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Festivals flourish the finish to the summer

The Oak looking resplendent with its patterned jacket on at Trystonbury

After a glorious 28′C finale to September and then a 30′C beginning to October its been a beautiful finish to the summer season. Over The Moon have been festival focused with a fantastic Trystonbury 2011 which kept us very busy the last 2 weeks of September. See the Trystonbury Facebook page for all the great feedback on how we organised a fabulous weekend. If you’d like us to do the same for you see MyVeryOwnFestival.com for more ideas.

This week the festival focus continues with us down at our Somerset base providing a stretch tent for the Lantern Festival, which is in its second year. This is a children friendly knees up with some great bands that have appeared at Glastonbury Festival.

The summer season is coming to end. October sees us at the providing the vintage military for Pinewood Studios and then exhibiting at the Showman’s Show with Intent and EagleBars.

Speeding into September

Phewee, time is flying. August went by in a blur of picnic themed weddings, vintage weddings, festivals large (Shambala) & small(Fieldview). We provided military tents for the beer tent at a living history show at Cleethorpes light railway,and a stretch tent for the Festival Tails tail swinging dance venue at Shambala.

It’s been a month working up in the north of Lincolnshire and out west in Wiltshire & Somerset. We’ve been as busy as bees and met some nice folks. The trucks, tents & crews are all performing well.

Now the seasons are changing and our events side of the business is focusing it’s energies on making Trystonbury 2011 a success. It’s a sell out this year and we have some great bands and DJ’s on. Www.Trystonbury.com

Over The Moon at Glastonbury for 3rd Year

It was a hard weekends work at Glastonbury Festival this weekend past. Over The Moon was on site from Friday to Monday 20th. We put up the G Stage back stage bar (our traditional marquee) as the PussyFoot cabaret bar

G Stage Backstage Bar, Glastonbury 2011

On the saturday we put up the G-Stages front of house,25x14m Stretch Tent for the third year running.

And on the Monday we put up a Medieval and Pop-Up for the ‘Oink In The Meadow’ cafe in the camping area A.

Stretch Tents Galore

It was hard going in the rain all weekend, and the stretch tent erection was delayed when we hit a water main we hadn’t been notified about!! 3 hours later we started the work (7pm) finally finishing in the dark at 1am. Hard going but we were determined to get it done as planned.

This is the 3rd year stretch tents have been at Glastonbury and they are going from strength to strength. From 2 in 2009 to 20 this year. Intent is growing its presence.

Festival Eye Magazine spotted!!

I was very pleased to see the stall for Festival Eye magazine at last week’s Sunrise Festival. It was a reminder of a pre-Internet time when getting hold of information on many festivals was only possible through this or the Guilfin publication. Throughout the ’90′s i’d always buy a copy to keep informed with what was happening.

I’m glad to see that Festival Eye is still going and enjoyed reading the editorial in the latest edition. The magazine has always catered for the underground events and i’ve discovered lots of people and events through its good work.

They do have a website up and running but it is lacking content at the mo. There is a weekly festival ticket competition. Starting on the 1st June we will be making weekly draws for festival tickets and other, festival related, prizes.A draw will be made each Wednesday, from the winning entries to the competition submitted that week. To participate, first create a user profile. Then login and answer the questions.

Entries must be in by 7pm every Wednesday until further notice.

Winners will be notified by email, text or phone by the following day (Thursday), and offered a pair of tickets to the Willowman Festival.

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