sim667
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It'll break even on sheer goodwill I think. As long as they keep crew well fed and watered.
Mischief festival 2013....
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It'll break even on sheer goodwill I think. As long as they keep crew well fed and watered.
sim667
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Just got back today as I've got work tomorrow and as I've had so much time off didn't wanna turn up being all flakey.
Seemed a bit larger than last year, probably nearer a 1000 people I reckon and it was much more of a proper festival.
Music was great, although they still need more stuff on the Friday night. The bar was reasonable at £2.50 a can and £3 a shot although they seemed to run out of drinks and change quite a lot.
The amount of toilets for the site was simply woeful, they were overflowing by last night and there didn't seem to be anyone emptying them, so that's certainly something I do feel they need to address.
I heard a rumor they'd had a run in with the council after some twats smashed up a police car in the car park, the police and council supposedly descended on them on Saturday morning and tried to close the whole thing down..... But everything managed to stay open except one tent where the crew had to furiously PAT Test everything in sight and that finally opened about 11pm last night.
I noticed a lot of traders packing up and going yesterday arvo too, just don't think they were getting the business.
Anyway I had a banging time, couldn't tell you who I saw except a 9 year old girl partially dj-ing with her dad (I think) but It was quite funny.
I feel rotten inside now
Seemed a bit larger than last year, probably nearer a 1000 people I reckon and it was much more of a proper festival.
Music was great, although they still need more stuff on the Friday night. The bar was reasonable at £2.50 a can and £3 a shot although they seemed to run out of drinks and change quite a lot.
The amount of toilets for the site was simply woeful, they were overflowing by last night and there didn't seem to be anyone emptying them, so that's certainly something I do feel they need to address.
I heard a rumor they'd had a run in with the council after some twats smashed up a police car in the car park, the police and council supposedly descended on them on Saturday morning and tried to close the whole thing down..... But everything managed to stay open except one tent where the crew had to furiously PAT Test everything in sight and that finally opened about 11pm last night.
I noticed a lot of traders packing up and going yesterday arvo too, just don't think they were getting the business.
Anyway I had a banging time, couldn't tell you who I saw except a 9 year old girl partially dj-ing with her dad (I think) but It was quite funny.
I feel rotten inside now
Tortihellcat
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Glad you had a great time, I couldn't go in the end, had to work, it seems they got two TENs licences for the festival, Looks like the council did relent on the original licence refusal which is good. I didn't know you could get more than one TEN.
I see the festival made it to the press anyway
http://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.u...est/ebernoe-festival-given-go-ahead-1-5503998
It seems from that story that they though there might be illegal substances at a festival.... Wow thats new to me, I'm shocked, truly I am. 
Hope to get there next year, hopefully they will get some better toilets by then, I hate overflowing toilets. Totally gross. You would think someone could do a spreadsheet they could work out how many people are going, x how much an average person excretes in a day x how much beer/fluid they drink x how much they dance off. + the number of people likely to vomit etc = the number of toilets required (plus a few extra.)
Torti.
I see the festival made it to the press anyway
http://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.u...est/ebernoe-festival-given-go-ahead-1-5503998
It seems from that story that they though there might be illegal substances at a festival.... Wow thats new to me, I'm shocked, truly I am. Hope to get there next year, hopefully they will get some better toilets by then, I hate overflowing toilets. Totally gross. You would think someone could do a spreadsheet they could work out how many people are going, x how much an average person excretes in a day x how much beer/fluid they drink x how much they dance off. + the number of people likely to vomit etc = the number of toilets required (plus a few extra.)
Torti.
TENs are given out per structure, so as long as there's more than one tent you can apply for more than one license. a mate did this a couple of years ago - one licence for the massive marquee, and another for the 8ft by 8ft open sided smoking shelter outside it...
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Glad you had a great time, I couldn't go in the end, had to work, it seems they got two TENs licences for the festival, Looks like the council did relent on the original licence refusal which is good. I didn't know you could get more than one TEN.
I see the festival made it to the press anyway
http://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.u...est/ebernoe-festival-given-go-ahead-1-5503998
Hope to get there next year, hopefully they will get some better toilets by then, I hate overflowing toilets. Totally gross. You would think someone could do a spreadsheet they could work out how many people are going, x how much an average person excretes in a day x how much beer/fluid they drink x how much they dance off. + the number of people likely to vomit etc = the number of toilets required (plus a few extra.)
Torti.
WRT toilets I think that portaloos tend to be rated for use by 13 people across a 24 hour period, then they're meant to be emptied....
I think there was about 30 portaloos across the whole area that paying public had access too, and they weren't emptied at all that I saw.
One of my highlights was about 8 prize pigs escaping from the next field and running riot in the campervan field....... Me trying to herd them back into the field but not get my crate of beer nicked at the same time, and a bunch of totally munted girls trying to help (but realistically they just wanted to stroke the pigs
)Tortihellcat
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I hadn't noticed that, if so I can't see any excuse for lack of them. The reason I removed the link was it got pointed out to me that if Mischief were apealing the licence refusal, it might make it worse for them if the council thought keeping the location secret to stop fence jumpers was part and parcel of that licence. I didn't want to risk screwing anything up for Mischief before the event.
Tortihellcat
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If my maths are right then that sounds seriously under provided for. Ewww.... Especially if the land owner runs a portable toilet business, you would think he would have known what was needed. (or just emptied them.)
One of my highlights was about 8 prize pigs escaping from the next field and running riot in the campervan field....... Me trying to herd them back into the field but not get my crate of beer nicked at the same time, and a bunch of totally munted girls trying to help (but realistically they just wanted to stroke the pigs
Brilliant.... wish I had seen that.
Tortihellcat
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Finding ''hidden'' locations isn't really that hard if you have an idea of what county to look in. Parish councils often publish stuff for the villages, and these days all major councils stick licensing stuff on their web sites.
Tortihellcat
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Not sure if its a legal requirement to publish on the web. I think they just have to inform the direct neighbours, thats what they do with planning permission anyway.
Wonder why the council gave the TENs licence then tried to close it down on the Saturday. If they didn't want it to go ahead why not just refuse the TEN in the first place? (here I'm assuming councils can refused a TEN? ) It seems a daft way to go about things..
But whatever the reasons, it did happen and it sounds like it was fun . And that was the result we all wanted. Good luck to the mischief crew, I hope to be there next year, I just hope they put on a stage where we can all try to catch escaped pigs
sim667
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Apparently an unattended pig car got smashed up in the car park on the friday night
Not sure how true that is though....... but came from someone who tends to know stuff.
no, the one in London. Will PM you the flyer
