Six All Year, Forty-Six On A Weekend
The six whose names are on the licence, and the forty who turn up on the Wednesday and leave on the Monday.
Kwabena Asare
Founder & festival director
Put on the first one in an Osu car park in 2015 with a borrowed rig. Still walks every site the morning of, and still books the closing set himself.
Adjoa Mensimah
Head of programming
Builds every bill. Spends nine months a year listening to demos and the other three arguing with agents, and has never once let us open with the wrong act.
Naa Dedei Lamptey
Production manager
Runs the build and the break. If a truck is late, Naa already knows and has already moved three other things to cover it.
Yaw Ofori-Atta
Technical director
Designs the PA and the lighting for every festival. Responsible for the rule that the coverage is set from the back fence forwards, which is the best thing about our sound.
Esi Bonsu
Partnerships lead
Looks after the six sponsors and turns down the other thirty. Has talked more brands out of a banner and into something people actually enjoy than anyone in Accra.
Kofi Anaman
Safety & licensing
Holds every permit and writes every crowd plan. Twenty-two years in event safety and the only person here allowed to stop a show.
On the weekend
Where The Other Forty Go
Most of them have worked five or more of our festivals. We rehire before we recruit, every time.
11
Stage & backline
8
Sound & lighting
9
Gate & wristbands
7
Stewards & welfare
5
Site & clear-up
We take on twelve volunteers a festival
Two shifts, a crew meal, a wristband for the rest of the weekend and a reference. Most of our paid stewards started this way, and three of the six above did too.
Be The First To Know About Upcoming Festivals
One mail a month at most: on-sale dates, line-up announcements and the pre-sale code, twenty-four hours before everybody else gets it.
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