Working Shiiine On Weekender
Shiiine On Weekender (Butlin's Minehead Resort, Minehead, South West) takes a small army to build, run and strike. Crew are hired by the festival and by the contractors who supply the bars, stages, marquees, fencing, power and toilets - usually in the weeks before November. Pick the work you do:
Add your name to CrewPool, say you'll travel to Butlin's Minehead Resort, Minehead, and you go on the list companies search when they're staffing Shiiine On Weekender. Free, two minutes, and you keep every penny of your rate.
Shiiine On Weekender jobs - what's on offer
Indoor format means bar staff are needed across all five stage bars plus the resort bars at Butlin's Minehead. Bar staff is the biggest-volume role: all five stage areas and the resort complex run simultaneously on event days, with shifts typically 10:00-02:00 on 13-15 November.
Other roles: stewards (indoor crowd management - a different skill set from outdoor stewarding, no weather kit needed), hospitality crew (food concessions, coat check). Crew accommodation may be available through contractors for crew travelling from outside Somerset - worth asking when applying.
Pay rates: bar staff £12-15/hr, stewards £95-120/day. All rates agreed direct through CrewPool, no agency cut. The Britpop and Madchester crowd has high cocktail demand at premium stage bars - if you have WSET or cocktail bar experience, note it in your profile.
Shiiine On Weekender crew - the South West circuit
Minehead is on the north Somerset coast, about 25 miles west of Taunton and 45 miles south of Bristol. Local crew pool: Taunton TA1, Bridgwater TA6, Minehead TA24, Exeter EX area (45-minute drive), Bristol BS area (1 hour 15 minutes via the M5).
The South West winter event circuit for the same crew includes Glastonbury-area venues (Pilton, Somerset, same county), NASS Festival near Yeovil (summer), 2000 Trees Festival near Cheltenham (summer), Bath Racecourse events (year-round), and Exeter and Bristol arena shows. Butlin's Minehead also runs events outside Shiiine - the same contractor network hires for other Butlin's event weekends through winter.
For Bristol-based crew: M5 south to Junction 24, then A39 - a straightforward 1 hour 15-minute drive in November off-peak. Find festival crew work from Bristol on CrewPool.
Hiring crew for Shiiine On Weekender?
If you are a contractor or production company working Shiiine On Weekender, post what you need free on CrewPool. Indoor format makes logistics simpler than outdoor: all crew areas are within the Butlin's resort complex, weather is not a variable.
Bar staff and steward requirements for a 6,000-capacity indoor event across five stages typically run 150-250 crew per day. Search and post at event crew hire, or browse festival crew available from Bristol.