Music Festival News

Every year there are countless amounts of festivals spread out all over the country, there are many different ways to get to festivals but boil it all down and a lot of people still just drive their in the car, Unfortunately, Cars at festivals can be great targets for criminals wanting to grab a few car stereos for the car boot sale the following Sunday! Take Global Gathering for example, You Pay your VIP ticket price and that will include access to park in their VIP car park which on the nice little map they produce is opposite the VIP camping area! Ok im sure i recognised some Multi Camera Security Systems covering the car park, their the same system that look over the entrance and other parts of the festival, but this doesn’t stop people. Due to an oversold VIP area there were people camping next to their cars when we got back to ours after the festival, Their was also a windscreen smashed in and talk of a car being taken. Now this could just have been a one off incident, isolated, after all there were thousands of cars there, maybe we were unlucky enough to be close to a victim, however there were some very nice cars parked in the VIP car park, Now im not talking Bentley’s or ferrari’s, but i am talking Focus ST, Golf GTI’s etc, still looking at 20k+ cars. Basically my advice would be not to take nice cars like this, if you have access to a cheaper car take it! If you do need to go in your nice car it may attract attention, the car we saw with its window through certainly wasn’t a cheap car! Has your car got GPS Vehicle Tracking If it is does it have a sticker on the window saying it has, very small details like this could mean the difference between your car getting stolen and your car not getting stolen.

Festivals are a great time of the year, I love them! however you need to be careful and have your whits about you. Going in the car is extremely convenient but just be careful you’re not to flashy as when your in the festival having a good time you have no idea who is eyeing up your car!