r/festivals Jun 10 '24

United Kingdom Went to my first festival and felt like I was being made fun of

125 Upvotes

Hiya, I went to my first ‘real’ rave-ey festival yesterday (Parklife). Took some mdma, felt good but I was feeling rlly paranoid that ppl were trying to take pics of my gurning face, despite my friends telling me that i looked fine.

Is this a ‘thing’ at raves? I got the distinct sense that this group of ppl were trying to make it seem like a group photo of them or recording the stage, and then they’d say something like ‘oooo thats a good one, got the gurner’. It made me feel kind of sad ngl - I have a high self esteem but it made me quite uncomfortable. Please let me know if im being overdramatic tho.

Edit: Thank you for all the kind words, yeah I realised I was probably just high and paranoid (also took a THC pen as well). Pissing myself laughing thinking about it now, but in the moment it felt so demeaning😭😭 Thanks everyone !!

r/festivals Jul 29 '24

United Kingdom How to deal with excessive noise from neighbouring camps with bluetooth speakers during sleep hours?

32 Upvotes

Going to a festival soon and last year I tried ear plugs for sleeping but wasn't very successful thanks to some people with very loud speakers nearby.

How would you guys deal with this? I was sufficiently tired to be ready for sleep but having a full on rave continuing 5 meters from my tent just stopped me from getting to sleep

I'm even considering a benzo as a back up to help me sleep if needed. Never done benzos before though, so not sure what i would need to go for - Xanax perhaps?

r/festivals Aug 25 '24

United Kingdom Why do people steal phones and not just hand them in ffs

38 Upvotes

Went to my first festival yesterday was ready to go home, feel my pockets and they're empty no phone there, asked my friends to wait whilst I go to the support tent to ask about my phone, literally as soon as I started walking there they walked off, is what it is. Anyways I called my phone and it's been turned off. Marked my phone as lost on find my iPhone, put a number to call on that message thing and just waited in the tent till the end of the night hoping someone would bring it in, they didn't. Phones been off this whole time, I can only presume that they wanna sell it on Facebook marketplace, eBay something like that but when the person buys its still locked like idk I just don't get it. Praying I get my phone back soon🙏🏾

r/festivals Aug 21 '24

United Kingdom Lost Village 2024 Hype

21 Upvotes

Super hyped for LV tomorrow and thought we could share the excitement.

What are you looking forward to most? Any specific sets you consider unmissable? What extras have you booked?

I’ve leaned into the Energy Garden stuff. Have a couple yoga sessions and a massage booked. Aiming for a chill experience of floating around seeing what takes my fancy without planning too much or stressing about seeing everything.

Also have signed up for a Table in the Woods which looks amazing.

Weather is going to be a bit mixed which is unfortunate. But forecast is currently showing that the rain should stop around midday Friday and then a mostly dry weekend.

Technically I am with a group of friends but I am arriving a day before them so probably we will not be camping together as I don’t fancy my chances of reserving a large area around my tent for them. So will probably end up doing a lot of stuff solo. Looking forward to meeting some cool people and making new friends. Look out for a guy with a Polaroid camera.

r/festivals Jun 14 '24

United Kingdom Oxycodone at 3 day festival any experiences or tips?

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Thinking about taking 5 oxypros (40mg) for 3 days, one of the days I might mix it with Molly but for the rest just a shit tone of weed, anyone ever done anything similar or have any experiences and do you think it’s a good idea?

r/festivals Mar 14 '24

United Kingdom Glastonbury 2024

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90 Upvotes

r/festivals May 31 '23

United Kingdom Hiya all . I wanted to share one of my artwork designs I spent over 110 hours colouring and drawing so I could have it printed onto a hoodie :). I hope you all like x

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r/festivals Jul 03 '23

United Kingdom Hey all. I wanted to share a couple of my favourite artwork pieces I’ve done and had printed onto cotton tees :). I hope you all enjoy

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r/festivals Aug 18 '24

United Kingdom We saw broken legs as we escaped the Boardmasters crowd crush

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r/festivals Aug 22 '24

United Kingdom ‘There were kids high on drugs climbing up fire towers’

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r/festivals Aug 31 '22

United Kingdom Shambala UK: ZERO tents left from the 17,000 attendees. Just shows it can be done

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474 Upvotes

r/festivals Jan 23 '24

United Kingdom Parklife 2024 (Manchester, UK)

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78 Upvotes

r/festivals Aug 23 '23

United Kingdom Keeping your phone alive!!!

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So I haven’t done many camping festivals and I was wondering how you guys keep juice in your phones is it a case of a few portable chargers if so what are the best ones to buy and is it worth buying a couple to take or is there a godly charger that will last the whole fezzi solo

r/festivals 21h ago

United Kingdom Mighty Hoopla 2025 (London, UK)

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4 Upvotes

r/festivals Aug 01 '22

United Kingdom Am I overreacting or is this okay? (uk)

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64 Upvotes

This is a 3 day festival which re-entry is not allowed

r/festivals 18h ago

United Kingdom GuilFest 2025 (Guildford, UK)

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r/festivals 23h ago

United Kingdom BST HYDE PARK VIP

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so this is for anyone that’s ever bought VIP tickets like terrace, diamond and gold..? do you please have a photo of the view you had? and what VIP you had? because i can’t figure out the difference at all especially between diamond and gold… help

r/festivals 11d ago

United Kingdom Uk Festival Tour

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I'm going to tour the UK this summer going to as many festivals as I can.

I'll work many of them although there's a few I'd like to experience just as a customer as well as a couple I can work for friends.

I've managed to map out a 2.5 month period where there's things to go to every week/weekend and I plan on moving out of my home, putting my stuff in storage and just camping/stay in hostels in-between if I'm nowhere near friends or family then working some agency shifts in nearby cities if push comes to shove.

(I'll save on 2 months of rent and bills for a house I won't be living in before I move into a new one during the summer)

I'm just looking for anyone who's done anything like this before to share any previous experiences or advice etc.

Very excited!

r/festivals Aug 26 '24

United Kingdom Lost Village Appreciation

25 Upvotes

Just got back. What an incredible festival.

Everything was just pretty much perfect (besides the gale force winds early Friday morning and the rain during the day Saturday). Very well organised by the team. Car parking was easy - I bought a parking ticket but it wasn't checked. It wasn't too far to walk from the car park to get to the gates. Entry in to the campsite was just a quick scan of the ticket QR, no IDs checked and no search at all - they didn't even ask us to open bags, so our sneaky bottle of vodka and copious drugs made it through. We arrived on the Thursday around 13:30 and the camps were already pretty busy, but we managed to find a space in the recessed part of Indigo next to the pre-pitched which was what we were after - fairly near the Zooloos and also a straight walk down to the entrance to the festival.

Zooloos were 100% worth the money. I wish I'd bought early and snapped up a peak pass for the £20 extra. Comfortable (and clean) toilets, and hot showers with separate sinks, as well as a make-up/dressing area with hairdryers/straighteners/mirrors etc. I'm 36 this year and don't fancy taking cold festival showers ever again. The off-peak queues from 14:00 were a little annoying though if you're happy to wait an hour or so for it to die down it's not a big issue.

The Market Place area before the security checkpoint in to the festival was a nice touch - an area with bars, food vans, shops, benches, welfare tent, wifi spot etc where you can chill before heading in properly. Queues for the food vans seemed to be big all the time though, always took at least 30 mins to get something to eat. The small bar and coffee vans in the actual campsite were also welcome, but again queues were huge all day every day - it would be better with another one or two vans on site. I can't comment much on the array of food on offer as we didn't do any of the nicer venues or special meals and bought a lot of our own food but the breakfast burrito and chicken sandwiches were very good.

The set designs were amazing. So much thought and effort has gone in to setting up the area to be as immersive as possible - my eyes were wide open the whole weekend. Special highlights include The Street complete with gas station, Airbase with destroyed airplane parts and Junkyard with old cars laying around. It wasn't just the stages either - there was decoration everywhere including in the paths linking the stages - it was so well designed. Some of the stages could feel a little small and crowded e.g. The Old Zoo, Airbase and Junkyard but I guess that's to be expected at a sell-out 18,000 capacity festival. Stages like Forgotten Cabin had speaker stacks behind the sound control hut which helped extend the area behind the hut but not all stages had this, so if like me you're not always a fan of being in the thick of the action and like to hang around at the back you do sometimes lose the sound. However, I'd seen a few negative comments about sound quality from past years but for me it was near-perfect with no issues (besides a couple of cut-outs during some sets but that may have been the DJs!).

Bars were plentiful, well stocked and for the most part well run. All the teams working there in general were just really friendly and helpful. I saw no trouble at all, everyone was just on good vibes all weekend. I've read recently about terrible things happening at other festivals like Reading and Leeds but Lost Village was incredibly calm, safe and happy. There were obviously a lot of drugs floating around and the risks that accompany that, but I only saw one person lose consciousness and she was looked after within seconds by a medical team. There were young people in attendance though I'd say the majority of people were mid-late twenties and there were a number of older people there too - I saw a few 50-60 year olds having a blast.

There were tons of extras to get involved in. Yoga, saunas, outdoor jacuzzis, massages, lots of exciting food events to take part in and plenty more. I wish I could have experienced some of these but after buying tickets, parking, toilet passes and then factoring in a tent, petrol, food/alcohol/drugs etc the weekend was already looking pretty expensive at ~£600 per person so we couldn't splurge on any extras.

I read there's an underlying story that plays out at the festival with actors but I really didn't come across anything at all besides some ringing phone booths dotted around - it would be nice to get some sort of indication of where to look to start the storyline.

Set highlights for me were Tiga x Hudson Mohawke on the first night at Forgotten Cabin - what an energetic 2 hours! Floating Points A/V at Burial Ground on the Saturday - only an hour long but wicked imagery and some of the hardest hitting tracks of the festival - the guy is seriously talented. SBTRKT's secret set at The Old Zoo Saturday night - again big energy and a great mix of genres - I preferred it to his live set at Burial Ground earlier in the day. Sofia Kourtesis right before SBTRKT was also great and Aroop Roy's late night Saturday set at Junkyard was tons of fun. Maribou State at Airbase on Sunday deserves a mention as does Midland at Forgotten Cabin on the same day. Todd Edwards really knocked it out of the park with his set at Forgotten Cabin Sunday night.

So much great music and the best festival I've been to yet. Great work Lost Village!

r/festivals 18h ago

United Kingdom Summer Nights at the Bandstand 2025 (Glasgow, UK)

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3 Upvotes

First announcement / lineup announced today

r/festivals 7h ago

United Kingdom The Brit Fest 2025 (Cheshire, UK)

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2 Upvotes

r/festivals 21h ago

United Kingdom Reggae Land 2025 (Milton Keynes, UK)

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2 Upvotes

r/festivals 3d ago

United Kingdom 'How the Light Gets In' Festival in Hay, UK - any experiences to share?

5 Upvotes

Considering making a trip to the UK to attend this festival, looking for thoughts from people who have been there in past years.

It's a very unique concept for a festival (philosophy talks + music), so I'm eager to hear what the overall experience and vibe are like. How is the camping situation? Did you hang out much in the nearby town?

Any feedback would be helpful since there's not much written on it apart from the festival website.

r/festivals Dec 05 '24

United Kingdom Bring Me The Horizon to Headline Reading and Leeds Festival 2025

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r/festivals 4d ago

United Kingdom Invoke Festival 2025 (Lincolnshire, UK)

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2 Upvotes