March Hare

I’ll be on

If you stay up late it will be easier to sleep on the flight

Cool

Is there a VM tonight?

If there was ever a time to bury news of a substantial price increase, it has to be today

We ate those 😂

When I’m working on the gate if anyone comes to me and says “I didn’t get a programme on the way in” I give them one. It’s all about customer experience. I’m sure I’ve ended up handing them to crew this way but I’m not going to interrogate people trying to get a programme.

I’m guessing they have different models for customer types. For example a couple sharing a car: Tickets £650 (£325 x 2) Parking £50 Fuel £50 Food and drink £250 Total £1000 Once you break those types of barriers you lose customers. So they will be dialling figures up and down to see what their maximum revenue figure can be.

I said this on another chat a few months ago. I think £345 with a six month payment plan and a simultaneous announcement of discounted/free tickets for nurses will be where we are at for 2023 Inflation is 10% and they cancelled two festivals. Bills got to be paid. I’m cool with it

I really enjoyed working Shambala. If you are looking for a second festival it’s a good one. Plus it’s bank holiday so eats less leave

It’s just a general moan I have about nos. Just learn to bin it

That’s a massive achievement. The camp sites was also cleaner throughout the festival than any other. It’s just bloody nos that gets left around

Lol, I was distracted by Shambala so out of sync 😂 thank you!

Was it her late night pop dungeon? I’ve seen that before and it was a lot of fun

Cool, I’ll be there

That’s really crappy @Old_Johno. I hope the bank sort you out. With the phone signal like it was, there nothing you can do but hope for the best. On the flip side I had a card handed to me by a punter which was reassuring.

Absolutely, and the crowd is definitely better than Glastonbury, Green Man and all the festival republic festivals. That’s my frame of reference

Honestly this is the first I’ve heard about it 😂 It would have taken a lot to get me out of the smaller venues

You always see more when you work a festival. The behaviour was better than other festivals but I saw plenty to counter the positive marketing. Just a few examples, sadly I have more: Once it’s dark around 30 people an hour were peeing in the lake. I saw one person kick a beach ball into another festival goer and knock their food out of their hand (an accident). They didn’t say a thing, just walked off like nothing had happened. I know of one occasion where someone spat on a steward. Someone ripped the phone off one of the Teleconfusion booths For best festival crowd, I don’t think It’s better than EOTR 2021 (the best imo). Mate, I’m broken too. I had one overnight shift that finished at 08:00 and the other two nights I went back to my tent at 05:00 😂

Just back from my first Shambala, a place full of nice surprises. Was lovely meeting you @chuckles07! I’ll give it a solid 4/5 and well worth a trip. I’ll think a few of us will return. The little venues scattered around the festival are fantastic and while some complained about the wait times for food, I thought it fell in line with the slower pace compared to other festivals. I appreciate I see more extreme behaviours when stewarding but it’s still a festival with a element of selfish and dickhead behaviour. Utopia is laying it on a bit thick. That said, the behaviour of the punters is better than any other festival and I saw plenty of examples of people looking out for each other. Security genuinely cared and treated junior security better than I have seen anywhere else. It’s in keeping with the festival organisation/staff who were also better than any other I’ve encountered. They genuinely care about festival goers experience and those working at the festival. I was on one of the smaller venues for a night (Phantom Laundry) and the stage managers couldn’t not have been more friendly and appreciative of the stewarding support. Highlight of the festival - The Pink Flamingo. Late night, speak easy style jazz club. Sit on the floor, no bar, just jazz. Just amazing, amazing jazz.

Someone has posted a video of the 😮 BCNR moment/song on YouTube

Weather forecast looks perfect at the moment. Fingers crossed

In 2019 I upgraded to settlers in late May

Let’s finish the exiting hurt/heal first

Are you coming with Oxfam as well? Do come over and say hi as well