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Drink a little too much cider on an afternoon and end up missing everything you planned to see, instead spend the next 12 hours  rambling bullshit with the new BFFs you met a the cider gaff until 6am at a venue you will never find again.

We loved it, hence the return visits. Our eldest even returned with a group of friends in 2023.   I can't remember seeing any areas that were specifically for children, but there are certainly areas that children would enjoy and they'd be welcome at. On top of that, you've also got the circus, beach and the roaming extra-large puppets that I'm sure children would love.   I think it's important to highlight that your daughter would be in a significant minority. There really aren't many other kids there at all. That said, everyone we have encountered have always been very respectful of ours and we haven't experienced any negativity around them being there.   We tend not to stay beyond around 1am (we stay in the city) so probably haven't encountered too many people off their heads and, tbh, mainland Europeans appear to have a far better relationship with alcohol than the 'lads, lads, lads' culture that can be witnessed at a lot of UK festivals.   Never seen any trouble, but can't say for sure that it doesn't exist. If it does, they must be very isolated incidents.    We love at, we will be back again in 2025 - tickets bought. 

I just checked and I hibernated the laptop so when I fired it up the confirmation page was still loaded!

Yup, they clearly haemorrhaged audience over the two main stage era   While the zeitgeist kids obv make up a majority of the audience, anyone who has experienced the festival outside of that bubble, knows that there is a large percentage of actual music fans who regularly attended because it was a genuinely, very good festival for alternative music fans.   I don’t see KSI as a massive problem, as long as it’s doesn’t mean a whole raft of one hit wonder Tiktok moment types all over the lineup.   The key thing they need to do if they want keep people coming and crucially keep people coming back is maintain the legacy and as part of that help create legacy acts.   Strength, substance and choice throughout the day is why Reading did not go the way of Phoenix, T in the Park, V etc…

Twickets - plenty have been popping up for the Thursday night at least (I've got an alert set as considering going). Nearer the time you'll probably see the Fri/Sat listed as well.