wiped off other site …..:love:
Originally Posted by o’grady 
A lot of my favourite bits of the weekend were spent in the Rabbit Hole tent (Alice in Wonderland themed) cus it was warm, played lots of reggae and 70s funk, you could get a seat and re-group, get pissed before the night ahead.
Yes the Rabbit Hole was great, not quite as good as Glastonbury this year though as the actual small door in the back wall of the main tent that hid that actual rabbit tunnel led to a small tent that was invariably full of completely ketanized idiots, rather than a teepee full of the staff having a teaparty. Was really impressed with some of the open mic acts in there this year, I think it’s really good to have a tent that provides that sort of thing at a festival. I was stewarding for Oxfam and managed to blag all my shifts working there.
In terms of closing the festival- apparently they’d said if the rain hadn’t stopped by 2pm Friday they would have had to evacuate the whole site. It stopped 2pm on the dot. To be honest I think there’s a chance they might get in the shit with the authorities anyway for continuing with it- ambulances couldn’t get through the site to see to casualties. There was one completely fucked guy who was unresponsive and catatonic. He had to be strapped to a plank with belts and dragged through the site as they couldn’t get a vehicle to him. And at about 2am on Monday morning the poo truck (which hadn’t been able to get through the site for most of the festival meaning the toilets the worst I’d ever seen by a long long way) sank into the mud on the hill above some tents and started to slide a bit. They had to evacuate 400 people from the tents that it could have potentially landed on and then get some more vehicles to drain the poo from it so it didn’t wash over the tents below. The Tea and Empathy tent looked like a refugee camp, full of rows of people under those foil blankets the emergency services give out at the scene of an accident.
There was some really good music there. Squarepusher the last act on the Glade Stage on Sunday evening with the sun (finally) out was incredible. Was a bit annoying the music had to finish at 8pm Sunday though.
There was some incredible acts of humanity on Monday when everyone rallied together to get each other out of the carpark. One couple had been stuck in their car for 13 hours trying to get out of the mud. There were jumpstarts, tows and people pushing each other’s vehicles everywhere. No-one got irritable at all and the genuine concern that people were showing for complete strangers made me all emotional. And yes I was sober.
