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Glastonbury festival and Stonehenge My trip to Glastonbury festival.
This time I decided that I won't just be a spaced out hippy and do the
festival in a fuzzy cloud. This time I decided to really work it and Boy did
I work it. Firstly I managed to get loads of stock from Soma organic and get
it delivered to the eartheart cafe. I knocked the hire van and it cost me
£100 which was a serious bummer. I got to the festival and it was all a bit
too late as I squeezed in a quick meeting for the waveform festival. Just so
happened the meeting was at the same service station that I so happened to
be at great. We had to crash out in sunbirds house.
 No problem I booked the
van for an extra day so that we could do this. Then we got into the site and
wow amazing how a field can be turned into such a huge field soley for
entertainment. The sky was clear and there was no site of mud. I had to
drive the van back so a quick exit. Back home. I decided to pop into
stonehenge so that I could do some flyering and feel the sacred spirit of
the stones. I'm not a pagan or a druid but I like going to sites that are
sacred. Its lovely to see. There was a time when such sites were illegal to
visit. In fact people were seriously injured by roit police back in the 80s.
Now adays we are allowed into the stones 4 times a year. Its quite an
experience and very well organised and the police are now smiling.
We got a distribution deal with at few drink companies for the festivals
and its great to see product selling that you have introduced. Its tough
work believe me. When its raining and theres mud you can't do much and the
motivation factor is nill. I also had a stall selling tickets to the
Waveform festival which took quite a time to organise. Did manage to see
many bands but really got a feel for the festival and the way it works. I
had sleeping in a tent its crap and I hate the drench.
Being in the great outdoors really does it for me. There is a feeling of
being detached as you really have to get on with the crew and its tough
sometimes and temperatures rage. The psychology of massive crowds is
another facinating one. One thing that really made me laugh was standing on
the road and pointing to the cafe that I was working in. People would just
to in the direction that I was pointing . We had eatstatic playing and that
was a real crowd puller.
All in all the sales were quite low but the operation was successfull. No
major hickups and the the two cafes did reasonablly well.
I just about broke even and did alot of work but it was worth it.
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