Festival Super Crew | Guide Pack 2025

Ahoy Sparkle Superstar!

Thanks for your interest in joining the State of Disarray 2025 Festival Tour. 

We're looking for fun, friendly, reliable, and resilient humans with strong face-to-face sales skills and a proactive work ethic to join our Dream Team at the UK's hottest festivals. Please read this guide before completing the application.

Crewing the Good Ship Disarray is an epic experience!  It’s exhilarating, exhausting, fun-filled and fabulous; it’s outrageously exciting and occasionally overwhelming. It’s challenging and intense sometimes, but it’s an empowering summer spent soaked in sparkles and surrounded by exceptional humans.

This is How We Roll,

Build & Break:  It takes one full day to set up before the event and one full day to pack down after the event. This involves heavy lifting and manual labour to help build and break the displays, stall structure, and crew camp, even in turbulent weather conditions. 

Show Days: Four ‘live show’ days with fixed shifts on a very busy shop floor. This demanding sales role requires high energy, enthusiasm, and confidence to engage our customers sincerely, upliftingly and enjoyably. You must also successfully close sales and help to ensure the shop is well-stocked, ship-shaped, spruced, and spotless.

We favor applicants who genuinely love our products, support our brand and enjoy dressing up.  If you are new to Disarray then welcome to our disco-functional family! Get familiar with our brand on Instagram and Facebook and learn about our products , ethics & values and behind the scenes blog on our website.   

Disarray You better Don’t

Despite our name’s sake, we run a tight ship in Disarray. If you have landed here searching for an easy 'in' to a party, then sorry, Superstar, this isn’t the correct route.  While your time off at the festival is yours to do as you please, the Disarray crew must be sober, rested, well-groomed, on form, on time and ready to bring the vibes for every shift.

While we LOVE a good disco on our nights off in Disarray and may sometimes celebrate smashing a shift with a glass of fizz or two, attempts to pull off an ‘up all night’ session and then sail straight into work will not be tolerated by the captain or your fellow crew.

Disarray You Better Do

Festivals are what we do best. What sets our flagship stall apart from the rest is our commitment to providing an unforgettable shopping experience for all the right reasons.  Whatever the weather, we overcome obstacles as a team and always bring our ‘A’ Game. 

We offer desirable paid and voluntary roles in the fashion, retail, and specialist events sectors. These can also be excellent opportunities for fellow makers, designers, and aspiring small business owners who want to learn the ropes and improve their sales skills.

We offer the unique chance to get your paw in the door and experience the reality of what it takes to succeed as an independent slow-fashion brand…. In a field…and sometimes in a week-long thunderstorm.

Opportunity 1. Paid Positions - Show Day Sales + Build & Break.  

• Glastonbury: Tues 24th June - Mon 30th June. Places available 
  
• Wilderness Festival: Wed 30th July - Mon 4th Aug. Places available
• Shambala Festival: Wed 20th Aug - Mon 25th Aug. Places available 

The ideal candidate will attend all three, but all applications are considered.

This opportunity is paid in GBP (NMW) during show days—8 hours per day, divided into two rotating shifts of 4 hours per shift. Build and break days are paid at the equivalent rate of (NMW) but as Store Credit. This is to encourage applicants who love the brand and are happy to be renumerated with Disarray products of their choice, based on their completed hours.   

Food is supplied, and meals are provided as a shared team effort from our crew kitchen area. Crew Tickets and Parking passes are provided, but not travel costs. Successful applicants must commit to the full duration of the event/s they apply for.

The crew is expected to arrive on-site (before accreditation gates close) the evening before their first build shift begins. This is to set up their camp before their first shift the following morning.  

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Opportunity 2. Voluntary Positions - Sales Assistant

• Shindig Festival: Thurs 22nd May - Sun 25th May Places available.
• Mucky Weekender: Thurs 11th sept - Sat 12th Sep Places available.

This opportunity is for a volunteer role. Work one easy 4-hour shift per day on a rotating timetable to assist the core crew as we sell, restock, cook for the crew, etc. in return for a crew festival ticket, parking pass (if required), and food. 

Successful applicants must commit to the entire duration of the event they apply for. This opportunity is for 'show days only', with no build-and-break.

Volunteers must arrive on-site (before accreditation gates close) the evening before their first show-day shift begins.  That evening, there will be a brief induction and time to set up camp before the show starts.   

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Opportunity 3. Voluntary Positions: Build & Break

• Shindig Festival: Wed 21st May & Mon 26th May 1 Place available.
• Mucky Weekender Festival: Wed 4th Sept & Sun 8th Sep 1 Place available.

This opportunity is for a volunteer role. One (up to) 8-hour shift, with appropriate breaks, to help build the stall and one (up to) 8-hour shift to break/pack down the stall (likely to be less), in return for one crew festival ticket, parking pass (if required), and food on the days worked. 

Successful applicants must commit to both build & break days.

Build & Break Volunteers must arrive on-site with ample time to reach the pitch and start work (this may be the evening before, depending on travel time to the event). 'Break day shift' to end in the evening time, so they should make appropriate travel arrangements.