Sent into orbit

Thursday 31st August 2006, 12:00AM BST.

THE Jersey Live team have been working hard this week to put everything in place for the biggest music festival the Island has ever seen.

Setting up the stage, fencing off the area and setting up the bars, food stalls and back-stage area takes hours of hard work by dozens of people over a period of four days – but organiser Warren Holt said that so far it has all gone very well.

Work began on Tuesday erecting the 15m by 12m and 15m by 14.4m, Orbit stage.

It is the same stage used at the Glastonbury festival, where it has hosted bands from Razorlight to David Bowie,and takes a ten man team over three days to set up.

The whole festival takes a staggering 600,000 watts of power to run and is produced by two 300,000 watt generators.

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