PROS:
Atmosphere by all was vitually perfect...by the festival goers that is!
Such a massive benefit from having less people there with camping aswell
Loos were good this time
set times were much better this year too! The special bonus in that shitmat played unexpectedly WHICH WAS F*CKING SICK!!!!! HEHE... I well thought he was doing another festival in belgium or summit but i aint complaining about it hehe!
CONS:
Line up could have been better IMO...ok yeah Pendulum attracted a big crowd but for their prices they could have had 4/5 other top acts easily (i only went to see 1 of their songs and they still didn't impress me much)... I would have preffered pendulum not to play ANY other DnB/breakcore/jungle/techno artist to go on in there slot instead coz you could tell the crowd wanted MORE!!!!! or even noisia being on that slot instead or summit? That would have been better than the jam packed main stage!
Sound levels were absolutely shocking!!! Friday overkill was worst than Global Gathering's sound last year (and thats saying summit)... Saturday was better but i think thats mainly because we started a "turn it up" chant during Donna Summer's/ Shitmats set which everyone joined in on!!! Friday really was shocking though! I spent most the time in the overkill for BANGFACE (obviously) and i could talk to pretty much everyone at a normal level which meant i wasn't dancing much!!! It was such a shame coz Friday was sposed to be the mental night to go mad on and i couldn't coz you barely hear the music!!! The only reason people settled for it was the promise that it would be much better on the saturday! Thats why i think EVERYONE chanted "turn it up" on the sat too coz i don't think people would have stood for another quiet night in that tent!!!
Water points were poor!!! On the map it clearly showed 3/4 water points around the overkill and breaksday stages! me and a friend went walking to find them on the thursday and couldn't see them! I lodged a complaint to one of the stewards...coz it was one of them things that COULD have been reftified very easily (and fairplay to him he did tell his seniors) But nothing was done about it after that!!!! I'm starting to think it was a ploy to make more money on the bars with water!!! (which btw they didn't need coz i had mates working in the bars and said they were taking a good 20k+ a day...which is good in any bar!!!)
AND the security!!!! WTF was up with the HARSH searching???? My Mate got busted on the thursday for what they found on him (which was all for personal use i might add) and they were right c*nts about it!!! he ended up spending thursday night in a f*cking police cell and they said he couldnt come in the festival!!! SO not needed!!! when he got out i got him back in anyway coz he still had his fully paid ticket that they didnt bother to take away so it worked out in the end!!!
Overall it was a sick weekend and i had a hell of a good time but i felt like it was missing something because the lack of heavy pumping bass that i could get my teeth into!!! By the sunday i didn't actually feel like i had danced that much at all!!! Next year i think they should use the kind of money the used to attract pendulum to pay off some of the locals (who normally complain) into letting friday and saturday night being LOUDER!!! coz lets face it, whats the difference with a club playing loud music until 4AM??? they're both licensed to go on that late! ANDpeople live close to them aswell ya know? I say f*ck the locals... its one weekend of the whole bloody year that has almost been ruined thanks to them!!! and its something i'm going to think long and hard about going to next year!!!... I can get bangface every month and so why i should i pay over a hundred quid to go in a tent that i can talk in!!! i can do that in my garden with a hi fi!
Apart from that it was bo!



). They seemed to get the picture about halfway through the Orb's set, but it was a bit late by then.



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