Xfm looks back at what went on in the fields of the UK this summer
As the 2010 festival season draws to a close, with Bestival widely agreed to be the sign of the end of the season – 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!!!!
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 www.facebook.com/xfmradio/ to join the queue - first in line on 1st October wins!
