icklerockchick
slow but steady!
Had been looking forward to Leeds festival for a while, festivals tend to be really pricey - ticket plus travel costs over 200quid and then everythings really rediculously overpriced once there. 2pound for 500ml bottle of water lol!!
This was my second festival this summer had already been to Download in June so meant festivals instead of a holiday for me this year! And leeds was a total DISASTER has totally put me off going to festivals for a while :cry:
It was full of school children all drunk and on drugs and causing chaos! The arena where the bands are during the day was fine but the campsite we were in was a riot! On the saturday night someone jumped on our tent and broke it, luckily I was in my friends tent at the time so not injured. Tape it back together and it just about looks like it will hold. Gets really cold and its getting late so head in to go to bed. Then ANOTHER idiot jumps on our tent while we are in it, landing on us and breaking the tent again!
Speak to security and the welfare people who are all really nice and helpful but sadly very very busy constantly breaking up fights and such. They find us a tent that got left behind from someone who got evicted and we are about to set it up in a different spot in same campsite, but just as they are helping us loads of fights break out in that area and we decide we would be better off staying in the welfare tent so we cart all our belongings up there.
So what is the welfare tent? Basically all the people they find passed out around the site are brought here. And if first aid doesn't think they need an ambulance this is where they spend the night. I would say NOONE in there was over 18. Most had just got too drunk and passed out, some had taken drugs and were freaking out (one girl stayed up all night hyper ventilating, crying and repeating i am scared and i don't know where i am ALL NIGHT LONG). My boyfriend got no sleep I managed an hour at about 5am. Basically we knew we couldn't do that for another night. This was only 6am on the Sunday morning and our bus wasn't leaving til 11am on the Monday. So we paid to get the bus into Leeds city centre and managed to get our bus tickets transferred to a bus that day instead. Missed out a whole day of the festival because some people were hellbent on ruining it for everyone else such a shame!
Sorry for the rant!
On the plus side I ate all the wrong food all weekend and plenty booze and managed to STS
Going to complain to the organisers see what they have to say! There was defo not enough security staff and a lot of people seemed to buy day tickets (you get a different coloured wristband) and there was NO wristband checks going back into the campsite so basically people could buy day tickets then get into the campsite and cause havoc all weekend! At least there is wristband checks going into the arena so they can't get back in there but I think its almost worse that they can roam about the campsite breaking into peoples tents and stealing stuff while they are away enjoying the bands!
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This was my second festival this summer had already been to Download in June so meant festivals instead of a holiday for me this year! And leeds was a total DISASTER has totally put me off going to festivals for a while :cry:
It was full of school children all drunk and on drugs and causing chaos! The arena where the bands are during the day was fine but the campsite we were in was a riot! On the saturday night someone jumped on our tent and broke it, luckily I was in my friends tent at the time so not injured. Tape it back together and it just about looks like it will hold. Gets really cold and its getting late so head in to go to bed. Then ANOTHER idiot jumps on our tent while we are in it, landing on us and breaking the tent again!
Speak to security and the welfare people who are all really nice and helpful but sadly very very busy constantly breaking up fights and such. They find us a tent that got left behind from someone who got evicted and we are about to set it up in a different spot in same campsite, but just as they are helping us loads of fights break out in that area and we decide we would be better off staying in the welfare tent so we cart all our belongings up there.
So what is the welfare tent? Basically all the people they find passed out around the site are brought here. And if first aid doesn't think they need an ambulance this is where they spend the night. I would say NOONE in there was over 18. Most had just got too drunk and passed out, some had taken drugs and were freaking out (one girl stayed up all night hyper ventilating, crying and repeating i am scared and i don't know where i am ALL NIGHT LONG). My boyfriend got no sleep I managed an hour at about 5am. Basically we knew we couldn't do that for another night. This was only 6am on the Sunday morning and our bus wasn't leaving til 11am on the Monday. So we paid to get the bus into Leeds city centre and managed to get our bus tickets transferred to a bus that day instead. Missed out a whole day of the festival because some people were hellbent on ruining it for everyone else
such a shame!Sorry for the rant!
On the plus side I ate all the wrong food all weekend and plenty booze and managed to STS
Going to complain to the organisers see what they have to say! There was defo not enough security staff and a lot of people seemed to buy day tickets (you get a different coloured wristband) and there was NO wristband checks going back into the campsite so basically people could buy day tickets then get into the campsite and cause havoc all weekend! At least there is wristband checks going into the arena so they can't get back in there but I think its almost worse that they can roam about the campsite breaking into peoples tents and stealing stuff while they are away enjoying the bands!
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