Lush Launch

The good ship Branchage 2009 was officially launched on Wednesday evening with a heady cocktail of music, confectionary, drinks, 3D film and, most importantly of all, the announcement of this year’s festival programme!


We took over the Idea Generation gallery space for an evening of all things Branchagey, with foliage in abundance, and managed to create a mini-Jersey in East London for press and industry types to get a feel for the festival. Call us crazy, but we just can’t get enough of greenery.

Being ever-generous hosts, Branchage rustled up some super treats for our guests. We’re talking Hierbas Mojitos (the special Branchage Cocktail designed for us by our friends at Taste of Ibiza), and new-addiction-of-all-Branchagers Jersey Dairy ice cream doled out by the cone-load. Moving away from the consumables, we also had food-for-the-ears Plaster of Paris performing (we.love.her.) and an amazing preview of the 3D films of Jersey that are currently in production by artists Gavin Peacock, Brian McClave and Darren Umney (this of course being food-for-the-eyes).


There was also the little matter of announcing some of the Branchage 2009 programme, but don’t fear, if you weren’t there then you will still get to find out all of the treats in store for this year’s festival through the high-tech wizardry of the internet, as our new website goes live next week sporting all of our programme info.

We’ll blog some links and stuff about this next week… the excitement is just a little too much at the moment and Branchage needs to go and have a lie down.

Happy launch-week to one and all x