The expanded thirteenth V Festival sold out in hours and the public encountered a new look site, with five stages and a new main stage arena featuring headliners Muse and The Verve. Promoters Maztec worked with production management Nine Yards to reconfigure the event and accommodate the additional 10,000 fans.
Power Logistics has supplied the event since the company started, but this year Project Manager Dave Oxley worked particularly closely with production manager Claire Sampson planning the site months in advance to ensure the increased power requirements were met in all of the new areas.
Oxley managed a team of 14 staff who over the two week build period installed a huge temporary power infrastructure. Over 100 generators with three x 40 foot artic trailers of cable and distro powered all stages, hospitality areas, production areas, with 104 lighting towers and 6.5km of festoon site lighting. In all, they generated an estimated 280,000 kilowatt hours.
Power Logistics invested in eight new generators this summer, adding to their in-house generator capacity. Powering stage 3 were four new 550kVA sets, whilst a new pair of 380kVA powered stage 5 and the other new sets powered the Bacardi B-Bar and the Strongbow tent.
Production manager Claire Sampson said: "As ever the Power Logistics team has been fantastic, they're a very well organised and well managed team. With a lot of things moving, it's been a challenging festival for Power Logistics, with lots of additional power needed and TV broadcasting from four stages they've responded superbly."
(Jim Evans)
