Not a good start for the day. After the 9pm to 11pm duty last night we had to do 9am to 11am this morning so it was not a leisurely breakfast. The only serious problem is the lack of stewards for Main Stage 1 (we used to call it Marquee One but presumably that is not an OK name in the developing world of festivals).
Managed to see Pilgrim's Way before lunch but didn't find anyone else that we could fit in before going back on duty at 3pm. One advantage of the new office is that we are visible and people other than stewards came in with questions and lost property. The most common question was about battery charging. The campsite wardens offer a service to charge almost anything and with the continued rise of hungrier 'phones the number of people needing a charge keeps increasing. This year they were using a room that was previously the radio room. The radio room had moved with us. The door of the old radio room carried two notices - 'Battery Charging' and 'The Radio Room has moved' (with a large arrow pointing our way). These were intended to provide two separate pieces of information but, because the door was padlocked to protect the phones etc, many people saw the notices as one and came to us expecting to get their phones charged. This would never have been possible because the building floods every winter and there are not many working electricity sockets.
At 4pm '17 Hippies' were on Main Stage 1. We were lucky not to have been able to see them. We were later told that their set consisted of 55 minutes of extended sound checking and one song!
In the evening we saw Martin Joseph, Show of Hands and Home Service. Martin Joseph could have been a Welsh Bruce Springsteen if ....
Show of Hands did a fairly standard festival set but Home Service were brilliant - old fashioned (c1986) but exciting.
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