You’re battling rising costs to source enough essentials for a small city and always competing for the best acts. So why would anyone run a festival? We speak to those behind Green Man, Parklife and Krankenhaus to find out
festival in Wales, compares launching a festival to opening your own restaurant. You love eating out. You have superb taste. All your friends say you’re a great chef. How hard could it be? Harder than you could possibly imagine. “I have lost all the money I had in the world at least three times,” she says.
You’re building a world. If people buy into it, there’s an emotional connection and it becomes something of cultural importance Last November, I spoke to the organisers of three very different festivals – Green Man, Manchester’s 80,000-capacity dance and pop weekender Parklife and Krankenhaus, a 1,500-capacity “micro-festival” in Cumbria – to find out what it takes. The first thing to know is that it is a year-round job.
While Taylor is relatively new to the game, Stewart is a three-decade festival veteran who remembers when the average festival was “a shitty auditorium in a field”. She started working at Glastonbury in 1995, when she was in her mid-30s, and moved on to the boutique alternative and dance festival The Big Chill in 2000, at the very start of the festival boom. When she was preparing to move the festival to Lulworth Castle, Dorset, in 2001, the local residents behaved “like the Vikings were coming.
I reconnected with Stewart and Taylor in the spring, after the lineups had been announced. Green Man’s headliners are Big Thief, Sampha, Jon Hopkins and Sleaford Mods, while the Krankenhaus bill is topped by BC Camplight, Nadine Shah and Sea Power. Assembling a lineup is a fiendish, ever-shifting puzzle, which has to take into account budget, availability and crowdflow throughout months of uncertainty.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Man arrested after woman’s body found in green waste at Melbourne tipStaff at a waste-management facility in Melbourne’s north were shaken after discovering the dead woman while moving waste last Wednesday.
Read more »
Man arrested after woman’s body found in green waste at Melbourne tipStaff at a waste management facility in Melbourne’s north were shaken after discovering the dead woman while moving waste last Wednesday.
Read more »
Treasurer green lights historic $4.9 billion ANZ-Suncorp mergerTreasurer Jim Chalmers has approved ANZ&x27;s $4.9 billion purchase of Suncorp&x27;s banking arm in a major step towards finalising the banking merger two years in the making.
Read more »
Treasurer to green-light $4.9b ANZ-Suncorp dealANZ Bank’s $4.9 billion takeover of Suncorp’s banking arm is expected to receive the green light from Treasurer Jim Chalmers, subject to conditions requiring the merged bank to protect jobs and retain a regional presence.
Read more »
Treasurer to green-light $4.9b ANZ-Suncorp dealANZ Bank’s $4.9 billion takeover of Suncorp’s banking arm is expected to receive the green light from Treasurer Jim Chalmers, subject to conditions requiring the merged bank to protect jobs and retain a regional presence.
Read more »
Treasurer to green-light $4.9b ANZ-Suncorp dealANZ Bank’s $4.9 billion takeover of Suncorp’s banking arm is expected to receive the green light from Treasurer Jim Chalmers, subject to conditions requiring the merged bank to protect jobs and retain a regional presence.
Read more »