Weekend festival camping - what to bring / pack ?

worded

Aside from the tent and sleeping bag, what's great to have?
What do you always wish you had brought ?

Grayson

jonnies

Boom_Bap

baby wipes

nelly17

Disposable BBQ
Antibac Gel
Antibac Wipes
Charged Power Brick for phone
Some food unless your happy paying 12 euro for a burger and chips all weekend
cooler bag

Lady is a tramp

Defo baby wipes, the Aldi ones are good, bring a couple of packs! Also bog roll, the Portaloos always run out. And a squirty water bottle, handy for brushing your teeth etc. Plastic bags are good to have (for rubbish, laundry etc.) Non-perishable snacks, e.g. cereal bars, tuna pouches, etc.

gifted

Taser gun....

Grayson

On a serious note:
A load of cereal/energy bars.
Imodium
Antacid
Paracetamol (Or preferably ibuprofen)
Insect repellant.
Anti histamines (besides hayfever they're good for lessening the itch from insect bites).
Suncream.

SEPT 23 1989

ignore all the suggestions here its a music festival not a bloody scout jamboree you are going to

Conall Cernach

A towel has many uses.

Akrasia

Bring a hand cart trolly thingy!

Throw the tent and bags and beers on it and it'll make your trip from the car to the your campsite a hell of a lot easier.

Burial.

Johnies, yokes, cans and a hip flask. And a few multi packs of green extra. Things like food and washing will fall into place naturally.

Rumpy Pumpy

48 cans of warm lager.

WHIP IT!

Bring an ability to pretend you're having a great time to cover up the reality that you're actually having a pretty horrific shared experience in a muddy field with a few thousand strangers...

podgemonster

Place a yoga mat under your sleeping bag to prevent the cold ground penetrating your sleeping bag.

Ciaran_B

Cigarettes. They can be used as currency if it all goes to hell.

Jrop

Lilo( folds flat is just as comfy as an airbed)
Baby Wipes
Dry Shampoo
Water
Toilet Roll
Wellies
light rain coat
A trolley to carry everything.
Painkillers
suncream
ear plugs

Badly Drunk Boy

Akrasia wrote: »

Bring a hand cart trolly thingy!

Throw the tent and bags and beers on it and it'll make your trip from the car to the your campsite a hell of a lot easier.

I've been to every Electric Picnic, and last year I brought one of them for the first time.

Disaster! The place was so muddy (especially going home) that the wheels' effectiveness was extremely diminished. Because I'm 6'5", the trolley was more upright than if a smaller person was using it, so every now and then, gravity wanted to pull my stuff away from the trolley rather than down towards it. Not good.

I would say...if there were better conditions and they're used by a non-freak, they are handy.


I always like to bring a few torches/lights with me, even if it's just for inside the tent, rummaging for all the other great things I have. And my charged power pack (for my phone and MP3 player) which can also be charged by the sun. After that, a towel, a few bags and toilet paper are always handy.

Beta Ray Bill

podgemonster wrote: »

Place a yoga mat under your sleeping bag to prevent the cold ground penetrating your sleeping bag.

Oh there'll be penetrating alright....

#Giggidy!

andekwarhola

Change of jocks and a tray of beer

diomed

Stuff bags

Lady is a tramp

Multiple pairs of socks, about twice as many as you think you'll need. Plasters. And if you're planning on taking photos, maybe bring a camera (if you have one) rather than wasting phone battery.

worded

Ok so, off to body and soul tomorow ... have made a list of all of the above

Esel

Corkscrew.

Paracetamol.

Dioralyte.

Hat.

Earplugs.

longshanks

Warm socks and hiking boots. Keep the foots warm and everything else will fall into place.

Witchie

Anyone saying toilet paper is a novice.

Bring a few pocket packs of tissues. Every day going into the gig slide 2 packs into your pockets and you are sorted. Toilet roll is bulky to carry with you and has a risk of falling into the portaloo. Little packs of tissue are so much more convenient.

Also soak some fruit in alcohol, make an alcoholic custard or jelly and get wasted for cheap.

Take a few bin bags with you. The make great cheap seating on damp ground and also a handy poncho should it/when it rains.

If you are female smuggle a bottle lid in your bra so you can top up the water bottle you buy in there.

Don't forget suncream, condoms and babywipes. If you can get the small packs of babywipes they are handy to carry in to the venue.

Enjoy.

Samaris

Another vote for baby wipes here, those things are a miracle.

Regarding the loo roll, portaloos aren't always great for flushing or for the pipe connections. Tissues tend to be thicker and may clog up the loos, so unless you fancy going to the loo in a hedge (as is also traditional on Day 2 when all the loos have packed up), may be better not to. (And you don't have to bring the entire bogroll to the toilets anyway!)

A separate torch is no harm too, unless you have some way of charging a phone without access to the mains. Phone torch uses up a lot of battery.

If you have a bog-standard two-man mostly-navy tent (and will thus have a tent that looks exactly like everyone else's), get a flag or a neon label or something to stick on it if your sense of direction isn't good.

Couple of black sacks. You never know when they'll come in handy. Including to wiggle the bottom of the sleeping bag into one and open the other out underneath when it turns out that cheapo Tescos tents are no longer waterproof once an idiot has leaped on it.

A separate flat pouch to wear under your clothes with emergency paper money in it in case you end up as one of the people that will inevitably have their bag or important-stuff-holder stolen. Mind you, I have a unstealable brick phone for that sort of thing.

If you can and you have the type of bag that will allow for it, a bag-lock. Won't make your bag impenetrable, just enough trouble not to bother with when there's easier pickings elsewhere.

Enjoy! Hope you get good weather for it!

LordSutch

Tent
Sleeping bag
Bum bag.

Toilet paper
Tooth brush
Soap

Bottled water
Bananas
Pot noodles

Sun screen
Mozzie repellent
Flannel & towel

Condoms?
Hairbrush
Sun glasses!

Enjoy.

charlietheminxx

Only a few I haven't spotted yet:

Duct tape (for tent repairs etc.)
Emergency Blankets (stick one under your camping mat or sleeping bag, they stop the cold from the ground making you freeze at night.

Del2005

An inflatable pillow.

LordSutch

Inflatable doll?

worded

Witchie wrote: »

Anyone saying toilet paper is a novice.

Bring a few pocket packs of tissues. Every day going into the gig slide 2 packs into your pockets and you are sorted. Toilet roll is bulky to carry with you and has a risk of falling into the portaloo. Little packs of tissue are so much more convenient.

Also soak some fruit in alcohol, make an alcoholic custard or jelly and get wasted for cheap.

Take a few bin bags with you. The make great cheap seating on damp ground and also a handy poncho should it/when it rains.

If you are female smuggle a bottle lid in your bra so you can top up the water bottle you buy in there.

Don't forget suncream, condoms and babywipes. If you can get the small packs of babywipes they are handy to carry in to the venue.

Enjoy.

You were a scout I bet. Particularly good tips

DaeryssaOne

Have always found that earplugs and an eyemask are excellent for helping you sleep through the morning heat and noise that inevitably begins at about 6 or 7 the next morning.

citytillidie

Don't forget the pegs for your tent.

BBDBB

A big feck off flag to wave so that the people behind you can't see the stage

magentis

LordSutch wrote: »

Tent
Sleeping bag
Bum bag.

Toilet paper
Tooth brush
Soap

Bottled water
Bananas
Pot noodles

Sun screen
Mozzie repellent
Flannel & towel

Condoms?
Hairbrush
Sun glasses!

Enjoy.

Dont forget the generator and kettle to make the pot noodle.

nice_guy80

earplugs
eye mask

you're welcome

Bring a trolley load of baby wipes. Them things will clean you and save your life. Don't forget a mattress and some strong rope to tie it around your back. If you can manage to stick your favourite armchair on top then that would be great. At least two suitcases of suitable footwear and coats. Try and bring a box of food such as chicken, beef, veg, fruit and milk. You can put this on wheels and attach it to the top of the two suitcases while balancing your mattress and chair on your back.

Or just bring yourself and a few euro because it's a music festival not an expedition to Outer Mongolia.

BillyBobBS

The festival tickets.

Richard Hillman

An emergency foil blanket. You'll never get cold at night.

ToddyDoody

Don't forget your umbrella.

DEFTLEFTHAND

What's the best way of ensuring that crates of lager and packs of smokes don't get robbed?

ToddyDoody

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

What's the best way of ensuring that crates of lager and packs of smokes don't get robbed?

An alarm of some description?

Boom_Bap

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

What's the best way of ensuring that crates of lager and packs of smokes don't get robbed?

Put one of these signs on them

Witchie

worded wrote: »

You were a scout I bet. Particularly good tips

Nope....but a veteran of Feile, Witnness, the Picnic and Oxygen. I have another secret tip for getting drink in but don't want to ruin it for the few I have shared it with. I remember one Oxegyn my bestie and I sitting on the hill near main stage watching a sh*te Coldplay while dining on pasta and a fine Valpolicella I had smuggled in.

Richard Hillman wrote: »

An emergency foil blanket. You'll never get cold at night.

I have to say I forgot to add this to my earlier list. Also works well as a picnic blanket and a rain cover. Used to pick them up in Lidl for next to nothing.

That said I stopped taking a tent many moons ago and would throw a mattress in the back of my dad's transit so wouldn't need them for warmth at night.

Del2005

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

What's the best way of ensuring that crates of lager and packs of smokes don't get robbed?

Keep drinking and smoking till they run out, then go robbing

oneilla

Morning after pill.

The one time I went to a music festival and saw that the medical tent had signs up saying they didn't have the MAP, and anyone requiring it would have to travel to whatever pharmacy in the nearby village.

Capt'n Midnight

Conall Cernach wrote: »

A towel has many uses.

A towel is just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

Bobby Baccala

Esel wrote: »

Corkscrew.

Paracetamol.

Dioralyte.

Hat.

Earplugs.

What use is a corkscrew when you cant bring glass bottles in?