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Bronwyn
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Stewards Perspective
Aug 24, 2008, 17:10
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For the last two years my friends and I have stewarded at festivals with Oxfam and now with People and Planet charities.
Green Man Festival is far and away the best run festival we have worked at. The organisation is wonderful and the friendliness and support of the rest of the festival team brilliant.
This was particularly apparent at this years festival as the weather was difficult and that is when you see a festival fall apart or not if its not run properly.
Nothing was canceled in any of the areas which I have never seen before at an event in such conditions, and none of traders were closed down.
Also the constant references to the rain in Wales is unfair. Britain is experiencing a very wet summer overall. Other festivals on the same weekend faired a lot worse than the green man did. I had friends working at the V festival who had awful experiences, and felt unsafe as well as wet and cold. Considering how much more money these sort of events have to deal with wet weather conditions the amount of infrastructure and services available at the green man is extensive in comparison.
Congratulations on a brilliant festival and I will definitely be coming back next year.
This is report of the V festival by the Mirror
One of the muddiest Vs ever due to rain resulted in a busy four days for the emergency services. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called out 90 times yesterday alone, mainly for slips, trips and falls. Actress Jennifer Ellison managed to weather the storm in fancy wellies. Since Thursday, paramedics have dealt with 160 incidents, including one man who had to be airlifted to hospital with a broken jaw after being elbowed by a fellow dancer.
Seventy-four festival-goers were arrested by officers from Staffordshire Police and more than 139 cautioned. The majority of offences were drug-related.
The rain and mud caused problems across the park, with pathways transformed into mudbaths, tents sliding away and revellers coated top-to-toe in sludge. The mass exodus from the car parks and campsites began last night after headliners Muse, Prodigy and Ian Brown finished their sets. But a car crash on the A5 towards Shrewsbury meant only one exit was open and festival-goers were left staring at brake lights for more than three hours.
Today, there was around 1.5 miles of slow-moving traffic along the M54 and roads were clogged along the A41 and at Gailey Island.
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tealady
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Re: Stewards Perspective
Aug 24, 2008, 19:07
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Thank you and for all the other stewards you were great x
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rayrad
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Re: Stewards Perspective
Aug 25, 2008, 12:01
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yup
friendliest stewards at any event
always
hands down
thanks for looking after us
despite our drunkenness
cheers
ray
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Bronwyn
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Re: Stewards Perspective
Aug 26, 2008, 11:56
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thanks very much you were all lovely to steward even when you were drunk X
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rayrad
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Re: Stewards Perspective
Aug 26, 2008, 12:24
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it is actually one of the things that makes GM so special
at no point does the crowd feel like it's, at best, an irritation and, at worst, a liability to proceedings
which is generally how it otherwise feels to attend a musical event of any kind these days
that you're there only to spend money at the bar and be glowered at menacingly
to be greeted with a smile at the various entrances to the GM site - and then, once inside, not made to feel as if you're in constant danger of imminently being manhandled to the ground by some ear-pieced nazi - is a big part of what makes the crowd so easy to deal with, i think
when dealt with reasonably, most of us behave (in general) reasonably
but i also appreciate that it's a risk to treat the crowd with such deference
so many thanks indeed to you guys for being there to help instead of control us
and to GM for having that kind of policy towards us
cheers!
ray
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Tulip
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Re: Stewards Perspective
Aug 28, 2008, 14:45
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Bronwyn wrote: For the last two years my friends and I have stewarded at festivals with Oxfam and now with People and Planet charities.
Green Man Festival is far and away the best run festival we have worked at. The organisation is wonderful and the friendliness and support of the rest of the festival team brilliant.
This was particularly apparent at this years festival as the weather was difficult and that is when you see a festival fall apart or not if its not run properly.
Nothing was canceled in any of the areas which I have never seen before at an event in such conditions, and none of traders were closed down.
Also the constant references to the rain in Wales is unfair. Britain is experiencing a very wet summer overall. Other festivals on the same weekend faired a lot worse than the green man did. I had friends working at the V festival who had awful experiences, and felt unsafe as well as wet and cold. Considering how much more money these sort of events have to deal with wet weather conditions the amount of infrastructure and services available at the green man is extensive in comparison.
Congratulations on a brilliant festival and I will definitely be coming back next year.
This is report of the V festival by the Mirror
One of the muddiest Vs ever due to rain resulted in a busy four days for the emergency services. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called out 90 times yesterday alone, mainly for slips, trips and falls. Actress Jennifer Ellison managed to weather the storm in fancy wellies. Since Thursday, paramedics have dealt with 160 incidents, including one man who had to be airlifted to hospital with a broken jaw after being elbowed by a fellow dancer.
Seventy-four festival-goers were arrested by officers from Staffordshire Police and more than 139 cautioned. The majority of offences were drug-related.
The rain and mud caused problems across the park, with pathways transformed into mudbaths, tents sliding away and revellers coated top-to-toe in sludge. The mass exodus from the car parks and campsites began last night after headliners Muse, Prodigy and Ian Brown finished their sets. But a car crash on the A5 towards Shrewsbury meant only one exit was open and festival-goers were left staring at brake lights for more than three hours.
Today, there was around 1.5 miles of slow-moving traffic along the M54 and roads were clogged along the A41 and at Gailey Island.
thank you and all the other lovely stewards who supported us at the festival this year.
I lost my bag with all my cards and money in it and it was handed in to lost property. I couldn't believe it when everything was in the bag when I got it back. It really is the safest festival I have been too.
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Padricks
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Re: Stewards Perspective
Aug 30, 2008, 11:54
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The stewards at the festival were brilliant this year.
thank you very much for looking after us.
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Kid_A
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Re: Stewards Perspective
Sep 08, 2008, 15:08
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I agree with everybody else - very friendly and helpful stewarding.
A big contrast to Latitude last year, where the stewarding at the entrance to the main arena was like door-control at a night club.
I accept that events have rules (some of them legal requirements), that rules need to be upheld, and that large numbers of people need to be steered and managed, but there are good and bad ways of approaching it. Green Man has got it spot on.
My only gripe would be that of the ticketing and wristband process at the entrance by the stone bridge. When we arrived on Thursday lunchtime, there was only 1 steward controlling the gate, and he was having to check tickets, issue and fit wristbands, and sell programmes. He was doing his best, and staying cheerful, but the poor bugger was drowning! When I took a trip back to my car later that afternoon, it was still the same, and the queues were really building up.
Other than that, great stewarding.
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