Defected Records’ James Kirkham on launching the label’s massive live streamed Virtual Festivals

Defected Records chief business officer James Kirkham talks to Broadcast Tech editor Jake Bickerton about the dance label's hugely popular weekly Virtual Festivals, which kicked off as soon as the UK went into lockdown. The 12-hour live streamed events, which went out on a plethora of social media platforms every Friday night, brought in an audience of millions of dance music fans each week. Each Virtual Festival brought together DJs from around the world, who each had an hour to spin discs from their home, before the next DJ kicked off their set. The complexity of how each set was filmed ranged from a single iPhone camera stream to a multi-camera setup, including drones. Kirkham explains how it was all put together and what the future for Virtual Festivals might be post-lockdown.