robith

Generally speaking I'd say it's the most relaxed crowdedness festival I've been at. Garden is all about angles - it gets mad crowd crust on the entrances from the path by the campfire bar. Come "through the gate" (in rugby parlance) or from the wood side and there's always loads of space. The tent, yeah, I've missed stuff there. You have to make a value call on what you want. I was all over Overmono so wee left Future Islands early (what a hard choice lol). I also think most of the time if you wait it out you'll get in. Grab a momo and come back 20 minutes in

Only thing on Green Man I'm proper envious of is the Max Cooper AV show, but that's cos I saw it already. Was proper mint though. Always love Explosions but seen them loads, Sofia K only a dj set. Most other stuff I've seen (usually at EOTR) or it's not my jam

Good stuff lower down, but EOTR has smashed them out of the park this year imo

We waited for the line up and now there are no large campervan tickets left - so as a permanent note, if anyone wants to sell I'll have it

He's bought his ticket. Of course I'll be avoiding the poser hypocrites IDLES - punk for Guardian readers who don't actually want to change anything

The bit about their fans was really stupid imo but otherwise I guess familiarity breeds contempt

Despite our indifference, I'd wager solid money on IDLES having the biggest crowd of the weekend for the headliners (unless the millions of TikTok Gen Z shoegaze fans show up for slowdive)

We decided to wait for the line up before booking this year. I'm pretty sure we're booking

I think IDLES make sense if they have one/two out there elevation headliners and want someone a bit normcore to keep the dads happy. Personally not my cup of tea (nothing against them musically, just think for an alleged "punk" band they don't speak out on much if it isn't in their commercial interests) but business wise I'd understand them as an "anchoring" leg even if it is a bit predicatable

Christ, how bad is your defence you need one of our dossers to improve matters???

Welcome aborad. You might need a slight downgrading of expectations however!

What the man above said. You have a set pitch but like we had a large and had a transporter and 2 tents with loads of spacer. You'll be grand with that set up

The cocktail stand by the main stage had frozen margs, so you could pour those in a beer, but would've been pretty expensive

Saw Weyes Blood last night. Absolutely fantastic and would be magic headlining the Garden, but think she might be toured out

Fantastic in London last night, but jeez, the crowd, unbearable. Rammed full of bald men screaming at each other about their jobs for the whole show. The low ceiling at the Troxy making it worse but creating a cacopony of chatter. Ended up stood at the very back on my own to try and get a semblance of peace. Always defend London crowds being born and bred, but appalling.