Reading Festival 2008 :: Leeds Festival 2008

FESTIVAL FACTS

It takes 3 weeks to prepare the Reading and Leeds Festival sites and 2 weeks to take them down again
Each site is built by over 150 crew
10 million watts is required to power each festival site
Artists drink over 9000 bottles of water and over 13000 cans of lager over the weekend.
The festival produces over 300 tonnes of rubbish, which it takes 2 weeks to clear after the event finishes.
Thanks to the festival goer we recycled over 7000 bags of rubbish in 2004 through the onsite Litter Exchanges.
Over 3500 people work during the festival weekend at each site
More than 100 trucks with thousands of tons of equipment are used
There are over 800 toilets on each site
10,000 metres of cable are used
O'Malley Alley at Reading Festival is named after a member of the festival medical team who worked on the festival crew for many years who has passed away now
In Reading , Henrys Gate is named after a tractor driver who works on the site during the festival
In Reading , Reapers Bridge named after one of the stage manager's called the Grim Reaper
In Leeds , Out of Harm's Way named after Harmony who runs the production office
There are 90 food traders onsite, selling a variety of food, from burgers to pasta, doughnuts and even salad! More than a quarter of a million burgers and hot dogs were eaten over the course of the weekend.
2 million pints of lager are drunk during the festival.
There are 80 market stalls onsite selling a variety of products including clothing, footwear, jewellery, camping accessories, blankets and newspapers.