No Arcadia this year

[Paul ™]

But Bestival have confirmed there will be 2 new areas to be revealed next month.

[random_man]

Interesting! But also a shame Arcadia won't be there!

[rexclark]

Cannot wait to find out about the new areas!

[hawkzred]

Unless Arcadia are going to bring the Spider with them, then Rob is doing the right thing by freshening the site up.

[Paul ™]

I agree, I would like to see more stuff like the Swamp Shack, maybe bring in more of creative stuff from Block 9, maybe giving them their own field.

[Tom12]

maybe they will move the shack to the arcadia site?

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

Pretty gutted had many of highlights up there last year. I don't particularly like the indoor type places like swamp shack as its usually a pain in the ass to queue and get in for. I like how you can just rock up to arcadia whenever you fancy.

[monkey1989]

I think there will a few very nice suprises and although I enjoyed it I didn't like the fact we were not getting the full Arcadia experience anyway

[fraz]

Never been before but the fact Arcadia where there was a draw for me.

However I have to agree covered areas at a festival tend to be a pain to get into.

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

astronauts making fire tornado's and Russian man standing on thin pole 100 ft in the air sufficed. Some great sets as well.

They will struggle to replace it, full show or not it always had a good crowd, especially in the early hours. However, I do look forward to seeing the replacements.

[theampersanddevil]

I never really spent much time there.

I enjoyed it at rockness and can see why people go big for it. If you have a great dj then it will add to the experience.

But ultimately no amount of pyro, sexy dancers and cool lights will keep me at a stage with djsI don't like.

I have also never found myself at a dj set and saying, you know what would make this better? If it was at Arcadia!

[monkey1989]

Rob messaged on the official bestival forums in the thread relating to no arcadia and 2 new areas , " who said there will be no Arcadia this year!?"

[monkey1989]

So maybe arcadia is moving to a new area and a deal has not been done

[Paul ™]

Yeah I read that, sounds like some sort of communication problem at Besty HQ as it was their official Twitter and Facebook that both confirmed it.