So with Glastonbury and the festival season once again upon us...
I've never been to a music festival. A Sunday afternoon trip to Finsbury Park for a Capital Fm roadshow to see Aswad headlining was the closest I've come.
Is that common or unusual to get to nearly 40 and never having been to a festival?
So what's your festival back catalogue? What you done, where you done it.
What's been your highlights / lowlights, and funny stories and everything in between.
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Camping, wellies and mud, is nowt to do with music, for me.
Reading in 2001
Leeds for the day at some point
T in the Park for the day 2002
Bennicassim 2008
Glastonbury around 10 times
Too many stories to tell. Some of the best times ever. Nowadays seem to do London day gig type things which are fine but would love to go to Glastonbury in a heartbeat.
Went to bearded theory a month ago where the highlight was mr motivator
Can't stand them rather see bands in a club with about 400 other punters. But millions enjoy them so what do I know.
Played at a few of the smaller festivals, much prefer that side of the fence.
Apart from that TruckFest a few times and ATP down at Camber on a few occasions but that's in chalets. Fuelled on Stella though it was great!
@AFKABartram, surely Oasis at Knebworth was more a festival atmosphere with a load of bands than anything else you've seen? From memory, we saw the Manics, Ocean Colour Scene and The Prodigy before Oasis came on!
It was so hot, didn't get there early enough to get under the sunshades. Showers were good though and I are the best chicken I'd ever had at a restaurant on the beach but by then I was starving. Hotels are the way to go!
Going back to Glastonbury I was always shit-scared (pardon the pun) of the toilet stories. Reading had a nice walk to the clean toilets of
Caversham.
Love festivals (and gigs), I think it's so much more entertaining watching live music from artists you love and others that you haven't heard of than 95% of Charlton matches. (Looking back now it makes me wonder why I travelled back from Reading on a Festival Saturday if we had a home game).
Never had a favourite song since Oasis days but these two songs get me for some reason
Odd.
Done all the other major festivals at least a couple of times each plus countless other smaller UK festivals and a couple of foreign ones for anything from a few hours to a couple of days.
Only one I haven't done yet that I'd like to is T in the park.
Oh and in my opinion if it doesn't have camping or is in a royal park it's not a festival it's a concert.
The line ups for V are more like a radio 1 roadshow spread out over two days now... My highlight there were the likes of Queens of the stone age, foo fighters etc.
V97 was amazing... Headlined by blur and the prodigy. When you live in Chelmsford, that's like seeing oasis and the stone roses at the same gig in Manchester
I did Desertfest in Camden earlier this year as well which was also very good.
To be fair though, we had a pretty sh*t day that day all in all, including starting the day with 9 of us split between two cars, being involved in a multiple pile-up on the M25 and one of the cars got written off and left on the hard shoulder and the old bill gave us a lift to the nearest railway station which took us into Stevenage. Didnt get back until 4-5am as we had to get a late train back to Kings Cross and then walk back to Trafalgar Square to get the Night Bus. By the time we'd got back to London on the train, the other car still hadnt got out of the car park.