I was lucky to be old enough to have been ar free festivals/ parties in the 90’s. My summers just involded travelling from one to another. We got hold of a handwritten piece of paper that was produced by the free information network and that contained all we needed.
The last free festival I went to was outside Luton and organised by Exodus and that was 6 years ago.
The authorities have effectively squashed these festivals and I am ashamed to say many who started with high ideals now make lots of money butting on shit commercial things.
However there are still hundreds of good festivals/ gatherings, just search about and avoid the commercial ones with big names and security that hate people having fun.
There are smaller ones that leave you smiling and not ripped off. Workhouse and sunrise were two I went to last year that fit that i enjoyed last year.
check out
http://www.campscene-directory.co.uk for a list of gatherings that you might either love or go running for everything plastic and commercial that you can find
The 2000 exodus festy is still a very sore point for me. My van threw a rod through the block on the m25.(my fault) No insurence or mot the ob had a field day. twelve month ban and £600 in fines, missed the whole fucking thing. The last free festy i went to was dragon this year which was shit hot even if it was a little to organised, the first i went to was i think called torpedo town prob 1992. Couldnt have not gone really considering about a thousand travellers descended on the little lane we used to live on. seemed to be a wierd one. all the locals were shitting themselves my mum included and the police didn
‘ know what to do.Total fucking chaos! The festival seemed to shift from one location to another as the police attempted to stop it. It started in romsey and i think finally finished up near winchester. We had crusties hanging round for months after there used to be loads of little sites full of old buses and army lorries. This was definatley a defining point in my life :crazy: :crazy:
