GreenMan
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4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 11:59
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The Green Man Festival site at Glanusk Park is looking lush and lovely, the mist is covering the top of the mountains, the air is clear and fresh and the landscape has the kind of clarity and bright definition that can only be found in somewhere as wonderful as this.
The crew are working very hard to build the event. You can feel the excitement in the air.
We have got a brand new Italian Circus Tent for the Rumpus room which is now in the camp fire field. It has blue and yellow stripes and its beautiful. Everyone here is very excited because its the tents first show.
The new late night piano bar is just beside the Rumpus Room and is up and about to be decorated by the decor teams.
The Green Man Cafe Bar and Stage are up.
Local farmers are bringing in the wood for the camp fire and piling it up so we can get a store going.
The Folkey Dokey Circus Tent is going up today, and the main stage will be finished tonight to.
Cwmdru School came in yesterday to talk about their Sausage and Cake stall. 70 volunteers made up of teachers and parents from this local school come in shifts to run this stall so the logistics are a little complicated but the sausages and cakes are all home made and legendary.
The income they achieve from the stall is reinvested into the school which has been threatened with closure. This would be very sad as schools and shops in rural areas form part of the communities and we want to support them in any way we can.
They did tell us yesterday that the mutton sausages were from sheep reared at Glanusk which has made a few of us a little uncomfortable. Silly really I know but we are a soppy lot.
Garland lighting is being laid around the site, and colored lights are being carefully placed in the Lime Trees walk near the walled garden.
The Literature Tent is up too.
Tomorrow the Science, Kids and Film Tent go up.
Happily we are all ahead of schedule...
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lizdogood
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 12:21
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wow !!! i am not going to sleep now till thursday with all the excitement. carn't wait to be at glanusk park again, this is going to be the highlight of my year. thanks to all you guys for putting on the best festival in the uk.
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GreenMan
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 12:40
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lizdogood wrote: wow !!! i am not going to sleep now till thursday with all the excitement. carn't wait to be at glanusk park again, this is going to be the highlight of my year. thanks to all you guys for putting on the best festival in the uk.
Its a real pleasure...
Definitely our favorite festival too..
By the way I got the spelling wrong for the School its Cwmdu...x
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suzanne
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 15:10
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The late night piano bar sounds like a welcome adition...great news. Well done you guys. I can wait!
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Saul
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 15:59
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Thanks for this it really gets you into the festival spirit.
Really like the idea of the camp fire field.
Well done all of you it must be an incredibly complicated thing to organise!!
Good luck with the next few days.
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bexj
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 16:09
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Any chance of a map of the site please? I'm a first timer and I'd like to have an idea where stuff is so that I can choose a good spot to camp!
It sounds brilliant, glad it's all coming together!
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buckaroo
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 17:04
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Good to hear that things are going well, ahead of schedule even.
Anything going up where the Rumpus Room tent used to be?
Hope the rest of the preparations go to plan. Counting down the hours until Thursday :D
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Yakkay
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 17:10
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With 4 sleeps til Thursday I am fit to bust with excitement, this is our 3rd year at Greenmen and this year we bring friends. I've even (uncharacteristically) been organised checked out all the artists via the net and decided which ones to see and which to miss and have got all the camping gear out. This is our holiday this year so I'm making the most of it.
Kay
P.S. O'Death are an absolute must see, yak supported them in Cardiff a year or so ago and although it was a small audience, they generated so much energy in us that we came out grinning from ear to ear!
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Yakkay
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 17:12
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buckaroo wrote: Good to hear that things are going well, ahead of schedule even.
Anything going up where the Rumpus Room tent used to be?
Hope the rest of the preparations go to plan. Counting down the hours until Thursday :D
That would be a mighty good thing to have for those of us who are like excited children in the back of the car, are we there yet?
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Yakkay
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Re: 4 days to go Green Man Festival Site Update
Aug 10, 2008, 17:13
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sorry wrong post to quote I meant the one about the site map!!!
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