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Hi guys,

As I haven't managed to get tickets for Glastonbury this year, I've been looking at the others in the UK and abroad, and End of the Road looks great, so considering it as a possible 2011 alternative. For you guys who have been before, can you give me any pointers? How does it compare to other UK festivals (the ones I've been to before are in my sig), what's the atmosphere like, etc etc...

Cheers...

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It's small - 5,000 punters - but the vast majority of people there are very into the music and the festival - so it is lively and very friendly.

It's not an "all-nighter" but there's stuff going on til 3am every night.

It's not like glastonbury or even latitude for a range of other entertainment and activities - but there's enough and it's always superbly thought through.

The little bits of thought are the key really - set lengths are a bit longer, they try to overlap sets so you can see a good chunk of the headliners on both main stages for example. The sound quality has always been excellent.

I'm not on a commission I promise! but I have been every year and it is very much an "old friend" to me. I'm involved in a "billy-no-mates" camp if you would be going solo btw - there were about 50 of us last year!

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Geof has said it all, really.

VERY nice vibe there, obvious that people go there because they want to go to EoTR rather than they want to go to/been seen to have gone to 'a music festival'. BUT (in a good way), it IS small. It does not have the huge crowd feel of one of the really biggies or even a bigger-mid-sized, like Latitude. That's in no way a BAD thing, and when the Garden (Main) Stage arena is full, it's a full-on festival feel. You're VERY unlikely not to have a fantastic time!

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The line up is rubbish. The food is disgusting. The site is a hideous tip. The punters are rabidly aggressive and off their heads. The stewards are nazis. The facilities are from the stone age. The wildlife is viciously predatory. The weather is always terrible. Best not to go.

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The line up is rubbish. The food is disgusting. The site is a hideous tip. The punters are rabidly aggressive and off their heads. The stewards are nazis. The facilities are from the stone age. The wildlife is viciously predatory. The weather is always terrible. Best not to go.

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The line up is rubbish. The food is disgusting. The site is a hideous tip. The punters are rabidly aggressive and off their heads. The stewards are nazis. The facilities are from the stone age. The wildlife is viciously predatory. The weather is always terrible. Best not to go.

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The line up is rubbish. The food is disgusting. The site is a hideous tip. The punters are rabidly aggressive and off their heads. The stewards are nazis. The facilities are from the stone age. The wildlife is viciously predatory. The weather is always terrible. Best not to go.

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Hi guys,

As I haven't managed to get tickets for Glastonbury this year, I've been looking at the others in the UK and abroad, and End of the Road looks great, so considering it as a possible 2011 alternative. For you guys who have been before, can you give me any pointers? How does it compare to other UK festivals (the ones I've been to before are in my sig), what's the atmosphere like, etc etc...

Cheers...

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I've read about the forest. What's it like?

I was at the Rothbury Festival in Michigan in 2008 (see list of festivals in my sig) and loved its Sherwood Forest. As that was a 50,000 fest, I suspect the forest was a little larger, though.

Most of the forest has now been charted but nevertheless it remains important to be cautious at all times, particularly on the far northern side: only last year Darren Hayman was shot at by a Japanese serviceman who still hadn't heard the news.

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