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Heading to glastonbury this year for my first festival experience ever, aside from a tent and sleeping bag etc what should I be taking?
Thought about taking my camelbak for drinking etc, but who really knows.
Cheers!
Spare tent and sleeping bag for when yours gets nicked/trashed 😆
Drugs.
Shite wipe.
teeto has it more or less covered. loads of cash and water proofs will be helpful also..
A pair of scissors to cut your wristband off the moment you leave. Unless you want to look like a total bellend.
An ounce would be probably be sufficient.
A ticket elsewhere.
Drugs, cider and toilet paper.
Cheap bottle of whisky or vodka and a hip flask
Cheap hiking boots, better than wellies that stink and are uncomfortable and give you foot rot. Lots of socks.
Anker portable charger.
Imodium. Hundreds of it.
And while you're there, get some Senakot for home, to get the three day Glastonbury tailback moving.
Money, lots of it.
Pack light
Umbrella for sun/rain
Imodium
Baby wipes.
Get there Tuesday night and sleep in car, park as near to exit/end of row as you can. Leave early Monday, block the toilets in first service station on M5
Last year was my first time, did get ticket for this year but got it refunded thankfully
Been a few times back in the 90s / early 00s.
Don't take anything you don't want nicked.
It's all a big trade off between how much you want to carry in and how much you really need.
Personally I took a tent, roll mat, travel pillow, torch a wallet full of cash, a slab of Stella, some deodorant wipes (for a squaddie shower) and and an open mind. Take a hat and some warm clothing for the evenings and leave your wellies in the car.
The long drops are far more pleasant for a dump than the portaloos (there used to be a very little used long drop down by the cinema).
Take a bottle of antibacterial handwash. Wash your hands with this before eating.
Go with the flow. Explore off the beaten track and don't beat yourself up about a timetable to see *ALL* the bands you must see.
Have a great time. I'm almost jealous but will be watching it from the comfort of my living room again.
Antibiotics
Earplugs.
Complan.
A small jar of maraschino cherries.
Mouthwash.
Condoms.
Earplugs !
(Not for the stage, but when trying to get some sleep)
A time machine so you can go back to when it was good!
Also, gaviscon, baby wipes, alcohol hand gel, immodium, paracetamol, booze , drugs, pillow, sunhat, water proof picnic rug, head torch , waterproofs, suncream, s ton of cash
Don't take anything that you mind being lost/destroyed/stolen.
your mum
or burnt, dunno if you can still have fires, but after the fire wood runs dry, you tend to burn everything else that's not essential! 😆uselesshippy - Member
Don't take anything that you mind being lost/destroyed/stolen.
Seasoned festival goer here and other than baby wipes the main thing is something to help your tent stand out. A flashy light, a flag anything really that will help you identify it easier in the sea of misery that is the campsite when you're knackered.
2 tents. One you and one for beer / dirty clothes / food.
Food. Flapjacks. Brownies. That kind of thing
Drugs (although an once of coke, as someone suggested, is a little extravagant!)
Torch.
Sack trolly to transport everything. It's fantastic for the slabs of beer and everything else.
Drugs ,wet wipes,clean undies & tshirts. Wellies. Torch. Cash.
More drugs.trolley to transport liquids etc from car park to camping area. Spare torch.
Nurofen,barroca. Cereal bars. More drugs. Have fun.
Earplugs condoms booze plenty of uppers and a fair few downers .
Don't take a guitar , don't bother cooking food (lose time getting wasted and the campsite turns to squalor in a matter of hours)
have fun
an old pack you don't mind getting covered in crap is handy if it's wet. you spend so much time on your feet that having something with you you can sit on is a godsend.
a decent pair of comfortable walking boots.
the more expensive baby wipes are thicker, better to use, and can double as both a shower and arsewipe too, funnily enough.
berocca and painkillers a good shout.
Binliners. You never know when you might need to waterproof something.
Stick any valuables (wallet, phone) in your sleeping bag down by your toes at night.
Consider taking an old phone you've upgraded from rather than a £400 fondleslab.
A plastic bottle sans lid to hurl your warm piss over the crowd.
Two cheap plastic washing up bowls and one of those black camp shower bags
If you fill the back with water and leave it on the ground by your tent it usually gets a little warmer - sometimes really warm if you're lucky
Then you can use the bowls for
A quick wash - one bowl
A bit more of a thorough was - one bowl clean water and one bowl of soapy
A bit nicer than a wet wipe! And we have even used them for hair washing.
Then when you leave your tent fill the bowels with clean water and put your beers in them out of the way in your tent - they will definitely be cooler when you get back.
And obviously you can use them for regular washing up if you are taking cooking stuff
And a decent trolley for carting your stuff onto site with.
. . . I take a trangia - so I can cook basic stuff but more importantly have a brew in the morning!
dont take anything that you will bat an eyelid if you lose or trash
if that sounds weird, dont take your current attitude
whatever you do take, consume or carry it out
Two cheap plastic washing up bowls and one of those black camp shower bags
Christ, how long are you stopping?
when you leave your tent fill the bowels with clean water and put your beers in them out of the way in your tent - they will definitely be cooler when you get back.
Your tent will definitely be wetter when you get back.
AW > I can only assume you're either talking about camping generally or were in one of the posh camping bits at Glasto. We were in the disabled camping when we went and that sort of thing may have been practical, but if you're in with the great unwashed you'll either be doing a lot of walking or will be lucky to be able to stand next to your tent let alone fanny about with multiple washing up bowls.
Take some wet wipes and a hand sanitiser, be grubby for a couple of days.
Thought about taking my camelbak for drinking etc, but who really knows.
No - travel light. There are drinking water taps with every set of toilets so you just need a refillable water bottle. We've taken these for years - [url= http://www.rockrun.com/platypus-softbottle-0-5l-w-push-pull-cap-gray?gclid=CMqxzNnD_MwCFYZuGwod_cIClA ]Platypus flat bottle[/url] - (not sure what size we have). can fold up and stuff in a pocket when empty.
Warm clothes. You'll likely be out late, it's very rare that it's not cold at 4am. Layering is good - you need stuff you can tie round your waist.
Lightweight daysack - for stuffing clothes and things in. You don't want something that's bulky when it's empty.
Raincape - look ridiculous but much better than anything else for standing in the rain watching a band. Long enough that the water doesn't just run off onto your trousers.
Wellies. You might not need them but if you need them you *really* need them.
Raincape - look ridiculous but much better than anything else for standing in the rain watching a band.
Good point. They will sell ponchos at vastly inflated prices, and lots of folk will wear them. Better to take one with you.
Ha ha cougar- we are usually in family camping and we go down in the Tuesday night.
If you carry the plastic watercarriers or solar shower bags you don't need to make that many trips to the tap no matter where you camp.
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And they are really handy when you have kids who like to be painted!
Take an axe. If there's a Zombie Apocalypse it'll start at a place like Glastonbury.
The e-festivals website forum has plenty of info on this in the glasto sub-section, go take a look...
Wallet, shades, phone and consumables...
Don't do what a good friend of mine did . . .
Fly home from the states just for the festival . . . Loads of people going so him and his mate thought they'd be clever and take a huge tent . . . Became quite a mission getting it on the site as they decided to start on their consumables in the queue. . . .
Finally got to their chosen spot . . . Only to find they had picked up the wrong bag .... they didn't have a tent
They had an 8 man dingy (and it didn't even rain that year!)
A pair of scissors to cut your wristband off the moment you leave. Unless you want to look like a total bellend.
This. Also car park pass, remove it pronto or DIAF.
Wheelbarrow!
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Drugs, money, drugs, clothes, cheap tent, drugs, cheap sleepy bag, drugs and nothing that you'll be bothered about if it gets trashed, stolen, soaked in mud or sacrificed to a Pagan God.
I'm told it's changed a lot since I last went in 2000 - there's an even bigger bloody wall for a start (which may or may not be a reason why I've not been back since), but it always used to be a madhouse 250k-300k people the last year I went they reckon 2/3 times as many tickets that were sold.
Oh and try to remember where you left the car, all fields look the same after a few days.
I went in 90 with a lump of squidgy the clothes I had on and a pair of adidas samba. God did it rain. In hind sight the samba were a bad choice.
Best time I had there I packed the same (well almost) as donks, if your doing it right you don't [i]need[/i] your own tent. Don't take beer, it will be horrible after the first few hours - wine bags and/or vodka.
Nothing helpful here but wet wipes
I don't remember much from the one time I went to Glastonbury other than watching Rolf Harris just as a Silver Surfer was kicking in, and missing all but Gravity Grave from the Verve's set because half way through Jameraqui (or the Stereo MCs - whoever it was I didn't really care) it seemed like a good idea to return my jumper to my tent so I didn't ****ing loose it. Oh and the motor bike from the Orb echoing round and round and round.
Moral of the story: don't take anything can't let go of.