Thoughts about capacity

[woodenrabbit]

It occurred to me, after mention of vastly increased capacity this year, that if, say 10,000 tickets have been sold that will not include all of the kids under 13 years of age as they need NO tickets this year - they were issued with £0.00 cost tickets last year, this year they only need to accompany a paying adult. So methinks the no. attending will be FAR in excess of 10,000!

[stormmonkey]

Very true. But I don't doubt that they'll have made many changes to everything to cope with the capacity.

[woodenrabbit]

Me neither all I am saying is that, for example my group of 7 adults is bringing 6 kids. So on that basis you could almost DOUBLE the capacity when you count all those under 13. I know this isn't going to be the case in practice, just making an observation.

[kerry]

even if there are 10,000 adults, children don't take up as much space I'm sure they'll have thought about this.

it's still far off the numbers at other festivals, and I trust the organisers to know what they're doing

[maw]

so many people ,so many bands,so little time.........

[bennyblackpool]

Overall I think I'd prefer the capacity to have satayed as last year. It was just lovely not too crowded but enough to have a wonderful wonderful time.

With the rain forecast how are we gonna all squeeze in the folky dokey tent?

But hey I'm a positive kinda guy, so there will lots more people to become my new friends.

See ya all soon

[woodenrabbit]

befuddled said:

even if there are 10,000 adults, children don't take up as much space I'm sure they'll have thought about this.

it's still far off the numbers at other festivals, and I trust the organisers to know what they're doing

I think you've misunderstood me. This wasn't a 'criticism' merely a comment re the capacity rising by 2/3 over last year, and I'm saying when you take kids into account that could make the capacity doubled. Whilst they NO DOUBT have 'thought about this' they can have no idea of how many kids are coming - afterr all no ticket buyer had to say how many they were bringing AND the archway where the Green Man Cafe is, is only 'so' wide'

So whilst I am BACK at Green Man this year as my summer holiday having eschewed the South of France to be here, thus no one is MORE excited than me to be coming, I think it's valid to mention one of the very, very few things that could people a 'wee bit uptight' last year.

But I won't go on no more