At 2:13 when I say 'there are over 400 workers' , whilst this is technically true, the source I got my information from was referring to one segment, the actual number is close to 10,000!
Hey, firstly, great video. First time I've seen anyone actually show what goes on behind the scenes. You did miss one significant part of the infrastructure which my company provide 70% of. And that is Showers for all the significant crew areas, 460 shower heads to be exact showering some 30,000 - 40,000 people per day. Getting all the infrastructure in place to make that happen alone is a year in the planning. Very close co-operation between Glsstonbury and my company Greentree Mobile Showers. Keep up tye good work, if you want to see more beyond the scenes at large festivals Hola.
Yes I did see the clip they had over 100 workers on site providing power showers stalls bars kitchens day and night. It's good to open people's eyes that they are just fields before all the hard work unsung workforce all coming together so the festival can live
@EverythingExplainedd Well if you want a proper look behind the scenes at some of the largest events in the UK and Ireland and what it takes to make it happen send me a Direct Message. I'll do my best to help, I think people would be really interested in you following say a staging Crew for a couple of events, a toilet company, shower company, cabin company, fencing company etc. There's at least a 20 min video in each area. Nobody in the public really knows or understands what it takes to make these things happen. Glastonbury is a beast but this happening in multiple sites up and down the country every weekend between May and September. Let me know if you want me to hook you up.
The bbc ruined it, like creamfields and global gathering and ibiza. All used to be for people not interested in mainstream. Now only sheep go paying ridiculous prices to enter
The BBC send about 1000 personnel to Glastonbury every year and put them up in 4* hotels around the area. They call it the annual jolly. A good number if you can get it especially as the majority of the people that would watch that are already at the festival. Nobody should be paying for a tv licence for the Tory propaganda machine.
I work in the events industry and was expecting to hear a load of rubbish and speculation like I normally hear when people outside events talk about events but this was pretty spot on! Nice work :)
PHEW, I was particularly worried as I had to research, script, voice, edit & create the thumbnail within just over 24 hours & the info isnt that readily available so that makes me happy, THANK YOU
I worked for Serious Stages as a lorry driver in 2014 & 2015. Great company to work for, best job I've had! Driving a heavily loaded old lorry around that huge site when wet and muddy could be quite interesting to say the least!
Would really appreciate if you left a like and subscribe as I managed to dodge the Glasto hangover and get this video researched, scripted, voiced and edited within 48 hours of my 7 hour coach journey back 😅
I'm currently sitting in Tom's Field by the Red Shed that makes the signs, working in Recycling until tomorrow (true story), glad to see that someone has FINALLY made an accurate documentary with updated and current videos of Worthy Farm including some of the backend stuff you don't usually see. Thank you 👏👏🤙
Love that! Hope you get home soon… I actually can’t believe there is not ONE RUclips video about ‘How Glastonbury is built’ until this. I know there’s 1,000,000 more things I could’ve mentioned but it’s honestly so hard to find accurate info & good b-roll
Nice work :) it was my 6th time this year and I love discovering new things every time I go. I could watch this behind the scenes glasto stuff all day!
good video. I have worked in the live music industry for over 10 years. Another fun fact is that Glastonbury grew so quick in the late 90s that it strruggled to keep up with H&S and had a huge problem with security. They then hired Festival Republic (the guys that do Reading and Leeds, Wireless, Creamfields etc) to overhaul the operations of the festival and make it how it is now. Glastonbury then took back operations when the contract with FR ran out in 2012.
Great content mate, I just watched to the end. Yeah, when you go for the first time it's truly mind blowing. Despite what you've heard about or videos you've seen you can't imagine the scale and the detail until you've been there.
@@EverythingExplainedd It's always magical. Just the first time you see it usually surpasses all expctations so when you return that sense of amazement isn't there so much. At least it wasn't for me but everyone's experience is different 🤗
Absolutely great video I spend all summer working on different festivals (including this years Glastonbury) and its still so interesting to see all the other sides to it
Oh thats cool! What did you do for this Glasto? I loved it that much I think i'd rather go back there to work than to not go at all if I don't get tickets!
@@EverythingExplainedd I was working for an artist as opposed to the festival itself I worked for aitch as a sound engineer mainly looking after stage and monitor related things (wireless mics, in ear monitors, stage cabling and the likes)
@@EverythingExplainedd not really we are only there for the day of the performance so its pretty much all just go go go, however you do get a little bit of time to catch up with people the sound engineering community is relatively small and as Glastonbury is so large you end up seeing a lot of people you haven't for a while so its nice in that sense
Thank you, no idea really just motivated by the short time frame I had to be relevant after getting back. Took me weeks for me to make some of my other videos, this took 30 hours!
the professional bin painters (around 10-12 I think) are on site from mid April, then the volunteers (80) from the start of June for 2 weeks(ish) also. approximately 14000 bins get painted, along with benches, poles and pedestrian gate murals, along with the large mural at the vodaphone charging arena. after that they get piled up ready to do all again next year, you can see the pile from satellite images. it also takes 26 days to recover.
Oh wow thanks for this comment super interesting! I wish I could have made this video double the length to include things like the benches etc but its SO hard to find accurate information. I cant believe there isnt a full length documentary yet showing the full process of Glastonbury from planning, building, running the festival and recovery
When you think of the cost of seeing 5 artists individually these days, thats probably well over the £335, never mind all the extra things you get with it and the fact you could see 20+ artists if you wanted
@@Charlie666- From the TV coverage, very few black or brown faces in the audience, and even less on the stages? Lots of ranting about "refugees welcome here" but I didnt notice anything in the media at all, about the free tickets, which had been given to groups representing refugees, so a few could have attended?
Great work on this video mate, Spot on with your research, This may habe been your first time, But it GUARANTEE its wont be your last, First of MANY. This year was my 6th, And luckily another Sunny one, ive missed all the muddy wet ones. 2019 was the worst for heat tho! Hope you enjoyed it, well... I KNOW YOU DID.. ✌️☮️💚
I’m here because I know someone in his late fifties who used to work setting up the stage as a labourer…but has now given up because there’s to many jobsworths who want to think they are the boss and in charge and start to throw their weight around…on top of that to many of the managers want to treat the musicians like they are more superior to the everyday people who just put their hard work into building up the infrastructure, just for bullies to come along and go lame duck when they see a well known artist and start to idolise them…this is the problem with to many of us we feed the persons ego to much and help to turn them into monsters..remember the young mother and who she sacrificed to lost prophets front man Ian watkins a few years ago…I’m not saying don’t enjoy your favourite bands music…but why you need to put them on a pedestal??? they just human beings like all of us but just known for being entertainers..
I'm a chauffeur, I had to drop off & then collect a passenger who was staying at the farmhouse, 1st time down there & OMFG 😳😳 the scale of the place, but I did think....where are the cows?? Thank you for enlightenment 🙏🏻
Really interesting video this, I've got no interest in going to a festival like this, hate camping, i much prefer a hotel with a bar, restaurant, bed and bathroom but i do love seeing the logistical side of it and how it gets set up then taken down again, a real team effort all round
I was the same before I went, but now I am 100000x fold, I now understand why people go back every year, already worried I wont get tickets for next year. Maybe Emily Eavis will see this and help me out!
I was a freelance lighting technician for one the lighting hire companies. Two weeks of shitting in a bucket with disturbed sleep and mud. Never again.
Never really been a fan on the IICON stage. Big into EDM and DnB so the Temple is where I normally scuttle off to on a night and that's a massively impressive structure. Took the in laws this year for their first time and they were amazed at the infrastructure and how well they cater for 200k+ people. Sat here watching with mega sunburn 😂
@EverythingExplainedd father in law loved The Hives and Guns N Roses. Mother in law only wanted to see Elton, but really enjoyed Tom Grennan too. Watched Fred on the Other Stage. I didn't realise he'd done a secret set. I saw Disclosure had done a set somewhere around Block 9 which would have been class to see. Me and the Mrs were walking past the BBC introducing stage and I heard Katy B. Turns out Target brought her out and she played all the bangers.
Do they give the pasture some time before the cows go back on there to graze??? Just thinking about all the puke, beer and wee that is deposited on it over the weekend of the event 🤔
Cool video but kinda got turned off with the “renewable energy” part as I would imagine all the delivery trucks, forklifts and tractors were running on diesel…
To be honest it should just be rebranded "The Hypocrisy Festival." It's attended by droves of wealthy, champagne socialists who this year managed to hang a banner that read "We see no borders here" from the perimeter defence that dwarfs the one at the US border. They chanted "Refugees are welcome here!" But presumably they don't mean the festival - as many Brits would struggle to pay for the ticket and take the time off work - let alone a refugee. When interviewed, it transpired that they didn't mean that refugees were welcome in their homes either - the majority citing lack of space. I suppose they just mean "put the filthy refugees with all the other dirty poors." I'd watch and cheer if the whole thing burned down - but that's the only scenario - from which I could derive a quantum of entertainment.
@@liberatumplox625you can moan all you want but at least you don't have to live next to it... (And before it's said, alot of people can't afford to move because of high housing prices)
I went in 1981, 1984 and 1985. For me, that first CND festival in 81 was the best. I reckon the crown was about 6,000 - 8,000. It was so laid back and only covered 2 fields. By 1985, I think the crowd was up to the 60,000 mark. That was it for me. Much too big to be a good festival and much too expensive. I've just seen a clip of the ready made tents for the middle class Glampers. Do me a favour. Plus in the 80's.the acts were announced early on so you could decide if you actually did want to see any of the acts. That 81 festival had Hawkwind, New Order, Aswad, John Cooper-Clarke. Gordon Giltrap and Roy Harper were no-shows.
I wonder why they even bother taking it all down if only to put it all up again 9 months later. I could imagine it's more sustainable to just keep the infrastructure erected permanently, especially if the cattle they rear on it only numbers 1000. Anyone know?
A lot is hired in from 3rd parties rather than owned, so moves around the country from one festival to another... There is also a story about the pyramid not getting planning permission, so built as a 'temporary' structure
"Sustainable" What a load of greenwash. There's absolutely nothing "sustainable" or green about setting up and tearing down such an enormous undertaking every year.
that was a quote from a BBC video I watched '2019: The Build', it must have been referring to a specific section as I also thought that was low but cant find any official figures
Iv left a new pinned comment to mention this, thanks Paul, whilst 'over 400' is tehcnically true it needed correcting! I wish there was a good place of information for all of this
At 2:13 when I say 'there are over 400 workers' , whilst this is technically true, the source I got my information from was referring to one segment, the actual number is close to 10,000!
Hey, firstly, great video. First time I've seen anyone actually show what goes on behind the scenes. You did miss one significant part of the infrastructure which my company provide 70% of. And that is Showers for all the significant crew areas, 460 shower heads to be exact showering some 30,000 - 40,000 people per day. Getting all the infrastructure in place to make that happen alone is a year in the planning. Very close co-operation between Glsstonbury and my company Greentree Mobile Showers. Keep up tye good work, if you want to see more beyond the scenes at large festivals Hola.
Yes I did see the clip they had over 100 workers on site providing power showers stalls bars kitchens day and night. It's good to open people's eyes that they are just fields before all the hard work unsung workforce all coming together so the festival can live
@@Mabrennan2012 thank you so much! Wow that is interesting, there could easily be a 2 hour movie made on each aspect of setting up the festival
@EverythingExplainedd Well if you want a proper look behind the scenes at some of the largest events in the UK and Ireland and what it takes to make it happen send me a Direct Message. I'll do my best to help, I think people would be really interested in you following say a staging Crew for a couple of events, a toilet company, shower company, cabin company, fencing company etc. There's at least a 20 min video in each area. Nobody in the public really knows or understands what it takes to make these things happen. Glastonbury is a beast but this happening in multiple sites up and down the country every weekend between May and September. Let me know if you want me to hook you up.
@@Mabrennan2012 Hey yeah that would be super great, I'd love to make content on anything like that. My personal twitter is @CjayBarker if thats easier
The BBC needs to do a full series documentary on this. From start to finish, planning, booking, construction… everything!
Agreed, i'd love to help partner with them
The bbc ruined it, like creamfields and global gathering and ibiza. All used to be for people not interested in mainstream. Now only sheep go paying ridiculous prices to enter
@@EverythingExplainedd i think he was taking the piss
@@RoughWalkerseven if he was, it's a genuinely good idea.
even a fool can share wisdom sometimes.
The BBC send about 1000 personnel to Glastonbury every year and put them up in 4* hotels around the area. They call it the annual jolly. A good number if you can get it especially as the majority of the people that would watch that are already at the festival. Nobody should be paying for a tv licence for the Tory propaganda machine.
I work in the events industry and was expecting to hear a load of rubbish and speculation like I normally hear when people outside events talk about events but this was pretty spot on! Nice work :)
PHEW, I was particularly worried as I had to research, script, voice, edit & create the thumbnail within just over 24 hours & the info isnt that readily available so that makes me happy, THANK YOU
That IICON stage is 🔥🔥🔥
YES BRO
Absolutely brilliant work. Would happily watch an hour plus of Behind the Glastonbury scenes.
thank you, im gonna contact Glastonbury to see if I can work with them create unique BTS content for their socials. Gotta shoot ya shot ay!
I worked for Serious Stages as a lorry driver in 2014 & 2015. Great company to work for, best job I've had! Driving a heavily loaded old lorry around that huge site when wet and muddy could be quite interesting to say the least!
Oh nice one, I bet that was a nighhhhtttnaaaaare!
I've been working there since 2012 was down Pilton last week building it.was fucking hot
Thanks for crediting the use of my Timelapse footage. It's a honour to be a part of such work :)
Thanks so much for the legendary video! I hope you don't mind me using
This is such a great overview of what it takes to deliver Glastonbury, nice work! 👍
appreciate that!
Would really appreciate if you left a like and subscribe as I managed to dodge the Glasto hangover and get this video researched, scripted, voiced and edited within 48 hours of my 7 hour coach journey back 😅
Really fantastic video. Was there as well. One of the coolest things I’ve ever done. Must go back.
thank you! its truly a life changing place isnt it. I will try every year
We were in spring ground this year and saw that incredible coach park for the first time... WOW thats some operation!
@@davefb yeah its insane isnt it! Lukcily hours was only 1 hour late but the traffic took a while
Amazing, well explained insight to such a large scale festival. Would love to see another one for Tomorrowland or Creamfields
Thank you! Would love to make one on them soon
I'm currently sitting in Tom's Field by the Red Shed that makes the signs, working in Recycling until tomorrow (true story), glad to see that someone has FINALLY made an accurate documentary with updated and current videos of Worthy Farm including some of the backend stuff you don't usually see. Thank you 👏👏🤙
Love that! Hope you get home soon… I actually can’t believe there is not ONE RUclips video about ‘How Glastonbury is built’ until this. I know there’s 1,000,000 more things I could’ve mentioned but it’s honestly so hard to find accurate info & good b-roll
Nice work :) it was my 6th time this year and I love discovering new things every time I go. I could watch this behind the scenes glasto stuff all day!
love that! I hope Ill be able to go that many times, do you ever have issues getting tickets?
Absolutley brilliant insight into behind the scenes video. Brilliant ❤
Went a few times in the early 90’s when you could get a ticket 2 weeks before it started.Great times.
damnnnn much easier times
Our first, 2008, I got tickets 2 days before, from HMV !
Internet and phones have ruined that sadly, impossible to get tickets 2 days before unless you're famous/know someone
This is such a busy site. The work that goes in to it for 5 day's of fun is incredible
This was like therapy for my post-glasto blues! Thanks alot mate hehe :)
anytime, we have to take what we can for post festival blues
Very concise and well narrated video, Thank you!
thank you! glad you enjoyed it
good video. I have worked in the live music industry for over 10 years. Another fun fact is that Glastonbury grew so quick in the late 90s that it strruggled to keep up with H&S and had a huge problem with security. They then hired Festival Republic (the guys that do Reading and Leeds, Wireless, Creamfields etc) to overhaul the operations of the festival and make it how it is now. Glastonbury then took back operations when the contract with FR ran out in 2012.
thank you! thats very interesting, wouldnt have thought it was the same people as Cream
Great and thorough vid with lots of history! It has however just made me miss Glastonbury terribly
thank you! you can watch it every week for the next 50 weeks..
Super interesting video, was at the festival this year and I love seeing the behind the scenes information!
thank you! I wish there was more information around so I could do more
Great content mate, I just watched to the end. Yeah, when you go for the first time it's truly mind blowing. Despite what you've heard about or videos you've seen you can't imagine the scale and the detail until you've been there.
thank you! wait, does that mean it gets alot less magical the more you go? Totally right that words and pictures dont justify how amazing it is
@@EverythingExplainedd It's always magical. Just the first time you see it usually surpasses all expctations so when you return that sense of amazement isn't there so much. At least it wasn't for me but everyone's experience is different 🤗
@@bigdocus that makes alot of sence, I suppose you lose that 'wondering around amazed' asepct
Very well articulated and informative video!
thanks Alex! Got back from Glasto at 9pm Monday and managed to get it out in less than 48 hours
@@EverythingExplainedd dedication mate!
Absolutely great video I spend all summer working on different festivals (including this years Glastonbury) and its still so interesting to see all the other sides to it
Oh thats cool! What did you do for this Glasto? I loved it that much I think i'd rather go back there to work than to not go at all if I don't get tickets!
@@EverythingExplainedd I was working for an artist as opposed to the festival itself
I worked for aitch as a sound engineer mainly looking after stage and monitor related things (wireless mics, in ear monitors, stage cabling and the likes)
@@KDDale-rn7fd oh nice, sounds interesting, do you get time to explore the festival aswell?
@@EverythingExplainedd not really we are only there for the day of the performance so its pretty much all just go go go, however you do get a little bit of time to catch up with people the sound engineering community is relatively small and as Glastonbury is so large you end up seeing a lot of people you haven't for a while so its nice in that sense
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing 😁
thanks Gavin!
This is such a great video, how did you made it so quickly?!
Thank you, no idea really just motivated by the short time frame I had to be relevant after getting back. Took me weeks for me to make some of my other videos, this took 30 hours!
Excellent overview.
Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
That was brilliant, wish it was on longer
Very interesting video. Hopefully will get tickets next year!
thank you! I hope you do aswell (and that I do)
Brilliant video, thank you for sharing
Anytime, thank you!
Nice to see Croissant Neuf get a mention!
great small stage with a great history!
Greatest show on Earth. Fact.
My friend works as part of the lighting rig team for the stage set up. She leaves home in mid may and stays on site until mid July
This was really interesting, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
the professional bin painters (around 10-12 I think) are on site from mid April, then the volunteers (80) from the start of June for 2 weeks(ish) also. approximately 14000 bins get painted, along with benches, poles and pedestrian gate murals, along with the large mural at the vodaphone charging arena. after that they get piled up ready to do all again next year, you can see the pile from satellite images. it also takes 26 days to recover.
Oh wow thanks for this comment super interesting! I wish I could have made this video double the length to include things like the benches etc but its SO hard to find accurate information. I cant believe there isnt a full length documentary yet showing the full process of Glastonbury from planning, building, running the festival and recovery
@@Hero-qt1ik hahah
@@Hero-qt1ik they do have to find semi-professionals like yourself when desperate, but mainly we are upmost professionals 🙃
Unbelievable scale of production. Makes the entry price actually seem like a bargain. It truly is another world being there. Can’t wait to go again.
When you think of the cost of seeing 5 artists individually these days, thats probably well over the £335, never mind all the extra things you get with it and the fact you could see 20+ artists if you wanted
Do you feel that its racist to exclude black and asian people, who simply cannot afford £350?
@@humourless682I'm not sure where I start with this comment 😂
@@Charlie666- From the TV coverage, very few black or brown faces in the audience, and even less on the stages?
Lots of ranting about "refugees welcome here" but I didnt notice anything in the media at all, about the free tickets, which had been given to groups representing refugees, so a few could have attended?
@@humourless682Do you think its racist to say a whole ethnicity cannot afford x amount?
This was good...Well done.
Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for this video and facts
you're ever so welcome!
@@EverythingExplainedd ty
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Incredible!!!!
Quite literally, the best festival in the world.
Factual statements only
Great work on this video mate, Spot on with your research,
This may habe been your first time, But it GUARANTEE its wont be your last, First of MANY.
This year was my 6th, And luckily another Sunny one, ive missed all the muddy wet ones.
2019 was the worst for heat tho!
Hope you enjoyed it, well... I KNOW YOU DID..
✌️☮️💚
Thank you so much!! Yeah for sure gonna try every year, people say ‘it’s still just as fun if it rains’ but part of me doubts that…
Great video, i've recycled 6 times and saw the hard work that goes into keeping it clean, happy you had a great time!
thank you! how is that job? it was mega
I’m here because I know someone in his late fifties who used to work setting up the stage as a labourer…but has now given up because there’s to many jobsworths who want to think they are the boss and in charge and start to throw their weight around…on top of that to many of the managers want to treat the musicians like they are more superior to the everyday people who just put their hard work into building up the infrastructure, just for bullies to come along and go lame duck when they see a well known artist and start to idolise them…this is the problem with to many of us we feed the persons ego to much and help to turn them into monsters..remember the young mother and who she sacrificed to lost prophets front man Ian watkins a few years ago…I’m not saying don’t enjoy your favourite bands music…but why you need to put them on a pedestal??? they just human beings like all of us but just known for being entertainers..
I'm a chauffeur, I had to drop off & then collect a passenger who was staying at the farmhouse, 1st time down there & OMFG 😳😳 the scale of the place, but I did think....where are the cows?? Thank you for enlightenment 🙏🏻
haha sounds like a fun job! The cows seem to have a good time!
Very eye-opening. Quite a large operation, seemingly well executed. Not that I have ever been, but I do enjoy Glasto from my sofa most years 🫣
its fun from the sofa, but even more fun being there
Very interesting video 👍👏👏👏👏
thanks Dave!
Fantastic! Thanks! 🎸😃
Cracking video mate, I'd wondered for a while how long preparation goes on for in terms of the physical festival site.
Thanks Haydn! So did I and was shocked to see there wasnt a video on RUclips about it so thought I had to make one myself
This video is UHmaaaaazin!!!
you're amaaaazzzinnn
cool to see you used some of my videos building the fence
thank you! I put your name in the bottom left and linked in the description, hope you dont mind
Fooooooook
well done!!
yesshhh
Very interesting 👍
Thanks Baggy
Respect to all the the volunteers.
Truly
Pure Journalist!
is that a compliment? ahha
Really interesting video this, I've got no interest in going to a festival like this, hate camping, i much prefer a hotel with a bar, restaurant, bed and bathroom but i do love seeing the logistical side of it and how it gets set up then taken down again, a real team effort all round
Yup
Fair enough, yeah it is super interesting!
nice work
cheers Robert
I love Glastonbury, cant wait to experience it myself!!
I was the same before I went, but now I am 100000x fold, I now understand why people go back every year, already worried I wont get tickets for next year. Maybe Emily Eavis will see this and help me out!
@@EverythingExplainedd Hoping you get to go every year!
@@xHydrahex thank you! and you
Great video
thank you!
I was a freelance lighting technician for one the lighting hire companies. Two weeks of shitting in a bucket with disturbed sleep and mud. Never again.
Now that sounds ROUGH
Bring on Glastonbury 2024
did you get tickets? I didnt :(
Never really been a fan on the IICON stage. Big into EDM and DnB so the Temple is where I normally scuttle off to on a night and that's a massively impressive structure.
Took the in laws this year for their first time and they were amazed at the infrastructure and how well they cater for 200k+ people.
Sat here watching with mega sunburn 😂
Mate Temple is mad isnt it, wish I saw the secret Fred Again set there, whch part did your in laws enjoy the most?
@EverythingExplainedd father in law loved The Hives and Guns N Roses. Mother in law only wanted to see Elton, but really enjoyed Tom Grennan too.
Watched Fred on the Other Stage. I didn't realise he'd done a secret set. I saw Disclosure had done a set somewhere around Block 9 which would have been class to see.
Me and the Mrs were walking past the BBC introducing stage and I heard Katy B. Turns out Target brought her out and she played all the bangers.
@@lookship love that, Disclosure were there??? damnnn I want to see them live so bad
How long to put it back to a working farm?
Who knows what the name of the song at the beginning i cant remeber
Do this for Tomorrowland aswell !
ill try too for next year
This festival is more big Tomorrowland?
maybe not bigger no
Off topic, but I wish they’d bring back that Sam Fender performance from 2022 :( I can’t find it anywhere on the internet now
that set was sooo good, is it not on iPlayer?
Sadly the sets are taken off iPlayer after 60 days!
Do they give the pasture some time before the cows go back on there to graze??? Just thinking about all the puke, beer and wee that is deposited on it over the weekend of the event 🤔
Yeah, the festival is cleaned up pretty quickly, and also a year off every 5 years so the land can properly recover
@@EverythingExplainedd so how long after the end of the festival do the cows go back on there to graze? Days? Weeks? Months? 🤷♂️
@@EverythingExplainedd My question is about the cattle grazing... not about how long the land is given to recover, you misread the first question.
7:53 Why are you using kilometres? Just say the length of the fence in miles. It carries more weight and is more easily understood. Almost 5 miles!
Why these stages construct around the 1st if June to a week early I would do it a month in advance
Unsure
Happy days walking the plank
Cool video but kinda got turned off with the “renewable energy” part as I would imagine all the delivery trucks, forklifts and tractors were running on diesel…
fair enough, im just going off my research and sources! Im sure its not perfect but making strides towards being so each year
@@EverythingExplainedd not a dig at you just pointing out the hypocrisy. The cows grazing around the pyramid stage was funny…
Fair enough! Yeah I thought the intro was perfect if I do say so myself
To be honest it should just be rebranded "The Hypocrisy Festival."
It's attended by droves of wealthy, champagne socialists who this year managed to hang a banner that read "We see no borders here" from the perimeter defence that dwarfs the one at the US border.
They chanted "Refugees are welcome here!" But presumably they don't mean the festival - as many Brits would struggle to pay for the ticket and take the time off work - let alone a refugee.
When interviewed, it transpired that they didn't mean that refugees were welcome in their homes either - the majority citing lack of space.
I suppose they just mean "put the filthy refugees with all the other dirty poors."
I'd watch and cheer if the whole thing burned down - but that's the only scenario - from which I could derive a quantum of entertainment.
@@liberatumplox625you can moan all you want but at least you don't have to live next to it... (And before it's said, alot of people can't afford to move because of high housing prices)
They should build up the security fence when everyone is in and not let out the festival goers till all the litter is picked up. 😂
the fence dos keep people in anyway! they just open the gates
@@EverythingExplainedd keep the gates locked till after the litters been picked up and tents been packed away then.
🔥
😇🧸
Cannot believe there was no mention of Aggreko without whom there would be no power to provide electricity for any of the activities to even happen...
At 5:12 there is a screenshot of them mentioning the generators, it’s honestly so hard to find concrete research
All the vegan and vegetarian having good time on cattle farm! Only protest when it suit!
I went this year and I am currently not vegan nor veggie, how does that work@
SAM FENDER AT THE START
it takes longer than 26 days to build. Its about 3 months.
Yeah just the bulk of stuff kicks off in June 1st but yeah some stuff takes longer, I mean it’s Bascially a full year from the end of one!
@@EverythingExplainedd generally starts around mid april, and will take about 6 weeks to tear it down . its only half a mile from my house!
@@MrWighteagleoh fair enough thank you! Do you get free tickets for living close or is that just a rumour?
@@EverythingExplainedd I couldnt possibly comment 😉
@@MrWighteagle that will do for me!
I find it is best to avoid all on site toilets . Its best to just use a unoccupied tent
hahahah this made me laugh, I honestly dont think the toielts are THAT bad, just a bit stinky
I went in 1981, 1984 and 1985. For me, that first CND festival in 81 was the best. I reckon the crown was about 6,000 - 8,000. It was so laid back and only covered 2 fields. By 1985, I think the crowd was up to the 60,000 mark. That was it for me. Much too big to be a good festival and much too expensive. I've just seen a clip of the ready made tents for the middle class Glampers. Do me a favour. Plus in the 80's.the acts were announced early on so you could decide if you actually did want to see any of the acts. That 81 festival had Hawkwind, New Order, Aswad, John Cooper-Clarke. Gordon Giltrap and Roy Harper were no-shows.
Beyond cheeky. Saying open borders for UK but they have a wall 😂
Bit different having crowd control barriers in a ticketed event
@@XAVR_ it knows, but just wanted to make an immature comment, for some weird reason.
Imagine being the farmer who owns the land all those years ago little did he know then that he was saying yes to people like Elton John and Ed sheeran
a small dream turned into this!
Now the price makes sense..😅
Still noting compared to the zwarte cross 🍻🚜
whats that?
Surprised they don’t keep the icon stage up the cows might enjoy that
Cow Techno in Block 9
I live not too far away..prefer the cows
There 3000 just from the bbc , thats just free guests .
What about water
Couldn’t find too much solid interesting info about the water, apart from its from Bristol Water and that it’s clean
Footage of arcadia was using propaine not bio fuel.
Did it not use bio fuel?
@@EverythingExplainedd The footage is of propaine from a different year.
They Used Biofuel this year with a different flame system.
oh, it was made in Too Fousand...
Q:"What happens to all the cows?"
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A: "What do you think you've all been eating during the festival?"
I wonder how many get in through Luther channels another 30k perhaps?!?
is that the underground network? arnt they blocked off?
I wonder why they even bother taking it all down if only to put it all up again 9 months later. I could imagine it's more sustainable to just keep the infrastructure erected permanently, especially if the cattle they rear on it only numbers 1000. Anyone know?
cows need to be cowing
A lot is hired in from 3rd parties rather than owned, so moves around the country from one festival to another...
There is also a story about the pyramid not getting planning permission, so built as a 'temporary' structure
Hats off to the 💪people that have to clean up all that sh💩t and get it back to lush green farm fields... imagine what they must find!! 😆
some pretty disgusting stuff I imagine
Wow, what is temporarily the UK’s 28th largest city run entirely on renewable energy. Now there’s a thought for head-in-the-sand politicians.
impressive huh
Don't think generators are classed as renewable energy
"Sustainable" What a load of greenwash. There's absolutely nothing "sustainable" or green about setting up and tearing down such an enormous undertaking every year.
400 workers! And the rest. More like 10,000
that was a quote from a BBC video I watched '2019: The Build', it must have been referring to a specific section as I also thought that was low but cant find any official figures
Iv left a new pinned comment to mention this, thanks Paul, whilst 'over 400' is tehcnically true it needed correcting! I wish there was a good place of information for all of this
In 2009 Theo Bishop hello HELLO??????
People on shoulders ofother people will get pushed over if they block my view
You can stay at home. You're not good enough for the festival yet. Once you mature, then maybe.
Do the same video on Tomorrowland, your view count will be in space
I will for sure try too next year
Then 300 days to clean up
Not quite