Addicted to fetivals

[podge52]

Right i think i'm addicted to going to Music fests. I've been going to em for 10 yrs now and at least once a day i'm on here or some other site looking for news, rumours etc . I get over excited soon as ones finished and cant wait for the next one. I start planning 360 days in advance i cant get enough. If money and time were'nt an issue its all i'd do. I do have a job and a life, but going to festivals is what i look forward to most , apart from spending time with my son. Think it gets on gf s tits a bit sometimes but hey thats me. Call me a sad t*** but i dont care . Started this thread just to see if i'm the only saddo who's like this. The reason i'm like this is i jut love the whole deal being around like minded people where we all have lots of things in common,camping out, listening to live music,shitting inlong drops ,good weather, bad weather, some great food,drinking lots of beer,smoking lots of weed,community spirit all these things and a whole lot more. So if you are like this join the thread and say why you are a saddo like me.

[mr_bizarre]

Right i think i'm addicted to going to Music fests. I've been going to em for 10 yrs now and at least once a day i'm on here or some other site looking for news, rumours etc . I get over excited soon as ones finished and cant wait for the next one. I start planning 360 days in advance i cant get enough. If money and time were'nt an issue its all i'd do. I do have a job and a life, but going to festivals is what i look forward to most , apart from spending time with my son. Think it gets on gf s tits a bit sometimes but hey thats me. Call me a sad t*** but i dont care . Started this thread just to see if i'm the only saddo who's like this. The reason i'm like this is i jut love the whole deal being around like minded people where we all have lots of things in common,camping out, listening to live music,shitting inlong drops ,good weather, bad weather, some great food,drinking lots of beer,smoking lots of weed,community spirit all these things and a whole lot more. So if you are like this join the thread and say why you are a saddo like me.

[disasterplan44]

Add me to that list. I'd been doing various single-day festivals (that's the done thing in Australia) since about 1999 but did T in the Park in 2002 and never looked back. Flew back over here in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008 for various gigs and festivals but decided to stay on indefinitely after the 2008 trip... mainly so doing this sort of thing every year would be more viable.

[karlpowell]

looks like your mam had quatruplets , and i am allso you long lost brother

[eFestivals]

i've been going for about 25 years now ..... but I hate them all.

[Andy_T]

I think I talk about Glastonbury on a daily basis, and I've only been twice. I'm sure my friends must get well sick of it, especially those who haven't been (but they don't know what they're missing). Last year I went as far as to say it was the best five days of my life, so I'm not sure how it can be topped this year. I hope I haven't hyped it up for myself too much after last year!

[darrenbha]

I must be related too. About 15 years of them now. Can't think of any days when i'm not on here at some stage

[strudders]

23 years and proud to say not flagging.

had a bit of a break but fully back into the swing of things now.

[kinglewi]

im getting insanley hooked, buy my tickets early with my friends and gf and everytime i saw em its the first thing we talk about, who were seeing, who we want to see, how we getting there, what drink were taking, what festivals we wanna go to next year etc etc etc.

[strudders]

im getting insanley hooked, buy my tickets early with my friends and gf and everytime i saw em its the first thing we talk about, who were seeing, who we want to see, how we getting there, what drink were taking, what festivals we wanna go to next year etc etc etc.

[glastofreak]

I hate all festivals and the people who go to them.

[MikeyB37]

Beer festivals, music festivals, comedy festivals, Glastonbury festival... they're all i seem to think about these days.

[MikeyB37]

I hate all festivals and the people who go to them.

[popcornmaster]

love my fetivals too ; )

relative newcomer though

4th year of festivaling

3rd of glastonbury

I dont have my second festival booked this year though need to work on that

hope to be recounting many a festival tale with twenty years experience like you guys

[glastofreak]

Liar

[strudders]

dam found out so quickly what gave it a way??

[glastofreak]

Oh yer can she have it back.

[Conrax]

Not been to many Festivals but i think im hooked to i mean i must be i always think about Festivals and am always talking about them and how good they have been people im with must get pissed off but aye i dont care

[glastofreak]

You have the addiction

[jollynolly]

I think most people on here have the addiction

[podge52]

I think most people on here have the addiction

[Glazieyes]

Good so i'm not alone glad to hear it.

[5co77ie]

I'm not sure what the fuss is about my first festival was Reading 1978, and I've been going to a dozen or so a year every year for a number of years now - that 31 years of festivals! Funnily enough though my favourites were in the 80s - Treewargy, and Elephant Fayre and in the early 90s I lost two jobs for going to the then rather unpopular Glastonbury festival, which had such a stigma attached to it - if you went you were a smelly hippie who employers thought were too alternative to be employed!

How times have changed I'm pleased to say, I did prefer the manicness of the old more 'unorganised' festivals, and used to travel hundreds of miles to see Hawkwind, Ozric Tentacles or Gong play for what seemed like hours.

The music has become much more mainstream these days but there are still some great festival bands around like Bellowhead, Levellers, 3 Daft Monkeys, Pronghorn, Back To The Planet, Dreadzone, and more, that retain that 'old school' vibe.

[MJMilz14]

I'm not sure what the fuss is about my first festival was Reading 1978, and I've been going to a dozen or so a year every year for a number of years now - that 31 years of festivals! Funnily enough though my favourites were in the 80s - Treewargy, and Elephant Fayre and in the early 90s I lost two jobs for going to the then rather unpopular Glastonbury festival, which had such a stigma attached to it - if you went you were a smelly hippie who employers thought were too alternative to be employed!

How times have changed I'm pleased to say, I did prefer the manicness of the old more 'unorganised' festivals, and used to travel hundreds of miles to see Hawkwind, Ozric Tentacles or Gong play for what seemed like hours.

The music has become much more mainstream these days but there are still some great festival bands around like Bellowhead, Levellers, 3 Daft Monkeys, Pronghorn, Back To The Planet, Dreadzone, and more, that retain that 'old school' vibe.

[Madalien]

Oh how I wish that was still going. Just down the road from me and sounded bloody brilliant.

Bit of an elephant fayre story for you all. Years back, when you could drive into festivals, park your car up in the campsite and just whack your tent up next to it, my dad borrowed my nans car and drove down, along with my aunt and a few friends, got set up etc. And of course as more and more people arrived, they became completley surrounded with other tents, cars etc. Basically when the festival was over, they would have to wait for an awful lot of people to leave before they could.

So anyway, they went off, presumably to see some bands and what not, and when they returned in the evening the car was gone :angry: Not a single tent around them looked like it had been touched, everyone elses car's were still there, it was pretty much impossible!

In the end they had to get a train back to Essex, where they lived at the time.

A few weeks later, the police called to say they had found the car in London, and they got it back... complete with a brand new radiator fitted (result!).

But to this day, 20 or 30 years on, noone can explain how on earth the thieves managed to get that car out when it was completly surrounded, without moving anyones tents, or cars, and without a single person seeing them! It was only an old banger as well, why on earth would the thieves go to that much hassle