Festvival Camping

diable

Condoms, Jack Daniels, Vodka and Mixers and loads of crisps and other munchies, change of clothes is a good idea but it doesn't work as most festivals are a drug and booze induced sex/shag fest............ ahhhhh the memories lol

roadiegirl

I wouldn't take jeans, there heavy, bulky and incredibly annoying if it rains! Plenty of cheap primark leggings and tights will keep you sorted for the weekend, easier to dry out and can be left if needed!

Empty_pockets

Beer and cash.

Wouldn't bother with owt else.

eamon

Not done it myself, but know folks that have Rock & Roll!

cabco22

My first Reading Festival (when I was 15) I took nothing for the whole weekend (officially I stayed at my mates house and he stayed round mine), quickly learned not to sleep under trees as thats where everyone goes to the toilet...lol I think I slept through most of sunday though! Oh and I paid a mate on the gate a fiver to get in each day...those were the days! I just looked up the year and a special festival weekend ticket was £14.50 with camping!!!! How times have changed. Now when I go to a festival with the family I take enough stuff to last a month or stay in a hotel...Oh and if the Gorge Cafe is still there it does a cracking breakfast! My top tip is to take a swimming costume and wander into town (at most festivals your not too far away from your car or town itself) and go for a swim at the local pool to freshen up. Nothing happens at festivals in the morning anyway. Have a great time and I hope your first Reading is as good as mine was!

roadiegirl

My friend came to the last leeds festival with 3 T-shirts, 2 pairs of shorts, 3 pairs of boxers, the clothes on his back and three big bottles of JD, and he had the best weekend ever!

System

I bought a cheap suitcase (the kind with wheels and a handle) and found it invaluable for carrying beer/alcohol!

Bin bags and wet wipes are also your friend.

Good luck with Reading (hope the sunday night there isn't as horrible as leeds fest was)

Also if you're female i recommend investing in some Uninelle (it will save you a lot of time queuing for the toilets)

apesxx

Dont buy an expensive tent, Ours was £40 when we went to a festival and we left it there as it was covered in mud, people had peed up the side of it in the night, most of the guide ropes were snapped by people tripping on them. I would recommend one of those ones that you literally chuck up in the air and it pops open and then peg it down. Dont bother with food, take quite a few crisps and choccy bars and just buy from the snack vans, a weekend of crappy food wont kill you.
Definates are: WELLIES, TENT, SLEEPING BAG, LOTS OF BABY WIPES, PACKETS OF TISSUES AS THEY ALWAYS RUN OUT IN THE LOOS, CRISPS AND CHOCCY BARS, BOTTLED WATER, TORCH (WE HAD A WIND UP ONE WHICH WAS GOOD AND A CAMPING CHAIR AND CHANGE OF CLOTHES.

Strapped

She-wee. But make sure you can use it before you go. Otherwise the gel packs for peeing in the middle of the night are handy too (else it's a b*gger trying to find your tent again afterwards )

loulou123

As a festival goer (in my younger days lol) there is NO way i would take an expensive/any contract mobile phone to a festival. As the chances are it will get stolen/lost/dropped in the mud/trodden on etc etc. I'd say to buy a very cheap PAYG and just use that for the weekend, especially as you are planning to take a seperate camera anyway.

My other top tip - as someone else has already mentioned, is to just buy a cheap tent, as i've NEVER brought the tent home with me, as its inevitably been peed on, someones been sick on/in it, someones managed to burn a hole in it with a cigarette - or its just covered in mud. Oh and also dont take anything that your not prepared to lose or throw away - even clothes, as one year i went to Reading and it was so wet and muddy, that my mum took one look at my clothes in my bag when i got home and threw the whole lot in the bin!!