Bestival 2011

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Seeing as Bestival seems to have gathered so much interest recently, what with it having a 55,000 attendance and being given the Best Festival Award for 2010, do you think it might be time to propose the idea of having a permenant forum for it on the main Festivals board rather than have it regulated to a single thread in the 'Other UK Festivals' section?

No bias, like...

[Joe-]

I was thinking that as well

[zahidf]

I think it probably have it's own forum, as it's bigger than some of those that do!

[Joe-]

Pop over to The official bestival forum too, it needs more activity + Rob da bank uses it.

[5co77ie]

Seeing as Bestival seems to have gathered so much interest recently, what with it having a 55,000 attendance and being given the Best Festival Award for 2010, do you think it might be time to propose the idea of having a permenant forum for it on the main Festivals board rather than have it regulated to a single thread in the 'Other UK Festivals' section?

No bias, like...

[Dave The Hedgehog]

It depends how busy it is - one thread of 3 pages in 3 months hardly makes it a hotbed of comments

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Pop over to The official bestival forum too, it needs more activity + Rob da bank uses it.

[5co77ie]

Maybe people would feel more encouraged to post messages if they actually had a proper place to post them.

If you have 1 thread that speaks for the whole festival, eventually you'll get to the point where you have 26 pages of potentially a lot of people with a thousand different things to say in one thread, and it'll get busier the closer it gets to the festival. Basically, imagine a pub with one single room and everybody is listening to each conversation everybody is having. It's impossible to talk. So imagine if that pub had different rooms where people can go to have seperate conversations.

I mean, I went to the festivals page and I saw 'Wychwood Music Festival' - if you went on to that board at any time between July and October this year, you'd have discovered that nobody was there. There are 9 pages, and most of the topics at hand are created - not within hours or minutes but days and weeks of each other. Sometimes months.

As far as UK festivals go, Wychwood is a far less popular alternative to a festival that, from what I gather, seems to have grown enormously in the last few years. It might be an idea to accomodate that interest on here?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

eFestivals is home to the Wychwood forums - that's them you look at. eFestivals doesn't host the Bestival forums.

[jump]

I cant remember but didn't efest set up the Soni forum as soon as it was announced which is the same size as Bestival?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I cant remember but didn't efest set up the Soni forum as soon as it was announced which is the same size as Bestival?

[Bisque]

Does anyone have any idea of the DJs that will be playing? ie in Bollywood & Arcadia.

OMG I can't wait to see Arcadia up in flames again. DJ Zinc in 2010 was incredible & all the others at Glastonbury.

[Paul ™]

Next announcement is mid Feb

[zeppelin]

will hopefully have my ticket sorted by then!

end of this month is the plan

[Joe-]

Paloma Faith just self-confirmed on her twitter.

Her twitter

Not much of a fan but its interesting.

Edited January 26, 2011 by Joe-

[BlackHole2006]

Just brought tickets for this. Anyone know of any cheap hotels around the area as me and my friends are planning on staying at a hotel the night before the festival starts so we don't miss out on anything

[Paul ™]

Just brought tickets for this. Anyone know of any cheap hotels around the area as me and my friends are planning on staying at a hotel the night before the festival starts so we don't miss out on anything

[BlackHole2006]

Get yourself along to the Pre-Bestival piss up at Waverley Park in East Cowes!

[Paul ™]

Cheers for that mate. Am looking into it as we speak, how much is it to get a pitch for the night? I think that me and my mates would definately be up for any piss up by then

[Redwinevino]

What is the best way to go about getting the to IOW? Would be coming from N. Ireland

[Paul ™]

Flybe from Belfast City - Southampton with Flybe then the ferry over to the Isle of Wight

[Redwinevino]

Cheers mate

[Paul ™]

Around £100 return if you book around now.. It's £85 from Glasgow

[Joe-]

He's gonna try get Toots as well

[zlatan07]

He's gonna try get Toots as well