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[Funkyfairy!]

I saw so many different wristband colours over the weekend and wondered if anyone knew what each of them were

The gold and lilac ones are the 'i've paid to get in' wristbands

What were yellow - and was there orange and then white with black lines with orange (?) writing

Can;t remember the others, but every second person didn;t seem to have a 'paid for' wristband- or was it my imagination?

[dan05delaney]

i think blue sparkly ones were tipi field ones

[r_eg]

Bright Orange were for people working there
When i met the guy from Zero 7 he had a blue and red one on

[Phil-itfc]

I think bright yellow was perfromers. what was the deal with the white plastic ones with a pic of ME on? I spotted a few of those in addition to the golden punters ones.

[fowls]

Phil-itfc, on 30 June 2010 - 09:54 PM, said:

what was the deal with the white plastic ones with a pic of ME on? I spotted a few of those in addition to the golden punters ones.

Those were Easy Pass Out wristbands, so members of staff camping in the staff campsites outside of the main site could pass in and out without their halftickets being checked.  My friend working for DCSS had one and was pretty annoyed at how ugly the wristband was compared to everyone else's.



I'm sure I saw someone with a silver wristband at one point... but may have imagined it.

Edited by fowls, 30 June 2010 - 09:59 PM.

[strolling wanderer]

The white wristbands with Micheal's face on were the Easy Access passes for Security, Medical, Stewards, Gate Monitors, Festival Republic ticketing staff and some other organisations who wored on site and therefore were regularly passing through the gates each day.

[MilkyJoe]

There were definately some bright green ones being worn too, saw quite a lot being worn.

[G1T]

White with faces was early site access was it not?

Luminous yellow was 'site wide' which basically allowed you to be on site til tuesday 9pm. Some performers and crew got it for the weekend too, in conjunction with a laminate. Basically it's approved site access, but you need a laminate for your area.

Purple plastic was shangri la crew

Pink sparkly plastic was park guest

stripey white and yellow with 'bar humbug' on it was Avalon Stage Bar

Silver and orange sparkly wristband was production

Light blue with luminous milk bottle was hospitality

More stages used laminates this year I felt to be honest, as they're easier to produce on site with a printer and a laminator. Certainly all hardcore backstage pyramid stuff is done with laminates, and they're guarded with people's lives. Serious.

The ones to have this year were the Bad Idea bar, and theatre as ever.

[milly16]

The blue was hospitality  
The bright yellow and bright green were the workers
The silver and black were artists and working back stage
lilac and gold,glow in the dark one's were US  
and the white were the easy pass out
and the different coloured triangle one's...no idea

[Deepsky]

there were also some all areas backstage access ones which i think were blue also...
How do you get hold of those?

[toffeemax]

i also clocked all of them:

gold/purple - standard one.
yellow - hospitality
yellow + another wristband or a laminate label - performer
orange - worker
white/silver - worker to worker's camp.

[Pilton]

toffeemax, on 30 June 2010 - 10:48 PM, said:

i also clocked all of them:

gold/purple - standard one.
yellow - hospitality
yellow + another wristband or a laminate label - performer
orange - worker
white/silver - worker to worker's camp.

Yellow, Hosbitalitly?, we had those and they were greeny/bluey
The Navy Blue ones got you anywhere-ish
Sparkley yellowy, with Salmon pink writing, were residents

Edited by Pilton, 30 June 2010 - 11:01 PM.

[toffeemax]

were they not fluorescent yellow/green? Access almost all areas...?

[Sicknote]

MilkyJoe, on 30 June 2010 - 10:10 PM, said:

There were definately some bright green ones being worn too, saw quite a lot being worn.

Plastic bright green was for disabled camp site, along with a sparkly gold one for disabled viewing platform

[argentia]

I worked in the green futures field and had a yellow band - came on site on Monday

[lolbeck]

Bright yellow ones were workers. I worked family camping and got a bright yellow one. Went on site on the Tuesday.

[jamesontheverge]

bright orange with reflective holograms, BBC compound  

and the flouro greenish yellow ones were not all site wide. most were printed "greenfield crew"
and folk that were SL/arcdadia/common/download etc all had to have a band for their area and different ones for all the backstage/underground/secret venues in the late night area. and to get into quality tom's bar you had to have a badge!

[whateverman]

Silver was for Unfair Ground, which had two backstage bars - Banana and Roma.
Black was for Block 9.
Purple was either Shangri-la or Arcadia (not sure which).
White was Easy Pass-Out (so you could just stroll on and off site).
Yellow with brownish stripes was for Bar Humbug (good for watching the football).
Gorilla bar behind Shangri-la needed a card for entry.
Tom's bar in Shangri-la camping never asked me for a badge and was a very worthwhile excursion.

Staff need an escape bar and facilities for sure, but I'm not sure about the elitist feel of places like Gorilla (fun pub though).