MattyJ wrote:

Why would you want to take a soundsystem to a festival? Haven't you just paid to hear other people make music in front of you?

So you can have music while chilling and drinking with friends. Which is exactly what most people do at Fusion, where I have just returned from over the weekend. Having no rules or regulations make it infinitely better than anything i ever experienced in in England.

Want to camp in the back of your car? Fine. Want to build your own coffeee stall selling hot drinks for a euro each? No problem. Want to dance naked in the sun? People wont even stare. Want to erect your own pop-up nightclub equipped with lightshow, soundsystem, dancefloor, bar, and space for 30 of your friends to dance and sleep? You wont be alone.

At Fusion Festival your right to a good night's sleep is always secondary to anyone else's right to play loud music and do what they want. There are no security or rule enforcers anywhere. Nobody will ever tell you to turn the music down. In fact, nobody will ever tell you to do anything. Yet somehow the whole festival moderates itself. This year was my 6th Fusion and i have still yet to see a single fight. I blame drugs. High people are more fun and less trouble than drunkards.

There's also no commercial sponsorship, so no fucking Redbull tents or Pepsi Max Challenges or any of this nonsense. All the foodstalls are reasonably priced and damn tasty. Typically you will pay 2 euro for fruit n  muesli with yoghurt, or 4 euro for a large vegetable curry. There's lots to choose from. A bottle of beer is 2.50.

And it lasts a week! But my girlfriend wouldnt let me stay that long.

You can camp in your car at Download if you really want to.

The pop up nightclub stuff sounds fucking awful.

Sounds exactly like Meredith Music Fest.  You'd like it there Nox, boutique.

Best thing about this years Glastonbury? Lionel Richie. I'm singing along loudly in my living room

Back from Bluedot and was verily impressed.  Billed itself as half music fest, half science camp and it was laudable on both counts.  Peaked a bit too early for me on Friday night cos Underworld were just so fantastic.  Haven't raved so hard in ages.  Anything else was a bit of a come down.  Although the crowd loved Public Service Broadcasting and Jean-Michel Jarre was an obvious big hit with the 'were just here for Oxygene 4'plebs.

Some poor fecker passed out in the portaloos Sunday mornin' and paramedics were called.  That particular toilet aspect was even more fucked up than usual tbh. Sort it out next year, yeah?

Staggering from one over-priced beer tent to the next whilst crashing in on some lecture about Russkie cosmonaut suits though made for a memorable experience and I'll be going back next year if they get Kraftwerk and CHEMICAL BROTHERS obviously.

Family Sunday? Pansy. Leeds had Burn Down the Campsite Sunday.

Psno = weak as pissss

regmcfly wrote:

DO NOT MAKE SANDWICHES BEFORE YOU GO because you'll be sick of them. Take an extra £50-60 of possible to at least get some decent grub over the weekend. Last time I was at the urine riddled pit of shite that is T in the Park, the lone highlight was getting, I shit you not, some Loch Fyne Oysters. Fuck festivals. If you go you're either a wreckhead or a dad trying to recapture lost youth.

What's a wreckhead?

I don't think there are riots any more mate. Gentrification innit.

It's £100 for a day ticket mate.

I think this is the latest line up.

I actually really like the Bramham Park site. Aside from the slurry pit bogs due to the aforementioned burning.

Don't like the acts they book now though.

All the bands I like have moved to Download now. Shame Sonisphere  can't seem to put together a show in the UK these days.

Not much for me. The folorn hope that Biffy will play things off the first 2 albums, the folorn hope Good Charlotte will only play things off the first 2 albums, Coheed and Cambria, Thrice, Milk Teeth. Would probably go see Brian Fallon and Modern Baseball

Never heard of him. Looked him up and it sounds awful.