Modern festivals.
I did a lot of free festies in the 80s, Stonehenge, Ribblehead, Bristol and Avon and a few others. I did Glasto too, but it was still pretty anarchic, you could get over teh fence and Old Bill weren't allowed on site, so the drugs were pretty in your face. The hot knife bus was good, 20p a hit or 6 for a quid. Through a gas mask, superb!
I didn't go for a number of years, till I went to Reading in the late 90s. What a bummer. Place crawling with cops and security, not allowed to take your own beer into the arena, and overpriced food, that was crap. Blah blah, moaning old hippy. Is the Wicker Man on this year, that sounds pretty old school?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 8 Jun 2009, 10:11, 3 replies)

wickerman
yeaaa its on :D

i cant go though :(

and security is doubling up since people brought glass bottles to the main gate and tried to glass a steward apparently. not sure if thats true or not though so dont quote me.
(Kuja335, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 18:46, closed)

Lots and lots
Of security at Wicker man.

I suggest Sunrise festival in Somerset. Amazng, friendly, not too big, very clourful and fun.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 19:05, closed)

solfest mate
solway festival

its not crazy like the old bashes but its easy going and theres still the capability to be completly off your box and find you have been bought a brew and been given a blanket

and the bands occasionally thank the crowd for the shrooms :D
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 21:25, closed)