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Maybe some people are arriving with others who are not using their allowance and so you could use theirs.
I'm lucky I have my wife's allowance to get me through.
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7 hours ago, barbiegirl1 said:
Hey
So I'm a glasto vet but a boomtown virgin. We didn't make the ticket sales this year for glasto (gutted!) so we decided to get tickets to boomtown instead (yay). We'd heard good things about boomtown - that it's basically the night-time area of glasto in a whole festival, which sounds incredible. Every year the night time areas at glasto blow our minds. So needless to say we're all very excited, but also really trying to figure out what we're doing as it's all new.
I've been reading the posts on this thread and they've been super helpful - thank you so much.
For those who've been, how does this compare to glasto? We've heard horror stories about the hill, but other threads saying it takes 20-30 mins between areas which compared to glasto sounds easy peasy. Also, the alcohol limits were a big shock after glasto - any advice on this?
And searches - they say they're clamping down every year on searches at glasto but we've yet to be searched once (we're in our 30s and either a couple of mix group in a car) - will we be more likely to be searched at boomtown comparatively? What are the queues like to get in on Thursday? What time should we arrive to be sure we're in the queue at a good point to be sure we get a good camping spot?
Camping - where's good to camp? Not too mental but not too far away/quiet? Something in between? The forest raves sound cool - but is the psy forest camping any good? Would we be better in Barrio Loco for example?
Should we bring wheelbarrows? We do to glasto for all our gear.
Are the only showers in zooloos/boomtique? We don't mind the communal style ones that Greenpeace do at Glasto.
How do the loos compare? We're happy with composters/long drops.
And tent theft in the night? how common is this? We know it happens at all festivals, but in general so long as you're not stupid is it relatively ok?
Sorry that's long...so many questions...there's probably more too.
Regarding the hill : there's a few ways of going up the hill. There is the very steep energetic get it over quickly route (if you look at the map and draw a line from barrio loco to whistlers green) steps.
There is the easier and entertaining route from Chinatown up through Mayfair into town centre or there is a pretty much the same grade slope through Halfway Woods that kind of starts between Chinatown and wandering words and comes out by tribe of frog venue in trees. (This route isn't on some maps I've seen)
We have done all three. No preference.
Camping, whilst walking around the site I never saw any camp sites that were full. So I wouldn't stress about not finding a pitch in which ever site you decide on.
Searches, we were not searched at all last year going into family camping, wasn't luck, just a confused entrance at the time we entered. However we did leave to meet a band and on return as we walked past wristband check and around the corner a dog came bounding over and had a good sniff at me. Much to the amusement of my teenager. You couldn't see dogs waiting so be mindful of this at the entrance, they hide. That was Friday late morning.
Toilets were fine.
No idea on showers or tent thefts as we were in caravan.
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Don't hang around on getting a guide, they all seemed gone by Friday afternoon.
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Second year missing the festival. The year before I only got the tickets in the secret resale.
Turning 50 this year and wanted to do so many special things. Glastonbury Festival and Xmas in Australia with family top of the list. Both those out the window and a lot of other minor joys as well. This led to quite a downward spiral in the first few months of this year.
However some of pain is eased by a trip to Boomtown. Can't wait again. It's bigger now than the first Glastonbury I did, can only wonder what it will be like when I'm 80 :-)
Have to say it's a bit of a relief not to stress about tickets this October.
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1.30 hour jam Eastbound on A361, been watching it on TomTom and it went from 45 mins at 7 to 1.30 hours in ten minutes.
North bound A37 holding steady at 30 mins, but that has longer lanes to take up the slack off the main road.
Good luck folks
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Happy memories
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1 hour ago, tjamest said:
Saw on their Facebook page that they have lumped all music of a similar genre together. So the top section of the Chinatown poster from The Specials to The SkaVengers are playing elsewhere at the festival and then everything below is in Chinatown.
Thank you.
Actually not sure what bothered me more, sneaking the kid in or having to walk up that bloody hill each night afterwards !!
Not many acts appealed to us down the hill last year, thankfully.
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2 hours ago, eFestivals said:
have a look at the line-up info on the efests boomtown line-up page - there's a better breakdown of stages there than I've seen anywhere else, and it came from Boomtown, so it should be accurate.
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/boomtown/2017/lineup.shtml
Thank you, indeed I had looked at that. Which was why I was a bit confused. Good point that it was from them as well !
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Slightly confused about some of the info. Lots of acts on the Chinatown poster are being shown as playing the Town Centre stage. We enjoy ska, much of which was in the TC stage last year.
Boomtown rules state we can't take our 15 y/o into Chinatown after 7pm (reality is a bit different, but only takes a jobs worth to note his wristband) but as of the moment most of the bands I'm interested in will be unwatchable. Bugger :-(
4.11 Teen and Child ticket holders are not permitted entry into the DownTown Areas (which includes DSTRKT 5, Barrio Loco and ChinaTown
Funnily enough he can goto into sector 6, strange.
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Boomtown
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No, the more affluent goers have other avenues to buy tickets.
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Did the bridge not allow the two camper van fields to be 'on site'.
I was onsite by kids field (eventually) but the other CV fields seemed further away outside. That would have been a bitch not being able to bring alcohol in each day.
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We had a great time, even the silly girl driving into the side of our caravan as we left didn't spoil the weekend.
Our thanks to all the people who worked so hard to bring this site to life. Brilliant job.
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Ref , Saturday night at Banghai,I was already back at our van up by kids town and passed out in the awning when I got awoken by a god awful cacophony of noise coming from downtown just after 1am. It was just a huge roar of indistinguishable sound.
The wind must of caused some issue with the sound levels on Sat night. It hadn't been like that on Thurs or Fri night.
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Anyone need help, Iam at the entering details screen?
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I'm a big fan of Metcheck.
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The TT incinerator fire incident was '92.
The w/e after TT in '90 at Rake Common there was a Free Festival at Telescombe Cliffs. Sadly there was an altercation between a bunch of twats and Hawkwind that resulted in Hawkwind's bus getting trashe and then burnt out. Hawkwind never played a Free Festival after that. Sad times.
Never knew that. Indeed how very sad.
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Fair enough.
My only distinct musical memory is the MMB, so I've definitely forgotten some of it.
Just found this page
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/torpedo-town-1987-91.html
Brings a few more memories back, including the two blokes on a motor bike riding round the field, one of then wielding a club around. Bit scary at the time.
Could your B have been Bramshot Common.
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this happens to me several times every year...
I had hoped you had a connection with the lovely Sam.
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... the Magic Mushroom band played for about 10 hours on that little mound which was 'the stage'.
i can't guarantee it, but I'd be massively amazed if Hawkwind where there and I wasn't aware that they were.
Tho perhaps i've done your trick and my mind is blank.
As far as i remember, the MMB were the only 'famous' act that played that year.
Definitely there, we had watched them at the Top Rank night before or two and they said they were playing, also Dave Brock was camped just opposite us (then he moved later). Somebody told me Ozric Tentacles also played but maybe that was Magic Mushroom band.
Jusat remembered watching somebody playing then the music and lights dimming. I thought i had died then in the darkness a voice said "fuck the genie run out of diesel", somebody offered to syphon there bus and off we went again.
Could we be talking different years ?
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oooo, another TT-er, hello, we might have met ....
I went to four (I think) of those, two of which were in Waterlooville, one at some place I think began with a 'b', and (what i think was the last one?) on Liss Common.
The B was Bramdean Common.
Its the one time in my life i have no idea what happened during the night. All i remember is standing and listening to the first bass note of Hawkwind and then somebody suggested we return to our fire.I stood and watched them pack down for a bit wondering what had just happened. For all i know that one bass note was all there was !! And then all of a sudden it was daylight as if somebody had turned a light on.
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Went for a stroll in E14 to find the disposal and then used it on Sat. It was very full, in fact almsot overflowing, which it then did on Sunday.
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The only thing that will happen is it will be confiscated if found. It's a balance I suppose, possible lose £20 at gate or spend way more than that in the bar.