harder to keep things moving smoothly and
quickly. But security got called in to help us deal
with the queues (fi nally!), the painters continued
to paint through the pain, and the numbers kept
growing steadily. Once the two hours were up,
444 people had been offi cially ‘KISSed’.
With the main event over, there was just one
last thing to do – the group photoshoot. Most
people who had been painted turned up and
Liam Brown, 10, from Portsmouth. The models seemed pleased with
were more than happy to strike poses for the
their faces.
local and national press! BBC Radio One had
been plugging the face painting all day and were
manangement! – Paula dashed ofmanangement! – Paula dashed off to do one f to do one their stride, focusing on the job in hand under their stride focusing on the job in hand under
keen to follow up on the story, even interviewing
of the hundred things she was juggling. We increasingly diffi cult circumstances. They were
Paula for their website. When I spoke to her
allowed certain numbers of people through and, extremely precise even under the tight time
later she explained that they were already
as directed, they joined smaller lines at the front constraints – marking seemingly abstract points
working out what they’d do differently next
of each gazebo. It became clear quite quickly on faces and then suddenly bringing everything
time! So a new world record had been set and
that we’d need to do something about the lack together to create the legendary KISS faces.
FACE could go home, heads held high, having
of people wanting to be the ‘catman’. The band It was incredible to watch! Caroline Hill of Hill’s
successfully raised the professional profi le of
member Peter Criss clearly got the raw end of Entertainments in Essex, and the south-east
face painting – and had a great time doing it!
the deal, as the others – ‘demon’, ‘starchild’ representative for FACE, explained; “This
and ‘spaceman’ – were deemed infi nitely cooler event was incredibly different to anything I’ve
by the majority of festival-goers. Emily took done before. I’ve painted adults on numerous
charge by marching along the queue, shouting occasions, but these were a lot more hairy!
that anyone who wanted to be the catman Adult faces are more time-consuming as there’s
could come to the front. Later on, when the line a lot more face to cover, and the skin is more
was less manageable we had to employ Toby, a wrinkled so achieving a good even base is much
member of the festival staff, to do the same with harder. The day was very cold indeed, and by
a megaphone! the end I needed to use my left hand to take
the brush out of the right hand, as my hand had
“
“It was great fun to be working with
become so frozen!”
all the other FACE members. It’s
As each face was completed, the model
great to be part of the association,
was ushered out of the tent and sent towards
the offi cial photographer to be counted. We
and doing things like this make it
Phil Hull and Carrie Simpson from Halifax
were given updates over the megaphone as the
even better.”
came up with the record-setting idea. Carrie
numbers stacked up, which drew huge cheers
Denise Mountstephens, deputy
approached Live Nation who then got in touch
from the crowd, who were delighted the team
chair of FACE
” with FACE. She admitted she was initially
were doing so well. After the fi rst hour things
nervous that no-one would turn up, but was
started to become a bit more diffi cult – people
very pleased with how it went in the end!
While we were trying our best to control the started to queue jump and the painters’ hands
crowd, the painters were taking everything in started to cramp in the cold, so it became
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