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my bro has possibly asked me along, and im not sure, my main worry is withdrawl from punk and ska for 3 whole days.

now i love solidsteel(Aka ninja tune) stuff. dj food is superb!
but my pro is into his sphongle, infected mushroom and all that.

would there be enough beats to keep me going and is there a chill out tent everynight?
 
Just looked at the website to see if they're selling day tickets and they're not :( There are a couple of things I wouldn't mind seeing but I haven't got the money, time or inclination to go for the full three days.

They're also charging £50 for kids, the greedy fucking hippies :mad:
 
if I was in the uk I might think about it.......

slighty off topic but sort of relevant condsidering the date - anybody remember the free festival at glastonbury Tor on the 8/8/88?
 
Skim said:
Just looked at the website to see if they're selling day tickets and they're not :( There are a couple of things I wouldn't mind seeing but I haven't got the money, time or inclination to go for the full three days.

They're also charging £50 for kids, the greedy fucking hippies :mad:
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free for under 5's, and to be fair we are going to be running a kids activity area and having to set aside family camping space, have child protection policies in place, cope with lost children situations and have crb checked childrens stewards on duty throughout the festival to look after any lost children. This is loads of hastle to sort out & costs money, so I don't get why people think kids should be free.

Day tickets may be available nearer the time if it's not sold out, but we're trying to make sure this is seen as a proper 3 day festival rather than loads of people only coming for the saturday etc.

there are still working blags available too, pm me for details;)
 
mtbskalover said:
my bro has possibly asked me along, and im not sure, my main worry is withdrawl from punk and ska for 3 whole days.

now i love solidsteel(Aka ninja tune) stuff. dj food is superb!
but my pro is into his sphongle, infected mushroom and all that.

would there be enough beats to keep me going and is there a chill out tent everynight?
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the chill out tent is running 24hours a day throughout the festival. Ninja Tunes host the sunday in one of the tents, we've just confirmed the beastie boys mixmaster mike for the saturday on our stage, where we also have baushklang playing live (amazing 5 piece german beatbox outfit), plus you've got the chew the fat! tent and loads of breaks stuff.

should be enough beats in that lot I'd have thought;)
 
free spirit said:
free for under 5's, and to be fair we are going to be running a kids activity area and having to set aside family camping space, have child protection policies in place, cope with lost children situations and have crb checked childrens stewards on duty throughout the festival to look after any lost children. This is loads of hastle to sort out & costs money, so I don't get why people think kids should be free.

Day tickets may be available nearer the time if it's not sold out, but we're trying to make sure this is seen as a proper 3 day festival rather than loads of people only coming for the saturday etc.
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Fair enough, but Glastonbury admits under-12s for free, Big Chill under 13s... and the website wasn't too clear about saying it was free for under-5s. But I guess Antiworld is more of an adult festival anyway, there are plenty of other kid-friendly festivals. (I dont' know why I'm bothered, I certainly wouldn't want to be there with kids :D )

I'll keep my eyes for day tickets maybe... it's not just Antiworld, no one seems to offer day tickets for festivals, which is a shame because I'd go to more festivals this year if I could :)
 
i think there are infrastructure issues with one-day tickets and to be honest I think the changes a one-day ticket would involve would be detrimental to festivals as a whole.

Somewhere like Reading offers one-day tickets because the camping area is entirely separate from any of the stages / entertainment - they check you on your way into the arena. hence, Reading is fairly joyless - it's camping in a carpark next to a venue, basically

Anywhere where camping, entertainment etc etc is all open plan and much freer, you can't offer one day tickets because it would be very difficult to turf people out after their day expires. I guess Sundays are different, but someone with a Friday ticket could stay the whole weekend at Glastonbury very easily. I guess also if they have a capacity ceiling and can sell that many tickets, it doesn't make much economic or efficiency sense to lessen capacity for one day visitors.
 
Skim said:
Fair enough, but Glastonbury admits under-12s for free, Big Chill under 13s... and the website wasn't too clear about saying it was free for under-5s. But I guess Antiworld is more of an adult festival anyway, there are plenty of other kid-friendly festivals. (I dont' know why I'm bothered, I certainly wouldn't want to be there with kids :D )

I'll keep my eyes for day tickets maybe... it's not just Antiworld, no one seems to offer day tickets for festivals, which is a shame because I'd go to more festivals this year if I could :)
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actually thinking about it I did think £50 was a bit much when they were saying it, but then I'm going to have to deal with the lost children scenarios on site, and there's fuckloads of woods for them to go and get properly lost in, so IMO the less kids the better;)

and yeah it is more of an adult orientated festie really, I'd not really be suggesting people bring kids to it unless they're kids who're really used to the festival circuit.

If you're still after a day ticket nearer the time, pm me (but not in the week before it as i'll be on site then) and I'm sure I can sort something out for the saturday / sunday.

eta - ay dubs got it in one, that and the fact that if yuo sell a 1000 day tickets for £50 that takes a thousand people off your total capacity for the entire weekend. Antiworld were originally planning to do day tickets for the sunday, and might still do it, but we had to close at 8pm on the sunday to let the locals get some sleep before work the next day, so we weren't really sure how much demands there'd be and if it'd be worth the hastle of staffing up the carpark, wristband exchage etc.
 
free spirit said:
and yeah it is more of an adult orientated festie really, I'd not really be suggesting people bring kids to it unless they're kids who're really used to the festival circuit.

If you're still after a day ticket nearer the time, pm me (but not in the week before it as i'll be on site then) and I'm sure I can sort something out for the saturday / sunday.

eta - ay dubs got it in one, that and the fact that if yuo sell a 1000 day tickets for £50 that takes a thousand people off your total capacity for the entire weekend. Antiworld were originally planning to do day tickets for the sunday, and might still do it, but we had to close at 8pm on the sunday to let the locals get some sleep before work the next day, so we weren't really sure how much demands there'd be and if it'd be worth the hastle of staffing up the carpark, wristband exchage etc.
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You should put a disclaimer on the website: "for hardcore kidz only" :) And cheers for the offer, it would be great to come to the festival if there's any way.

I see your points about the reality of selling day tickets. I guess when you've got people coming for the whole weekend, you know where you are.

Womad's the only festival I can think of that has day passes (in the past for sure, don't know about this year). Can't imagine the Womad crowd causing much resistance to being turfed out at the end of the day though :D As for Glastonbury, that's just impossible, even if you'd be crazy enough to consider going to Pilton for the day.

I went to Reading once. It was grim – and not just because Kevin Rowlands was wearing a dress.
 
Skim said:
I went to Reading once. It was grim – and not just because Kevin Rowlands was wearing a dress.
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lol - it's a bit of a festival tradition for my crew to dress me up in a dress on the sunday of any festival, which always raises a few eyebrows if i have to deal with the police etc at that point... you have been warned;)
 
just found out I'm needed on site from the 25th June... 2 and a half weeks in a tent:eek:

*note to self; remember to buy a tent;)
 
free spirit said:
just found out I'm needed on site from the 25th June... 2 and a half weeks in a tent:eek:

*note to self; remember to buy a tent;)
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I'm gonna be there from Tuesday till Monday - mummy lives nearby though so no tent action for me and she's just brought a hot-tub bwahahaha!
 
Not tried that particular combination but liquid acid, thermal springs and naked hippy chicks is a winning combination with me
 
Mooncat said:
I'm gonna be there from Tuesday till Monday - mummy lives nearby though so no tent action for me and she's just brought a hot-tub bwahahaha!
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*my new bestest buddy;)

see you on tuesday then, and yes I am the guy to talk to about working blags in answer to your pm
 
I actually sold my ticket after realising that 3 trips from Edinburgh to S.England to party and cane hard to in a month might just be pushing it. I'm getting old:( ;)
 
free spirit said:
*my new bestest buddy;)

see you on tuesday then, and yes I am the guy to talk to about working blags in answer to your pm
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There's a strict limit on stinking hippies in the tub that may have already been reached and breached - we shall see (this means that if mummy is out for the weekend then its green for go and un-cork the champers - otherwise not a chance matey)
 
Well I'm wondering i they're gonna be ableto do another one next year - I've just had an email offering tivkets @ £70 a pop, so they must need to shift quite a few still . . .
 
Well that was a bit of a shambles to say the least. The whole festival got shut down at midday on Sunday. I still managed to have a good time on Fri & Sat so i think I got my moneys worth but there's alot of very pissed off people after Enrico's blood.

Ticket sales were crap so he couldn't pay the security & medical teams so they all left the site & the council revoked the license. Thats what I've heard so far.


:mad: but:D
 
That doesnt sound too good. What was the site like for mud? Were people happy or generally pissed off?
 
Maybe one reason for poor ticket sales is because a lot of potential Antiworld-goers would be going to the Glade instead...? Not many people could afford two £100-plus festies in the same month. There isn't that much between the two events in terms of music, both have a lot of psytrance and would have been pulling the same crowd.
 
DJ Squelch said:
Well that was a bit of a shambles to say the least. The whole festival got shut down at midday on Sunday. I still managed to have a good time on Fri & Sat so i think I got my moneys worth but there's alot of very pissed off people after Enrico's blood.

Ticket sales were crap so he couldn't pay the security & medical teams so they all left the site & the council revoked the license. Thats what I've heard so far.


:mad: but:D
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oh dear!! :(
 
No mud, great sunny weather. some ok'ish psytrance.
shpongle & hallucinogen were great as to be expected.
but generally a pants festival.
made up for slightly by taking acid in the woods & spending time with a very pretty girl :)
 
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