Afternoon - evening sessions at a festival ?

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- Manky Badger
  
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19 years ago

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 10:26 AM

So what's the deal with having a session from 11am - 3pm, closing, and then re-starting from 5pm onwards?

The reason I ask is that I went to an "evening" session last week with half a dozen mates. Thought we'd do the usual trick - get there promptly & have somewhere to sit. We got there at 5pm. No queues at all and inside the place was heaving with people. Obviously there'd been no break in drinking. Had we known this we'd have been along for 2pm rather than wasting an afternoon waiting for the thing to open.

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- Richard Parker
  
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19 years ago

Sun, Mar 20, 2005 12:07 PM

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To let the (usually unpaid) staff have a break.

Maybe the festival had not been selling the beer at the rate they expected and extended the session.

Rich

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- Peter Fox
  
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19 years ago

Mon, Mar 21, 2005 9:55 AM

Following on from Manky Badger's message. . .

It sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't.

The reason is to give the organisers the ability (if circumstances make it desirable) to close for a while to have a rest, tidy up, do behind-the-scenes stuff like shifting casks around when it impinges on the public areas or the labour might be being stretched too thin to serve and get all the other things done at the same time.

Another reason is to allow for an orderly and planned clearing out of groups who ought not to be continuing drinking.

A discreet phone call to the organisers or long experience should tell you. If everything is going smoothly and everyone's had something to eat and things are nicely ticking over then most organisers will go straight through.