Apologies for the silence. Recently we've moved from a transient life on the road to rural living in the Highlands and ended up halfway up a mountain in the French Alps. Internet and time have become valuable assets, both hard to procure. With every move, there's a new a job and new set of skills [...]
Our road-trip has almost come to an end but we thought it might be useful to show you some of the most scenic routes you can take.
The event staff management team we worked with this summer wanted to interview us about the good, the bad and the ugly side of seasonal work and doing a summer of festivals - 13 back to back! PARiM have put the interview up on their website which you can find here: https://parim.co/event-staffing Here's a snippet... [...]
All the bits you don't hear, real advice for prospective festival workers!
As the gates opened there was a flood of people who ran, camping chairs in hand ready to secure their spot in front of the stage.
So as you know by now we travel the UK in my grandad's wee car, going from festival to festival where we live in our hand-me-down Vango tent. When we're not in a tent we like to travel to see family and friends and places we've yet to discover! Working a summer of festivals is [...]
Last week we sampled the West Country life. It's not all about cider and meat filled pastry. There's traffic queues that will make you want to tear your eyes out in Exeter and endless twisty, windy roads so be prepared to add half a day on to your travel plans. Despite the traffic we did [...]
Working the festival life you see some weird and spectacular things. Here are a few images from our adventures so far...
Kendal Calling was the muddiest adventure to date.