The Festivals of 2012 By Liam Martin It’s undeniable that the world of festivals has reached an apex in the UK, it’s festival event horizon. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to suppose that there must be 2 or 3 each weekend from May to October these days, and it’s not uncommon for people to mention festivals that they’ve been to that you may have never heard of. Old ones have been closing down and new ones have been popping up for the past few years at a rate that would confuse the shit out of the hippie population of San Francisco circa 1969. I’ve been attending music and arts festivals every year for the last 12 years or more and I’ve had my ups and downs. We’ve all had those moments of cowering in a sopping wet tent well past the witching hour, head in a mess feeling like “I can’t do it anymore”, only to find yourself the next night in a tent full of men, women, straight people, gay people, bi people, husbands, wives, pirates, sailors, animal masks, baboons and idiots dancing like you’re at the restaurant at the end of the universe and there’s nothing [...]
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