Do You Fest?

Do you enjoy music festivals?! Which festival is your favorite? Who do you go to see? Do you have a unicorn*? Do you ever volunteer? Do you go solo or with a crew? What has been your favorite festival memory? Where will you be this year?



"There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it." - Mickey Hart




* A concert, festival, or other musical event that you KNOW IS OUT THERE, but you just can't seem to get to it. :S

ChristianBane wrote: Do you enjoy music festivals?! Which festival is your favorite? Who do you go to see? Do you have a unicorn*? Do you ever volunteer? Do you go solo or with a crew? What has been your favorite festival memory? Where will you be this year?

* A concert, festival, or other musical event that you KNOW IS OUT THERE, but you just can't seem to get to it. :S

Every year for about 5 years I've said 'next year I'm going to Rock Am Ring' and I still haven't. I've been to Download festival which is held here in England, however, to see Korn, Marilyn Manson, Devildriver etc (it's been a while since I last went).
This year I'm finally having a holiday, but I drove the length of the country to see Rammstein last year which is good enough for me.

I love festivals. I've never been to one of the really huge ones but I'm determined to go to Glastonbury sometime in the next few years. I volunteered once, as a 'site viber', which was pretty awesome - it basically involves making the site look really pretty (flags, bunting, art installations. pretty lights, etc etc) during the week leading up to the festival, then during the festival you don't have to work at all but you have full access to all the volunteer facilities.

I like to go with other people who allow me the freedom to wander off on my own. I find it can actually be quite limiting to stick with other people the whole way through as inevitably you don't get to see everything that you want to see. But equally, it gets lonely without company, so I like a good balance.

I've been to a couple of Larmer Tree fests in my time and they're wonderfully mellow.

I'll be at SummerCamp near Chillicothe, IL coming up real soon!! It's one of my favorite festivals and I have a lot of family/friends that come out to get down there every year. I'll also be at Wakarusa near Ozark, AR and Lock'n near Arrington, VA… I can't wait!! Lock'n was my unicorn last year, but I bought tix early this year nothing will stop me from attending This is going to be a great festival season!

I'll be at SummerCamp near Chillicothe, IL coming up real soon!! It's one of my favorite festivals and I have a lot of family/friends that come out to get down there every year. I'll also be at Wakarusa near Ozark, AR and Lock'n near Arrington, VA… I can't wait!! Lock'n was my unicorn last year, but I bought tix early this year nothing will stop me from attending This is going to be a great festival season!

I have a unicorn in which all the bands that are on my symph/prog metal Pandora station* play at a festival in which I am attending in its entirety.

* Bands include Symphony X, Rhapsody of Fire, Edguy, Masterplan, Nightwish, Kamelot, and Dark Moor.

But in general, I do not like big sweaty crowds of people.

I don't fest, but I used to rave. I probably would, perhaps I should!

Adder wrote: I don't fest, but I used to rave. I probably would, perhaps I should!

There's a good amount of crossover rave --> fest… try it out, you might like it

I didn't miss a Glastonbury (I think the biggest festival in the UK) between 2000 and 2012. It's painful when it comes on TV now... but.. kids.

The last few years I've been to Hard Rock Calling in London, because Bruce was playing.

I've also been to Reading, V, Latitude, Great Escape, Hop Farm and countless small ones. I even helped put on the Luton Love Music Hate Racism festival a few years back, that was a lot of fun. Working with some really weird genres.

I love them. They're a great environment for discovering something new, and in my opinion the bigger the festival, the more likely you'll find something really special. One of my favourite things about Glastonbury was always the circus tent - some of the things I got to see in there were truly mind-boggling... and no, I hadn't "partaken" (well.. not always )