Your friends must just be lightweights then!
I can only partially remember a lot of the bands I've seen, festivals aren't 100% about the music for me though.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 11:43, 3 replies)

^this
my draw tolerance increases one-hundred-fold when I'm at a festival.

When I was at Roskilde I was with about 20 mates, and when anyone woke up in the morning they'd skin up. I'd usually be up 4th or so, so by the time we're all ready to go about our days I'd have had 16 spliffs inside me. Perfect setup for a day of music appreciation.

If you start to flag then you apply liberal quantities of mushrooms
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 11:50, closed)

True!
The friends who get off their tits on drugs are the ones I no longer go to festivals with.

I know of girlfriends and boyfriends who have only bought tickets to be with the other half, and I think that's absolutely ridiculous.

For me, it's all about the music during the day, and all about the drinking at night :D
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 11:55, closed)

FESTIVALS
I am an old lag, and I'm from a background of the old free festivals of the 80s (pre rave).

The festival experience was about the communal cane-up and the music merely a soundtrack. Reading always was a 3-day gig - not a proper festival. Now they're all like that.

I don't want to come across like some old Woodstock attendee but to me the only proper festival still running in this country is the Hawkfest.

All the rest are just 3-day gigs.

Best one ever: the Treworgey Tree Fayre.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 26 Feb 2009, 13:06, closed)