My daughter aged 18 is going to Wireless Festival this year.
She has asked if her sister, aged 14 can go, and i am saying no at the moment.
Has anybody been? whats it like? Is it safe? What sort of festival is it ? (got to remember i'm an old bloke !)
The fact its at Finsbury Park instantly makes me wary.
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I went to Wireless 4 summers ago I think with a group of about 25 and it is by far the most tame festival i've been too, I wouldn't even call it a festival really as it's only during the day and no camping, more like a day concert, believe it's usually chart artists performing on the main stages just a lot of normal teenagers there. There is a lot of security there as it's in central-Londonish and is a big event. I think I may have seen one little scuffle there but that's genuinely the case when large amounts of teenagers get together, I think I saw more fights at a rolling stones concert in hyde park between 40 year old blokes then at wireless! I'd say yes even if it was just her and her mates of the same age, but as she is going with your eldest then I would have no worries at all mate.
I think sometimes when non-festival goers hear the word festival they immediately think: out of control, drugs, sex, fights etc. I can assure you apart from a few people maybe thinking they are tougher and more fashionable then they actually are, wireless is non of those things, the only downside to it is its actually pretty crap!
Have you seen the line up these days for wireless?
Also as Nomadic points out it's a concert not a festival.
I'd say president that if you're happy that your older daughter is mature enough to look after your younger one and you can trust them both then let them go.
Doesn't need to be a full blown rock band on stage for pits to emerge.
Seen pits opening up for the likes of chase and status etc.. & now becoming popular on the live grime scene.
Picking them up at 10.30.
But, I've never been to a rap concert, which attract a different sort of "customer".
http://www.wirelessfestival.co.uk/lineup
55 seconds in black bloke in blue vest goes to his pocket and pulls out a knife to go at the security. Scumbag
But I couldn't see one. He put his hand in his pocket, but it could have been for any reason.
Agreed with Gary that these places seem like absolute hell, just for the fact that it is surrounded with lads who all look the same with stupid tanktops that say 'Los Angeles' on them or some shite, denim shorts and a SnapBack worn backwards. Would rather stick pins in my eyes.
Get them into rock/indie. I've never seen an ounce of trouble, in 35 years of gigs.
Lively, yes. Smoking joints, yes. On Saturday, at Noel Gallagher, at the Calling Festival. There were some scousers snorting cocaine, off of their phones. But I've never seen any trouble.