When we found out that the city of Philadelphia was only planning on providing about 400 portable toilets for the 1 million expected Live 8 guests, we were a little worried. Now that it seems like even more people have arrived, I can only imagine what chaos must be going on in the farther reaches of the crowd - and, of course, as the day goes on, it'll only get worse. Backstage, they've set up these comparatively luxurious, sink-equipped, flushable toilet units ... but by 3:00 they're already pretty gross. This is me making a disgusted face whilst washing my hands:
1. Heh, you're obviously a relative newbie to big gigs. I know a friend that went to a Spanish music festival for a week. The toilets were overflowing by massive amounts. Think of a foot high mound of faeces emerging from nearly every toilet and you're close. :-S
Posted at 3:50PM on Jul 2nd 2005 by Conrad Quilty-Harper