Download 2005
I had the pleasure of working at Download '05 back when i used to work for Rocksteady security, (yeah, I'm one of those violent Scottish security chaps I've read quite a lot about)
I was basically given the task of working night shift, just patrolling the camp sites, I think I was in the Red camp, not too sure but it was furthest away from the arena anyway.

The supervisors there did seem incredibly out of touch with the whole thing as they wanted us to be vigilant in confiscating drugs etc. And to go around putting out fires and barbeques regardless of how minute or far away from tents they were. We spent most of the weekend ignoring their instructions and generally chatting to some rather jolly festival goers.

We had this arsehole from Burnley working with us who insisted that he was to sit at the entrance of the camp site and just make sure we were doing our jobs properly. So while we wandered about the site and asked people to sort out any minor infringements (It's easy being security when you're from Glasgow, I asked someone to get down from one of the fences just to hear, "oh fuck, he's Scottish" before he scarpered off) and just generally monging about when we came back about 6 in the morning to find said supervisor's face had turned blue from pneumonia, brought on by just sitting on his arse all night. I still don't know what happened to him.

On the Sunday night there were reports of 'riots' and tent burnings and suchlike but a lot of it was due to an overeaction on the security's part, which wound a lot of folk up. So making my way down to get a cup of tea I saw a lot of yellow security jackets running around after folk and panicked calls over the radio for everyone to make their way towards the main site. Sorry, I'm on a break. Milk 'n' two, love.
(baldylocks, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 14:35, Reply)