Music Festivals you have been to.

[Rogero]

I have been to Cambridge Folk Festival for about 28 times and Womad once. Cambridge is great, it is a good size and well organised.The site is well drained and has a family atmosphere. One year we tried Womad one year but the weather was terrible and the site flooded.
My son in law is organising an electronic festival called Noisily for all you youngsters .It looks great if you like that sort of thing.
http://www.noisilyfestival.com

What festivals have you been to and what has been your experience.

 

[BBassic]

I've only been to a couple:

Playgroup twice - messy, very messy weekend.
All Tomorrow's Parties - awesome
Primavera 2014 - Barcelona, sunshine, The Pixies, Television, Caetano Veloso. Couldn't have asked for more.

 

[1234andcounting]

Festival Of The Desert, Timbuctu, 2006. Brilliant. You could wander round the artists enclosure and sit and watch them rehearse. Getting there was fun, too. Three day boat trip up the River Niger, camping on the riverbank overnight.

 

[Rogero]

Festival Of The Desert, Timbuctu, 2006. Brilliant. You could wander round the artists enclosure and sit and watch them rehearse. Getting there was fun, too. Three day boat trip up the River Niger, camping on the riverbank overnight.

That looks a real adventure.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Glastonbury, Big Chill, Reading, Monsters of Rock, V, Love Box, The Great Escape, Miami Music Conference, Essential.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Adding MELT to the list in a months time.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Knebworth twice, including '79
Latitude three times
IOW twice
Reading twice
Leeds
Cambridge Folk Festival five times
Burning man, only the once, thank God.

 

[Rogero]

Knebworth twice, including '79
Latitude three times
IOW twice
Reading twice
Leeds
Cambridge Folk Festival five times

Burning man, only the once, thank God.

What happened at Burning Man?

 

[tinx]

Glastonbury 7 times
Reading 6 times
V 4 times
Monsters of Rock twice
Sonisphere once
Wireless once

plus a few other smaller ones I can't remember the names of.

 

[lawros left foot]

Reading 1976, 1977, 1978

 

[Goldstone1976]

What happened at Burning Man?

More violence (mostly drug-fuelled) than I've seen anywhere else, including football-related in the late 70s. Plenty of really aggressive new-age types peddling their notions - new age-ness is fine; it was the aggression that was the problem. One woman followed me for three hours, hassling all the time.

I love the theory; the practice was somewhat different in my experience.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

One woman followed me for three hours

This happened to me at Glastonbury in 98. Had a guy come up to me, mumble some words and then just stare at me and follow me. Was very weird and off-putting. It lasted for an hour and eventually I walked to a security area to shake him off.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Used to love the Essential Music Festival up at Stanmer Park in the nineties. Three-dayer comprising Indie Day, Dance Day and Reggae Day (the last of which one year stretched the definition or reggae to just about breaking point by including James Brown if memory serves!). Always used to go to Dance Day, where saw such classic bands as Underworld, Fluke and Chemical Brothers. Fantastic days! Sadly I think it got zapped by the countrywide Foot 'n' Mouth epidemic.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

All Tomorrow's Parties (RIP) and Primavera (Barcelona and Porto).

Also used to love Essential Festival (RIP) - THPP I seem to remember that the promoters decided to tour it round to other locations across the country and it just fell flat.

 

[tinx]

Used to love the Essential Music Festival up at Stanmer Park in the nineties. Three-dayer comprising Indie Day, Dance Day and Reggae Day (the last of which one year stretched the definition or reggae to just about breaking point by including James Brown if memory serves!). Always used to go to Dance Day, where saw such classic bands as Underworld, Fluke and Chemical Brothers. Fantastic days! Sadly I think it got zapped by the countrywide Foot 'n' Mouth epidemic.

This was the one. The prodigy that night were brilliant. Such a hot packed tent.

 

[brighton_girl87]

Benicassim - loved it, near the beach but too hot to camp. Plus there was a hurricane the year I went and a whole night of shows was cancelled, including Kings of Leon - I'm still not over it!

Reading - meh, full of teenagers

Glastonbury - the ultimate festival and I'm going again this year

Wilderness - small, friendly and chilled out and I shall be going again this year

 

[soistes]

One year we tried Womad one year but the weather was terrible and the site flooded.

Think that must have been the first year Womad was at Charlton Park, Malmesbury (2006?). We went and like you say, it was the muddiest festival ever, thigh-high in places, and it could take about half an hour to move from one stage to another. We've been most years since then, however, and the organisers have got the site much better laid out and planned for all weathers, and overall it's been one of my favourite festivals -- good vibe, relaxed, uncommercial compared to most, and I like the huge diversity of artists. The site, in good weather, is also a lovely venue.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Glastonbury - the ultimate festival and I'm going again this year

Spot on

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Big Chill was a weird one. Full of middle-class types who like the idea of a festival but not the reality. Everything stopped at 11pm. Most of the people I was with were fully revved up at this point, just getting ready to go and spent the night like coiled springs.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Wilderness - small, friendly and chilled out and I shall be going again this year

OMG - Now that's a festival! I'm not convinced by all the music line-up, if I'm honest, but as a true festival it looks fantastic!