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| Jacques Cousteau (SOME FRENCH MAN STICK TO THE SEA) |
After spending the 90s on the two main
stages . Mean Fiddler took over the main stages so I moved to
pastures new . In the form of the Markets the front line Babylon and
all that , it was just what the doctor ordered . We got the meet and
greet job at the bottom of muddy lane . Dealing with everyone not
just markets . The job was to focus on people going to were they were
supposed to go, as quickly as possible . Radio through so they were
expected . So the party could get going as quick as possible. Before
this was done people arrived roaming the site ether on a jolly or
totally lost . The site would get snagged up in no time with traders
de-livery’s artists staff lost all over the site . So with a team
of 8 are aim was get every one to their Festival home ASAP . So when
the party kicked off on time it was job done but it was 16-17 hour
days .
You where working with everyone people
made a bee line for you for what ever . There was many bizarre
situations medical problems people freaking out over one thing or
another . But in that first year was one of the strangest . For those
who know Glastonbury festival site the bottom of muddy lane there is
a large long drop toilet block . Long drops are huge pits with a iron
frame over with a dozen separate toilet cubical s on either side . You
do your business and it falls into the pit below a tanker comes 3
times a day to empty it . For me the long drops are the best toilets
on site .
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| LONG DROPS (muddy lane) |
While we were doing the meet and greet
it was so busy they had just opened the gates for the people . A girl
approached me panicking “I THINK SOME ONE HAS FELL INTO THE TOILET
PIT”
I knew that was impossible, unless some
one had smashed the plywood and he or she was thrown down. I was
talking to one of the market managers at the time we dashed over she
showed us the cubical she had been in .
Sure to her word in the corner waste
deep in umshka (With Nail and I) . Was a wet suit clad male with
video camera , We were not amused , What s more he sensed that . We
cleared the toilets of the half a dozen people using them at the time
. Security was called it took half hour to persuade him to let us
pull him out . Not helping was the fact he was French and that a
Scouser and a Cockney were leading the negotiation. He was finally
dragged out dropping his camera down back into the pit it slowly sank
never to be seen again . He was led away by security who were in
disbelief . I never learned his fate . But the job of toilet Monitors
was created , to put everyone at ease.
I would not mind U-tube did not exist
then so what his bag was I can only guess. But from then on anyone in
a frogman suit was viewed with suspicion . The fact that he was
French did not surprise me having worked with the outfit Archos on
the Pyramid stage a few years earlier. The stuff they would get up to .....
But hey that s an other story.........
More Glasto stories on the way soon
