DJ.
Andrew Cooke - owner of Ayya Bar in Weymouth, creator and owner of Tinsel Town
Weymouth which launched back in December, admin on Loving Weymouth & Portland.
Responsible for promotion and sponsorship.
Keith Tregidden - General Manager of Rendezvous, Slug & Lettuce, PopWorld and The
Royal Oak, founder of Quayside Music Festival.
Steve Mullins - local popular DJ, working on the technical side of making Virtual Quayfest
run smoothly alongside Jack Hintze - son of popular entertainer Ed Hintze, only 16 years
old, giving us all a lesson in how young people understand technical stuff more than us!
Dan Roads - popular local photographer of Dan Roads Photography, working on video
production promo and graphics, as well as being involved on the technical side.
Who’s Performing
● By the end of the week we should have the full schedule nearly complete
● As you can appreciate, we are having a lot of requests from musicians to play, we
are trying to work out how to squeeze them all in at the moment
● All announcements will appear on Loving Weymouth & Portland and Weymouth
Virtual Fest fan pages first - keep an eye on them
● If you’re a musician and you want to play, then message Weymouth Virtual Fest fan
page first
Sponsors
● We want sponsors!
● We are looking for 5 businesses who would like their branding shown throughout the
live stream
● £200 per company, we dont want the money, we want them to make the £200
donation direct to our Just Giving page
● If your business wants to sponsor, contact Andrew Cooke through the Ayya
page (https://www.facebook.com/ayyabars/)
