As a first timer, I thought that was a great festival. I wouldn’t exactly say relaxing, but certainly easy. We got there early afternoon Friday and had a short walk to red campsite. Only had to queue for the toilets around headliner time, and they were always clean. Generally friendly crowd. You could pretty much get to the front of any set if you got there 10 minutes before the start. The turnaround between comedy acts meant you can usually get a good spot there too, although we didn’t go for the headliners. Good variety of food, prices as expected, good quality and often decent portions. Easily available ice at the co-op.
I know they had problems with water pressure at the taps and showers, dunno if that happens every year. Some noisy teens playing music and shrieking in the early hours at the campsite but that’s part of the experience. And I don’t get why people would bring skeeping kids to the middle of Groove Armada, plenty of room to see and dance on the fringes. Oh, and we lost the yellow signs on the way in, so took a bit longer than expected to drive from Brum.
top 3 - Melt Yourself Down, Groove Armada, Maximo Park. Honourable mentions to NY Brass Band, Bartees Strange, Manics, Shed Seven. Shame for Let’s Eat Grandma who had sound problems but battled on through. Only person I didn’t enjoy was Freya Ridings who was just dull.
Thanks for the tips on here as always. Latitude will be on the list for next year.