- Now we have no time to sit and eat even, says chaos chief Vegard while devouring a double sandwich Nugatti and getting ready to heave equipment from van. It is not the first time the gang of Chaos has carried amplifiers and heavy crates of technical features, and this time it's down in the basement of the Grand to be installed, before the festival sets in earnest.

Chaos is mostly a good bunch strong men, but also a couple of handsome girls, with gloves, always ready to carry the stream, rigging and running gear to and fro through the city in the hectic festival day. And most come back year after year.

- Oh, crap job again, heard it from one of the guys, but the comment is met with laughter and smile no matter. For it is a part of jazz officials who have fun on guard, it's Chaos!The good coherence is clearly visible where they run up and down stairs and respond to coordination phones from other parts of the group.

- We have fun while we bear, waiting, keep something, or balancing on a ladder, explains.

Behind the truck are working diligently, and the boxes are not exactly less for each year that passes, but the contents of the car that was full of equipment and never seemed to be empty, decreases faster and faster, and before you know it's the job done, and Kaos go to the next job. A piano that needs to be moved or scene to be combined.

Miljøforkjemperne

Kongsberg Jazz Festival is proudly labeled with the Eco-piston, which include environmental group working hard to show in practice. Janne Mikkelsen(17) and Ylva Marie Longva(17) have had a few hectic preparation day, but now most seem to be in place, and environmental booth at the festival the streets and the church square stands ready to accept garbage from the festival guests. The Kongsberg Nature and Youth is responsible for this offer, where the public can sort waste, and the local team makes the 16 enthusiastic young people who will work one shift every day.

- We do this to earn money for the local team, Page Nature and Youth is half of the deposit money from all ølbegerene, explains Ylva and adds: – And then we do it for the environment, course! Without the jazz festival and what we earn during those days, we could not be arranged so many activities for environmentally engaged youth.

- It's fun to be official on jazz! In addition to work we will be with us as much gigs as possible, eat as much as possible festivalmat, and buy some nice things from the stalls in the Reservoir Park, says Janne.

Packed shopping carts

The funksjonærguppa artists coming to Jazz Festival is perhaps the most loved, Service is, the smiling people who receive them when they come, ensure that they are doing well during their stay, and purchase everything they wanted in raids shoulder. Well, almost everything in any case!

- One year there was an artist who had three things in raids shoulder as he should have, completely without compromise. One of those was a special cognac as it turned out to be only 26 bottles left in the whole of Norway, and the nearest was on pole in Tønsberg! We did it at the last second, but the artist had not even opened the bottle when he went back ...!

Service without compromise in other words! In this crowd there lack of ability to satisfy the whim. The guest book also suggests that the artist really appreciate the friendliness and help they offer - it is full of beautiful scribbles and greetings from well-known names. Good stories abound, and as it sometimes is time for a little coffee break between battles, reminisce about the fun events.

- I remember a year when the chair an old blues artist put on, smoke, and we had to call the doctor. And not with the NOK, earlier in the day, we had to take off after the crutches to his wife!

With so many nice people gathered in a group, it is clear that the cohesion and the environment in the Service is also good, and new generations of officers have been involved since they were small.

Long raiders results in shopping trips with packed carriages, but also full autograph books, some younger girls may prove, for it is a bit too grand to work in the group that comes closest to the big names in the concert program!