Where's the party?

[Noodlouse]

Don't let the rain and the early finish stop a good night. Where's the party at?

[TheNewUnion]

The party? It's not at Creamfields it would appear.

Was it as bad as was made out on the news? Looked grim for sure.

Edited August 26, 2012 by TheNewUnion

[Octave Doctor]

It's all gone Pete Tong..

[Dis©oDan]

Maybe "At Night" will now cosider a move from daresbury... not exactly the ideal location for an event of this magnitude.

[Taylor.]

Weather was grim as piss. Can see why it was cancelled but still very disappointed

[JFKvsNixon]

It's crazy, I was at Leeds Festival only around 70 miles away, and the weather was good enough for me to be able to wear trainers all weekend.

[neato]

So disappointing.

We woke up floating in the tent on Sunday though, no dry clothes to change into, but we were up for staying anyway. I suppose you expect it at a festival! The most annoying thing for us was being on the camp site all the updates were hearsay. Such-a-body asked one guy and he said this and someone else said that. Annoying, there was no official announcement. Bit gutted to lose 50% of the acts we paid for too....but we'll be back next year. We still loved it.

[FestivalFriend]

never going back. worst festival ever.

silent disco was crap, the good channel seemed to break up all the time, i could only ever get some chilled out trance tat from another tent. and if theres only one thing to do on the friday, surely they would provide enough headphones?? seems like an utter fck up from start to finish

saturday was good, despite the rain. I was in a dance tent in the arena most of the day and i can't remember it being that bad?

sunday morning had a bad comedown, which was only made worse by the southern fairies camped next to us that were complaining about the mud and going home, telling us that it was gonna get shut down. then for the next 5 hours till we got some confirmation we didn't know what to think, BBC news said it was cancelled, yet 2 stewards said no it's still open for weekend campers, just day tickets are getting turned away. but then mates kept texting saying it was closed, lots of rumours flying about the campsite. so we prep'd ourselves for the worst and went to plan b, get smashed on the campsite. and for the rest of the day it was sunny, i don't think it got any muddier, but still nothing was on. I kept telling myself that they'd at least drag some speakers out into the campsite and get a few local DJ's to keep everyone happy, but no such luck.

also another thing that pissed me off, there was a big puddle between green and yellow camps, and they shut it off and made us walk about 2 miles around in the mud. how is that safer than going through a puddle? why couldn't they have got in some tractors and tankers to suck some of the muddiest puddles away? seemed like there was no effort to sort it they just shit themselves and cancelled it.

also i heard a rumour someone drowned in the mud and got airlifted out, possibly dead, and that would explain why they cancelled it. but seems we'll never know. so, to sum it up, get me a fucking refund, the pricks that run that festival shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. what have they started now, an easy get out clause for the festivals to just shut early once they have sold all the tickets....

[More rain]

I hope I was that southern fairy moaning about the mud and saying it has been cancelled. Pink campsite?

I knew it had been cancelled by 11am.

As much as the Saturday was amazing the Cream Tent and Pryda and Friends tent at 3am were stupid and dangerous, you could not move and got stuck while dancing, did stop us having a good time though. There was a massive puddle in the middle of the Cream tent and people were using it as a toilet and then people wouldnt see it and fall in which was funny the first time and then got a bit grim. The picture of that tent in the morning was stupid, the whole tent supports were leaning to one side.

Sadly in this day and age we live in a blame and sue culture together with health and safety rules of epic proportions, I went to Bloc weekender and that got cancelled for weather and overcrowding and it wasnt a patch on how bad the creamfields site was. it was hardly a case of close early after selling all the tickets, it would be easier to let the festival carry on that for it to go ahead. I got my money back from Bloc by calling my credit card company and will be doing the same for creamfields.

Two festivals attended this year two cancelled, I may risk bestival or leave it until Glasto again next year!

[FestivalFriend]

no i was in green so it wasn't you.

reading the update on the wedbsite today it did look quite bad inside some of the dance tents. surely they could have done something though, they could have shut the arena till 6pm, then given themselves 12 hours to have a go drying it up, put down some sawdust/wood chippings etc

they need to do something now though, either move he site to a better drained area, put matting down in tents, get better fllod defences, have some plans for when it decides to rain like fck or i'm not going back

[Nath182]

They should definitely move it to a different venue but I'm pretty sure they won't. It's quite clear that the venue isn't suited for the purpose of a festival. I mean who the hell puts a festival in a valley? I'm annoyed that I didn't get to see most of the people that I wanted to see but I can understand why it was cancelled and agree it should have been, but if it's in the same place next year then I'm going to have to consider not buying a ticket.#

EDIT: Just read FestivalFriend's previous post, tractors + tankers... seriously? You don't think that would have dug biggggggggggg tracks into the ground and made the situation worse? IMO there is very little they could have done to stop what happened, not to say it's not their fault it's just poor planning.

Edited August 29, 2012 by Nath182

[FestivalFriend]

EDIT: Just read FestivalFriend's previous post, tractors + tankers... seriously? You don't think that would have dug biggggggggggg tracks into the ground and made the situation worse? IMO there is very little they could have done to stop what happened, not to say it's not their fault it's just poor planning.

[More rain]

Glastonbury is a working farm while the festival is on, the site is also big enough to handle tractors going around sucking the water up. As a glastonbury goer it makes you appreciate the work that actually goes on.

To be honest I see a lot of people on facebook calling for the festival to be brought foward, I dont see why August should be hot and Reading and Leeds managed. The problem is the massive hills with the tents at the bottom, that being said this was my 4th Creamfields and I have never had a problem before, it pissed it down in previous years but I have never seen rain like it this year.

Luckily I see all the acts I want to in London throughout the year so Im not too disapointed, however I want my holidays back haha!

[dombishop94]

Tit's up is where it's gone