Saturday 6th of September 2008 - 05:36
Festival Survival Guide
Festivals are an experience and for first timers, they can be a bit daunting.
Our Festival Survival Guide should help you:
- Choose a good pitch - preferably away from the toilets
- Test run putting your new tent up before you go as putting it up in the dark won’t be much fun, if it’s the first time.
- Wear old clothes and preferably ones with zips.
- Take drinks that you won’t mind drinking warm. Fridges aren’t in abundance at your campsite!
- Don’t take anything you wouldn’t want to lose. Do you really need to take your ipod?
- Make friends in your campsite……
- …..If you’re getting on famously, remember to practise safe sex!
- Don’t put padlocks on your tent - it only highlights the fact you’ve got something worth nicking!
- Take a mobile phone - festival sites are massive and YOU WILL get lost. Most phone companies have charging facilities - be prepared to queue though.
Got any more survival tips for newbies? Want to ask us a question? Submit it below.
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39 Responses to “Festival Survival Guide”
are we allowed to bring fire works for late night bbqs.
no thy dont allow fireworks
dont bother taking food you will have to cook! you will be able to survive on crisps and jaffa cakes!
you can pick up mini stoves. if you are fussed about cooking yer cheezy beans.
What ever you do DO NOT forget to pack bogroll the sites often dont provide it and you do not want to be caught out!!!!
Not only do you not want to camp near the toilets…you also dont want to camp downhill from any!!! Ask the poor souls who camped near the bottom of the hill by the main stage in 2005 and woke up in a world of s*&t….literally. Take note.
DONT BRING BOGROLL to glastonbury… they are supplying us with plenty
Always be nice to everyone around you!
And by the way; to any one going to Wakestock DONT BRING BBQS! They’ll nick them from you!
yeah sounds good, real good……………. but i bet you can’t put a fruit pastle in your mouth without chewing it………..
^^^^LMFAO
babywipes essential. so handy!
chewing gum aswell!
bring wet wipes, gum, anorak and/or wellies - it’ll make glastonbury rain better- and take your own toilet roll!!! portaloos are evil!!!!
or as my friend jo says, take your own toilet!!!!gemma wanted to say hi. bye…. glastonbury here i come!!!!! hope it’s sunny next year…. mmmm
ANYONE GOT A MAP OF THE SITE AT CHARLTON PARK FOR CAMPING AND PARKING?
if you get left alone while you cant see straight allways wait by the entrance to main stage if u cant find help someone will help you sooner or later and if u pass out they all work there so ur be safe. i should no!
Take a watch! as a non watch wearer… i didnt have a freeeking clue what the time was..!! but i didnt really care to know the time either!! but when ya fav band is on you dont want to miss it do ya..! and the amount of times i had to ask for a watch, so its just eaiser to take one! i will defo be taking one to next years glastonbury! bring on the mud!!!
Hiya!!
how old do ya have to be to go without an adult!
i’d love to go to glastonbury bext year, but have never even been to a concert outside, how will i survive at a whole festival outside for a weekend!!
thx!!
Dont forget a two man tent will only take two men no rucksacks no chairs just two people! unless you want to sleep on your hard lumpy rucksacks i suggest you get a tent that is an extra person than you have so if you have two people get a four man tent trust me you’ll appriciate the extra room.
Also bug spray is a must it stinks to high heaven but you will appriciate not being bitten a big black bite on your leg that heats up whilst your already sweltering its not comfrtable!
Warm clothes for round the campsite!
oh and deep heat your back will be killing you after all that walking and if your not sleeping on an air bed that wont help either.
TORCH! you will need it unless you wait till 6am till you go to bed.
Take bog roll!!!!! and sum form of a light…… got totally lost goin 4rm tent to tent in oxegen!!! ohh and a padlock but only use it when ur sleepin(if u actaully sleep) ppl piss into ur tent while ur in it!!! WELLIES tat cum up high enuf if u get low ones they get stuck in mud and fall off
all oxegen experience
what’s the youngest kids wise??? because my little cousion wants to go to t in the park for her thirteenth
hi all i havent ever been b4 cos i wernt my scence i prefer grunge and metal but am now trying to open my music tasts cos i uesed to be a complete hippie and i am trying to regain it any advice to help
can you hire the teepee’s at glasto
can you bring a mobile home to the site
To Lucy Number twenty.
I went when i was nine.
x
look it really doesnt matter wat u bring or forget…more than likely it wall get ruined wit water or muck and more often than not the people that are around u are very generous and will help u out….oxygen an experience not to be taken lightly…cant wait for this year..best laugh ever..xx
who knows what the score is for taking your own booze to festivals?
vodka addict!
take booze– boxes of wine are good… they usually ban glass bottles!!
Take wet wipes! They’re a must have!! Take either bottles of water yourself or get a cheap water carrier to put just inside you tent!
And girls,if you go in the she-pee’s its worth buying extra she-pee’s to carry around with you. never know when you might need a quick wizz,and it also means that you can stand up and pee in them proper scary portaloo’s instead of having to hover over a pile of turd!! xx
Lets hope ministry give us a vodka shot bar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxxZ5pU1u7Q
went last year. trust me when i say take bogroll. you dont wanna be trekking to 1 of the 3 stalls in the whole fest if your burstin.
x-speaking from experiance-x
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It’s all about long socks and leggins so that you don’t get really sore wellie rash like I did on my very first Glasto experience in 2005! Platers for blisters is always a good one too!x
when you arrive the first thing your gonna want to do is get in and get the party started but make sure you write down exactly where you parked your car!!! after 5 days of mayhem it can easily slip your mind. speaking from experience its not fun trying to find it on the monday!!! oops! x x x
Carry as little as possible when your in the mix,just phone and money and behind a zip if poss (there are always a few light fingerd fellows about) that works 4 me and most important of all ENJOY yourself !
If u need to keep ur ticket with u at all times or even moneys put it in ur bra ladies… I learned tht at t in th park lst year.. best purse i ever bought
where is safe place to put passports and money for the festival in bennicassim
take paracetemol! after all that drinking and loud music your head will hurt big time. I know mine did after Download festival 2007.
does anyone know the hare krishna tent? apparently they give free potato stew. has anyone tried this? i’m a cheapo and not a huge junk food fan and am liking the meditation part. is the said stew disgusting or ok? what does it taste like?
are there any other free food places?
are earplugs a good idea to bring so you can get to sleep?
thanks:) can’t wait!
Most stuff been written here but main things to take: juice cartons (soooo nice in the morning!), cereal bars, wet wipes, antibacterial hand stuff (after using the toilets - A MUST!), layers of clothing but no real need for a waterproof (they give ponchos away and they’re much better for having your bag underneath), a bag that’s comfy to carry all day with valuables in - DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING IN YOUR TENT! Even at night, put valuables under your head if poss. At Glastonbury, my mate left his trousers near the entrance to his tent and they were nicked… with his phone and money in. Boooo!
Saying that - we all had a bloomin’ good time!
Take a house and and garden…oh and some nasty dogs to keep all the fucking hippies out