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Festival Season Is Over

• 1st Oct 2010

As the 2010 festival season draws to a close, Xfm has taken a look back over this festival season and just what happened in fields up and down the country.

To celebrate 2010’s music festival season Xfm have provided some stats from a few of the key festivals below to show what it takes to put on everyone’s favourite festivals!

Examining the data from Key dates of Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival, Download V Festival, Big Chill, T In The Park, Camp Bestival, Secret Garden Party, Global Gathering, Creamfields, Reading & Leeds as well as hundreds more independent and private music festivals along the way, XFM has discovered that:

Of these there were over 8.2 million metres of Loo roll used in just four of the major festivals with an estimated 15million used overall by festival goers and festival staff. That’s about 5,000 miles, or the distance from London to Rome, on festival loo paper. Nice.

But enough about the loos, what about the food? Festival food is always an issue but it seems that if we took all the burgers consumed at the Reading festival this year (50,000 say the organisers) then it would take 167 cows to produce all the meat. By doing some cunning mathematics then if 1.2million people visited a festival this year then roughly 690,000 burgers were made and consumed. That’s 2,300 cows!!!!

Here are some more stats about some of your favourite festivals:

V Festival
• Nearly 2million fans have attended V since it’s first festival in 1996
• Fencing: 27,650m – if laid out panel to panel, it is enough to go round a football pitch 87 times!
• 18,939 – the number of crew meals served
• Over 1015 toilets are onsite…
• 6000 Toilet Rolls
• 1.5 million drinks consumed!
• 100 Generators (enough to power a town)
• And roughly 150 food and drink vendors onsite
• As well as over 1000 security staff to ensure V is a safe, happy place!
• The Bacardi B-Live bar made their way through 95 tonnes of ice at V Festival 2007
• In 2006, the B-Live Bar took 7 days to construct, but only one day to take down

BIG CHILL!
• Capacity: 39,999
• Over 350 handheld radios and 16 radio channels are used across site.
• Approximately 6200m of bunting is used to mark out the different campsites
• 30,000 pit cups are used for decanting water to the crowds.
• 915 chairs and 455 tables are ordered for use around site.
• 2400m of steelshield fencing is installed.

Reading Festival
• Capacity: 86, 999
• Over 230 artists will performed over the weekend
• Over 20,000 urinelles are ordered for ladies to use the onsite female urinals.
• Onsite teams are creating, building and breaking down the equivalent of a large town in 6 weeks start to finish.
• 150,000 pint cups are used for decanting water to the crowds.
• 800 litter bins spread around the site
• 1500 towels are ordered for artists to use.
• 40 longdrops are erected onsite
• 4,800 metres of Steelshield is used for the perimeters
• Approximately 16,000 metres of coloured bunting is put up in the campsites.
• Roughly 50,000 burgers are bought by festival goers onsite across the weekend.
• 600 tables and over 1000 chairs are ordered for use across the site.
• There are around 2300 toilets across the site including portaloos, longdrops, urinals and trailer units.

Leeds Festival
• Capacity: 69,999
• Around 40 miles of fencing is used on site
• Approximately 4000 staff onsite over the festival weekend
• 500 litter bins spread around the site
• More than 6 miles of coloured bunting is put up in the campsites.
• 38% of festival goers arrived by public transport in 2009. All mode of transport: 18kg CO2 per person.
• 18,000 cars on site
• 19,000 festival goers made use of the shuttle buses in 2009

But the season’s not over for one lucky person, and best of all, they won’t have to pay a penny, or worry about loo roll as Xfm have announced BestNonFest. This exciting competition offers one winner the definitive non-festival package an ultimate collection of the great gig tickets to see some of the greatest bands around including Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Mumford & Sons, Arcade Fire, Klaxons, Hot Chip and more.

To be in with a shot of winning the BestNonFest tickets join the virtual queue on the XFM Facebook and answer daily questions to move up to the front. Head to link to join the queue – first in line on 1st October wins.