GRAPHIC CONTENT
What we’ve been talking about this month After a quick glance across our Summer Festivals feature this issue, you will likely conclude that it’s almost impossible to avoid winding up at an outdoor fiesta, given that there are about three million of the blighters going on in every global nook and universal cranny. We know that such events are not for everyone, so we asked some seasoned campaigners to pick items they never go to a summer festival without. The findings may surprise, nay, disturb you . . .
GIN!
A TUPPERWARE BOX FULL OF VALIUM IF THAT’S ALLOWED?
If you’re boring and want to actually see some of the acts without dying, it’s the only way to get any sleep whatsoever
JUMPER, GLOVES, SCARF, HAT
I’m a cold person and trying to sleep in a
tent at these things is genuinely painful to me
A GIANT VAT OF ANTIBACTERIAL
HANDWASH TO SMOTHER ACROSS THE ENTIRE BODY Once you’ve contracted a tropical disease after a long stint in the exotic pastures of Liverpool’s Creamfields (true story), you learn your
lesson rather quickly
AN INCREASED TOLERANCE LEVEL
SUNSCREEN
It’s an excellent companion app to
optimism
A BLOW-UP MATTRESS
I took one once and inflated it with a car pump
and everyone was well jel
WET WIPES
IF IT’S ONE OF THOSE
FESTIVALS THAT DOESN’T LET YOU TAKE YOUR OWN BOOZE . . .
then a few flat plastic bottles are essential for smuggling in gallons of gin and some vermouth
A GOOD COOLBOX THAT
WILL KEEP ICE ALL WEEKEND FOR THE MARTINIS
Plus a waterproof
sleeping bag cover for when some idiot has fallen on your tent and
demolished it
AN RV
The only reason I got through Burning Man
1999 was the RV. Stocked with lots of water and food. And beer. And gin, tonic,
lemon and ice
GLOW STICKS!
They’re both a rave-aid and a handy torch. I
like to take a bunch and throw them like confetti
at a grateful crowd
4 THE LIST 2 Apr–4 Jun 2015
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