MGoT: How working on the set of Thrones is like a rock festival

Cat Taylor is back with another Making Game of Thrones post, in this one she compares working on the set of Game of Thrones to a rock festival.

1. The field is full of tents, and positioning is everything. Avoiding horse dung, flooding, high winds and steep slopes is the ideal.
2. Wellingtons or hiking boots are a must to avoid swamp foot. There is high risk that your foot will get stuck in the inches of thick and churned up mud. Socks will be the most important thing about your day.
3. A smart crew member will avoid the portaloos at all costs, using honey wagons at base, or bushes if no lights are shining (and they happen to be male).
4. By the third day, wet wipes become a human rights issue.
5. Phone signal will drop in and out intermittently, usually just before you’re supposed to meet or call someone.
6. Sun on the field will make it all seem worthwhile, even if you are helping push a 4×4 out of the muck.
7. Security will spend a good deal of time explaining what is happening and why, sadly, passers-by aren’t allowed behind the scenes without a pass.
8. The traffic to and from location will be dreadful as everyone tries to arrive at the same time.
9. Finding the coffee hut and biscuits is like finding the Lost Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
10. Occasionally, Snow Patrol swing by. It’s a lovely surprise to reveal that the producer’s guests for the evening are some of Belfast’s finest home grown talent.

Winter Is Coming: Snow Patrol on the set of Thrones? My mind can’t even comprehend that much awesomeness in one place.

• Published on 12/16/2011 at 3:34 PM CDT
• Last updated on 12/16/2011 at 3:34 PM CDT