Size Of Stages

[Jamie D]

I reckon the Park stage is bigger than West Holts.

Maybe the Park just feels more open as it doesn't have stuff all around it like West Holts does.

[musky]

Just now, Gnomicide said:

Interesting article Musky, I've not seen that before.

Exactly what I thought. Squeezing an extra 10dB of volume from Block 9 was quite a feat - that's twice the volume!

[Mezhyp1]

The Temple is becoming 3,000 this year. Genosys could probably be anything up to about 5,000 I reckon. 

5 minutes ago, Jamie D said:

I reckon the Park stage is bigger than West Holts.

Maybe the Park just feels more open as it doesn't have stuff all around it like West Holts does.

I couldn't buy this at all, West Holts is much bigger 

[shuttlep]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Because it's big, or good?

Both , it's the best stage in Somerset

[Gnomicide]

A search on Google shows some sad bastards have discussed this before but didn't get very far.. 

 

[stuartbert two hats]

21 minutes ago, Jamie D said:

I reckon the Park stage is bigger than West Holts.

Maybe the Park just feels more open as it doesn't have stuff all around it like West Holts does.

It's not. No way.

[carlosj]

4 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

A search on Google shows some sad bastards have discussed this before but didn't get very far.. 

 

Sad bastardry needs updating every so often, that was 7 years ago.

[stuartbert two hats]

I thought we'd got a lot further than that a few years back.

Rubbish!

[Gnomicide]

In your face, 2010 eFests!

[DeanoL]

Fairly sure Cabaret is 1000

[incident]

A lot of this information is actually out there if you know where to look - so -

From a previous Licence Application:

Pyramid: 90,000
Other: 40,000
Jazz World 25,000

The Pyramid field has been increased in size then so should be about 100,000 now. The others will be unchanged.

From the company (Mobile Structures) that supplies most of the bigger tents:

JP: 11,808
Acoustic: 8,600
Avalon: Doesn't list a capacity but it's shown as 37 metres diameter.

I believe those numbers are before any staging/production goes in, and that after that the JP & Acoustic come out to about 10,000 and 6,000 respectively. I've also been told in the past that Avalon was 3,000 and Williams Green 2,000, but the Avalon Tent now is smaller than it was then.

[Madyaker]

Didn't they increase the size of the pyramid field capacity in 2013 in anticipation of The Stones pulling a ginormous crowd? I thought I read on here that capacity of that field now is over 100k?

[incident]

1 minute ago, Madyaker said:

Didn't they increase the size of the pyramid field capacity in 2013 in anticipation of The Stones pulling a ginormous crowd? I thought I read on here that capacity of that field now is over 100k?

Yeah, the 90k figure pre-dates that. So somewhere around or a shade over 100k would be about right now.

[musky]

1 hour ago, incident said:

A lot of this information is actually out there if you know where to look - so -

From a previous Licence Application:

Pyramid: 90,000
Other: 40,000
Jazz World 25,000

The Pyramid field has been increased in size then so should be about 100,000 now. The others will be unchanged.

From the company (Mobile Structures) that supplies most of the bigger tents:

JP: 11,808
Acoustic: 8,600
Avalon: Doesn't list a capacity but it's shown as 37 metres diameter.

I believe those numbers are before any staging/production goes in, and that after that the JP & Acoustic come out to about 10,000 and 6,000 respectively. I've also been told in the past that Avalon was 3,000 and Williams Green 2,000, but the Avalon Tent now is smaller than it was then.

Tallies with much of what I found.

There were also several references to Leftfield having a 5,000 capacity, and one to it being 4,000 (although that was in 2005, the same year as it's capacity was apparently increased). None of the sites were particularly authoritative though, and 5,000 seems a bit on the big side, so I'm leaving that one for now.

[DeanoL]

11 minutes ago, musky said:

Tallies with much of what I found.

There were also several references to Leftfield having a 5,000 capacity, and one to it being 4,000 (although that was in 2005, the same year as it's capacity was apparently increased). None of the sites were particularly authoritative though, and 5,000 seems a bit on the big side, so I'm leaving that one for now.

Leftfield is now a completely different tent (since it moved location) and fairly sure it's significantly smaller.

[musky]

6 hours ago, DeanoL said:

Leftfield is now a completely different tent (since it moved location) and fairly sure it's significantly smaller.

That would make sense. Thanks.

[ghostdancer1]

Wow - tent - about 1500-2000 i'd say. similar size to Leftfield and WG.

[ghostdancer1]

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Edited April 25, 2017 by ghostdancer1

[ghostdancer1]

12 hours ago, Jamie D said:

I reckon the Park stage is bigger than West Holts.

Maybe the Park just feels more open as it doesn't have stuff all around it like West Holts does.

looking at the Glastomap overhead photo, the whole area is definitely around the same size. WH is square, whereas The Park is long, but if you condensed it, it'd definitely be close. That's from the Bimble Inn up to the BBC tv studio.

if you include all the hill with the Glastonbury sign/Trickets Bar/Crows Nest, The Park is definitely a larger area.

for just the area in front of the stage that you can watch from, WH is much bigger.

Edited April 25, 2017 by ghostdancer1

[Jamie D]

9 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:

looking at the Glastomap overhead photo, the whole area is definitely around the same size. WH is square, whereas The Park is long, but if you condensed it, it'd definitely be close. That's from the Bimble Inn up to the BBC tv studio.

if you include all the hill with the Glastonbury sign/Trickets Bar/Crows Nest, The Park is definitely a larger area.

for just the area in front of the stage that you can watch from, WH is much bigger.

I think this is the main factor here. Where you define the Park stage area starts and ends. 

Maybe if this discussion is still raging at the end of the day I'll draw some diagrams in MS paint. For now I really need to get on with some actual work

[Watergirl]

13 hours ago, musky said:

Avalon - 3000. Beat Hotel - 2000.
http://www.tpimagazine.com/glastonbury-2016-the-highlights/ (interesting article for those into tech stuff).

I really like this article.  Most of it is over my head, but it illustrates how much planning, preparation and expertise goes into everything and this makes Glastonbury the wonderful event that it is.

I want to share the article to Facebook, but cannot manage.  Fb responds that it is unable to use the URL.  Any ideas how to get around that?

[guypjfreak]

1. Pyramid - Open Air - 120,000
2. Other - Open Air - 40,000
3. West Holts - Open Air - 25,000
4. John Peel - Tent 10,000
5. The Park Stage - Open

mid range:

• Acoustic - Tent - 8,000
• Sonic- Tent - 7,000
• Avalon- Tent - 3,000
• William's Green- Tent - 2,000
• Leftfield- Tent
• Avalon Cafe- Tent
• The Glade - Semi Open - 5,000 (covered atrium)
• Hell Stage - Open Air - 3,000
• Heaven - Open Air - 2,000

small:

• Big Top
• Cabaret
• NYC Downlow - Tent - 540
• NYC Downlow Lounge: 258
• The Meat Rack (formally The Downlow Radio): 86
• The Yard (formally The Basketball Court): 362
• London Underground - Tent - 750
• Maceo's (Crew Bar) - Tent - 700
• SISTERHOOD - 150
• Pluto Property Development - 200
• Love Bullets HQ - 600
• BRAINWASH MEDIA - 150
• SPIN CITY - 100
• STARF*CKERS - 100
• HIJACK RADIO (Ghetto Funk) - 150
• SHITV - 250
• F.C.C.C.C.S LIVE! - 100
• MONSTER VISION - 100
• DELUXE DINER - 400
• ROCKET LOUNGE - 200
• Wally’s (Crew Bar) - 100
• GUERILLA MEMBERS CLUB - 100

[guypjfreak]

15 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Thanks  It's vaguely accurate sure, but far far far from complete.  I want Croissant Neuf ranked correctly!

Have you ranked it yet.. I thought it would be a small tent.. 

[stuartbert two hats]

2 minutes ago, guypjfreak said:

1. Pyramid - Open Air - 120,000
2. Other - Open Air - 40,000
3. West Holts - Open Air - 25,000
4. John Peel - Tent 10,000
5. The Park Stage - Open

mid range:

• Acoustic - Tent - 8,000
• Sonic- Tent - 7,000
• Avalon- Tent - 3,000
• William's Green- Tent - 2,000
• Leftfield- Tent
• Avalon Cafe- Tent
• The Glade - Semi Open - 5,000 (covered atrium)
• Hell Stage - Open Air - 3,000
• Heaven - Open Air - 2,000

small:

• Big Top
• Cabaret
• NYC Downlow - Tent - 540
• NYC Downlow Lounge: 258
• The Meat Rack (formally The Downlow Radio): 86
• The Yard (formally The Basketball Court): 362
• London Underground - Tent - 750
• Maceo's (Crew Bar) - Tent - 700
• SISTERHOOD - 150
• Pluto Property Development - 200
• Love Bullets HQ - 600
• BRAINWASH MEDIA - 150
• SPIN CITY - 100
• STARF*CKERS - 100
• HIJACK RADIO (Ghetto Funk) - 150
• SHITV - 250
• F.C.C.C.C.S LIVE! - 100
• MONSTER VISION - 100
• DELUXE DINER - 400
• ROCKET LOUNGE - 200
• Wally’s (Crew Bar) - 100
• GUERILLA MEMBERS CLUB - 100

Nice one Old Son!

[5co77ie]

2 minutes ago, guypjfreak said:

• Wally’s (Crew Bar) - 100

is that all it's licensed for?