There are a lot of significant costs involved in building a structure like the IOW1970 stage – even if it’s only a temporary structure – but I’m sure the budget didn’t cover this sort of fancy finishing. Fortunately, not even sub-minimum wages needed to be found to pay for this work. From the organisers’ point of view it was even better than that, the labour for this was virtually free. Most of the painting – and other odd jobs – was done by fans, early arrivals who were willing to work in exchange for festival tickets, which they probably wouldn’t have paid for anyway, and in the end, didn’t need to.
They might not have been so keen to work if they had known the Festival was going to be free anyway, but that’s life.
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