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Steve is now in Bath - just sayin'......... I have a very good tech guy (ex BBC amongst other stuff) who has now had an amp (I'm not saying the make) of mine for nearly EIGHT months, trying vainly to sort a 50hertz mains buzz - I get updates about once a week - fortunately, I've got other kit....'Designed by an idiot & built by a gorilla' is the phrase that comes to mind - I've no doubt we'll get it sorted, although whether or not in my lifetime might be another matter........

Of course the reason that the 'main' act is on around the middle of the day is that all the 'festival' fans can sod off home before the rush, they needing to be back in their gainful employment the next morning, in order to finance their tickets for the next edition of Glasto, The Soap.......

Ok, not really totally on-topic, but a long time ago (about 1972, if I'm right) a mate of mine phoned and said that he was with Clyde mcPhatter (Drifters) in London & the guy had no money, could I find him a gig - I couldn't - so nothing changes, the numbers just get bigger.......

Shamelessly lifted from Wikipedia, this makes interesting reading (calculator would be useful) : [b] Organisation[font=sans-serif][size=1][color=#555555][[/color][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glastonbury_Festival&action=edit&section=7"]edit[/url][color=#555555]][/color][/size][/font][/b] [color=#252525][font=sans-serif] [size=3][center][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glastologo.png"][/url] [size=3][left] Festival logo in 2014[/left][/size][/center][/size][/font][/color][color=#252525][font=sans-serif] Since 1981, the festival has been organised by local farmer and site owner [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Eavis"]Michael Eavis[/url] (through his company Glastonbury Festivals Ltd). Eavis ran the festival with his wife Jean until her death in 1999, and is now assisted by his daughter [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Eavis"]Emily Eavis[/url]. Since 2002, Festival Republic (a company consisting of both [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Nation"]Live Nation[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCD_Productions"]MCD[/url]) has taken on the job of managing the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics"]logistics[/url] and security of the festival through a 40% stake in the festival management company.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-121"][121][/url][/sup] Each year a company, joint owned by Glastonbury Festivals Ltd and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Republic"]Festival Republic[/url], is created to run the festival, with profits going to the parent companies. Glastonbury Festivals Ltd donates most of their profits to charities, including donations to local charity and community groups and paying for the purchase and restoration of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe_Barn,_Pilton"]Tithe Barn in Pilton[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-122"][122][/url][/sup][/font][/color][color=#252525][font=sans-serif] Several stages and areas are managed independently, such as [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Field"]The Left Field[/url] which is managed by a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative"]cooperative[/url] owned by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_and_Wandsworth_TUC"]Battersea and Wandsworth TUC[/url],[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-123"][123][/url][/sup] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worthy_FM"]Worthy FM[/url] and a field run by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace"]Greenpeace[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-124"][124][/url][/sup] The sound systems on site have a total power of 650,000 watts, with the main stage having 250 speakers.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-mendiptop10-125"][125][/url][/sup] There are over 4,000 toilets, with water supplies including two reservoirs holding 2,000,000 litres (440,000 imp gal) of water.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-mendiptop10-125"][125][/url][/sup][/font][/color][color=#252525][font=sans-serif] With the exception of technical and security staff, the festival is mainly run by volunteers. Some 2000 stewards are organised by the aid charity [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam"]Oxfam[/url]. In return for their work at the festival [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam"]Oxfam[/url] receive a donation, which in 2005 was £200,000.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-126"][126][/url][/sup] Medical facilities are provided by The Festival Medical Services who have done so since 1979. The bars are organised by the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_Beer_Company"]Workers Beer Company[/url], sponsored by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsberg_Group"]Carlsberg[/url] (previously [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_(Anheuser-Busch)"]Budweiser[/url]), who recruit teams of volunteer staff from small charities and campaign groups. In return for their help, typically around 18 hours over the festival, volunteers are paid in free entry, transport and food, while their charities receive the wages the volunteers earn over the event.[/font][/color][color=#252525][font=sans-serif] Catering, and some retail services, are provided by various small companies, typically mobile catering vans, with over 400 food stalls on site in 2010.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-mendiptop10-125"][125][/url][/sup] The camping retail chain [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacks_Leisure_Group"]Millets[/url], and independent shops, set up makeshift outlets at the festival. Additionally charities and organisations run promotional or educational stalls, such as the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Krishna_Consciousness"]Hare Krishna[/url] tent which provide free vegetarian food. Network Recycling manage refuse on the site, and in 2004 recycled 300[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnes"]tonnes[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost"]composted[/url] 110 [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne"]tonnes[/url] of waste from the site.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-127"][127][/url][/sup][/font][/color][color=#252525][font=sans-serif] Significant logistical operations take place to bring people into the festival by public transport each year. Additional festival trains are provided to [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Cary_railway_station"]Castle Cary railway station[/url], mostly from London Paddington.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-railroutes-128"][128][/url][/sup] The station operates as a mini hub with waiting shuttle buses transferring passengers from Castle Cary to the festival site as required. This is an intensive operation on the Wednesday and Thursday each year with local bus and coach operators providing these buses over the two days. Additional extra buses normally provided by Go South Coast run from Bristol to the festival.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-railroutes-128"][128][/url][/sup] On the Monday, passengers are transferred back in just one day with additional buses provided to meet the increased requirement. National Express provide extra coaches direct to the festival site from major UK towns and much of this work is subcontracted to smaller coach operators to provide the capacity required.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival#cite_note-129"][129][/url][/sup][/font][/color] [color=#252525][font=sans-serif] [size=2]My apologies for the length......[/size][/font][/color][color=#252525][font=sans-serif] [size=2] [/size][color=#222222][size=2] [/size][/color][/font][/color]

^^^^ I've a Crown 2000 & I've only just learned that it's got a fan(!).....never heard it yet..........

Glasto is a money machine.....s'why Eavis & co called in Mean Fiddler to organise it 'properly' and then saw to it that they got their marching orders (allegedly) along with Vince Power....it's still a good place for a lot of new acts to be (I can recall the Kaiser Chiefs reminding me a bit of Madness, back in the day)....nothing wrong with Lionel (I'm a pensioner you know') Ritchie.......could be worse, could be Barry bloody Manilow ....count your blessings.

Mmm - I've had a couple of Vat registered businesses, but I'm no expert. As a supplier, you usually have to have a gross turnover (sales) of quite a few thousand pounds before you need to get involved in this sort of thing. If you don't have an accountant, find one locally who will give you, as a prospective client, up to an hour free (ask first!) - this is quite normal nowdays & will probably put your mind at rest.......... Edit.....talk to an accountant - this stuff looks new/odd and you really do need to have a conversation with someone who knows the ground rules....I wonder if this applies to book / mp3 downloads like Kindle/Amazon, if so, it's a whole can of worms...................

Just got my vote - thanks for sharing.............

I've a Marshall 200 rackmount - it sounded like a bloody hovercraft....my nice amptech replaced the fan with THREE low run fans - sorted!

I've got a Crown xls drivecore - 'floats like a feather...stings like bee' as Mr Clay once said - think you'd be hard pushed to find anything better.......... v v v Yup - you were right, posted whilst attempting about four other things...never a good look!

Ok, let's bring this to the party - around a million years ago I lent my (then) stepdaughter and her bloke (who I disliked intensely), the deposit on a new house ('cos they were skint') - two days later my (now) Ex-wife tells me that the cuddlesome twosome had paid the deposit for their new house (with my money) and were booking a holiday in Jamaica.........Buy the bloody amp. Edit - I note that you made (in my eyes) the right call - well done. New Edit - v v v Just don't get me started, I don't care to add up exactly how much that marriage really cost, but it was enough to put me off matrimony for life..............

Even as we speak, Alex C is reprogramming the cnc..........

Interesting figures....there's tax adjustments of course, but this is one reason that I don't gig anymore, the earnings just didn't justify the x's and my ego don't need that amount of stroking......thank God there's still people out there who are prepared to Give It Large in pubs, stadia(?), festivals (how much did Worthy Farm charge for land hire?) and the whole music ting - I'm old(er) now, and quite happy to let others pick it up and run with it...it's important that they do........

I had Matamp construct some clever Neutric socket boxes to enable me to use a couple of 8ohm cabs with a 4ohm amp, and my mid/tops with something else at 8ohm in & 4ohm out - not that dear, for what they do, and better than a jumble of fly sockets & leads...........ask Hayden nicely & he might make another set up..........and, even better - no handles were damaged in the posting of this response..............

Owes a lot to Fred Wesley/Maceo Parker/& The (late) Hardest workin' man......I'm not big on HipHop, but the backing is full on..........

Back in the day, we had a number of local dance halls that used to advertise 'in aid of so&so charity' - turned out they were dropping around twenty quid into the local charity box and trousering the odd few hundred themselves....beware of any 'charity' that can't produce accounts - someone is extracting the wee wee here....sod them getting offended, someone (including your band) is getting ripped...........

I lived for a while close to Butlins (Minehead)....the local housing estate (built on ex-Butlin land) had it in their leases that Butlins could do what it ruddy-well wanted to. To be fair, the noise from the venue stopped on the stroke of midnight....that didn't help much with the rock concerts on Sunday afternoons.......... .

Did Sly Stone earlier this week....memories of the Electric Garden in sharp relief.....atm it's Tina Turner and Cher attacking Proud Mary - ok girls, you win....what's not to like?

Had the pleasure and privilege of working with Jimmy on the same bill back in the sixties, as 'brokenhearted' began to break over here. A solid artist, quiet and professional, he will always retain a special place in my memories. RIP.

I've got a couple of Dubsters - Barefaced are not great at the communication thing, but their product is simply bloody brilliant- (handles ain't bad, either).

I, to my shame, have a load of kit, all seemingly made in China. It all worked faultlessly from initial switch on, and continues so to do....my 'orribly expensive British-made kit on the other hand....one amp has been with my tech for months, and the others are waiting their turn....it's a bit like owning an Aston, you get a nice warm glow out of the visuals, but you have to put up with the grief and that cold chill in your wallet...............

I lived around there for about thirty years - it was, like many other Wycombe boozers, locally regarded as a bit of a hole. Went in to see the landlord once and 'admired' the somewhat rough stripper on what passed for a stage. Never heard anything totally bad about the place....just make sure you get paid (?). I gigged a bit at the Nags Head, Wycombe, that had a bit of a rep, but I never had any issues...the town ain't that hard, but then I've done Edmonton, Chislehurst and Wealdstone (yes I know The Who started there...please shut up about it....bored now), as well as Spitalfields All-Star, so p'raps I find the Hoom Counties a bit tame........

I've got Matamp(s) and Crown - if weight is a problem, go for a Crown class D............simple choice for me, the Crown is the Gig Machine, the Matamps are my 'show off' amps............

Glad to hear that the shop finally stepped up to the plate - its their problem, not yours, and they will now talk it through with Laney. I get problems sometimes with kit that I sell, and we never bounce it off as 'not us guv'. Our main supplier is solid gold about things that go wrong, and I never have a problem. Result- customers that come back (& bring their friends!).