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Review of Download Festival 2019
The organisers made quite a few changes this year and, to be honest, not all of them worked! We didn't camp so I can't comment on the camping but friends of friends who did camp said it was dreadful, some even going home the day before the festival started. The arena itself wasn't too bad considering all of the rain the week leading up to the festival. Plenty of straw had been laid on the worse areas meaning it was mostly clay-like thick mud rather than the river of ankle-deep mud it was in 2016, for example. The bands were great, so many stand-out performances. Buying drinks from the bar, or merch, on the other hand was a complete nightmare. There were always massive queues for both. I had to get a t-shirt for my nephew, who couldn't make it because of work, and it took over an hour and a quarter, we missed one of the bands we wanted to see because of it. Simply not good enough. The other problem, as always, was the car park, especially on the last night. Whilst when you arrive there are plenty of stewards pointing you towards your parking space, after the festival ends there is no one and it become a free-for-all, meaning it is everyone for themselves and it takes far, far, longer to get out of the carpark as a result. Friends of mine left an hour before Tool ended their set and it took them over 90 minutes to get out of the South Car park. Given the rip-off parking fee, why should that be considered as "acceptable"? But then they have your money so they don't care. Fortunately we ignored the stewards when we arrived and found a parking space not too far from the car park exit and were out in 20 minutes. We saw all of Tool's set and were out of the car park before our friends!
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Review of Download Festival 2019
My first time at Download and despite the rain and the mud it was a brilliant experience watching two of my favourite bands, Whitesnake and Def Leppard. The atmosphere was really friendly; just people having a good time and loads of things to entertain: food, stalls, scary fairground attractions, people in fancy dress, or just men in dresses. It all ran to time near enough too. I only have a few minor criticisms; firstly the road directions were unclear to the South car park where everyone except campers would be headed and secondly £20 to park in a muddy field! A bit steep- the price not the field. Also, the footbridge over the road was a bottle neck for people returning to their cars. Lastly, for such a large gathering of people the security seemed to be quite minimal. I could have had anything in my pockets and walked through unchallenged. Minor issues but if the right bands were on I would definitely go back.
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Review of Chargecandy at Download Festival
The festival was good but charger let me down as before you used to get as much packs as you needed where as now you got one that lasted an hour with faulty charger wires. And you would think on the returning Monday they would open shop up earlier for the people who have to leave so I never got my deposit back.
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Would you recommended: No |
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