I'm sitting here at the preperations to the "Garasjefestival"
And with me here is: Stian, Anna Marie and Morten
And the situation as of now is that you orcistrated a huge party, on Reinsvoll of all things
What's the background for this?
The background is that we make a...
a yard party
a Barbeque party was the original idea
and.. (it went a bit out of control)
and then we thought that we had to have a band playing
and that that would have been fun
the rumours started flying
and then there's the word of mouth
after a while bands who had heard about this started calling here, among them;
Conscious, hooked themself along
and then the dance was on really
So we decided to make a mini one-day festival...
here on Reinsvoll
So from a spring to ten chickens quite quick
what's your vision for this festival?
In a sense this is really the dress rehearsal
since we really want to continue on
we want that to be known.
This year there's isn't much to gain for us or the bands, it's mostly volunteer work
So in a sense it's a friend party, that grew big
so yeah, lots of voluntary work
It already started last year when we prepared ourselves to go to a festival
We sat in the garage and kissed up a trailer
So in a sense we had ourselves a micro festival amongst ourselves each time we came here
So we felt we could make something more out of it
That's where the name came from aswell, that garage!
So in a sense this whole thing is based on voluntary work
and you've had alot of weekdays and weekends worth of work done
What's been done so far in preperation?
We've among other things fixed a large area for people to set up camp
where there's already been great intrest, so we'll start the party from the day before the festival
We've ofcourse also built a large stage, so the bands can jump around and have fun
what else...?
we've leveled the area, and chopped down some of the forest to make room for everyone attending
We've also built a bar within the garage
So far so good, anything remaining?
There's always something missing
I don't have the full overview for the to-do list as I'm sitting here, but...
It's alot of the fine details missing, that you normally woulnd't think about
among the attendees are 5 bands, and...
The latest poll suggests that there will be upwards to 200 people here, if not more
and obviously these people need food, so we've fixed that
Then we have so serve the bands so they can be happy and enjoy themselves
When there's talk of food and drinks, if I've understood correctly there will be some kind of foodtruck in place?
As of now the Norwegian-Italian guy with the foodtruck has cancelled because of a broken arm
so he won't be here, but we've made sure to get...
made sure to get some other offers in place
So as we've said before, no one is gonna be able to leave this place hungry
in reality there's never been anyone who has
left this place hungry that is
So in addition to great music, and the entertainment value there
there's gonna be good food and plenty of drinks
is there anything else avaliable within the festival grounds?
Someone from Oslo, who's really an Italian, is gonna come here
She's in the business of making clothes and costumes
So she's gonna sell that here, some clothes, hats and such that she's made herself
and everything is made with natural colours that she finds within the forest herself
she also cardes her own wool and felt, and everything is naturally environmental friendly
I just want to add, Anna Marie by my side here is also gonna be exhibiting some
she has among other things...
been a photographer on several festivals
among them; "Inferno", and "Wacken"
So we've ordered up some selected photos that will be exhibited here
and then from my understaning there won't be just local and Norwegians bands on the roster...
but a band from Italy aswell, how did you manage that?
we've got some great contacts
I see
then there's everything from great music and entertainment, there's plenty of food and drinks
there's exhibits and the opportunity to shop some natural goods
anything you want to add for the audience?
we're hoping more people want to set up camp
as of now there's aren't as many as we had hoped that have signed up for it
it would be quite nice if more people would be intrested
as stated earlier; it's possible to camp from Friday
some of them might be intrested in volunteering aswell, and that's always welcome
as of now (18.06.2017) there's 15 people signed up to camp
we've made them their own page within the "Garasjefestival" facebbok page
so, it's possible to sign up there
with that said; everything you need is linked down below, so get clicking
and thanks to you for taking the time to perform this interview
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