Written by Celebrating its 40th anniversary, this year’s Glastonbury festival has been hailed as the best ever. With 3 days of uninterrupted sunshine, we proved to the world that we Brits at least know how to throw a party, with a huge and eclectic mix of drunk people getting their groove on in a field.
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Check-out this monster of a mixing room. What you see on the left is 600,000 watts of power pumping out 110db of sound at 100 meters from the stage, via 54 speakers weighing over 15 tons. What’s even more impressive is that the sound engineers have less than 30 minutes to get the next act’s gear rigged-up before they hit the stage. The main Pyramid stage operates as a ‘flip-flop’ system. While one band is playing, the next act is set-up behind the curtain, with levels monitored by mixing desk ‘B’ (right of main mixing desk). Interesting to note that the Digital gear installed in 2008 was replaced by analog this year, with miles of copper wire connecting the majority of the system.
The following video was filmed at the Arcadia dance arena and looks incredible. I think a lot of people will be feeling nostlagic about their time spen there for a long time to come.
Below are video highlights from the line-up of Glastonbury 2010 artists. On the main stages, dance and electronica wasn’t that well represented which is maybe a sign-of the times. With that said, Faithless, Groove Armada and Orbital all put in blinding performances, as did Gorillaz. We’re waiting on more videos to hit the web for dance artists playing on the smaller stages including The Orb, LCD SoundSytem, Snap!, Spooky, Four Tet, Freq Nasty, System 7, 808 State DJS and DJ Alex Paterson.
Glastonbury 2010 Video’s
Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
Groove Armada – My Friend
Hot Chip – One Life Stand
Oribital (& Matt Smith) – Dr. Who Theme
Faithless – Insomnia
Muse – Knights of Cydonia
Orbital – Halcyon on and on Part 1
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