Festivals 2012

Having largely missed the 2011 'summer' (only had the van 2 weeks) im keen to plan some music festivals for next year. Im favouring the smaller (grown up) folk/blues events like the Cambridge Folk Festival, Cropredy and/or knebworth/donnington

anyone a regular on the festival scene with their vans??

Check out the Trowbridge Village Pump festival held in late July. Just celebrated its 38th year and probably fits the bill. Very enjoyable times!

We are checking out the "Blues in the Bay" event at Falmouth this year....October 7th and 8th.

Hello all,
We're new on here (collecting van tomorrow...eeeeeee!). For any Yorkshire/Northern folk, I just wanted to add that the Deershed festival near Thirsk is absolutely lovely. Fairly small but plenty going on, very family friendly but loads of fun for the grown-ups too, we had an absolutely beautiful time there last year.
Right, off to try and contain myself some more

Hi Pippy & Welcome to the Forum
Great news that you are picking up your Kombi tomorrow - hope all goes well
Would really like to see some pics of your Kombi in due course
What colour and specification have you selected?
What events are you looking at?
Plenty on here to consider
Questions, questions . . .
All the best
Rooby Roo

Welcome, Pippy, to the friendliest Forum on the net.

I'm guessing: Orange

Pink.

or maybe blue....

Hi Pippy - Welcome to BVWB - I reckon your lovely new Kombi will be Green
Good luck with the collection - and Tim usually asks people to get loads of pics from the first day/collection which get put up on here.

SJE --
The best Folk Fests that we go to are:

a) Priddy
b) Wimborne - okay if you are in the area
c) The Purbeck Festival - 1 week before Swanage - which is also good (great sessions in pubs)
d) Dartymoor (Dartmoor) - truly splendid
e) The Baring Gould Festival in Okehampton (October)
f) Beautiful Days (Devon - Levellers Fest - Great selection of folk/rock/blues etc and a great comedy tent)

And loads of others as the mood takes us - probably going to do Towersey this year too (Oxford Way)

Cheers - Batty

stephenjedward wrote:

Having largely missed the 2011 'summer' (only had the van 2 weeks) im keen to plan some music festivals for next year. Im favouring the smaller (grown up) folk/blues events like the Cambridge Folk Festival, Cropredy and/or knebworth/donnington

anyone a regular on the festival scene with their vans??

There is a new festival near us this year - see link below.

http://www.alostweekend.co.uk/festival.html

Plus Summer Sundae - which has a fab linup this year - gutted to be missing it.

Also - Glastonbudget is supposed to be excellent too. Let us know which ones you get to.

Thank you for the warm welcome! I'll post a picture when we're up and running.

P.s. well done Batman!

Oh Pippy - you tease!
Not going to tell us which colour the Kombi is then? - And have you thought of a name yet?
Cheers - Batty

I assumed that Pippy was congratulating you Batman because you'd guessed the correct colour - green!*







*which is of course the correct colour for a BraziBay!

Hi Walmsleys

OMG - How thick am I !! - What a muppet!
I thought Pippy was talking about my festival reviews! LOL
I'll just go back to sleep

Green eh! - Will be interesting to see what shade of green - will it be any match for Skytigers incredible hue!
It is a joy that there is such a vast spectrum of colours with our Kombi's - credit to Danbury (and private owners too) for that one - you can't call their colour range limited can you.
Cheers - Batty

hello here in the forum. welcome from me to you

Hi to Pippy from the Aldershot based folks,

WOMAD is an interesting festival - camping all booked up now but day tickets availble me thinks.

http://womad.co.uk/

Farm Fest nr Frome was a bit of a laugh last year, Sidmouth is always good with plenty to watch and listen to without buying anything but a few drinks, and the Isle of Wight festival is great although we've never actually camped on site, opting for a little more luxery (and peace) at a site a few miles away.

Hello, Pippy and welcome to the forum!

We are in North Yorkshire so perhaps will see you there

Captain Haddock wrote:

Check out the Trowbridge Village Pump festival held in late July.

HI captain, when you went to this you were about 15 mins walk from where I live. When it was on, I could sit in my garden with a pint listening in. I recollect it was cancelled last year, and they have now moved to a new site close to the Westbury white horse for this year.

When the kids were younger I've spent many a happy day down at Stowford, with them swimming in the river, in the summer hols.

Just booked for Latitude.
It will be our first festival in the camper.
It's me and my brother sharing which will be like old times but waking up with a hangover.

Walmsleys wrote:

green!* *which is of course the correct colour for a BraziBay!

We are taking over the world, welcome to the green side Pippy