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BECOME A CAT
You can gain free entrance to this summer’s Leeds Festival by joining our Campsite Assistant Teams (CATs). The CATs play a big part in creating a good atmosphere and helping all to get the most out of their festival – by being there and helping people you can help us achieve this!

The CAT role can include:

• Assisting festival goes with directions.
• Helping festival goers carry their belongings and pitch their tents.
• Reporting back to management re any problems e.g. a build-up of litter or faulty facilities.
• Working with Fire Safety, Medical and Security teams as required.

All CATs are provided with:

• A Crew Pass, Info Pack and Uniform.
• Camping facilities in a secure crew area.
• Access to the crew café, bar, toilets, and showers!
• A t-shirt you can keep to prove you worked at the festival!
• Time to enjoy the show – you only work 3 x 8 hr shifts (24 hrs in total throughout the festival) – all CAT staff and volunteers are welcome to enjoy the festival when off-shift.

To apply you will need to:

• Be 18 or over before the date of arrival below.
• Be available to arrive at the Festival site by 20:00 at the latest on Wednesday 26th August 2009 – you’re welcome to arrive from midday on Tuesday 25th. Please note the shifts are allocated on a first come first served basis.
• Be available for a briefing at either 11:00 or 21:00 on Wednesday 26th.
• Be available to work 3 x 8 hour shifts at any time between 13:00 Wednesday 26th (or midnight Wednesday if arriving for the later briefing) and 14:00 Monday 31st.
• Be prepared to wear a CAT uniform when on-shift. (Provided on site)
• Report in every two hours to your area supervisor with information, or immediately in the case of any problems.
• Supply photographic ID on arrival.
• Provide a refundable deposit – £200

For more information please visit www.HotBoxEvents.com

Or you can email info@hotboxevents.com

You can go straight to the online application here BECOME A CAT
You can gain free entrance to this summer’s Leeds Festival by joining our Campsite Assistant Teams (CATs). The CATs play a big part in creating a good atmosphere and helping all to get the most out of their festival – by being there and helping people you can help us achieve this!

The CAT role can include:

• Assisting festival goes with directions.
• Helping festival goers carry their belongings and pitch their tents.
• Reporting back to management re any problems e.g. a build-up of litter or faulty facilities.
• Working with Fire Safety, Medical and Security teams as required.

All CATs are provided with:

• A Crew Pass, Info Pack and Uniform.
• Camping facilities in a secure crew area.
• Access to the crew café, bar, toilets, and showers!
• A t-shirt you can keep to prove you worked at the festival!
• Time to enjoy the show – you only work 3 x 8 hr shifts (24 hrs in total throughout the festival) – all CAT staff and volunteers are welcome to enjoy the festival when off-shift.

To apply you will need to:

• Be 18 or over before the date of arrival below.
• Be available to arrive at the Festival site by 20:00 at the latest on Wednesday 26th August 2009 – you’re welcome to arrive from midday on Tuesday 25th. Please note the shifts are allocated on a first come first served basis.
• Be available for a briefing at either 11:00 or 21:00 on Wednesday 26th.
• Be available to work 3 x 8 hour shifts at any time between 13:00 Wednesday 26th (or midnight Wednesday if arriving for the later briefing) and 14:00 Monday 31st.
• Be prepared to wear a CAT uniform when on-shift. (Provided on site)
• Report in every two hours to your area supervisor with information, or immediately in the case of any problems.
• Supply photographic ID on arrival.
• Provide a refundable deposit – £200

For more information please visit www.HotBoxEvents.com

Or you can email info@hotboxevents.com

You can go straight to the online application here https://hotboxevents.paamapplication.co.uk/

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You should never meet legends. Dylan Carlson, a man whose name will be forever linked with roomie Kurt Cobain, is shorter than I expected, and his voice is higher. If his musical output was anything short of seminal, I might have been filled with disappointment and ended up writing a piece about not meeting legends and regrest and that sort of rubbish, but it isn’t so I won’t.

There seems to be a trend (ie two bands I’ve seen) amongst American bands of featuring support acts comprising offshoots of the main event. Tonight, Stebmo, a two-man act featuring Earth keyboard player Steve Moore and bassist Dan McGreevy on drums, are here to warm up the crowd. Steve has a beard you could lose a tribe in and looks like a bible belt preacher, but is warm and modest, matching the melloow vibes of his low-fi stack of synths. Jazz is the order of the day and both are profficient jazz musicians, playing a mix of numbers from the likes of John Coltrane (“against my therapist’s advice” says Steve) and their own part improvised repetoire. Surprisingly low key as opposed to low frequency but pleasant enough.

For anyone in the audience expecting the sludge drone of early Earth, tonight’s set list might be a bit of a let down. For the rest of us who have heard ‘And The Bees Make Honey…” it is a revelation. From the opening ‘Carrion Crow’, notes are not so much played at etched into the air and impressed upon your ear drums – such is the force of this slow unfolding of melody tonight. Dylan grows about a foot on stage, face impassive as stone, bent over his guitar and utterly transfixed, but it is Adrienne Davies, drummer and Dylan’s better half, who is utterly engrossing; every beat is played with the force and intensity of regularly-paced music but with organic slowness, arms raising a falling like the shifting of tree boughs in storm. In fact, the audience is caught in the same storm, swaying as the waves of sound crash around us with eschatonic finality. Camera phones flash on all sides; Dylan flinches and confesses he has a medical condition which is affected by flashing lights, a condition caused by excess of ‘eels and mash’ before crashing into ‘Engine of Ruin’. The evening ends with a new song, “so new it doesn’t have a name,” that Dylan drily observes will probably be named by competition. Rough but undoubtedly epic it brings the set shuddering to a close. A legendary night whose only anti-climax is that the world did not end in the final bar.

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