{"id":21592,"date":"2016-07-06T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=21592"},"modified":"2016-07-06T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:37:45","slug":"glastonbury-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/07\/glastonbury-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"GLASTONBURY 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glastonbury<\/p>\n

What an experience! I would not be lying if I said that it\u2019s right at the top with the best things I\u2019ve done my whole life…Amazing!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

On the 19th of June myself and my sound engineer teacher-person went off to Glastonbury to do sound engineering\/stage managing at the Strummerville stage, which is quite a big deal to be honest. When we got to Castle Cary there was only one coach going to Glasto so we got on it and it\u00a0dropped us off at Gate A, which for you who don\u2019t know is literally on the other side of Glasto to where we were going. As no one wanted to give us a lift across the site we had to walk it, carrying all our things for 10 days and in the pouring rain. So much fun\u2026It took us two hours through mud, rain and up a hill to get there, but we got to the campsite eventually and then we spent 24 hours in the pouring\u00a0rain.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"Glastonbury<\/p>\n

On Tuesday most of the team had arrived and the rain had stopped, which meant we were off to set the rig up. Ridiculously heavy equipment, but thankfully the Strummerville boys were kind enough to help us out! Then we had to do all the technincal stuff like connect everything, set all the extra speakers up and test the whole thing, but we took our time doing that as the first live performance wasn\u2019t until Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"Glastonbury<\/p>\n

When Thursday came around I had a horrible hangover from being out and about on Wednesday evening which is when the festival opened to the public and my favourite lecturer was running\u00a0The Rum Shack (one of the grassroots hiphop stages) so I was there all night partying! But I was down at the site at 11am on Thursday morning to find that there had been a flood on our stage because we had this tree going through the middle of it…But once that was fixed, it was back to working mode, lifting equipment and getting everything ready to rock and roll! Will did all the sound engineering throughout the weekend and myself and Mr. Dave Danger did the stage managing. Because of my horrible hangover I decided to go to bed early on Thursday and then kick off the weekend properly on Friday.<\/p>\n

\"Glastonbury<\/p>\n

And so I did indeed! Friday was an easy day at work because we only had one band and then DJs. Dave turned up with a horrible hangover which I found hilarious and left him to sit and try taking care of that while I did all the work and I then nagged his ear off for a while as payment haha! After everything was done I chilled with the DJs for a while, they were extremely nice so it was a lot of fun to just hang with them for a bit before I headed down to the mayhem to meet up with my friend Ellie, from Wildlife. Now, because Glasto is such a big festival and there\u2019s a ridiculous amount of people it\u2019s very hard to find someone but very easy to lose them. So by the time I got to where we were meeting, Ellie had lost one of her mates and it took forever, so in the end I decided I was going to go see Muse all on my own, which I enjoyed, and I made some friends there anyway. I did however have a bit of an anxiety attack in the middle of the 3rd song so I had to get out of there and before I managed to get to my tent I ran in to some other friends and partied the rest of the night!<\/p>\n

\"Glastonbury<\/div>\n
Saturday was another crazy day at work. We were there at 11am testing everything, and when it was\u00a0all ready for the day we\u00a0took off for a few hours before the first performer was on so I had a chance to tidy the container with all the equipment, the backstage area, and the stage. Dave took off early that night leaving me to stage-manage, which was fine, I like that he trusted me like that with the stage and artists and clean up and everything else, it made me work ten times harder and realise what it is to properly stage manage without that \u201csafety net\u201d or whatever. When the clean-up was done it was time for me to run across the muddy Glasto all the way to the Pyramid Stage to see Adele, and I made it just in time for the first note of ‘Hello’! We did however call it an early night and went\u00a0back to our tents after her amazing set.<\/div>\n
\"Glastonbury<\/div>\n
Sunday came along and it was the last day of \u201cactive Glasto\u201d which made me very sad to be honest. Our surprise act didn\u2019t bring any equipment as they\u2019d just done a set on another stage and so they didn\u2019t have time to pack everything down, so Dave and I were running around trying to find guitars and bass and everything else a band needs to perform live. It\u00a0worked out in the end, and they packed Strummerville out! When it came to the clean up at the end of the day I could feel myself tearing up because I felt this amazing experience coming to an end and I just didn\u2019t want it to. Will and I stuck around and had a beer by the campfire with all the Strummerville people and it was just lovely.
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I can honestly say that it has been the best experience of my life. I might have been soaking wet, covered in mud and exhausted for about 95% of the time but I could have kept going every day for the rest of my life, I know this is what I want to do and what I love to do, I just hope more opportunities like this comes along because I can\u2019t see myself doing anything else in this world.<\/div>\n
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\"Glastonbury<\/div>\n
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I\u2019d like to thank Ford and Will for bringing me along to Glasto and letting me work my ass off every day. And of course the one and only Mr. Danger who listened to me bitch about life and has taught me so many things about the thing I love to do, like I said, I\u2019m coming for your job!<\/p>\n

Until next year Glasto, it\u2019s been emotional!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Glastonbury<\/div>\n
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Originally published here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anna Nilsson worked at Glastonbury this year, and brings her experience to Essentially Pop.<\/p>\n

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