Festival camping advice please (leeds) ?

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Me and my GF will be attending leeds festival so looking for advice in general and what to be prepared for in a festival! We have a 2 person tent, sleeping bags, foam things to lie on and thats it really so if anyone has any info it would be much appreciated. ive got a few pack of wet wipes as ive heard ya need them to wash ya self lol

Cheers for any info!

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Take some bandages and plasters as you're going to get very very hurt at leeds, got a repuation for getting extremely violent and was nearly cancelled because of it in years past.

Shame that Reading's turning in to this aswell.

Also take some alcahol that doesn't taste awful when warm.
 
- ticket
- loo roll and wet wipes
- Bin liners - pack everything in them they keep it dry
- waterproof coat
- Combats or other trousers with plenty of pockets
- Sunglasses and suncream (surprised how easily people burn even on a relativley dull say, when you watching bands for 8hrs +
- warm clothes, in Leeds it gets bloody freezing at night and Sunday generally rains
- Torch, plus batteries
- Tin opener
- Sleeping bag
- Vital medication
- Tent
- Folding chair - nothing worse than standing on your feet all day, then going back to the campsite and having to sit on a wet floor whilst drinking.
- drink and food. Its expensive at camp site. Bring lots of beer for evening, all though you can't take your own booz into the arena.
- Plenty off money

I generally just take rolls, crisps ext. Not exciting but keeps you going, no cooking need so no stove to carry to campsite.

Think thats about it.

Zefan said:
Take some bandages and plasters as you're going to get very very hurt at leeds, got a repuation for getting extremely violent and was nearly cancelled because of it in years past.

Shame that Reading's turning in to this aswell.

Also take some alcahol that doesn't taste awful when warm.
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was there both years which kicked off. there was nothing to it, far overated and the police fault mainly. FFS they closed all the toilts. So hey presto firebombs :)
 
I didn't get hurt in Leeds last year, you don't really have to worry about that unless you go looking for trouble. We drunkenly wandered around the camp site every night without a scratch.

What's essential? Food you can prepare with no fuss, drinks, a torch.. actually, if you take a look at some festival sites you can find a pretty comprehensive list of everything you'll find useful.
 
Also make sure you don't leave anything valuable in your tent, you don't want to your phone / wallet / money stolen, keep things on you. Bring lots of black bags and wet weather clothing and WELLIES, prepare for the worst, then you won't be disappointed at all !
 
Take a small portable cheap radio thing, so when you get back from the arena you can carry on partying back at your tent :p Also take loads of booze, forget about food, last time i went i didn't bother taking food. I got my tent sorted then went back into leeds and got food from tescos easy enough and didn't cost much for the bus.
 
don't take anything you can't afford to lose,
scallys will have your jeans and tent if they are worth anything.

sleep with your money UNDER the groundsheet, the chap next to me had his stuff nicked while he was asleep, and you're not likely to want to chase anyone in the nuddie :eek:

stuff like that is fairly rare though
 
take some of that soap thats got alcohol in it so it evaps off, best way of keeping clean when you're feeling dirty.
 
Travel as light as possible: Tent, changes of clothes, bog roll, sleeping bags, torches. Nice and light.... then take as much booze as you can carry.

Decant your spirit of choice in to 2 litre bottles (empty coke ones, etc) and take some mixers. I'd take a few cans of lager, but not many. Chances are they'll be very warm very quickly and be heavy to carry from your car to the camp site.

Don't take anything you can't afford to loose. There's allot of theft at festivals so if you'd be upset at something going missing, then don't take it. I'd especially say this for a festival like Leeds as there is a higher quotent of idiots than at most festivals (16- 18 year olds who think the height of comedy/ being a hardcore rocker is to go get plastered on Stella, vomit everywhere, steal things from other peoples tents and burn other people's tents).

It's an amazing festival and has had some of the best line up's ever, but there's always a high muppet quota that you'll have to deal with that I've not come across as much at other festivals.
 
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Tips from Leeds 2003

Rubber mallet for your tent pegs is a MUST

Toilet Roll - MUST

A small pocket torch that you can click on and it stays on by it's self is a MUST (it's pitch black inside your tent at night).

Collapsable camping chairs that fould up into a bag, are a MUST
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Disposable BBQ's (there only about £1 each) even if your not cooking anything they provide heat when your sitting out at night. You can easiy heat tinned food up on them too, just be caureful.

Wet wipes as suggested

A hoodie to sleep in if it's cold at night
 
Dont pitch your tent to close to the toilets, or to bushes for same reason.
Have fun, and look out for the people giving out free cider inside the place, always good, also read that if you take any beer they will swap it for carling, so stock up on some cheep third world beer then traid it in. Im only going fo a day this year but the best tip would be avoide pooing for the entier weekend if at all posible.
 
hargi said:
the best tip would be avoide pooing for the entier weekend if at all posible.
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Oh yes, that's tip number 1 - just hold it in. Really. It's not worth the loss of your dignity to attempt to use the toilets of doom.

My next best tip would be to take a little multi-tool thingy. I had on with a little torch on it, pliers, knife, sereted blade etc - very handy when cooking on the disposable barbie, and for just about anything really.

And tell the girlfriend to beware the toilets where they hand out 'lady funnels' for the discerningly lady about town who likes to pee standing up :)
 
Redman said:
Oh yes, that's tip number 1 - just hold it in. Really. It's not worth the loss of your dignity to attempt to use the toilets of doom.
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If it's anything like reading just use the ones in the arena, they're much nicer. Although it's very offputting because they are unisex toilets in practice (in other words everyone turns a blind eye to pervy women in the blokes bogs, bet they wouldn't do the same if I went to take a dump in the women's).
 
Festival camping? Is that where you walk around in pink, hand on hip, little pinky finger out watching Kylie Minogue on stage?
 
Hades said:
Festival camping? Is that where you walk around in pink, hand on hip, little pinky finger out watching Kylie Minogue on stage?
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Dont try and tell me youve never done it ;)
 
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