@!sinner69! 484736 wrote:
If you got the time;
Go for build and tear down the festival, more hours (and a bit harder work, being a crew member gives you rights that others just can dream about) far more interesting than be a orange west during the festi. And you be free to go eyeballed without have to think about being sober at certain times. + you often get a more comfy place to sleep and other goodies backstage….In fact I have never paid for a festival, I always works in some part of it and still have the time to get a fully load
..and I never wear a orange west, never
Very good advice, though in England the relative lack of events (from festivals to even licensed clubs) compared to DK or NL (which are both way smaller countries) means that this sort of crew job tends to be jealously guarded and competed for by the event management companies, sound engineers etc. From memory to get this kind of position you would have had to know someone involved with the event.
The same applies to all our creative/media industries – they really are not valued in England (it is slightly better in Celtic countries in the UK where they often have their own languages and music culture and music and arts are more valued) and it is not even just the Government to blame, many older people do not think much of music/entertainers, I come across worse attitudes than in some Islamic countries! It creates a vicious circle whereby those involved in the music scene get drawn into bad behaviour and crime / gangs because its only the underworld what would bankroll some risky ventures…
Its hard to explain the bigger picture in a short post but look at it this way, although I have always been interested in languages, it is only comparatively recently I’ve gone to the effort of searching out info about media production from across the North Sea because every other European nation is now way ahead of the UK.
