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  1. It doesn't... but at the same time in all walks of life you're gonna get some bad eggs who abuse a position of power and trust, theres lots of room for improvement within the event and security industry
  2. The Searches are not for drugs, please believe me when I say that the crowd management team don't care about the bag of weed or a few pills, it's there to stop the person attempting to take a machete or some form of firearm or explosive in or someone with possession with intent to supply. If you get asked for a search and say no you will be refused entry, these are taken straight from last years terms and conditions of entry. "3. The Premises Licence Holder (hereafter “PLH”) and Glastonbury Festival Events Limited (hereafter “GFEL”) reserve the right to: (a) refuse admission in any circumstances, (d) in order to facilitate the security, safety and comfort of all guests the PLH and/or GFEL may refuse entry to ticket holders who attempt to enter the licenced Festival site, or any surrounding land used by the Festival (including car parks) that constitutes the Festival footprint, (hereafter the “Festival Site”) with contraband goods and / or prohibited articles. Please refer to www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk (hereafter “Festival website”) for information on items which will not be allowed onsite. 9. You may be searched in the car parks or at the entrance. Any items which the organisers consider may be used in an illegal or offensive manner shall be confiscated. Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and/or offensive activities onsite may be searched. Anyone resisting confiscation of disallowed items or disregarding these conditions will face eviction from the Festival Site. (basically if you hand it over they'll still let you in as long as you're not a dick) All taken from https://cdn.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sunday-Ticket-Terms-and-Conditions-2022.pdf this couldn't find this years but will be about the same In terms of searching on the way out, It gets done at venues where there has been reported pick pockets and phone thefts, so it could be that there has been a string of thefts on site and they believe that people will leave with the contraband. I've more than 10 years experience in crowd management both in management roles and on the ground, working venues, tours and festivals, it's all about the big picture and reputational protection.
  3. Be careful with this method, I over refreshed last year and had 0 luck getting on
  4. https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/contact-us/ Hope some people are contacting glasto and feeding back views, mist companies are open to general well worded experiences of what happened rather than just putting it on here, things might improve that way
  5. I work in live events and crowd management and there are a few noticeable things over the past 9 months since large-scale events have started again which will help manage expectations. There has been a large scale loss of knowledge and experience within the industry, and whilst there might be documentation to tell people how to implement the operational plan on the ground experience will have gone. This can then be combined with a lot of new people to the industry and companies being stretched and sub-contracting beyond all belief, I had messages on Friday asking could I work / supply staff to do the Saturday and Sunday and I was being offered £11ph wanting me to then pay £9.50ph (making £18 profit per person for a 12 hour shift), thats for staff working as SIA's, no one in their right mind will accept that at the moment with large events at most cities where SIA staff are then working for the highest bidder. People have forgotten what it's like being in a large crowd (People have generally forgotten how to act at events in general, people have just become D!cks over the past few years we had a brawl at a Diana Ross gig during her normal arena shows recently... like people need to chill out and just be more considerate, studying how people flow around a venue and stand watching a show there are subtle changes, people are wanting more space than in years gone by, on average a you'd be looking at around 4 - 5 people per square meter Max for a crowd being stood watching with about 4 people per meter being the accepted number for people moving in a crowd, most people now just don't want to be that close to each other which means crowds just take up more space than before. Another aspect is recency bias within the fact its been 3 years since the last festival, most of the issues people felt this weekend would've been there last festival but we choose not to remember those parts, I've seen fights around Arcadia before, Cocaine being snorted for fun at the Pyramid and horrendous crowds, 2019 Pale Waves had a crazy crowd and I remember years back 1975 having a crazy crowd and the set being stopped because of a fight. A lot of large festivals this year will have both a lot of remembering of how to do things for experience staff and then a whole new world for any staff working, there will be learnings for everyone and hopefully next year the improvements will be noticeable
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