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tabby2 Newbie

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To anyone who's been to Boomtown - what's the crowd like? Have just missed out on glasto tickets - gutted - and would like to try something new instead, Boomtown sounds great but myself and friend are mid-late 30s and thinking we may feel a bit decrepit if most people there are school-leavers and early 20s...

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To anyone who's been to Boomtown - what's the crowd like? Have just missed out on glasto tickets - gutted - and would like to try something new instead, Boomtown sounds great but myself and friend are mid-late 30s and thinking we may feel a bit decrepit if most people there are school-leavers and early 20s...

the majority are young, but they're also very lovely.

I felt old when I went this year, but not to the extent that I shouldn't be there. All the same there's a part of me that thinks it should be left for those youngsters rather than have old gits like me bring the atmosphere down.

But if you go, I'm certain that you won't regret it. It's a superb festival that has a lot of what Glastonbury has now lost.

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jimmyt Apprentice

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For anyone who went last year, were there a lot of people getting id'd upon entry (for being under 18 and without an adult), i'll be 17 next year and a group of my mates say it'll be fine but i'm not convinced?

I didn't see that happening to anyone but I was fairly swiftly through the gates.

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Maybe we can get Toots a Blues-Brothers-doing-Rawhide-style fence to protect him. I'll be gutted if I never get to see him, having missed other performances for various reasons (mainly clashing at fests or lack of funds), so really hope he's back soon.

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Anyone seen their Anti-Ket campaign? I think the death this year has pushed them into a corner licensing wise, and theyve been told to sort out their "ketamine issue" or they wont be given a license?

http://forum.boomtownfair.co.uk

Currently their plan is "kick anyone out who looks blatantly on K" and also do some sort of advertising campaign about how bad it is for you :/

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Town Mayor Newbie

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Anyone seen their Anti-Ket campaign? I think the death this year has pushed them into a corner licensing wise, and theyve been told to sort out their "ketamine issue" or they wont be given a license?

http://forum.boomtownfair.co.uk

Currently their plan is "kick anyone out who looks blatantly on K" and also do some sort of advertising campaign about how bad it is for you :/

The authorities havn't specified we should tackle ketamine but it doesn't steer away from the fact that there is an ever growing problem with it and youngsters all over the country and some of the user stories are simply horrific.....it certainly doesn't seem to be calming down and we feel that by making a serious stance on it, plus education then perhaps we can help make a difference !!

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The authorities havn't specified we should tackle ketamine but it doesn't steer away from the fact that there is an ever growing problem with it and youngsters all over the country and some of the user stories are simply horrific.....it certainly doesn't seem to be calming down and we feel that by making a serious stance on it, plus education then perhaps we can help make a difference !!

If the biggest police anti-drugs operation ever carried out at a festival - which is what you had at Boomtown this year - can't address it at Boomtown, then I'm not sure what more Boomtown is able to do.

As your words show, this is not a Boomtown problem but a far wider one. And while the police can be expected to act against illegality, the targeting of festivals has now gone waaaaay too far.

The drug consumption at any festival is lesser than it is in any major town or city on any Saturday night - and yet there has never been roadblocks put up around any town to stop and search everyone entering a town, which would the equivalent action of what happened around Boomtown this year.

Meanwhile, the *FAR* bigger problem than ket is "legal highs".

And the real heart of the issue, where the whole of this problem arises from, is prejudice-formed unscientific govt drugs policy. People taking the least harmful drugs are (proportionally) those who suffer the greatest legal consequences from govt drugs policy .... and extremely sadly what happens from that is that people DIE.

Boomtown would do far better from a help-keep-people-safe perspective to target their campaign towards govt drugs policy rather than one particular drug (which isn't even Boomtown's biggest drug issue if the truth is told) - tho I do understand why that could never happen because of what it would bring back onto Boomtown.

And so the UK will continue down its current stupid path and kids will keep on dying. It's so stupidly sad I can barely control my anger.

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Meanwhile, the *FAR* bigger problem than ket is "legal highs".

out of interest - why are legal highs the far bigger problem? i'm surrounded by drug users in the 18-25 age range and I don't know anyone who would consider buying legal highs (they are generally viewed quite lame). All my friends who would go to glasto, boomtown, bestival, average dnb/house night in bristol etc. would always go for mdma and to a lesser extent ket and coke.

The bigger problem would be people buying what they are thinking are those which are actually harmful chemicals - pma etc.

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The legal ish highs are such a problem because the medics don't know what you've taken and hence what to look for or do - and the effects aren't well known enough to give users much knowledge on how much is safe - if any

There's little that can be done to stop people. The sniffer dogs just moved everyone onto less smelly harder alternatives, and the threat of the law onto dodgy legal highs... There's much more ground to be won by offering anonymous testing so people can check they've not been sold something unexpected and to deliver appropriate warning of the risks

Folk will do it anyway, they just learn to be more discrete

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