How to survive a festival:

Now you’ve perused the list of festivals, it’s time for a road trip.

Checklist:
1. Tent – don’t forget to pitch at the top of the hill, you don’t want to learn the hard way. Tag your tent with a flag too, you’d be surprised how different the campsite looks at night.
2. Ticket.
3. Loo roll – more valuable than gold.
4. Baby wipes.
5. Wellies.
6. Condom(s!)
7. Inhalers, contact lens stuff, tampons, hangover medicine, sun screen etc.
8. Torch.
9. Plastic bags – great for keeping you dry, putting wet clothes in, sitting on, keeping dry clothes from getting wet and if it’s big enough it can even keep you from getting wet. ah, the plastic bag.
10. Cash – banklink ques have a habit of ruining festivals.
11. Food – simple things like granola bars that will keep you going, before you spend a tener on a buffalo/wild boar burger.
11. Dry clothes for the drive home.
12. Fold-up chair – preferably one with a cup holder, treat it like a throne.
13. Beer – festivals won’t allow glass, so don’t bring any it’ll just be taken off you. Most festivals have restrictions on the amount of beer per person, look into it before you go.
14. Gazebo – handy for groups.

Pret-a-porter festival style:
1. Long woolie socks – and lots of them, they’re great with wellies.
2. Tights of any color – for under your socks, they give that extra warmth and bargin style.
3. Rain poncho – Necessary, buy a one before you go, it’ll save you queuing for hours to buy one that doesn’t actually work.
4. Hat.
5. Face-paint.