XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
Yesterday XmrsIS and I had, without a doubt, the worst festival experience of our lives.
We booked tickets for "Supernormal", which is a festival near Reading. It was advertised as being an international artists festival on a 50-acre site. We were both keen to go, being very involved in the arts as we are. We expected to find several fields bustling with artists, stalls, workshops, networking possibilities, etc.
Well now ... we got there to find a huge 50-acre site ... with about 200 people at the very most, all gathered together round some makeshift art stalls. The quantity of art on sale would have comfortably fitted onto one shelf of a charity shop and it was shoot. There was one food stall in total and it had run out of food by noon. The "main stage" was five or six palettes laid flat with some chipboard nailed onto them. The "beer tent" was a caravan selling homebrew out of a black plastic bin and it looked like piss and had things floating in it. The only live music was coming from another "stage", which was like the main stage only it had a roof and looked like an old ramshackle shed (which it probably was). The live music was also shoot. The "toilets" were a couple of open pits in the ground which stank to buggery and were visibly full of shoot.
We drove 1 1/2 hours up to it ... stayed for half and hour and then left and went on a shopping trip into Reading.
The only consolation is that XmrsIS only paid £10 in total for both tickets together because she got them through an artist's organisation. Ordinarily, the tickets cost £30 each, per day. Had we paid that, I would have demanded my money back. Seriously!
I challenge you to top that as the worst festival you've ever been to!
We booked tickets for "Supernormal", which is a festival near Reading. It was advertised as being an international artists festival on a 50-acre site. We were both keen to go, being very involved in the arts as we are. We expected to find several fields bustling with artists, stalls, workshops, networking possibilities, etc.
Well now ... we got there to find a huge 50-acre site ... with about 200 people at the very most, all gathered together round some makeshift art stalls. The quantity of art on sale would have comfortably fitted onto one shelf of a charity shop and it was shoot. There was one food stall in total and it had run out of food by noon. The "main stage" was five or six palettes laid flat with some chipboard nailed onto them. The "beer tent" was a caravan selling homebrew out of a black plastic bin and it looked like piss and had things floating in it. The only live music was coming from another "stage", which was like the main stage only it had a roof and looked like an old ramshackle shed (which it probably was). The live music was also shoot. The "toilets" were a couple of open pits in the ground which stank to buggery and were visibly full of shoot.
We drove 1 1/2 hours up to it ... stayed for half and hour and then left and went on a shopping trip into Reading.
The only consolation is that XmrsIS only paid £10 in total for both tickets together because she got them through an artist's organisation. Ordinarily, the tickets cost £30 each, per day. Had we paid that, I would have demanded my money back. Seriously!
I challenge you to top that as the worst festival you've ever been to!
