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[_rachelbon]

as most of you will know, jim king comes onto these forums and answers our questions. this is a great opportunity for us, the customers, to get information straight from the festival organiser, and it is an equally good opportunity for the festival to see exactly what the punters want.

i thought it would be a good idea though to have a thread just for comments and feedback about the festival.

we already have a seperate thread just for questions, so if anyone has any comments, good or bad, some suggestions or if you just want to say keep up the good work - post it in here and then jim can see what the customers are thinking.

i'll start with a few points:

-- the choice of food and drink at rockness is the best i've seen at any festival and i hope this continues. just want to say well done on this, i think it's important to offer variety and it really adds something extra that a lot of other festivals don't offer.

-- the entertainment after the bands finish is brilliant, but because most of it is in the arena, it means having to leave your booze in the campsite! last year we had the carling amnesty and the monster dj thing and they were both great, but i think something in a tent would be good in the campsite so that there is another option for people who want to stay in the campsite with their booze.

[indiebadger]

jim rockness is great the line ups brill something for everyone ,,the campsite is just the best and the crowd are amazing cant say anything bad as theres nothing bad to say !!! x

[Grant titp]

Well done Jim.

[rexclark]

I genuinely can't think of any complaints about the festival.

Great music, great atmosphere, fantastic selection of food and drink.

It has the best atmosphere and I think alot of this is to do with the acts booked. I hope the festival keeps going this way and not down the TITP route.

Rockness is going to go from strength to strength and I'm glad I'm part of it.

[Kowalski]

Line-up not a patch on 2009 (so far).

[rexclark]

Kowalski, on Mar 4 2010, 09:24 PM, said:

Line-up not a patch on 2009 (so far).

I have to agree with you there, but I'm sure there'll still be plenty of acts to keep me interested over the weekend.

If all else fails you can just sit it out in the Real Ale Bar.

[Kowalski]

rexclark, on Mar 4 2010, 09:40 PM, said:

I have to agree with you there, but I'm sure there'll still be plenty of acts to keep me interested over the weekend.

If all else fails you can just sit it out in the Real Ale Bar.

Again
Plenty of running practice now for hot footing it back for a refill between bands though!

[Poleski]

I personally think that the line up is good, I prefer it to last years already. If it was this line up in 09 I may have felt a little differently.

Only thing bad I can say about the festival is the evil bullys in the arena that take any food or liquid off you that you took in from the campsite. really bugs me especially if its a non alcoholic beverage.

[BenchBuddah]

Poleski, on Mar 4 2010, 11:01 PM, said:

I personally think that the line up is good, I prefer it to last years already. If it was this line up in 09 I may have felt a little differently.

Only thing bad I can say about the festival is the evil bullys in the arena that take any food or liquid off you that you took in from the campsite. really bugs me especially if its a non alcoholic beverage.

That's license though, can't really do much about it.

[Piratebhoy]

Maybe the entertainment can stay open a little longer for the campers??

It usually finishes up about 2ish in the Nesstival area if i remember rightly? How about DJ's paying until 4, that way it may intice more people to camp the whole weekend instead of travelling back to Inverness etc... and also give the campers more dance time!! Whoop Whoop!

[indiebadger]

Piratebhoy, on Mar 5 2010, 11:03 AM, said:

Maybe the entertainment can stay open a little longer for the campers??

It usually finishes up about 2ish in the Nesstival area if i remember rightly? How about DJ's paying until 4, that way it may intice more people to camp the whole weekend instead of travelling back to Inverness etc... and also give the campers more dance time!! Whoop Whoop!

2008 im sure it went onto 4 at the rizla bit and the bars were open much later than 2 i only noticed as 09 stopped at 2 ,,,,or maybe i was just nutted and it felt like 4 but even my mates and hubby agrees that it went on longer 08 than 09 !!! but yeah open later would be good but im not complaing because theres loadsa partys happning lol make your own fun its not hard as all the festie goers at rockness ar nutz lol !!!


p.s jim your a legend if it waesnt for yous i wouldnt have had my perfect day im glad to be apart of rockness watching it go from a baby to a monster lol !!! xx

[Kowalski]

Been DJs until 4am in Nesstival on Friday/Saturdy and 2am Sunday the last couple of years.

[Piratebhoy]

Christ i must have been flying as i thought the music stopped at 2!!! All is good then!

[philthee]

Didn't notice myself but last year a few people i know were noticing a significant shift in atmosphere from the usual relaxed friendly vibe to a more aggressive T in the park crowd.

I love Rockness but if that were to happen it would end the love in for me.

[vambo64]

philthee, on Mar 5 2010, 01:01 PM, said:

Didn't notice myself but last year a few people i know were noticing a significant shift in atmosphere from the usual relaxed friendly vibe to a more aggressive T in the park crowd.

I love Rockness but if that were to happen it would end the love in for me.

There where a few more idiots there last year. Mainly because RN wasn't on the same weekend as Coloursrfest at Braehead, as it had been in previous years.

[indiebadger]

im soz i never noticed a change in the atmospher was the same mental friendly rocknassians .....the wee place will never turn into T as its beautiful ,banging ,and not that many neds ,,,

[zlatan07]

kudos on getting the arcadia arena thing, looks absolutley epic and cant wait to see it!

[FannyBaws]

_rachelbon, on Mar 4 2010, 08:05 PM, said:

-- the entertainment after the bands finish is brilliant, but because most of it is in the arena, it means having to leave your booze in the campsite! last year we had the carling amnesty and the monster dj thing and they were both great, but i think something in a tent would be good in the campsite so that there is another option for people who want to stay in the campsite with their booze.

I've not been since the year Daft Punk played but that year there wasn't much decent in the way of afterhours entertainment so we held our own gazebo raves most nights How does the afterhours work now, do they get all the day punters out then let you back into the main arena or something? Also, am I right in thinking the after hours has had some bigger name DJs playing in the last year or two? I'm looking forward to returning to Rockness after two years at festivals abroad but the whole afterhours thing has always killed TITP etc for me as it's usually baws! Hoping for good things at this years Rockness

[Grant titp]

What the hell

[_rachelbon]

Piratebhoy, on Mar 5 2010, 11:03 AM, said:

Maybe the entertainment can stay open a little longer for the campers??

It usually finishes up about 2ish in the Nesstival area if i remember rightly? How about DJ's paying until 4, that way it may intice more people to camp the whole weekend instead of travelling back to Inverness etc... and also give the campers more dance time!! Whoop Whoop!

they probably can't get a licence to have it any later cause there's houses nearby.

there's stuff in the arena going on til 4am.

FannyBaws, on Mar 5 2010, 04:55 PM, said:

I've not been since the year Daft Punk played but that year there wasn't much decent in the way of afterhours entertainment

aye all i can remember from that year was a tent in the campsite with some bands playing and it seemed to finish quite early. we ended up dancing outside one of the campsite shops, there were loads of people pure raving away outside this wee shop. it was great fun

Grant titp, on Mar 5 2010, 06:22 PM, said:

What the hell

what?

Edited by _rachelbon, 05 March 2010 - 07:43 PM.