Jul 28, 2010 | Category: DJ & Band Hire, Festivals, Lighting Hire, Military / Festival Tent Hire, Stretch Tent Hire
Tags: Decor, Festival Tails, Jungle, Leaf, military, Vintage
Over The Moon crew provided the tents, sound and lighting for the Festival Tails area at this years Secret Garden Party. The festival had 25,000 people in attendance (10,000 more than last year) and the large growth didn’t harm its boutique credentials. There were still a plethora of canvas unusual tents including lost of yurts, military marquees and Intents (Chai Wallahs had a fab set up again).
Intent 6x8M Joined as an awning frontage to a 6x6m Military Tent
We took down a 6×8m Intent and a 6×6m military tent joining the two together to make a welcoming cave like dance pad for the selling of Festival Tails and to make a venue in the evening.
Festival Tails at Secret Garden Party 2010
The atmosphere at the event was great , some lovely people were met and lots of people came and chatted over the course of the weekend. The weather played its part and the sun warmed the place, the occasional cloud kept it bearable and the rain stayed away.
SGP_Video of tents for Festival_Tails
Jul 3, 2010 | Category: Festivals, Stretch Tent Hire, Unusual Tents and Tent Hire
Tags: Chai Wallahs, Glade, glastonbury, Intent, juice lounge, Stretch
2 weeks of fabulous weather made for a great time at Glastonbury Festival’s 40th birthday. Intents stretch look was a big part of the Glade area’s visual appeal with three chino stretchies creating a lovely space around the seating area. This made for a much better area than last years which, with no seating area, became a muddy walk through to the Other stage.
Glade Lounge with Intent 25x14m, Glastonbury 2010
On Thursday night only having a few areas open the Glade area was rammed with 3000 people in a football pitch sized area. It was madness , scarey and fun. The Intent survived one reveller climbing to the top of the main pole and swinging about til removed by security. People were keen to party and release the pent up emotion.
Feb 6, 2010 | Category: Festivals, Stretch Tent Hire
Tags: Donations, Event Show, Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis
Over The Moon attended this years Event Show at Olympia in London. We’ve been to the Showman’s Show for a number of years but this was our first visit to the Event Show. For tent related suppliers it was disappointing and there was not as many trade stands as at The Showmans. Where the Event Show scored was on its speakers and this year (as they did last year) Michael Eavis, promoter of the Glastonbury Festival, was speaking for an hour and a half on the history of the festival, plans for this years 40th year anniversary and answering questions.
During the course of the session Eavis revealed that 2009’s Glastonbury Festival donated £2million to charity. A big increase from first year Eavis donated his profits away that was in 1981 and he gave £20K away to CND. His generosity was costly as he then faced a £7K tax on the gift. He revelaed that security costs £3.2 million of which £1.2million is for the Police. There will be no Glastonbury in 2012 as the Police are busy with the Olympics and cannot cover it. This is a shame as 2012 has a lot of resonance with the end of the Mayan calendar.
Eavis also revealed the event cost £25m to put on each year, with most of the money going to securing the perimeter.
Each year seven local farms are taken over to produce the festival, which is again expanding in size this year to accommodate people’s appetite for larger tents. There are also discussions to ban large flags at the event in an area in front of the stage. Eavis said he was keen to clear a line of sight for the sound desk but his daughter, Emily, who also runs the event, wanted the flags to stay. Eavis thought they did add to the spectacle of the event especially for TV. For my pennies worth I thought they were great for a sense of pageantry and atmosphere when Springsteen played on the Saturday night.
Eavis has a jovial, stuttering delivery and couple with his anecdotes and self deprecating humour makes him very endearing. I liked his description of the security fence having a ‘rat catcher’ overhang like on hayricks to prevent people/rats getting access. Eavis claims Glastonbury’s appeal is in its long history which has run concurrent to lots of social change and the Festival reflects that history.
There were quite a few prospective festival organisers in attendance and they did not miss an opportunity during the Q&A session to mention this and to ask for advice. Eavis claimed that the small scale of the event and it not having a lot of H&S issues to deal with helped a lot to get it off the ground. It took 11 years to make a profit. He believes a festival needs integrity and a hook to attract performers and punters. One organiser was exasperated at trying to get Travis to play at his Scottish community festival so Eavis offered to call the band on his behalf.
Eavis’s revealed his personal touch extends to always having the farm’s phone answered 24 hours a day all year round. Though he says he wonders why when he gets people ‘off their heads calling at 2am’! When asked what were the best three things they have found on the site over the years he stated that
- No1 was a Massey T20 tractor which was left behind;
- No2 was a wooden wheel abandoned by the couple wheeling it all the way from John O’Groats to Lands End. The couple called years later to ask for it back, and then moaned when it was in a bad state!
- No3 False Teeth
He said that it was probable that Stevie Wonder will headline the Sunday (27) night.
Over The Moon will be attending Glastonbury Festival again this year providing stretch tents to the Glade area.
Nov 13, 2009 | Category: DJ & Band Hire, Moon Music, Stretch Tent Hire
Tags: glamping, Halloween, Intent, Somerset, The Mad Cows
The night time is ascendant at the moment and the days are short. We have still been out and about. We did a lovely party down in Somerset for a 40th Birthday / Halloween celebration. The band ‘The Mad Cows’, a Glastonbury Festival favourite, wowed the crowd with their great feel good music. The interaction with the crowd , which included an improvised start to the set with a song using a throwaway comment from one of the audience, was a joy to hear. Well worth seeing or booking for a gig.
Bonfire night saw us in the Cotswolds in the scenic environs of Stow On The Wold. We provided a yurt , a disco, laser lighting and glamping for a group of 12-13 year olds celebrating a birthday.
Oct 9, 2009 | Category: Canvas Adventures, Stretch Tent Hire
Tags: Intent, Land Rover, Overlanding, Sahara, Tunisia
Over The Moon have been out in the Sahara doing an Overland trip in our Land Rover 130 work vehicle. We took the opportunity to take along a 6×8m Intent and look at developing it for the Overland vehicle market. We got some very positive feedback from vehicle owners and will be suggesting some feature enhancements to Intent manufacturing back home in South Africa to cater for this growing market.
Weight has to be kept to a minimum for Overlanding in dunes so we took no ground stakes and utilised the roof racks and jerry cans we already had with us. We also experimented with light weight poles.
