It was Posh. As. Fuck.
Sooo many chairs (honestly, none of the fuckers stood up at all), children, dogs and Tories. As I mentioned on FB, I got the shit-on-my-shoe look whenever I tried to chat to anyone who wasn't part of the Something Else tea tent. We had lovely neighbours in artist camping but the punters were not fond of us. The dance tent was like a fucking wedding on the Friday night - kids running round everywhere, no one actually raving at all, just dad dancing a bit and talking, loudly. That changed with the arrival of other ravers on the Saturday, and we felt less like lepers then. Most of the bands were pedestrian at best, aurally offensive at worst. Leftfield were shambolic, tons of filler, a bit of killer, and a proper let down. We saw them about 10 years ago at Beatherder and they rocked the place.
Said at the end of the Lakefest set that they were out of practice. Fucking rehearse then, like every fucker else!
To top it all off, there was an army recruitment stand, in the play area
The canopy may have been removed and err, relocated, overnight by parties unknown. We'll never know for sure.
Big plus was not dying of heatstroke on stage tbh. It was also a beautiful site, we saw 3 shooting stars, that big old moon and Saturn, and had a grand time in our little bubble of good people. Don't think the Tea Tent will be invited back though!
-5/10 - would not recommend.
Lovely woman. She’s got my dog Howard at the mo as I’m in the US.
