Streaming Live on YouTube

[paulomas]

Taken from Facebook -

Very exciting news!! Bestival will be the first UK festival to live stream on YouTube! Main Stage & Big Top will be live streamed on our YouTube platform on Friday, Saturday & Sunday next weekend #bestivallive

This will be cool

[paulomas]

hopefully people will record it as it happens and we can actually watch proper recordings from bestival!

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Interesting from the article, one of the paragraphs suggests the writer perhaps isn't a fan of the idea.

[5co77ie]

Interesting from the article, one of the paragraphs suggests the writer perhaps isn't a fan of the idea.

[LondonTom]

Doesn't seem to have done Coachella any harm over the years does it? I get the general point, people have no money and here they have an option to watch it over something they already pay for...It's going be crunch time for a lot of people next year sadly and if the entertainment is online, why bother?

That said if I end up not going. YAY i can watch everything

[eFestivals]

There's no forecast of the weather being any better next year.

And similarly, there's no forecast of it being the same again either.

While it might be the result of climate change, it might not either. We've just had two dreadful summers, but it's worth noting that the 2nd wettest in history was exactly 100 years ago.

Extreme weather events happen. You even get many instances of extreme years being back-to-back.

On the basis of the 2nd wettest being 100 years ago and from that it being impossible to say that the last two summers are because the climate has now changed permanently, the laws of averages get to say that there's a very good chance that next summer will have significantly better weather than there's been for the last two summers.

And just anecdotally .... while there's been a lot of rain this summer, it's actually been a much better summer than last summer for festivaling I reckon. Last summer I did eight festivals and didn't have one nice sunny one; this year I've been slack and done just five, but two of them have been in glorious sunshine with no sign of any mud, and a third was mildly showery, mud-less, and in general very pleasant. So it's not all bad.

[5co77ie]

while there's been a lot of rain this summer, it's actually been a much better summer than last summer for festivalling I reckon. Last summer I did eight festivals and didn't have one nice sunny one; this year I've been slack and done just five, but two of them have been in glorious sunshine with no sign of any mud, and a third was mildly showery, mud-less, and in general very pleasant. So it's not all bad.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Good - means I can come back and (provided somebody records it) keep a memory of the bands I saw, even the smaller ones. Means I don't have to take my camera as well (even though I will).

Bad - means there'll be a constant presence of cameramen all over the festival blocking the view.

[Paul ™]

Its only for Main Stage and Big Top

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Its only for Main Stage and Big Top

[gooner1990]

I've done 3 festivals this summer (Truck, Global Gathering & Reading) and none of them were muddy washouts...hopefully Bestival will be the same!

[5co77ie]

Its only for Main Stage and Big Top

[fatyeti24]

the xx are now featuring the worst smoke machine since that time with cliff richard on top of the pops

https://www.youtube.com/user/bestivaltv

[rug568]

the absence of Soulwax upset me.

[LondonTom]

the absence of Soulwax upset me.

[rug568]

the absence of justice upsets me to and soulwax

Mind probs a good thing i dont torture myself over not going

[chriseede]

the xx are now featuring the worst smoke machine since that time with cliff richard on top of the pops

https://www.youtube....user/bestivaltv

[chriseede]

the absence of justice upsets me to and soulwax

Mind probs a good thing i dont torture myself over not going

[rug568]

de la soul are wicked. good to see them with a big crowd.

[jeanpierre80]

Is it just my impression that the crowd is very young and not that much up for it ?

[rug568]

i know a lot of hipsters that take themselves far too seriously are there, they're not really the type to jump around and have a dance.

[fatyeti24]

I thought they were really good though, but it wouldn't work on an outdoor stage in daylight.

[fatyeti24]

i know a lot of hipsters that take themselves far too seriously are there, they're not really the type to jump around and have a dance.

[rug568]

New Order are fantastic. WHY AM I NOT THERE!!!!

[chriseede]

yeah i enjoyed it, but i was sat at home on the couch with a bottle of wine and a spliff, so probably in the perfect state of mind for their music. you're right it wouldn't work in daylight though, and a little less smoke wouldn't have harmed! (from them, not me).