Festival Insights NEWS: From Beach Bar to Festivals, Growing Tunes in the Sand.

From Beach Bar to Festivals, Growing Tunes in the Sand.

Becoming a festival owner wasn’t exactly Tommy Job’s destiny, but his dad, Bob’s acquisition of a beach bar near home on Cornwall back in the 1970s certainly provided the foundation on which to build a business which now specialises in beach-based events. We got together to plot the development of the Tunes portfolio.

First things first, where did it all start for you?

“I went to university, I was up at Loughborough, came down here and Dad had a bar, the Watering Hole and like most family businesses, was pretty desperate for me to get involved with it and I was like, ugh, quiet, sleepy Cornwall. This was about ten years ago, nothing was going on here and I was like, so I do that? I came back and I came into the bar, we didn’t have an email address, didn’t have a website, no card machines, no social media. And he was like, ‘yeah, I don’t…