V Festival - Chelmsford

Firstly, thank you very much for all of the kind comments yesterday. You sent yesterday's picture to spotlight.

Today, I spent over 6 hours driving to visit the 'other' V Festival site in Chelmsford. The twin event is also hosted at Weston Park, in South Staffordshire, over the coming weekend and we took the opportunity to visit Hylands Park to see how the other site was set up.

Although all the main stages are the same, it was interesting to see how differently the two sites were planned out.

Here you can see the main V stage with the lighting rigs being built ready for hoisting. In the foreground is matting put down to prevent any lasting damage to the ground.

Despite the summer we have had both sites have experienced reasonable weather during the 'build'. They were ahead of schedule, which is just as well as the rain that came down on our way back was of biblical proportions!