8 Things I learnt from Reading Festival
Last weekend I went to my very first music festival in a certain field in Berkshire. Other than music, mud, and rain, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Since I’m sure some people might be considering going, I thought I’d share some of the things I learnt whilst I was there:
- You don’t need to bring an alarm clock. Festival goers have no sense of time, and will wake you up repeatedly between 1am and 8am.
- Avoid Limp Bizkit fans. They are terribly rude. They will go so far as to punch you in the face to get a good spot.
- Bring earplugs. When you’re surrounded by hordes of screaming 12 year old girls, you’ll thank me.
- Most of the people who go to festivals are upper-middle-class teenagers escaping their parents to do soft drugs, and they will annoy you constantly.
- Bring as much food as you can. Everything is ridiculously expensive on site.
- Festival Republic are incredibly hypocritical. Advocating campaigns against poverty, and starvation, and for the environment and access to water, whilst at the same time doing full lightshows in the middle of the day, selling water at almost 4000% mark-up, and doing little to reduce the tonnes of waste left by visitors.
- Axl Rose is a twat.
- All the issues aside, it makes for an incredibly fun weekend, and I’d definitely recommend it.
This post was written for my page on AberInsiders.
Tags: AberInsiders, concerts, gigs, life, music, Reading Festival
