Glastocam!

[Ayrshire Chris]

19 hours ago, deadponyclub said:

seems strange that there are still a lot of Worthy View tents up, is that normal for this long after the festival? Perhaps the weather has delayed things....

They always take ages to dismantle them. Think time is spent valeting them making sure they are clean and dry before removing them, preventing mould and easy to put up next year. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

Is that the The ribbon tower hat looking sad and lonely in the middle of an empty field😔. ?

[Madyaker]

I never look a the cam after the fest, too depressing.

[Ayrshire Chris]

An air balloon heading near the site.  I assume it’s air filled and not what balloons are sometimes filled with at the festival😉

Edited July 17, 2024 by Ayrshire Chris

[westholtschic]

3 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Is that the The ribbon tower hat looking sad and lonely in the middle of an empty field😔. ?

Indeed it is 😢 festival 12 and still didn’t go up it !

[Ayrshire Chris]

9 hours ago, westholtschic said:

Indeed it is 😢 festival 12 and still didn’t go up it !

Stood in the queue but gave up as it was taking too long. The nearest we’ve ever came though😊

[Ayrshire Chris]

Looks like the wood chip on the pyramid field is being gathered up

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Looks like the wood chip on the pyramid field is being gathered up

guess that saves them a few quid next year ... hows those PP negotiations going ? 

[Ayrshire Chris]

2 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

guess that saves them a few quid next year ... hows those PP negotiations going ? 

Sadly we can’t make PP this year, we will just have returned from a holiday and a bit much to head off a few days later to Somerset. Anyway, Hope it’s a good un and youse all enjoy it! 

[dotdash79]

Can’t believe how quickly it gets packed up. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

2 hours ago, dotdash79 said:

Can’t believe how quickly it gets packed up. 

Not quickly enough for some😊😉

[Ayrshire Chris]

Much as I love to see the festival in full flow it’s nice to see the fields and trees in all their verdant beauty 

[Skip997]

On 7/20/2024 at 10:39 AM, dotdash79 said:

Can’t believe how quickly it gets packed up. 

I can’t believe how long it takes 

[Crazyfool01]

11 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

I can’t believe how long it takes 

Good luck packing away a town of 200k plus people in 3 weeks 😀

[Skip997]

3 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Good luck packing away a town of 200k plus people in 3 weeks 😀

One thought occurred to me post festival this year (I was on-site until the Thursday after). It appeared that very little had been done re deconstructing the “non-Pyramid” large stages.

 

Presumably these are hired and not owned by GFL and therefore, the longer they remain on site the more it costs.

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

One thought occurred to me post festival this year (I was on-site until the Thursday after). It appeared that very little had been done re deconstructing the “non-Pyramid” large stages.

 

Presumably these are hired and not owned by GFL and therefore, the longer they remain on site the more it costs.

Would imagine they are off somewhere else , so pointless them being taken to where they are normally stored in the off season . Unloaded and then reloaded for the next festival … just easier to take them direct and offload when required . I’d imagine Glastonbury only pay for them up to a point 

[Ayrshire Chris]

45 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Would imagine they are off somewhere else , so pointless them being taken to where they are normally stored in the off season . Unloaded and then reloaded for the next festival … just easier to take them direct and offload when required . I’d imagine Glastonbury only pay for them up to a point 

Yes, the owners might just wait until they are needed elsewhere then take them direct. Just like we had scaffolding on our house for a few weeks after a job had been done. Only removed when the roofers had another job nearby. A bloody nuisance. 

[MilkyJoe]

10 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Yes, the owners might just wait until they are needed elsewhere then take them direct. Just like we had scaffolding on our house for a few weeks after a job had been done. Only removed when the roofers had another job nearby. A bloody nuisance. 

Should have charged them rent.

[tomf3]

Yeah pretty sure it's Serious Stages who provide a vast majority of stages, decking, speaker towers etc across the whole site (ranging from the Pyramid, Other stage to SEC and Arcadia). They're local and have done it for decades so guess they have an arrangement to keep the stages up until they need to move them onwards. 

[Alvoram]

8 minutes ago, tomf3 said:

Yeah pretty sure it's Serious Stages who provide a vast majority of stages, decking, speaker towers etc across the whole site (ranging from the Pyramid, Other stage to SEC and Arcadia). They're local and have done it for decades so guess they have an arrangement to keep the stages up until they need to move them onwards. 

Just enough of an excuse to post this here again...
 

They certainly do, they definitely provide Other Stage, Park Stage, West Holts and fit out the pyramid.

You can see on the webcam that the Park stage, (and maybe others belonging to them,) were down by Thursday 4th July... It just seemed to be Other Stage that was clinging on. Guessing they didn't need that one as quickly. 

Edited July 22, 2024 by Alvoram

[tomf3]

11 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

Just enough of an excuse to post this here again...
 

They certainly do, they definitely provide Other Stage, Park Stage, West Holts and fit out the pyramid.

You can see on the webcam that the Park stage, (and maybe others belonging to them,) were down by Thursday 4th July... It just seemed to be Other Stage that was clinging on. Guessing they didn't need that one as quickly. 

Haha nice! Great video! 
They're amongst many other unsung heroes at Glastonbury who have a massive impact on the place but don't really get celebrated.
I used to know the guy who was the head plumber for the festival and he'd be on site from early February fitting all the pipes etc. across the whole site (probably often in the freezing cold).  It's crazy how much work goes into it for an event that only lasts 5 days. 

[Julesdude]

Isn't the Other Stage also set up at Reading as the main stage? Would explain why they've only just taken it down. It probably gets transported straight to Reading when it's lowered and packed away.

[incident]

2 hours ago, Julesdude said:

Isn't the Other Stage also set up at Reading as the main stage? Would explain why they've only just taken it down. It probably gets transported straight to Reading when it's lowered and packed away.

 

It's the same base model of stage as used at Reading (and Leeds) as their Main Stage, but it'll be more complicated than "just" being the same physical stage. Like most of the Serious Stages range, it's a modular system, from which they're able to create several instances of stage with the precise configuration varying by need.

[Ayrshire Chris]

Posh bogs next to pyramid being dismantled 

 

[dotdash79]

Looks like they are about to start to undress the pyramid.