boom town fair

[random_man]

I've been going to Boomtown since it was all fields many years ago!!

Like Neil says its probably the best festival in the country, it's not the nicest, it's not the most relaxed and it's not the biggest (but its growing).

Just go there with the thought of wanting to have a great time and nothing will stop you - and you will! Don't take anything you can afford to lose - as you probably will lose it!

The music is brilliant, the attention to detail is brilliant and the atmosphere is amazing!!

Regarding drugs etc.. the organisers just want everyone to be safe and have a good time so it can continue - It's not a strict festival in any case - just one that wants to continue and throw an amazing party!

[themuel]

And The Cat Empire are playing, which is a good enough reason to go anywhere.

[haznutuk]

That full-on has its downside. A girl died last year (from ket, I think)

Ellie Rowe - http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/12/ellie-rowe-18-died-ketamine-festival-inquest

[frostypaw]

I have a ticket for this...

Bit distressed as all three of the mates who were going with me have pulled out for various reasons post-glastonbury

I'm 37 and barely stopped moving all five days of Glasto so not too worried about it being intense, just the fears of going alone to an entirely new and untested festival and panics about not being able to bet my measly weed supply in... the horrors of the only illegal drug i do being the stinkiest ( said "drug i like" first but that's not true)

Efests Glasto-refugee campsite time?

[gooner1990]

Going for the first time this year as well........just a question how can a festival with such a high police presense have such a rife drug problem?

I'll be bringing a little something for my late night pie-eyed fun but nothing apart from that......hope the police don't find anything or can't snif it out when I drive up to the site.

[UEF]

Going for the first time this year as well........just a question how can a festival with such a high police presense have such a rife drug problem?

Don't know, ask the place we were all at last week perhaps?

I'd be up for camp for eFesters - who's in?

[Jackmypie]

I've been looking at this fest for a while, deffo looks a lot of fun.

Good chance I'll be buying a ticket soon.

Edited July 3, 2014 by Jackmypie

[frostypaw]

I'd be up for camp for eFesters - who's in?

I would natch, and I think we're all probably used to the idea we'll all go in entirely different directions all day - just good to have some familiar er... usernames/faces around so there's someone to be enthusiastic at/share a cuppa tea. Weeks to go still mind

[Guy Incognito]

I have a ticket for this...

I'm 37 and barely stopped moving all five days of Glasto so not too worried about it being intense, just the fears of going alone to an entirely new and untested festival and panics about not being able to bet my measly weed supply in... the horrors of the only illegal drug i do being the stinkiest ( said "drug i like" first but that's not true)

I wouldn't worry about it too much mate! Everyone I met there was incredibly friendly regardless of age and the general police activity about weed was very limited. Me and a friend were smoking a zoot on a bench near the top of the site when two police officers (not security guards) walked past, noticed us and didnt do a thing as they just saw two kids smoking a bit of weed and not being a nuisance.

[gooner1990]

Don't know, ask the place we were all at last week perhaps?

Glastonbury doesn't have every single car searched though!

[dumski]

I can see the capacity and compare it but interested to know size wise the comparison to glasto. I went last year and had old timers who won't glasto anymore moaning about the walk from campervand to lions den or boutique. Probably the hill that does it but can any clever one so map over map type diagram?or just estimate excluding camping

Edited July 4, 2014 by dumski

[kerplunk]

More oldies for Boomtown! That's what I say.

It's too good to concede it to the yoot

[kerplunk]

I can see the capacity and compare it but interested to know size wise the comparison to glasto. I went last year and had old timers who won't glasto anymore moaning about the walk from campervand to lions den or boutique. Probably the hill that does it but can any clever one so map over map type diagram?or just estimate excluding camping

Well size wise it's best to include camping as it's the same as glasto - no daily gate business - once you're in you're in. I'd say about a fifth the size of glasto maybe less. More severe hills than Worthy Farm though and it was almost a festival of two halves last year with the festival in the valley and the festival on top of the hill and the decision to move from one to the other not one made lightly (even with an escalator!). I was mainly an uptown boy last year.

My 2013 pics here: http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/boomtown/2013/galleries.shtml?b=2

Edited July 5, 2014 by kerplunk

[Guy Incognito]

My 2013 pics here: http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/boomtown/2013/galleries.shtml?b=2

Great pictures! Looking forward to doing it all again this year

[Jackmypie]

There's a massive group of posh kids going off of my facebook. No doubt their parents are paying for it all.

Is that what most of the crowd are like or are they more down to earth?

[salvador wali]

Do the people involved with block 9 have anything to do with the structures and installations?

[seanshark]

There's a massive group of posh kids going off of my facebook. No doubt their parents are paying for it all.

Is that what most of the crowd are like or are they more down to earth?

I think Boomtown is the least "posh kids" festival that I have been to, this will be my 5th Boomtown. There is an edgy full on feel to the festival which might take a bit of getting used to but without exception I have found the people are as nice and friendly as at any other festival.

I am in my forties and have never noticed the age group being particularly young, it's not like Reading or Latitude that have a large proportion of Gcse-Alevel students away from home for the first time.

[eFestivals]

I think Boomtown is the least "posh kids" festival that I have been to, this will be my 5th Boomtown. There is an edgy full on feel to the festival which might take a bit of getting used to but without exception I have found the people are as nice and friendly as at any other festival.

I am in my forties and have never noticed the age group being particularly young, it's not like Reading or Latitude that have a large proportion of Gcse-Alevel students away from home for the first time.

Like all festies, Boomtown has it's more-than-fair-share of trustafrians.

And I can only think you walk awround with your eyes shut. The demographic at Boomtown is younger than Reading/Leeds, I'd say (tho i'd also say they're nicer).

[Paul ™]

More oldies for Boomtown! That's what I say.

It's too good to concede it to the yoot

Well I am going

Cant wait, coming up between a run of 5 weeks in Dublin working and then straight after 7 weeks at Reading, Jersey and London

[mr flow]

It's a fantastic festival and so refreshing to go to one where the organisers seem more interested in creating a vibe and great party rather than lining their pockets.

If you've not been before and enjoy the crazy elements of Glasto, you'll love it.

[Swine_Glasto2014]

Anything rave related includes Ketamine nowadays.

I used to run and hold quite a few illegal raves in the early 2000's and Ketamine absolutely killed it proper. Few hundred people on k compared makes for a shit party, especially in the morning.

I've heard from almost everyone who goes to Boomtown that it is a Ketamine fest, everyone's on it. Altho supposedly last year it was better.

I want to go but not interested in bring surrounded by thousands of people of there head on shit drugs.

[mr flow]

Boomtown really isn't as bad as a lot of the people make it out to be. Yes, a lot of people are smashed but it isn't to a point where it makes you feel uncomfortable.

The general vibe and atmosphere is by far the best of all of the festivals I've been to and it's more back to the good old days of going out for a good time rather than sitting around trying to look cool and stroke your chin when someone plays a duff note.

[Swine_Glasto2014]

It's on the tick list next festival season!

[melsypelsy]

YES!!! this thread and advise from friends, WE ARE GUNA GIVE IT A GO! woopwoop!

[Badlands]

Those photos posted on the previous page are great, the place looks crackers. And it has some sort of conveyor belt carrier!! Shame its all the way down in Hampshire.

Never taken Ket, and never understood how it can be so popular. Am I missing something?