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Sherlock51

Sherlock51

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Tempted by the fact that A) it's in the north B) Looks munty and C) Never been!

Would love some opinions on it too, any differences between this and similar festies further south?
Cheers!
 
It’s pretty unique to be honest. A huge amount of work goes into creating all the quirky venues with new ones popping up every year. Combine this with fantastic scenery, a decent and inexpensive beer tent and one of the most friendly but up for it crowds whatever the weather and you can’t go too far wrong really.

We’ll be there again this year and despite living in the south we’ve been to every one since 2008.
 
Sherlock51 said:
Tempted by the fact that A) it's in the north B) Looks munty and C) Never been!

Would love some opinions on it too, any differences between this and similar festies further south?
Cheers!
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You're pretty spot on as it happens, its very north and munty. I've been the last couple of years and for a small festival they do put quite a lot on, there is some real effort put into the stages and generally there is a decent vibe although veterans say it has changed recently and there have been a few incidents with selfishness and aggression.

The closest I can compare it to is like a much smaller version of Boomtown.

I'd quite happily go again but two of my friends are due to have babies that week plus it's a bloody long drive for us so I doubt I'll be there this year.
 
It's brilliant. It's very very munty. If you avoid the main camping field you miss out on most of the dickheads. I had one of the best weekends of my life last year but sadly I cannot put my body and mind through the Beatherder mangling machine ever again for fear of something very very bad happening.
 
I really liked it........ Wasnt impressed with the organisation of the campervan field, or getting out though. But its not the end of the world.

Its a bloody long way which is the only thing that puts me off going again.
 
Guessing the long drive puts a lot of the southern crowd off. Sounds wicked, and "a smaller version of Boomtown" is very much what I imagine. Is it like Boomtown in the sense that it's full of 19 year-olds? Or is that just me getting older? :-/
Plus £140-odd seemed pretty steep for only three days...
 
It is steep, we only paid £55 first time around. The dickhead ratio has shot up over the last few years (mostly fucking teenagers has to be said), but we're going again this year. Been every year since 2009.

Go now, before it gets any worserererer.
 
lazythursday said:
I cannot put my body and mind through the Beatherder mangling machine ever again for fear of something very very bad happening.
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I have to take a full week off after it :D Only start feeling normal again by Thursday usually :thumbs:

Dancing in the trees though - that's worth going for alone, imo. Fucking love it in there - like a little world on its own :cool:
 
Sherlock51 said:
Guessing the long drive puts a lot of the southern crowd off. Sounds wicked, and "a smaller version of Boomtown" is very much what I imagine. Is it like Boomtown in the sense that it's full of 19 year-olds? Or is that just me getting older? :-/
Plus £140-odd seemed pretty steep for only three days...
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Yeah it's quite a young festival, me and my mates are all late thirties and felt pretty old. The price is steep, there seems to have been a hike recently, they do put a lot of effort into the site and a couple of the stages are quite impressive but £140 just seems a bit sharp for a small festival.
 
Sherlock51 said:
Guessing the long drive puts a lot of the southern crowd off. Sounds wicked, and "a smaller version of Boomtown" is very much what I imagine. Is it like Boomtown in the sense that it's full of 19 year-olds? Or is that just me getting older? :-/
Plus £140-odd seemed pretty steep for only three days...
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I do Boomtown too and see the comparison with regards to the amount of inventiveness which goes into the build but I still think that overall it's a completely different environment. As Soj says there are a few meatheads around but most of them seem to congregate in the Fortress on the Friday night and stay there for the duration, leaving the rest of the site generally fluffy and attitude free.

Ticket prices have definitely bumped up a bit although we still got early birds last year for <£100. And it's not even 3 full days from 5pm Friday to midnight Sunday but not a lot of sleeping gets done in between so it's still well worth the splosh imho.
 
sojourner said:
It was mostly made up of older ravers at first. That's one of the things I loved about it. We're all walking round looking like our histories of partying :D
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And there are still plenty of older ravers on site... it's just that you can feel a bit outnumbered by the youngsters now and some of them bring a mainstream-nightclub rather than happy-rave vibe. Last year at one particularly muntered point I did feel my age a bit while some teenagers sniggered and pointed at my confused meanderings. But there's something about Beatherder that brings out the worst in me and I think that I now need to enter retirement from that sort of malarkey.

It's definitely worth the money I reckon, cos of its uniqueness.
 
I'll be there. Me and wolfie are part of the Perfumed Garden and this year I think I'm doing a lot of cafe duty but not cooking :eek: so all's good :D
I spend most of my time around the Perfumed Garden and never really see any of the dickead business. It's always chilled round our bit :) Come and say "hello" if you decide to get a ticket Sherlock51, we usually have a bit of an opening pymms/cocktail party around 6 pm Friday :D
 
Wicked that sounds fab Shirl :D
Tempted to just buy a ticket now, just need to convince the wifey we can afford £150-odd for me to get munted on a field for three days :p
Lazythursday, I'm feeling similar vibes with the young crowd, but I'm only 29 for christ sake! Trajectories aren't looking too peachy...
Anyway if anybody on this thread knows of any spare work pitching in in a stall or anything, let me know! Though I imagine those spaces are already filled ;)
 
sim667 said:
I really liked it........ Wasnt impressed with the organisation of the campervan field, or getting out though. But its not the end of the world.

Its a bloody long way which is the only thing that puts me off going again.
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Ah Sim that's a pity buddy! Tres tempted by it tbh...
 
Just put in the deposit, paying the rest off in April or whenever it is. Anyone else done this before? Never signed up to the deposit thing in the past..
 
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From last year. Top pic later Friday evening. Bottom pic, first of the crowd into the perfumed garden Friday just after 4 pm opening.
 
I wish I was, but I can't get the time off now....

Ive got 4 lined up anyway so that'll do donkey, that'll do.
 
Anyone driving up there from London? Haven't bought bus ticket yet but would obviously chip in for petrol and provide Grade A banter! :)
 
I've just been alerted to that. Got all happy and then realised it's the Sunday night they're on - when my energy levels are usually a bit...zero :D I expect I'll rally a bit for them though ;)
 
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