V festival - you messy lot

VWsurfbum

just got back from my local ride and passes through part of the V festival, well it was carnage, through the single track i was dodging tents, beer cans, chairs, inflatable beds.
i would say the amount of empty tents reached the tens of thousands and there were the odd person sifting through the carcus.

anywhoo
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butcher of bakersfield

Set yourself up an ebay tent store..

Northwind

You know what bloody annoys me? At most festivals they collect unwanted tents for disaster relief and similiar, all you have to do is take it down and bag it and drop it off, easy. So why is it c**ts insist on burning theirs down, slashing them with knives, jumping on them and breaking all the poles... Just bloody take it down and hand it in you s****hawks.

Not aimed at anyone in particular, unless you're one of those people who does this, in which case- you're a c***

VWsurfbum

Northwind
very well said. i only hope they save all these tents for something along the lines you said.
The wife suggested i go and get them "all" to sell on ebay. :shock:

kona_matt

a work colleague of mine is a scout leader and they used to take the scouts there every year to pick out the best of tents left behind. this was until a rather high percentage of the tents turned out to have been used as a toilet for most of the weekend. :shock: that's right, bucket fulls of filth! lovely. they had to stop after that.

more evidence that the class of your average festival goer is on a rapid decline. i used to go to V every year until about 3 years ago when i realised that i was surrounded in chav idiots popping pills, snorting poppers, pissing in cups (which subsequently get thrown into the crowd) and starting fights. never again.

mudsucker

Haven't been to a festival for about 4 years ago but i went to reading 4 years in a row. Seen some great bands but there are definatly more tw@ts going now and i got fed up of it. On the monday when it is time to leave there were tents on fire, rubbish being throw around and morons throwing aerosols on the fire. Genuinly felt in danger like being in a war zone, not fun!

snotty badger

Two years ago at Leeds evryone went nuts, fires everywhere- not a nice feeling.

They wouldn't behave like that normally- cnuts.

TheNorthernTrain

snotty badger wrote:

Two years ago at Leeds evryone went nuts, fires everywhere- not a nice feeling.

They wouldn't behave like that normally- cnuts.

Was like that 5 years, 4 years, 3 years ago as well. Nothing new.

thekickingmule

north-sure wrote:

snotty badger wrote:

Two years ago at Leeds evryone went nuts, fires everywhere- not a nice feeling.

They wouldn't behave like that normally- cnuts.

Was like that 5 years, 4 years, 3 years ago as well. Nothing new.

And 8 years ago when I went!

Thewaylander

To be honest, I find it a statement about the human race.

People are getting meaner, more unthoughtful and just generally unpleasent. It's just obvious at a festival cos you have so many people piled on top of each other.

snotty badger

north-sure wrote:

snotty badger wrote:

Two years ago at Leeds evryone went nuts, fires everywhere- not a nice feeling.

They wouldn't behave like that normally- cnuts.

Was like that 5 years, 4 years, 3 years ago as well. Nothing new.

I've been the last 4 years but 2 years ago was really bad. Maybe I was more sober?!

Last year wasn't nearly as bad. Giving it a miss thia year, getting a bit tired of it TBH.

TheNorthernTrain

snotty badger wrote:

north-sure wrote:

snotty badger wrote:

Two years ago at Leeds evryone went nuts, fires everywhere- not a nice feeling.

They wouldn't behave like that normally- cnuts.

Was like that 5 years, 4 years, 3 years ago as well. Nothing new.

I've been the last 4 years but 2 years ago was really bad. Maybe I was more sober?!

Last year wasn't nearly as bad. Giving it a miss thia year, getting a bit tired of it TBH.

Well it gradually got worse over the 3 years i was there and in the last year i went 2 of my friends both had their rucksacks with all their clothes in nicked from the tent they were sleeping in on the last night after the fires and what not had started going down.

Biggus86

That was right near my base... there was diversion signs when i was coming back on sunday

spongtastic

I used to work clearing up after v and the Chelmsford spectacular at hylands, knew the grounds staff and had fun, but after 2005 I stopped going, too many belmers and mongs, being 35 and listening to some 18 year old pleb puking up a crate of stella isn't fun or funny. Mind you, spraying them with lighter fluid and a burning match is.
We used to clear the tents and give them to charity but now it's all skipped for health issues,

Gazlar

As i've harped on, i'min Portugal at the mo, having spent ten days at Boom Festival and the atmosphere was lovely, almost everyone cleaned up after themselves, I saw no fights and just in general it was fantastic to be there, and a lot of these guys here were off their heads on drugs. Completely different to british festivals in its atmosphere, all that I didn't like was the standard european ability to queue

kona_matt

gazderry wrote:

As i've harped on, i'min Portugal at the mo, having spent ten days at Boom Festival and the atmosphere was lovely, almost everyone cleaned up after themselves, I saw no fights and just in general it was fantastic to be there, and a lot of these guys here were off their heads on drugs. Completely different to british festivals in its atmosphere, all that I didn't like was the standard european ability to queue

similar to the festival i went to in St Gallen, Switzerland a fews years ago. would love to go to that again. had a river running through the camp site and everyone spent most of the day sitting in the water drinking beer before heading to the stages for later afternoon. typically swiss, very well behaved even though they were off their heads (not typically swiss)

biff55

gazderry wrote:

As i've harped on, i'min Portugal at the mo, having spent ten days at Boom Festival and the atmosphere was lovely, almost everyone cleaned up after themselves, I saw no fights and just in general it was fantastic to be there, and a lot of these guys here were off their heads on drugs. Completely different to british festivals in its atmosphere, all that I didn't like was the standard european ability to queue

no wonder the brits are shunned abroad , were just a bunch of pissed up selfish w@nkers.
agreed , totally different vibe to social events abroad , less volatile , more relaxed.

edit : and after living in Blackpool for 30 years , i've seen the absolute worst of drunken british yoof culture , its mind boggling awful.

explosifpete

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explosifpete

http://www.facebook.com/pages/bicycle-s ... 542?ref=ts

spud-face

when the the leeds folk got overly officious about fires and the like i stopped going. the last year (2004ish maybe) we'd been there a couple of hours, got the wimmins cooking up on a disposable bbq while we did manly stuff (a.k.a. fannying about with tents) when a squad of jackbooted SS types came storming into our patch with fire extinguishers and really bad attitudes. all the firebug bell-ends have ruined fests now that you can't have bonfires - time was you'd be staggering around looking for your tent and end up making friends with random bunches of folk sat around their fires.

some of the smaller festivals still have the (ir)responsible joys of old though - Endorse It In Dorset this year was the best festival i've ever been to - endlessly friendly, safe and clean, great range of music, with unobtrusive security and the attitude of "do whatever you want". if i had a family i'd happily take them there.

biff55

explosifpete wrote:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/bicycle-street-racing/139222762766542?ref=ts

wot the feck's that got to do with anything ? :?

Northwind

snotty badger wrote:

I've been the last 4 years but 2 years ago was really bad. Maybe I was more sober?!

Last year wasn't nearly as bad. Giving it a miss thia year, getting a bit tired of it TBH.

2002 was the big year for it, when Guns N Roses played, it was properly mad in the campsite that night... Some of the food stalls got burned out, as well as most of the toilets- nothing quite like the site of an exploding portaloo- then the riot squad turned up in the armoured vans, got shelled for a while then ran away. Only time I ever went to Leeds

They put in a "no fires on sunday night" rule which tbh spoiled it a lot, especially with it being cold and wet, the bellends still managed to set their tents on fire, it just meant the good people couldn't have a wee campfire.

n.battison

They banned all fires after 8pm on the Sunday this year at reading.

snotty badger

spud-face wrote:

some of the smaller festivals still have the (ir)responsible joys of old though - Endorse It In Dorset this year was the best festival i've ever been to - endlessly friendly, safe and clean, great range of music, with unobtrusive security and the attitude of "do whatever you want". if i had a family i'd happily take them there.

The only festival I've done this year was Kendal Calling. Which sounds very simular to the one above.

Got to say they had the cleanest toilets of any festival I've been too!

Northwind

n.battison wrote:

They banned all fires after 8pm on the Sunday this year at reading.

Yup. But on the plus side it was mostly enforced pretty well, because not all the security were mad scottish dolehounds this year. Bit of a shame for me since all I had to do was turn up the scottishness to 11 and call them all c**ts and I could get away with anything but the new people were so much more laid back for the most part. Still some bad ones but not like previous years

(we started a fire on sunday, after about 5 minutes 2 green vests with a bottle of water came over "Really sorry guys, but we'll have to put that out, hope that's OK", then we had a chat with them about Weezer. That's good work. Later in the evening I saw "PUT THAT ****ING FIRE OUT YOU CAAAAAAAAANTS" before people getting sprayed with fire extinguishers, not so good.

snotty badger

Aye theres some festival Nazis about- they really don't like being called festival nazis either

Northwind

The worst one I saw this year was threatening some kids with summary imprisonment, that was interesting "The Police are on our side here, they don't like you any more than I do so if we say you're going to prison, that's what'll happen. So watch it" Same guy came out with "Do you have any idea how many people were killed in fires last year at the festival? Dozens. Every year." I think he thought it was true too.

snotty badger

Did he finish his first statement with "I AM THE LAW!"

Northwind