Winchester and they have small-medium size acts. Last year Frank Turner and Tricky headlined with loads of great smaller acts playing
I've been the last two years in a row, with the bus and wife. Weekend camping tickets are about £175 each and the campervan permit is £150 or something. The campervan area is right near the entrance for people just turning up on the day, as far away as you can be from the main stage without being in the car park. You will have to walk for about 1.5 miles to get to the stages. It's at Seaclose Park, near Newport. Last year's event sold 90K tickets. The rumour this year is that they're adding another 35,000 to that total. The music is pretty good for people with slight "rock" tenancies, but they do have DJs etc. I'm not going this year as I think it will be too busy, and I'm all festivalled out. Stu
I really think if they try and squeeze more people in the festival they will ruin it, but naturally they are going to try and make as much money as possible. With Glasto not on this year they will have more of an audience.
£450 is steep! prefer to do a week around cornwall in the bus and spend that on pasties, pies and pints!
IOW Festival lost its mojo for me Its all about profit making nowdays rather than the event itself and its the same for the other major fezzies. In 2005 it cost me penuts to get across on the ferry yet 4 years later i ended up paying £150 to get my car over to the Isle and back. That being on top of paying £160 for the ticket plus a further £200 over the course of the 3 days spent in the (rip off) festival arena. Maybe i shouldnt compain to much seeing as i spent the 90's getting in to festivals for free ) Mind you everyone was on the same buzz back then unlike the festivals of today.
Oh hello by the way. Just realised this is my first post in the rebooted forum. I hope you missed me.
It'll be Endorsit-in-Dorset for me again next year - big enough to keep you entertained and small enough to get around with ease!!! :hippy:
According to John Giddings all the glamping is going onto the other side of Fairlee Road. The Garden Stage will be where the football was shown in 2010, allowing a much bigger entrance to the arena. I think most of the fairground rides are going. I was very surprised when I saw the van pass had been more than halved. Basically a lot of people were *******ed off with this year's Festi and they'd already got the insurance sorted for an extra 15,000 people. The organisers had to start making the thing look a lot more attractive as early as possible. Hence a very early presale and making the van field prices comparable to all the other festivals.
Very interesting read. Put aside his personal problems with bookings & getting bumped here and there his description of Bestival being a cash cow would surely apply to all the major festivals. That's exactly how i feel about the IOW fezzie. The first year i went was 05 and it was immense. Nice friendly atmosphere and so far removed from its current money making format. It almost had that early 90's Glasto vibe before every tom dick & harry jumped on the band wagon and of course before Eavis had to bring in Mean Fiddler. No trouble, no bottle necks, no over crowding etc. Then as the years went by Solo got greedy but then again so did the bands so its not all one way traffic. Not sure if i'm correct with this but i'd say that some bands could make more from a couple of festival appearances than doing their own tours so its natural for them to look for the easy earner with less work involved. It's a major shame that the big festivals have gone down this route but i guess it's like anything in the world. Once someone see's an opportunity to make a shed load of cash greed naturally takes over. Just happy that there are some smaller festivals out there that are determined to stick to their roots and not take the wee out of their customers.
