Arcadia

[Vanderlyle]

Hey, I was excited about Arcadia last year having loved it at Glastonbury for a few years.

However, due to a number of reasons, I never made it over there. So I was wondering what the deal was. Is there a good buzz? Same set-up as Glasto? Any crazy goings-on?

[smogo]

It never got massively busy because it was so out of the way, and the sound wasn't great, but I personally had amazing times there for Lords of Lightning, Jaguar Skills, The Japanese Popstars and the Prince Tribute Trio. Decent pizza in that area as well!

[Homer]

It seemed decent to me (though I don't remember a great deal about it, though I went there on the Sat and Sun last year!). Andy C was quite good (I think); Sunday it rained so we gave up (not really their fault though!).

[Vanderlyle]

Mmm yeah. Sunday's rain.

Some weird stuff has happened to me at festivals, but the paranoia I had in my tent on that Sunday night was something special. Not entirely unjustified when you consider that about 1 in 3 tents were blown away by the Monday morning...

[hawkzred]

Different set up to Glastonbury as they used the afterburner rather than the spider last year at Bestival, which is a bit underwhelming by comparison.

[sisterofmercy]

Had no idea they had the Arcadia thing at Bestival too. Never got the chance to really explore it at Glasto so looking forward to checking it out at Bestival instead.

[hawkzred]

Had no idea they had the Arcadia thing at Bestival too. Never got the chance to really explore it at Glasto so looking forward to checking it out at Bestival instead.

[5co77ie]

I like their laser grafitti of 'penii' on the neighbouring white chalk outcroppings - I remember thinking "wow, technology and grafitti really have come a long way."

[rexclark]

To be honest, the whole Arcadia thing doesn't do anything for me. I enjoyed watching Erol alkan on it at Rockness last year but I've not went anywhere near it at night at Glasto but then there's so much else to do at Glasto. Might go see it at Bestival if there's nowt else on.

[Joe-]

Didn't go there last year, it was in the opposite direction to everything else so I couldn't be arsed for the walk.

If it's in a better location, I'll have a look.

[hawkzred]

Arcadia are bringing a new structure called the UFO to Bestival, it will be debuting at Rockness beforehand but sounds really interesting.

http://zapbangmagazine.com/news/arcadia-stage-on-tour-2012

The location was handy for me last year as It was near to where we are camped, crowd numbers were definitely afftected though.

The area that was used for Arcadia would have been better for some of the attarctions of the Wishing Tree field if it could all be squeezed in, almost like a Shangri La esque corner of the Festival.

[coma girl]

I've been to the Arcadia set ups at Glastonbury and Rockness and really enjoyed them, hoping this new rig is good too