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Glastocam!


pauladam

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This guy has put up a great time lapse of the setup for 2019 which gives you an idea of what's to come over the next 64 days,
Be sure and give a comment and a like 
 

 

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On 4/14/2022 at 5:39 PM, Ayrshire Chris said:

Long may the wood chip mountain remain unused. If I remember the festival used up the whole stocks of the south of England in 2016, due to the underground conditions.
We are currently in Jersey, perfect Glastonbury weather, sunny 20 degrees and lots of beer! Back to the webcam next week. 

aw welcome back again, wasn't it a cracking weekend 🙂 . 

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5 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Yes, great weeks break, nice walks, meals out and generally chilled out! Back home from these lovely views to the Glastocam! 

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Up the top at Ouisnaise ... nice.  Thats where I kayak and paddle board from a lot 🙂 Great pub at the bottom called Smugglers Inn , one time when you are over we should have a beer in a pub garden 🙂

 

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9 minutes ago, DareToDibble said:

That's awesome! Do you do work for the festival to be behind the scenes during festival time?

No I don't. That's the view from the edge of the interstage area. I may have wandered slightly off the approved path to get that pic, though....

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24 minutes ago, micropizza said:

That's cool, love behind the scenes pics especially during the festival

Not quite the same Pyramid pic, but similar none the less

 

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2 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I know we’ve had an enforced break so it makes sense to test the Pyramid cover early, but it keeps getting dressed earlier anyway. I don’t think it needs to be dressed this early (although I guess they’ve got to start somewhere) but do you think there is an aspect of getting it dressed early to bring the awareness up? 

I've absolutely no professional experience in this sort of thing but maybe they're starting ahead of schedule in anticipation of staff covid illness over the next few weeks? 

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12 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

I can confirm that the long drops around block 9 do still clang

This is exactly the sort of info I come here for.  None of these new fangled soft close long drops for me thank you very much 

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16 minutes ago, dmedxb said:

I've absolutely no professional experience in this sort of thing but maybe they're starting ahead of schedule in anticipation of staff covid illness over the next few weeks? 

To me it seems they maybe start with that as it’s symbolic, serious stages fit everything out on the Pyramid, but they also supply the other stage and build that from scratch and that doesn’t start going up until much much later.

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18 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I don’t think it needs to be dressed this early (although I guess they’ve got to start somewhere) but do you think there is an aspect of getting it dressed early to bring the awareness up? 

Not in the slightest.

I think it's because it's something that's done by the regular worthy farm crew, so they don't need to rush it into the "main" build schedule (which properly kicks in in a couple weeks). So they'll schedule it at a time that makes sense for the farm calendar. Same applies to setting up the long drops and a couple other things.

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1 minute ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

To me it seems they maybe start with that as it’s symbolic, serious stages fit everything out on the Pyramid, but they also supply the other stage and build that from scratch and that doesn’t start going up until much much later.

Serious do the "stage" part - ie the innards, but unless some of the stuff already delivered is theirs, they don't do anything that we've seen to date.

In terms of when the actual fit out comes, it helps that Serious are based literally just down the road from Worthy Farm - they're one of several companies that exist because they started at Glastonbury Festival in this case when a neighbouring farmer was roped in to build a stage. So they can work to a relatively flexible schedule. The proximity also created a weird situation a few years back where they randomly build a bridge on the farm, and nobody on here could figure out why. They then dismantled it a few weeks before the festival started - turned out they were testing it out ahead of either Leeds or Reading.

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