Festival Guides

Family festivals: smiley happy children
Family festivals: smiley happy children
So you've taken the plunge and decided to take your children to your favourite festival. Take heed, this isn't your opportunity to relive your glory days of yesteryear - it's going to be much more fun...
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Festival First Timer Guide
Festival First Timer Guide
Follow these guidelines and you shouldn't go wrong...
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Travelling To Festivals
Travelling To Festivals
Travelling to festivals can actually be fun. Just know what you're getting yourself into...
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A Rough Guide To Rock Festivals
A Rough Guide To Rock Festivals
Be it Download, Bloodstock, Reading or a rock festival on the continent, for the hardcore among you there are a few rules which are not to be broken...
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A Rough Guide to Dance Festivals
A Rough Guide to Dance Festivals
Whether a full weekend or a 12 hour marathon, dance festivals are a beast unto their own - and as such have their own sets of rules...
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Safe Sex at Festivals
Safe Sex at Festivals
Festivals are dirty at the best of times, so stay protected if you're planning on getting down to it.
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Keeping Clean At Festivals
Keeping Clean At Festivals
Spending three days in the country with tens of thousands of sweaty strangers brings its own set of hygiene hazards. But with a little time and effort all can be overcome. Here's how:
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Alcohol At Festivals
Alcohol At Festivals
Festivals and booze may go hand in hand but that doesn't mean you need to be on it from start to finish. Enjoy yourself by drinking responsibly and if you don't know how to do that, read on:
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Drugs At Festivals
Drugs At Festivals
Despite being as illegal as anywhere else, drugs taking at festivals can be rife. Best then that you know
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Beat the weather with The AA
Beat the weather with The AA
What is it about the British weather? We're obsessed by it. But despite it being particularly rubbish this year, The AA are on hand to offer a steady head when it comes to travel...
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The AA Guide To Driving To Festivals
The AA Guide To Driving To Festivals
With excitement at Himilayan levels, and with so much else to remember, it's often easy to forget about preparing your drive to festivals - and about all the potential pitfalls that could meet you on the way...
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The Ultimate Festival Survival Guide
The Ultimate Festival Survival Guide
Whether it be mastering the mosh-pit, tackling touts, keeping yourself mud-free, or just arriving at a festival fully prepared, our survival guide series will help keep you one step ahead this summer...
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Help find festival stars of the future
Help find festival stars of the future
With MySpace becoming increasingly cluttered with gospel choirs and bluegrass combos, a new website, Bandwagon.co.uk, has just been set up to provide an alternative online music community.
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