Ever gone posh at a festival?

[Nixon]

Kinda.Last year at reading our mates forked out for like a 10 man tent or something stupid..it was so big we abandoned our smelly 2 man one and spent the rest of the festive there.Oh and on the early bird day,I managed to find a muddy but valid ticket in the campsite next to mine,whilst i was trying to steal tent pegs..I sold it to a tout at the front for just over face value (and this was added onto the money I already had..and I was sorted for all the drugs I needed) and that meant that I could go and have a proper fry up and shower in town and pretty much bought all the expensive whisky they had in sainsburys..and for once had enough money to pretty much buy whatever the fuck I wanted or for my mates over the whole 4-5 days

 

[Firky]

when my missus worked for a record company one year we went to Glastonbury and stayed in a beautiful farm house near Frome with a river running through the garden - all paid for

about an hour after arriving Gwen Stefani turns up with a girl from the record label and it was just the 4 of us for 3 days until the Sunday when the band and tour bus pulled up to pick her up. very weird time

best bit was being chauffeur driven on to the site so Gwen could surprise her Gavin from Bush. when the bloke on the gate asked for her pass the driver just said "her face is the ticket", the gate man then popped his head through the window to take a look and despite clearly being none the wiser to who she was waved us through

I hate you

 

[alsoknownas]

Once I got on a blag at Glasto and had one of those 'pod' things (hut basically). Was good. But I don't mind a tent. (have even done a bender (old skool)).

 

[Firky]

A whatty?

 

[Thora]

A whatty?

A bender? Makeshift, twig-based hippy accomodation.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

I'm still ashamed to admit that when we went to Leeds we stayed in a hotel

 

[alsoknownas]

A bender? Makeshift, twig-based hippy accomodation.

Spot on. A nicked bit of tarp, and some sticks bent over to form a tent-like structure. Gave you maximum hippy points, which was important to me for about two weeks when I was nineteen .

 

[ethel]

i looked at this thread and though "no, i haven't", but i have. benicassim. i stayed in a hotel in castellon, had a backstage pass (mmm...swimming pool) and had a driver to shuttle us between the site and hotel.

ATP and Primavera are the answer to this. no camping needed.

 

[Riff]

I'm proud to say I have never "poshed it" at a festival.

This year's accommodation for me at Glasto is a ten quid tent from ALDI that has survived several heavy downpours at festivals including "flash-flood Friday" at Glasto 2005.

My idea of luxury is my camp-bed and (if I'm festivalling/camping with Mr Riff) a tent I can stand up in.

 

[William of Walworth]

A bender? Makeshift, twig-based hippy accomodation.

Spot on. A nicked bit of tarp, and some sticks bent over to form a tent-like structure. Gave you maximum hippy points, which was important to me for about two weeks when I was nineteen .

Some Urbans will remember the bender that Stig built at Camp Urban 2002, with hazel staffs imported by a couple of fellow Urbanites from the Scottish borders, and a monster tarp provided by bees. This was the first Camp Urban, with freespirit providing 15 ft geodome, soundsystem, and a solar panel to power the tunes ...

Nice weather that year too ....

 

[Firky]

I'm proud to say I have never "poshed it" at a festival.

This year's accommodation for me at Glasto is a ten quid tent from ALDI that has survived several heavy downpours at festivals including "flash-flood Friday" at Glasto 2005.

My idea of luxury is my camp-bed and (if I'm festivalling/camping with Mr Riff) a tent I can stand up in.

This makes me happier about my cheapo tent!

 

[Sunray]

Just read up about that Kerala thing

http://www.campkerala.com/

Its a standard UK festival.

Haha, lets look past the write up, you get a nice bed, some free drinks and some nice food. Beyond that err well nothing really, your a standard punter like everyone else.

7000 quid is a weeks pampering at a top resort in the Maldives, not in a muddy field in Somerset.

Boring factual clarification : that whole Kamp Kerala setup (aka 'Kamp Kokehead' ) is largely independent of yer actual Glastonbury Festival itself -- the KK greedheads hired some neighbouring but separate farmland.

Not saying there wasn't some collusion between the festival itself and those twats -- how else did they sell 'ultra posh marquee with servant plus official guest area ticket ' packages otherwise?

BUT, the company set it all up by themselves, then presented the fest with a (village) fete accompli. Glastonbury went along with the Kamp Kerala plus helicopter thing -- criticise the Eavises as much as you want about that and I'd agree -- but the whole business didn't originate from Worthy Farm at all.