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Music is intimate. Music is meaningful. And more often than not, at festivals, music means mayhem – in a good way. There are so many festivals this year, its no wonder the music culture is buzzing in anticipation. If music is your thing, get yourself to these top five2010 music festivals, which include, in chronological order, the Isle of Wight (11 June – 13 June), Isle of Man Bay Festival (18 June – 20 June), Glastonbury (23 June – 27 June), Glade (15 July – 18 July), and the Big Chill (5 August – 8 August).
Isle of Wight (11 June – 13 June)
What an amazing event to kick off the year, the first great UK rock festival ever. In 1968 Marc Bolan of T-Rex opened the one-day event with intimate folk songs, now JayZ, The Strokes, Blondie, Calvin Harris and Paul McCartney are on the line-up to carry the torch of great tunes over an entire three days. Catch a ride to Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, with £150 and dig it.
Isle of Man Bay Festival (18 June – 20 June)
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Get yourself to Noble’s Park, Douglas, on the Isle of Man, to see The Feeling, The Coronas, Ruth Lorenzo, JLS and Lemar over three days. Just £149 will cover your ferry, a place to pitch your tent, and, of course, a festival pass.
Glastonbury (23 June – 27 June)
For music culture, this is a must indeed. You are bound to get messy in what tends to happen at this famous festival, which started way back on 19 September 1970 – the day after Jimi Hendrix died. Back then a ticket cost £1 and there was free milk for all festival goers, all 1,500 of them. Now the festival of contemporary performing arts welcomes almost 140,000 people. Jack Johnson has confirmed to play this year but tickets are sold out already so, make a plan – there are cancellation tickets available, you just have to find them.
Glade (15 July – 18 July)
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Four days of arts and electronic music, lots of lights and dance floors and colourful people, some, sleeping in tipis and yurts. When you party at Glade you’ve entered into a family of fun-loving dancers till dawn. This year, Tricky, Orbital and Simian Mobile Disco headline the festival and all they ask at the gate is £135.
The Big Chill (5 August – 8 August)
This is the ultimate multimedia festival, where all music goes, and all creativity is encouraged. This is the place where the spirit of our times is supposedly under reconstruction in the working fields of explosive experience. The festival sees 35,000 people nowadays, but in 1994, when Pete Lawrence and Katrine Larkin brought on The Big Chill, there were 500 partygoers. So there’s always room for more. Early bird tickets were available at £145, and full-time students get a discount.
Festival stuff
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So, there are a few things you should take with you when partying at a 2010 music festival, especially when camping there among the beats and the muddy feet. You will need durable shoes – wellies are brilliant because they are tough and easy to slip on and keep clean. They look fun too. No mud pool will intimidate you in these boots. You will need a good sturdy tent – depending on how many people will be staying with you, the number of which will fluctuate throughout the festival, you might want to take a tent with enough room and that is easy to set up. And, for a great cooking experience, a smallish portable barbeque would serve you and your buddies well.
Other than that, rock ‘n roll, with flowers in your hair and neon paint on your face.
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