AllTogetherNow Festival 2018

Alkers · 08-08-2018 03:35PM

PawneeRanger wrote: »

I know!
The bit that would really concern me, having seen people have difficulty in the dry, would be the slope just at the archway of pots and pans and windchimes... that fair steep. I can't imagine it if it was wet.

Hopefully as it is on one of the main walkways, they would have been able to keep putting stone or chips on it. A few years at body and soul, some of the steeper walkways through the campsite have been extremely slippy and not had anything put down on them either

D.Q · 08-08-2018 03:37PM

a lot of the toilets/stages at the bottom of hills too. I think EP would manage rain far better, ground generally holds up ok except for certain wooded areas.

PabloAndRoy · 08-08-2018 03:55PM

I am no expert, but considering that the estate is several hundred years old, there is a chance that drainage may be well established. Fears of mudbaths might not be warranted.

D.Q · 08-08-2018 04:07PM

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

I am no expert, but considering that the estate is several hundred years old, there is a chance that drainage may be well established. Fears of mudbaths might not be warranted.

Yeah good point man. Suppose there's only one way to find out. Would be very nice if we never had to.

erica74 · 08-08-2018 04:19PM

I also thought the food was a bit shite, if you weren't a pizza/pasta/potato/burger eater, there wasn't very many other options.
I know many will think I'm a complete psychopath but I'd absolutely love to be able to get more healthy options at a festival, a big fuck off salad or even somewhere doing nice veggies would be great. I know junk food is great and all but after a feed of drugs, I need some vegetables to replenish my lifeless body.

I am expecting many changes next year, the "model" being perfected. I just really really hope that the capacity doesn't jump up by 10,000 every year, until it turns to shite like EP and we're looking for something new.

BananaR · 08-08-2018 04:22PM

erica74 wrote: »

I also thought the food was a bit shite, if you weren't a pizza/pasta/potato/burger eater, there wasn't very many other options.
I know many will think I'm a complete psychopath but I'd absolutely love to be able to get more healthy options at a festival, a big fuck off salad or even somewhere doing nice veggies would be great. I know junk food is great and all but after a feed of drugs, I need some vegetables to replenish my lifeless body.

Lads, where were the falafels? I didn't find one at all. This constitutes an emergency for a vegetarian!

erica74 · 08-08-2018 04:22PM

BananaR wrote: »

Lads, where were the falafels? I didn't find one at all. This constitutes an emergency for a vegetarian!

Was there supposed to be falafels? I definitely didn't see any.

BananaR · 08-08-2018 04:25PM

erica74 wrote: »

Was there supposed to be falafels? I definitely didn't see any.

No but I consider it a serious gap in services by not providing any! Very unusually I didn't see any falafel stall...

homosapien91 · 08-08-2018 04:26PM

erica74 wrote: »

I also thought the food was a bit shite, if you weren't a pizza/pasta/potato/burger eater, there wasn't very many other options.
I know many will think I'm a complete psychopath but I'd absolutely love to be able to get more healthy options at a festival, a big fuck off salad or even somewhere doing nice veggies would be great. I know junk food is great and all but after a feed of drugs, I need some vegetables to replenish my lifeless body.

I thought there were plenty of food options! In the main arena there was lot of fast foody places but up by Theatre of food near the house there were loads of places there and fancier options too lobster and everything! Very impressed with the food and totally overindulged :P

BananaR · 08-08-2018 04:29PM

Weepsie wrote: »

The nature of these things too, is there are fees likely set so it may be that healthier options didn't apply, or deemed it too expensive to be worth their while.

This Def didn't apply at Body & Soul. Much wider range of healthier food options available

homosapien91 · 08-08-2018 04:29PM

Weepsie wrote: »

Yes and there was a sit down type place there too nearest the lake which had a load of healthy, vegetarian options.

We did look at the menu and thought we should get something healthy but opted for Blaa's instead

D.Q · 08-08-2018 04:31PM

saw falafel somewhere.

Think it was called "what the falafel". I specifically remember it because it was the worst pun I have ever seen.

I hadn't eaten since Friday, and ate a burrito on the Sunday night under the lights of the ferris wheel, peaking fairy hard on a stamp. Almost cried it was so beautiful. Ordering it was an absolute nightmare though.

BananaR · 08-08-2018 04:33PM

Weepsie wrote: »

Yes and there was a sit down type place there too nearest the lake which had a load of healthy, vegetarian options.

There weren't really a load of vegetarian options. Yes, vegan sushi rolls and another vegan stall in that area but by early enough sun evening both of those were closed/sold out. Had to walk back to main stage area to get a veg option

greenspurs · 08-08-2018 04:34PM

erica74 wrote: »

I'm a complete psychopath but I'd absolutely love to be able to get more healthy options at a festival, a big fuck off salad or even somewhere doing nice veggies would be great. I know junk food is great and all but after a feed of drugs, I need some vegetables to replenish my lifeless body.

You have a 'feed of drugs' , and you complain there isn't enough vegetables ............. Maybe lay off em .

greenspurs · 08-08-2018 04:37PM

BananaR wrote: »

There weren't really a load of vegetarian options. Yes, vegan sushi rolls and another vegan stall in that area but by early enough sun evening both of those were closed/sold out. Had to walk back to main stage area to get a veg option

Q: How many vegans/vegatarians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Everybody knows they can't change anything.

Seriously.?
Why didn't all the vegans/vegetarians bring their own supply of food ? Surely they don't have 3 course veg meals at all the other music festivals ??? :rolleyes:

BananaR · 08-08-2018 04:41PM

greenspurs wrote: »

Q: How many vegans/vegatarians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Everybody knows they can't change anything.

Seriously.?
Why didn't all the vegans/vegetarians bring their own supply of food ? Surely they don't have 3 course veg meals at all the other music festivals ??? :rolleyes:

Just trying to make a point/ express an opinion like anyone else here. Food preferences and judgements on peoples party habits aside, the fact is the food did not cater particularly well to a certain segment. Both EP and body and soul do that way better, without a doubt - so all am saying is there's much room for improvement there.

erica74 · 08-08-2018 04:42PM

Weepsie wrote: »

It's not the organisers responsibility to make sure you can recover from whatever it is you took the night before.

Jesus chill out, did I say it was their responsibility? No, I'd simply like more variety.

BananaR · 08-08-2018 04:44PM

Weepsie wrote: »

a few places which were not overtly Vegan/Vegetarian had Vegetarian options too.

A lot of places vegetarian options are chips or toasted cheese sandwiches

erica74 · 08-08-2018 04:45PM

greenspurs wrote: »

You have a 'feed of drugs' , and you complain there isn't enough vegetables ............. Maybe lay off em .

So I can't like vegetables?

We're discussing the food on offer, I didn't ask for advice on drugs, thanks.

greenspurs · 08-08-2018 04:46PM

BananaR wrote: »

A lot of places vegetarian options are chips or toasted cheese sandwiches

Well, what would you like to see then?

Millenial problems ehh ?

greenspurs · 08-08-2018 04:51PM

erica74 wrote: »

So I can't like vegetables?
We're discussing the food on offer, I didn't ask for advice on drugs, thanks.

You don't see the irony ?

A drug taker being health conscious !!

:rolleyes: Whatever floats .....

Its funny

homosapien91 · 08-08-2018 04:52PM

Well this has escalated very quickly

PawneeRanger · 08-08-2018 04:55PM

greenspurs wrote: »

You don't see the irony ?
A drug taker being health conscious !! :rolleyes: Whatever floats .....

Its funny

Yeah Erica, did you not know that because you like to indulge in some recreational drugs at a music festival you must be some sort of junk-food addicted slob that couldn't possibly have anything even resembling a healthy lifestyle... :rolleyes:

How about we lay off on judging other people's decisions on what they put into their body?

D.Q · 08-08-2018 04:56PM

Are we asking for more variety of drugs or vegetables?

PawneeRanger · 08-08-2018 04:58PM

D.Q wrote: »

Are we asking for more variety of drugs or vegetables?

Ah sure why not both :P

erica74 · 08-08-2018 04:59PM

D.Q wrote: »

Are we asking for more variety of drugs or vegetables?

Both:D

homosapien91 · 08-08-2018 04:59PM

PawneeRanger wrote: »

Ah sure why not both :P

Absolutely, YOLO an all that

ILIKEFOOD · 08-08-2018 05:00PM

Was bored in work so had a look at the site on google maps - loads of room for expansion and I’d expect it

also read up on Reynolds taking festival republic to court for squeezing him out of the booking process in EP and bringing in bands (the killers) that took from what he initially set out to do - I don’t think he’ll be bitten twice so hopefully even with an expansion he will strive to retain the ideals he has set out with ATN

BananaR · 08-08-2018 05:29PM

Weepsie wrote: »

You and a few others are the ones nitpicking at every little thing you didn't like about the festival. I am not the one who needs to chill out.

There was variety if you looked around. Again, it's the first year, it should improve.

Have you shares in the festival or something? You're taking it all very personally. You could call nit picking Or you could call it expressing an opinion which is, as far as I can see, all anyone here is doing all of the time. For some reason the particular opinions being expressed seem to have rubbed you up the wrong way.

greenspurs · 08-08-2018 05:37PM

BananaR wrote: »

Have you shares in the festival or something? You're taking it all very personally. You could call nit picking Or you could call it expressing an opinion which is, as far as I can see, all anyone here is doing all of the time. For some reason the particular opinions being expressed seem to have rubbed you up the wrong way.

You haven't answered my question about what you would like to see at the Festival foodwise for future versions of ATN .
Or is it easier to just put down and complain about what was there ?

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