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UK Music Festivals - Essential Packing Guide
National World - National Videos
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12/08/2024
Benjamin Jackson runs through a quick few ideas what to bring to a music festival in the United Kingdom, and some of the rules to help your festival experience not turn out to be a wash out - weather permitting.
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This young man right here is about to embark on a rite of passage many that
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finish full-time education are about to embark on, the music festival. Isn't that
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right boyo? Boy is it, I can't wait to go and meet a whole bunch of new people on
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a campsite, drink some alcohol potentially, and then check out a couple
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of bands that I told everybody I'm already aware of but now have to fake it
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to make it at the festival. And I trust all of your packing has been completed?
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What? Packing for the festival. Well I was just gonna get some playing cards and try
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and win everything in a game of poker or three-card Monty at the campsite. Oh come
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on that's beneath you. Let's pack her back together shall we?
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Will you be camping at the festival? Then perhaps first and foremost check that
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all of your camping gear is in one place, with the necessary guidelines and tent
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pegs to keep your belongings in one place and not blow away. For many music
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festivals they will allow you to bring a hammer for setting up your tent and a
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number of other items such as cutlery, pots and pans, but will only allow you to
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have them on the campsite. However objects that could be considered a
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weapon are prohibited. What pray tell are you doing with all of those bottles of
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alcohol? I thought I would bring some alcohol with me, you know, a fair amount of
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alcohol. I heard that people like to drink alcohol, maybe I'll make some money
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on the side selling it to people that might have forgotten. You can only bring
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enough for personal consumption, so maybe put some of those bottles away, correct?
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Attaboy. All right, all right, I'll put it back. Nobody really wants to be that
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blessed at a festival, bear that in mind will you? Ensure that your sleeping bag
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is stuffed into its sack, that it's clean and warm and that it can be easily
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carried around with you with your backpack of festival items. As for what
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to pack in your bag, experts who have been to numerous festivals advised the
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following items. Warm clothing, nobody wants to catch day of death at a
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festival with a cold, better take a light rain jacket. Plastic ponchos may be
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for sale, but do your bit for the environment. You should also bring a
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spare pair of shoes in the event of muddy conditions alongside spare
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clothing, but think light. Remember, you need to pack all these items to bring
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home with you at the end of your festival experience. I have decided to
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leave my suspenders and my pair of knickerbockers at home, as I do not think
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I will need them on the campsite. That sounds like an excellent call. Now, what
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else were you planning on taking with you? Well, it would be foolhardy for me
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not to bring a form of identification with me, my keys, my cash card for
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contactless purchases, a toothbrush, I was going to bring the medications that I
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need, some legal highs. Come again? Legal highs, I got them from a guy at the
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petrol station. No, no, no, even if they're considered legal highs, all forms of
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drugs including laughing gas have been banned at festivals, so put it down, put
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it down. But you are quite right, bring with you a form of identification, of
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course your festival ticket, you might want to bring with you your contactless
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cash card or some petty cash, just in case of network congestion, a phone
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charger and maybe a power bank as well. But mind you, a lot of the festivals
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themselves do happen to have charging stations, so inquire within. Wow, watching
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a gig through a viewfinder, I'm still having problems dealing with talkies
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mister, and I am gonna bring some toilet paper because I am a three-ply kind of
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person. Well done, and that's pretty much everything that you need, so from all of
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us here, have a great festival. Say goodbye Jimmy. My name is Benji.
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