standing room only

[ukslim]

Without pharmaceuticals:

- improve your general fitness between now and the festival, by eating properly and doing some exercise. Running is cheap...

- Earplugs and eye mask, so that the sleep you do get is of a high quality.

With legal pharmaceuticals:

- Drink through when you're flagging, and find your second wind

[luca_79]

Can i ask what the benefit of these is? Sleep aid? Morning after? Eager for any tips to maximise partying time

Edited April 19, 2011 by luca_79

[jimmyk83]

Excellent, thanks.

Looks like i'll be adding a couple more to my arsenal of drugs then.

[beltin]

How did you attach the space blankets you your tent? I assume it was the outside to deflect the sun rays?

[DrWackadoodle]

How did you attach the space blankets you your tent? I assume it was the outside to deflect the sun rays?

[LEDZEP66]

I always seem to get really tired around 5-6 pm. Last year I dozed off whilst stood up and watching the National. I've found that a power nap around this time is all thats required, 30 mins max though, any longer and you will struggle to get up at all. Get a big meal down you then and you will be partying till the sun comes up. Its to far to go back to the tent so my preferred sleeping spot is the pyramid stage. The music helps you snooze and if you are by yourself you can ask someone to wake you up and to keep a eye on your wallet and stuff.

[lucyginger]

Now I'm not advocating the using of other peoples medicines, but if you need something to assist comedown, see if you can get your hands on a few sertraline tablets. They're essentially the same as the 5HTP stuff. I find them most useful to make my Suicide Tuesday after a heavy weekend all the more pleasant.

[amfy]

For us it was Red Bull. I really hate the stuff but I neck 2 cans straight after the headliners. We then usually just go back onto our spirits of choice for the rest of the night - so I'll have a small coca cola bottle half and half with rum to keep me going (him - vodka)- I think pints just start to drag you down at that time of night. I haven't had them myself but some Jaegermeister like concoction may work?

[austrian_zeppelin]

I am sure there are lots of chemical enhancements that make staying up till sunrise a piece of cake, but I don't endulge in those, so here's my take on it...

Eat good healthy food - a nice milkshake, yoghurt, fruit etc in the morning, drink lots of water throughout the day (i try to have a pint of water after every 2 pints of booze), have a nice big lunch and don't stress yourself rushing from the John Peel to Arcadia and back just because you can. Select a few must see acts and the rest will fall into place. Before the evening kicks off try to relax a bit, change into your night outfit (ie put a few layers on) and get cracking. after the main stages shut, have a bite to eat, and stash a red bull and a banana in your jacket. as suggested enjoy the offerings of arcadia and all the other late night offerings and time will fly. when you feel you hit a hole, eat the banana and/or drink the red bull. Always works for me till the early hours. Bring earplugs and eyemask for a well deserved rest, before it all starts again. I tend to smoke a lot of weed and drink less these days, but the above formula always worked wether i got rat-arsed by the cider bus, or stayed nearly sober.

[alphamaing]

Usable info much! only thing is my poor rucksack will be creaking and groaning under the weight of the (many) new additions ;-}

Edited April 19, 2011 by alphamaing

[oebs]

Now I'm not advocating the using of other peoples medicines, but if you need something to assist comedown, see if you can get your hands on a few sertraline tablets. They're essentially the same as the 5HTP stuff. I find them most useful to make my Suicide Tuesday after a heavy weekend all the more pleasant.

[luca_79]

Now I'm not advocating the using of other peoples medicines, but if you need something to assist comedown, see if you can get your hands on a few sertraline tablets. They're essentially the same as the 5HTP stuff. I find them most useful to make my Suicide Tuesday after a heavy weekend all the more pleasant.

[jimmyk83]

Where do you get them from?

[ukslim]

Im no expert here, but isn't sertraline a prescription drug in the same classification as Prozac, and the 5HTP a naturally derived plant extract??

[lucyginger]

Where do you get them from?

[luca_79]

I don't know anything about 5HTP or Sertraline, but many potentially dangerous prescription drugs are naturally derived from plants.

For example, (thanks Google) Podophyllotoxin -- used to treat genital warts, and some cancers -- prescription-only in the UK, and extracted from the American Mayapple plant.