Consistently has one of the best line ups , and if you factor in the price (especially the early bird offer) by far the best value around . The following years line up is announced in full at the current years festival, so you know exactly what you are getting. The cost for us this year is exactly half of what we have paid for cropredy and Shrewsbury is even more expensive. Its also the friendliest festival by a country mile. The one problem it has is the waiting on the holding field on the Wednesday, they have to find a better way of getting people in more quickly. Apart from that it is outstanding , easily my favourite festival.
We have to do that because, despite saying in all publicity on every medium possible that the camping field opens at noon, people start queuing before 8am.
Some years ago, both locals and the Police got justifiably bent out of shape when the queue went back to the A36 and not only blocked Sherfield English Road (the lane where the entrance is) but the A36 IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
So we let you in, park you on the field out of the way until the camping fields are ready to open... at Noon.
Don't like it? Turn up at 13:30. There will still be plenty of room on the fields and you will not be put in the queuing field for 3 hours or so.
We endeavour to be very efficient in the way we deal with the queuing field, even extending the festival-internal-use-only WiFi so that our ticketing machines can (mostly) cope with sorting people out in advance.
Again: if you don't want to queue, don't arrive until we're OPEN.
Any queries on this, contact me.
