more space for Arcadia

[eFestivals]

Details here:-

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/09/091027b.shtml

[Marathon_Man]

Thank god for that - last year was a nightmare Saturday night and jsut felt like being herded around like sheep - no room to walk around at all.

[Pinhead]

Doesn't surprise me - room was at a premium around there last year. Couldn't even get past sometimes such was the crowd. Any idea where it would be moved to in order to give it the additional space?

[Keef]

This is excellent news, Arcadia has been a fantastic addition to the site (hence the great feedback ME speaks of) so more of the same has got to be a good thing.

[eFestivals]

Any idea where it would be moved to in order to give it the additional space?

there's not many options if it's still going to do it's late night thing - it'll have to be somewhere around the same area, because that's the only place the festival is able to do all night music (because Eavis has struck a deal with the few people who live outside the fence at that end of the site).

I guess one of the fields up that way is 15 acres, but I'm not sure which one it might be.

[sammysundae]

fantastic news!! best part of the festival last year. had the best nighjt of my life there and more of it could only be a good thing.

WOOO!

[Langdale Wolf]

As I didn't really make it past midnight in 2008 and I missed 2009, can anyone enlighten me as to where and what Arcadia is? Is it part of Trash City?

[sifi]

As I didn't really make it past midnight in 2008 and I missed 2009, can anyone enlighten me as to where and what Arcadia is? Is it part of Trash City?

[Mardy]

wasn't there a camping field behind it? maybe they'll expand into there?

[eFestivals]

wasn't there a camping field behind it? maybe they'll expand into there?

they bettter bloody not - that's where I camp.

[cejx]

Isn't the bit in between Trash Cit and Shagri-la?

[sifi]

opposite side of the track to Trash City. Spent Saturday night there this year. Anyone else catch Freeland and Evil Nine?

[KingKolo]

Evil 9 - Very good! We were at Arcadia for agggesss that night.

[parsonjack]

Surely they should do something about the overcrowding in Trash City first?

It was ruddy impossible to get in there after main stages shut last year....and if you did it was ruddy dangerous....and then there was the ruddy one-way system down the railway track when/if you managed to get out....ridiculous...and one of the reasons that we're having a year off in 2010.

rant over

[paulo999]

There will probably be more changes down there than the Music Week article implies. It's not decided yet.

As a general point, I wouldn't take the acreages given out by the festival too literally. By way of example, 15 acres is larger than the Pyramid field.

[eFestivals]

There will probably be more changes down there than the Music Week article implies. It's not decided yet.

As a general point, I wouldn't take the acreages given out by the festival too literally. By way of example, 15 acres is larger than the Pyramid field.

While I'm not exactly sure how big an acre is, I was thinking that there's probably not a 15 acre field at the Shangri-La end of the site unless it was perhaps what are currently the green fields. Which made me think they'd have to be quite a large swap-around with things.

[Billy09]

they bettter bloody not - that's where I camp.

[r0cky]

they bettter bloody not - that's where I camp.

[ralph250]

Evil 9 - Very good! We were at Arcadia for agggesss that night.

[Pinhead]

they bettter bloody not - that's where I camp.

[eFestivals]

Had to share the field with, was it the Global / Green Futures or something camp this year. Thought they were going to take up much more space tbh before the festival, but in the end they didn't take up that much really.

It was Climate Camp.

[Niblet]

According to GlastoEarth, Dragon & Williams camping combined is 9.9 acres.

Maybe they meant 1.5 Acres extra space!

[4AssedMonkey]

Whilst I loved Arcadia and Trash City for that matter, 15 acres is a shit load. Surely that can't be right?

[Heddwch]

Something major will have to go in order to accommodate this change.

Edited October 29, 2009 by Heddwch

[Billy09]

Thinking back to last year didn't they anounce when Arcadia was moving and would have a bigger stage some ludicrous figure regarding acreage, 15 is ringing bells.