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16 minutes ago, Homer said:

I don't mind a fallow year. If the festival happened and I wasn't there, it would kill me. But I can live with going a year without.

My feelings exactly, in fact I'm quite glad it's a fallow year in many respects. Glastonbury pretty much takes over your whole year one way or another, in a couple of months we'd start getting into a frenzy about ticket day again. Never a bad thing to have an enforced break, but like you say if it was in and I couldn't go it'd kill me!

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On 01/07/2017 at 3:58 PM, majormajormajor said:

Seriously mate? The Philippines isn't dangerous. The only parts that are dangerous are parts that tourists would never go to.

They decided to cancel it. I guess as it's so far off there's no telling what it'll be like come next year. Look how rapidly they spread in the middle east/Africa.

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On 30 June 2017 at 4:13 PM, glitterstorm said:

Oops, sorry, didn't see your reply to this - my friends have been before, you can take your own food and drinks in. Very relaxed vibe apparently! The ballot is a little annoying but fair in that you can join the ballot as a group rather than as individuals - your 'group' then gets as many entries into the ballot as there are members of it, so either all of you get tickets, or none do. And you get a few months to pay your ticket balance if you win in the ballot. There's then a second ballot (similar to glasto re-sale) to shift the tickets that aren't paid for after the first ballot.

Also, like glasto, you can leave the site when you like and there's public transport going into the nearest town. So you can go offsite to stock up on booze and take a dip in a nearby lake before returning to the festival :)

Hello, cheers for your response. Defo going to look into for next year.

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Isle of Wight fest is moving to Glasto weekend next year for their 50th anniversary. We're thinking of giving it a go but I'll probably spend the whole weekend complaining about how commercialised it is. Also looking at festival no 6.

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On 30/06/2017 at 0:54 PM, mandana said:

I don't have kids myself, but I am not sure I would feel 100% confident recommending boomtown as brilliant place to take them. It can be done of course and there is definitely a well resourced kids/family area, but the main areas do get a bit hectic and messy.

if your kids have been to a load of festivals and can cope well with party folk, I am sure they would manage ok though? have a look at the photo gallery's online. 

Edit, I found this review from festivalkidz about last year! http://www.festivalkidz.com/reviews/boomtown-2016-review/

Nice. Not seen this. Thanks :-)

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15 hours ago, payneruk said:

They decided to cancel it. I guess as it's so far off there's no telling what it'll be like come next year. Look how rapidly they spread in the middle east/Africa.

The Philippines is 80% Catholic - seriously Catholic - and about 5% Islamic. I'd have more concern for Indonesia...

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7 minutes ago, majormajormajor said:

The Philippines is 80% Catholic - seriously Catholic - and about 5% Islamic. I'd have more concern for Indonesia...

Yeah I'd much rather go to the Philippines. A load of us had already started planning a big trip involving other SEA countries.

I'm off to Vietnam at the end of the month so I'm happy for now :)

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On ‎02‎/‎07‎/‎2017 at 11:56 AM, ChakaKhant said:

I can't believe nobody here has mentioned Shambala! Or Utopia as it's also known as.

Medium sized festival in the midlands. Diverse music, excellent workshops, family friendly with an emphasis on fancy dress, general silliness and the best party you could ever go to (other than Glastonbury).

 

 

agree - worth a visit!

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I think there could be a serious rush on Boomtown tickets next year and you will have to have your wits about you to get to this one. Of course this forum are already experts in that, but may be complacent because Boomtown hasn't sold out straight away before. Next year it might well do - it's going to be one that many Glastonbury goers have had their eye on for a bit.

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Just back from Rock Werchter (also went to Glastonbury - booked RW having missed G in the main sale, then got lucky in the resale).

RW has an amazing line up for the main bands - always has, usually mirrors many of the Glastonbury main stage acts. It runs Thu-Sun and with travel that really means Wed afternoon back Monday. Demographics - very Reading-like (locals, young) but with a very good mix of international peeps. A reasonable number of old-uns. In the Hive, the after party every night went on until 4am, followed by chats by the tent - sleeping happened between 5am and noon.

Plus points:
Line-up. Travel in/out - really efficient apart from the stupid security thing that's happening at all festivals this year (i.e. create a huge target outside by making people queue for ages then a perfunctory bag check - utterly and completely dumb). Voucher system has pluses/minuses, plus no queues for drink, negative need to buy vouchers and not everything is good value (although some things really are, like the beer garden). We camped in Hive and used My Space reservation - Hive is fine, My Space is a total waste of time - Northern European mentality of obeying rules doesn't fit with tent sizes that are bigger than pitch sizes; actually saw several German neighbours upset that their tent was bigger than the pitch they'd paid for and they didn't get the idea of "fuck it, use more space" (there was loads of room if they had). Toilets are the cleanest at any festival I've ever been to.

Negative points:
Although you do get chatting to randoms, it is much harder (language) and so there is less of that (which I really enjoy doing).
A fair % of the crowd are local youths - like Reading - and so there is a lot of 16-25 year olds that have drunk too much - and like Reading, they tend to be in large groups (local, they all know each other).
Drunkenness all round is a bit of an issue - a much larger proportion than Glastonbury totally off their faces (and behaving badly as a result).

If you do decide to go, think really carefully about the weight of your kit - there's a fair trek with your stuff (train-train-bus-fest and back) - packing as light as you can will help you!

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loos are mega clean!
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Being very lazy and absent minded. Does anyone have a minute to remind me what the latest situation is with the alternative Glastonbury festival - variety bizarre is it?

Is it expected to be taking place in 2018? i know i read all sorts about it in the past, but that was pre-2017 festival and my mind is now wiped clear!:)

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3 hours ago, The other Bellboy said:

Being very lazy and absent minded. Does anyone have a minute to remind me what the latest situation is with the alternative Glastonbury festival - variety bizarre is it?

Is it expected to be taking place in 2018? i know i read all sorts about it in the past, but that was pre-2017 festival and my mind is now wiped clear!:)

Nothing next year Glastonbury as normal 2019/2020, Variety Bazaar 2021 *subject to change..* 

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On 7/4/2017 at 3:40 PM, mufcok said:

Nothing next year Glastonbury as normal 2019/2020, Variety Bazaar 2021 *subject to change..* 

I have just read the Variety Bazaar thread and the fact that one of the area teams is going to visit the new site now suggests to me that something could be possible next year, it seems a bit too far in the future for a team to visit now for an event not going ahead until 2021?

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