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Be Ready!

Most music festivals that charge money have graduated pricing, where tickets are sold at lower prices, advance prices and gate prices.

You can save yourself a lot of money and disappointment if you get your tickets as early as possible.

If your camping get all your camping gear as soon as possible, camping beds, sleeping bags wellies and torches (late night trips to toilets).

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Get Ready!

Keep an eye on your kids.

This should go without saying, but the most diligent parents can find themselves in the festival swing of things and lose track of their little ones.

Here are a few tips to help:-

Write your mobile phone number on your child’s wristband in case they wander off.

Make sure you know exactly what they’re wearing each day just in case. Take a picture every morning with your mobile phone camera makes this easy.

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Children at Festivals

Go Easy on the Alcohol!

When at a festival go easy on the alcohol.  You’re going to feel like an idiot if you sleep right through your favorite band, just because you were hung over, or you cant remember it because you were so drunk!  Especially on hot summer days, alcohol is a serious dehydrator and you should be staying well-hydrated. and  there’s the “loss of self control” thing.  Save yourself the embarrassment and cut off at a reasonable level.

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Drinking at Festivals

Christmas 2009 was the Christmas of people power and the power of the internet. Rage Against The Machine became the christmas number one in direct competition with the X factor. Ok the week after people had given up and X factor was number one but the week after Christmas isnt the Christmas Number One!

As a thank you Rage Against The Machine will be holding a free. On the 6th June Rage Against The Machine will perform in Finsbury Park as a thank you to everyone who put them number one which also raised a lot of money for homeless charities.

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Free Rage Gig

The organisers of the Glastonbury festival have secured a 6 year license for the event keeping them till 2016 which will incorporate 5 festivals. In a strange turn of events, the license was given behind closed doors and without a public hearing from the locals which is the first time it has ever happened, the local council commented that it is the close working relationship over the years to make things go smoothly which has in turn resulted in almost no objections to the festivals license.

The license holds the festival to 177,500 people which im sure is enough!! it also holds them into the same regulations for the next 6 years, this has probably been a good move as the more time goes on the more regulations are put in place in terms of noise levels etc.

2012 will see a rest for the festival, this is a regular thing as they let the land recover for a full year and as 2012 is the year the Olympics is in this country, the resources needed will not be available.

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Glastonbury 6 Year License

The official end of the summer is imminent, all the festivals have had their go this year to impress and attract us back next year, Glastonbury has already won this little battle being the first festival of 2010 to completely sell out.

Its time however to vote, The UK Festival Awards are exactly what they sound like, they award festivals depending on what we say!

The categories are things such as ‘Best Major Festival’ and ‘best Medium Sized Festival’ I’m not to sure what the criteria are for being part of a category as some of the festivals are missing from categories id expect them to be in, there are also some festivals I’ve never heard of which obviously means i must try harder considering i write on a blog about music festivals!

If you want to take part in this years voting get onto the website now Uk Festival Awards.

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UK Festival Awards 2009

Our roaming eye has recently been to Glastonbury and amongst the many bands they happened to come across a band called Vest Shirt. Vest Shirt are a trio from Dagenham, they wasn’t on the lineup for Glastonbury but they were distributing a few sample CD’s round the tents close to were they were pitched, the ultimate aim was to try and get somebody to listen to them that was in a position of authority or someone that knew someone in authority,

Vest Shirt promote them selfs as a new age, indie, electro metro pop fusion male harmony choir. The CD’s never got listened to in the campsite, everyone had a competition to see how far they could throw them!

The point of this blog? funny things happen at Glastonbury!

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Vest Shirt

Setting up a festival is a very time consuming, hard work and cost a lot of money. However everyone can have a fantasy festival. Mine would only start off small! First you would probably need to get some finance, not much point in planning anything without and money, There are some companies were you can buy buiness email lists from who you could email, it may be frowned upon at the start but im sure you can get some response from it. Then you need to book some acts, if i was doing it myself then i would have to aim for one big act and then try and fill the gap with more unknown talent. I recon id go for 3 arenas, we dont want to go to big to start up!!

Next we need the arenas, Basically just some massive tents, i dont even know what they are called, there not really bigtops but there not marquee’s either, You would need some security as well, Home security systems would be no good as we need something more, We need brute strength! we need some circus strong men to look over all the people to make sure they are being good!

Finally i plan to have my festival in the middle of a heat wave! People hate the rain and the wet when they are at a festival but if the festival was in the sun then people would love it!! I would have one of my arenas as an outdoor stage, i would also have a ‘Dancing in the rain’ section to it. A bit like when you can run through a mist shower doing the Manchester 10k run i would set up something similar, I would have  fire sprinkler systems set up to fire a fine mist over part of the cowd, if it rained it would be a disaster and it would never work but it wont rain at my festival so we are all ok and it will be loved by everyone! anyway Global managed to have Jacuzzis at last years festival!!

Also it would last for 24 hours, i wouldn’t have a restrictive licence it would start early in the morning and it would finish early in the morning, a little like space used to be in Ibiza but lasting a little longer!!

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How To Set up a Fantasy Festival

Festivals have been around the UK for years, the likes of Glastonbury was started up long before i was alive and it will continue to grow every year but were do festivals like this start out? Well a lot of them start out small with what i would expect to be extremely different direction, Im sure Glastonbury didn’t set out to be what it is today. Last year a group of us were looking at Peru Holidays (which we cant wait to go on by the way) and it got us thinking about what festivals we could go to when we are over there. When we looked into it the festivals reminded me of what i always expected Glastonbury to be like when it first started up, Many of them celebrate their country and their culture. The likes Of creamfields im sure have partied in Peru, and if i remember correctly it went down well, however for the people of Peru its the festivals that celebrate their country that will attract the tourists which in turn spend their money.

When we are there we will be taking in a couple of festivals hopefully but when we do it should make a nice change, UK festivals are hectic and non stop, Im rather looking forward to something more relaxed and hopefully take in the local atmosphere and local food and drink!

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Far Flung Festivals