Glade 2008.

[david dissadent]

Places like the overkill tent can get horribly warm and sweaty so anything, absolutely anything, done to improve the access to water would be a big step forward.

Fortunately, unlike clubs, you can easily go outside for a cool down, but with the weather last year there was a bit of a risk of getting too cold quickley. Not a big risk though.

The Overkill could be larger as its so popular, but it is probibly too late for that, as tent sizes are part of the layout that would be on the license application IIRC.

Another odd question is there a bike lock up? I ended up with my bike in my tent last year, and am seriously thinking about biking again this year.

 

[Badgers]

I am not going!!!!

 

[JTG]

fixed yer link Badgers

 

[david dissadent]

Loud music is not really a threat at Glade or Glastonbury.

 

[r0cky]

An eight hour shift in the Glade Stage tent right next to the main speaker stack did my hearing in though! I had ear plugs fitted as well, couldn't hear for 24 hours, just had rining in my ears

 

[free spirit]

An eight hour shift in the Glade Stage tent right next to the main speaker stack did my hearing in though! I had ear plugs fitted as well, couldn't hear for 24 hours, just had rining in my ears

shit, you ought to have been getting rotated so the people by the speakers weren't there all shift, and would swap with people by the fire exits etc.

I don't do stewarding any more really, but I'll try and pass this on - or maybe jtg can do this if he's still involved in the oxfam malarky?

keep the feedback coming - it's stuff like this that get's missed by those at the top as they either assume it's already happening or don't realise it's an issue.

 

[free spirit]

Places like the overkill tent can get horribly warm and sweaty so anything, absolutely anything, done to improve the access to water would be a big step forward.

Fortunately, unlike clubs, you can easily go outside for a cool down, but with the weather last year there was a bit of a risk of getting too cold quickley. Not a big risk though.

The Overkill could be larger as its so popular, but it is probibly too late for that, as tent sizes are part of the layout that would be on the license application IIRC.

Another odd question is there a bike lock up? I ended up with my bike in my tent last year, and am seriously thinking about biking again this year.

overkill was meant to have been bigger last year but something daft happened like the lorry carry the marquee jacknifed on route to the glade, and th tent they ended up with was the biggest they could get at short notice to replace it - i think this was also why the overkill wasn't funktion 1 sourround sound like the other big marquees, which was why it ended up having to be quieter as it didn't have the noise cancelling stuff the other marquees had (whatever the fuck that actually is) - because they didn't have room in the new smaller tent for the extra stacks of speakers around the tent.

so I'd be very surprised if it wasn't both bigger and fully funktion 1 noise cancelling tech'd up for extra volume - that was definately what they were saying at the end of last year anyway.

 

[JTG]

shit, you ought to have been getting rotated so the people by the speakers weren't there all shift, and would swap with people by the fire exits etc.

I don't do stewarding any more really, but I'll try and pass this on - or maybe jtg can do this if he's still involved in the oxfam malarky?

keep the feedback coming - it's stuff like this that get's missed by those at the top as they either assume it's already happening or don't realise it's an issue.

I'll try and bring it up - it's down to the individual supervisors really to sort that stuff out and I know I've been rotated before to get me out of the sun for a while etc.

I know wiskers has raised the whole earplugs thing over on the Oxfam boards so I'll make sure there's a Glade specific point made (think that's the only one where we actually do stages).

 

[free spirit]

ay, though it's not just about providing ear plugs as that's done anyway, it's more the rotation of stewards within the marquees so that nobody should spend the entire shift in front of the speakers while other people spend the entire shift by the doorways. Those earplugs only offer a limitted amount of protection, not 8 hours worth right in front of the stacks at full blast.

not that our lot even bother with earplugs (though they're available) when they're down front dishing water out, but they have more freedom of movement than the stewards who can get stuck directly in front of a speaker in a fixed position I guess.

at some point I'll have a look and see if I can dig out some guidance on what length of exposure to the volume at the front of the speakers even with earplugs is acceptable - though I'm a little bit scared to look as it'll prob turn out to be like 7 minutes or something stupid

 

[david dissadent]

overkill was meant to have been bigger last year but something daft happened like the lorry carry the marquee jacknifed on route to the glade, and th tent they ended up with was the biggest they could get at short notice to replace it - i think this was also why the overkill wasn't funktion 1 sourround sound like the other big marquees, which was why it ended up having to be quieter as it didn't have the noise cancelling stuff the other marquees had (whatever the fuck that actually is) - because they didn't have room in the new smaller tent for the extra stacks of speakers around the tent.

so I'd be very surprised if it wasn't both bigger and fully funktion 1 noise cancelling tech'd up for extra volume - that was definately what they were saying at the end of last year anyway.

Ace news.

 

[free spirit]

Ace news.

I've not seen the plans for this year yet, just going on what was said last year, but these boys know the score - they know overkill was overfull and had major volume problems.

 

[david dissadent]

I've not seen the plans for this year yet, just going on what was said last year, but these boys know the score - they know overkill was overfull and had major volume problems.

Iti s a very popular part of the festival, quite a large group of people go just for the Overkill. But they should be warned that too much Gabber ruins your ear drums. (says he with tickets for bangface this weekend.)

 

[JTG]

ay, though it's not just about providing ear plugs as that's done anyway, it's more the rotation of stewards within the marquees so that nobody should spend the entire shift in front of the speakers while other people spend the entire shift by the doorways. Those earplugs only offer a limitted amount of protection, not 8 hours worth right in front of the stacks at full blast.

not that our lot even bother with earplugs (though they're available) when they're down front dishing water out, but they have more freedom of movement than the stewards who can get stuck directly in front of a speaker in a fixed position I guess.

at some point I'll have a look and see if I can dig out some guidance on what length of exposure to the volume at the front of the speakers even with earplugs is acceptable - though I'm a little bit scared to look as it'll prob turn out to be like 7 minutes or something stupid

Yeah I realise all that mate - I'm sure the guys at HQ do too, just a case of emphasising it to the supervisors on the ground at their briefings. Anyway, I've emailed Holly at Oxfam to highlight it and I'll try and remember to ensure it's brought up at the supervisors' briefings at the time.

Any more info would be great. No harm in telling people stuff they already know!

 

[free spirit]

Iti s a very popular part of the festival, quite a large group of people go just for the Overkill. But they should be warned that too much Gabber ruins your ear drums. (says he with tickets for bangface this weekend.)

yeah tell me a bout it - that and your sanity.

the amount of time i had to spend in that tent last year sorting the flooding out was fucking silly - at one point I thought someone had spiked me with acid, had to leave the tent for a minute to check, and it was just the combination of strobe, gabba & foot deep lake around the stage that had tripped me out, not acid (thank fuck).

anyway youse lot were extremely lucky to have had anything going on in that tent, never mind all weekend - even after we'd diverted the river back into the drainage channel on friday afternoon, we were still a hairs bredth away from having to shut it virtually all weekend due to the flooding - had it gone over the wellies of the stewards down the front that'd have been it. At one point we had the toilet sucker sucker up the mud from the front, a forklift lifting the track up out the back while a digger dug an extra drainage channel under the track plus one of the festival directors trying to get a big diesel pump to stop clogging up to pump it out. All this at night while the bangface crew are going mental onstage with the tent absolutely rammed.

When that dj started kicking off on stage about the volume levels I very nearly buried him in one of the ditches

 

[JTG]

I still marvel that anyone managed to get a festival on at all last year, let alone the fantastic one that happened

Could you arrange not to have any tankers slide off the top road this year? Trying to clear that campsite wasn't funny

 

[free spirit]

Yeah I realise all that mate - I'm sure the guys at HQ do too, just a case of emphasising it to the supervisors on the ground at their briefings. Anyway, I've emailed Holly at Oxfam to highlight it and I'll try and remember to ensure it's brought up at the supervisors' briefings at the time.

Any more info would be great. No harm in telling people stuff they already know!

lol - not trying to teach granny to suck eggs - it's partly for my benefit too as I ought to know this shit as my guys sometimes get deployed in the pits too, but I'll let you know if i get any info.

 

[free spirit]

I still marvel that anyone managed to get a festival on at all last year, let alone the fantastic one that happened

Could you arrange not to have any tankers slide off the top road this year? Trying to clear that campsite wasn't funny

well from what I've heard they're planning to be putting in way way more trackway this year, so I hope that should sort that problem out barring ridiculous driving.

having said that though I remember trying to get a van up the trackway that was there running up the hill from backstage to the top, and ending up having to give up as it got to one point where it was just sliding backwards down the hill whatever i did. I think that was the point that we implemented the one way system for anything other than 4x4's.

and yeah, I'm still utterly amazed we made it through last year relatively unscathed (with appologies to everyone who's car got damaged in the wacky races in the carpark - I'd been trying to get a team together to go up there and manage the situation but had run out of crew by that stage and was jsut about managing to keep a one way system operating backstage to keep traffic moving there). This year I have been promised i can bring more crew.

 

[JTG]

Glade 2007 stories are going to be our equivalents of grandad's "what I did in the war" tales aren't they

 

[William of Walworth]

Great crew chat thread!

Not going anywhere near Glade myself but I heard loads about last year here and elsewhere and I reckon the top organisers should award free spirit's lot and JTG and wiskey's lot a medal
And lotsa free cash and rugs .....

It'll be breeze for you by comparison this time fellers -- little or no rain = much less stress!

 

[free spirit]

Glade 2007 stories are going to be our equivalents of grandad's "what I did in the war" tales aren't they

ay

Great crew chat thread!

Not going anywhere near Glade myself but I heard loads about last year here and elsewhere and I reckon the top organisers should award free spirit's lot and JTG and wiskey's lot a medal
And lotsa free cash and rugs .....

It'll be breeze for you by comparison this time fellers -- little or no rain = much less stress!

I have to write the memories down somewhere or there's no way I'll be able to remember them to tell the grandkids

 

[david dissadent]

Hats of to the crew and punters at Glade last year. The fact that the festival went ahead and the spirit of the people.

Restored my faith in festivals.

 

[Badgers]

Loud music is not really a threat at Glade or Glastonbury.

But......but.....

The media said so and thus it MUST be true.
Don't mess with my belief system

 

[sam/phallocrat]

When that dj started kicking off on stage about the volume levels I very nearly buried him in one of the ditches

The was Venetian Snares. He's a cunt.

(v. pleased to hear about capacity/volume being sorted out in overkill this year btw, a mate of mine had to leave it last year as he couldn't hear Dolphin and The Teknoist over the couple in fromt of him talking about digital cameras)

 

[ouchmonkey]

The was Venetian Snares. He's a cunt.

(v. pleased to hear about capacity/volume being sorted out in overkill this year btw, a mate of mine had to leave it last year as he couldn't hear Dolphin and The Teknoist over the couple in fromt of him talking about digital cameras)

don't these two points kind of cancel each other out?

Venetian Snares is a genius.

which doesn't invalidate your point neccessarily.............

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Yes he's a genius, but he's also an incredibly mardy, selfish cunt. The way he behaved at last year's Glade was a fucking disgrace. Fortunately his entire discography is available on torrents, and I'm not planning on seeing him play live again (5 times is more than enough) so he'll not be getting any more of my money.

 

[david dissadent]

Pendulum self confirm

 

[The_Reverend_M]

DJ set or live? Live they are AWFUL.

 

[JTG]

DJ set or live? Live they are AWFUL.

tbh if they're this year's token dnb act then I'm less than impressed

 

[sam/phallocrat]

they blatantly are

 

[perplexis]

Yes he's a genius, but he's also an incredibly mardy, selfish cunt. The way he behaved at last year's Glade was a fucking disgrace. Fortunately his entire discography is available on torrents, and I'm not planning on seeing him play live again (5 times is more than enough) so he'll not be getting any more of my money.

He was a despicable prima donna cuntface at Glade, I was really displeased with his performance. Played well fro like 25mins and then had a strop cos it wasn't loud enough. As if all the fucking hardship everyone had been through just to get the stage running wasn't enough. WHAT A PRICK. He's always been known for being a moody tossrag though. One of my mates actually pulled him at a gig in Cambridge, he went back to her house, where everyone had the opportunity to discover what a nobber he is.