Top Festival Tips!
By Lucy Clark Hullvibe
If your like me you’ll go to a festival and whilst your there think, ‘Bugger, we should have brought that’...or ‘we’ll remember to bring that next time’ but by the time it comes round again you’ve forgotten what that bloody thing was that you were lacking last time.
So to save you the kufuffle I’ve jotted down my favourite festival tips and gadjects that may or may not give you a hand...
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Don’t Forget! |
Why? |
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Put your alcohol in plastic bottles before you go! |
There’s nothing worse han spending £20 on vodka and having it taken off you when you get there |
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Take Food! |
Noodles, Pasta, soups! As much as you can! plus you can’t beat a BBQ on the Thursday night when you get there. Festival food is wahey too expensive! ...don’t take cheese, it stinks plus |
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If your in car, take more clothes, food and booze to leave in the boot |
...your emergency supplies! You can always go back to if you run out (or get skint and fancy setting up a quick jumble sale) |
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Take blokes... |
...to put up your tent, so you can get out your camping chair and crack open the booze! |
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Take Bin Bags! |
They have so many uses! For rubbish, ground sheet, poncho, cape, poo bag etc etc |
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Money, don’t take loads with you, get it out when you get there |
Ok so the queue can be 2 weeks long but just go at stupid o clock in the morning, you’ll be fine! Saves taking a load with you that you’ll only lose. |
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Take a peg... |
For your nose for the loos, or even a gas mask |
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Take pro plus.. |
You’ll need it! |
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Dont forget a torch! |
DUH! but easy to forget |
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Dont bother taking pictures of bands |
They always come out looking like a load of peoples heads. Take pics of you and your mates and send em to pics@hullvibe and we’ll put them on the site for you |
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£1 Lilo’s from Asda! |
Make perfect Airbeds to slip under your sleeping bag and dont take up hardly any room in your bag (as long as you don’t inflate it before you go) |
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Dont take camping chairs |
They’re always bigger than your tent to carry and just bang across your legs when your walking up the hill, just buy one when you get there, they’re only about 6quid. |
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Fully Charge your phone before you go |
why waste drinking/band time standing at a charge point like a fool |
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If your a smoker take 300 fags |
You’ll be surprised how many you get through at a festival and they’re rediculously expensive if you run out |
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Always take a hoody and shades! |
Great to hide hangovers |
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Never go back to your tent for a ‘lie down’ |
You’ll fall asleep and miss 3 hours of your weekend...crucial, crack open another Carling instead |
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Sleep with your valubles in your sleeping bag |
Sounds rubbish but tents do get burgled |
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As soon as you’ve set up your tent, make friends with your neighbours |
Voila!...instant neighbourhood watch! |
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Take Boxes of wine |
Disposable, practical, instant alcohol pump AND you can drink Red wine warm :-P |
Most importantly have fun, see as many bands as you can, drink as much as you can and meet as many new people as you can!
I’ll be at Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival this year and am uber looking forward to it!
Remember: If you take any pics send them into pics@hullvibe.co.uk and we’ll get them up on the website