It seems that we fork out too much for the big name festivals that the UK has to offer. Spending close to £300 for a weekend of mayhem, which could easily go towards a mini holiday abroad. So how do we get our money’s worth this up-coming British summer? The answer is simple: Volunteer as bar staff.
By utilizing only six hours each day, you can seriously reap the benefits of free food, free entry and free use of the clean bar toilets, instead of having to queue with masses of people for a tiny dung-scented trench hole. I think the operative word for festival volunteering is FREE, because it seriously is the best thing in life.
On top of it all, all the money goes to good causes so you can still get a warm fuzzy feeling in your stomach, despite spending a weekend of ill-mannered frivolity. Not to mention the countless amounts of people to encounter inside and outside of the Worker’s Beer Organisation; to put it tackily, it’s like one big happy family in your own clean campsite.
You may think, why should I exhaust my time working, when I could be getting intoxicated in a stifling tent? Well, as soon as you stop drinking you realise there is about 12 hours left of twiddling your thumbs, yes- all four of them- and stumped with thousands of other drunkards doing the same.
At the end of the four days, it’s easy to say ‘there is nowt left to do,’ having explored the vast fields of musicdom, and realising there is only three bands you actually wanted to see out of the several hundred acts. Whilst, being the happy face that is serving your saviour, Mr. Strongbow; it is clear to see how crowds may yearn for you and keep you busy.
So, in one word, why should we volunteer at Reading, Glastonbury and every other festival that breaks the bank? Because it’s FREE and we want to.
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