All Together Now 2024

Even the ground would f*cking reject Rockshore..

it’s always the drink sponsor requiring it as part of exclusivity contract. They pay a lot of money which helps funds the line up so ultimately it’s in their power to make such a change. Same as what happened with BTP this year.

Festivals with total free flow don’t happen for long cause corporate interest and chequebook takes over.

Yep, that was my point ….

Open can wont be enforced this year, but will next year … Baby steps..

ive thought about this for EP before. If they had something like free-flow from 12-4pm, max 4 cans.
it means you can drive people into the arena early. Probably removes some messiness in the campsite. People are in the arena so a small percentage will race back to get a few cans before the lock, but people will start to use the bars earlier. Maybe simplistic, but it can be controlled without being a blanket ban

Ah piss off

I used to camp in Pinkmoon / Podpads at EP, there was a bar in the campsite, we used to pour our cans into the plastic glasses and walk through security no bother, this is always about getting people to spend money at the bars, the latest update from ATN is a move towards this, only open cans entering arena is impossible to enforce unless you are adding security checks

There's basically only 5 routes into the arena from campsites (red arrows on the map) , and all of them have stewards on them already (usually standing around doing not much). Two of them (boutique and family/pink moon) already have stewards checking wristbands.

So it's a pretty trivial thing to set up of they do plan on enforcing it.

Edit: I know it’s not all about the alcohol but it’s the lack of transparency really. Looking forward to it this year, will reconsider next year depending on other policy changes

hi everyone, first timer here. Any tips on what camp to go for? I’ll be down early enough on Thursday so I’m guessing it won’t be packed at the time I land in. Looking for chill vibes nothing too hectic if possible so to get some bit of sleep😅. Does it matter which one or is there some quieter than others. Thanks in advance!

Crisis aborted.God bless the 3D printer in work......I'm.now taking orders before tomorrow 🤣🤣

If it was advertised as this since December or whenever I'd not have been too put out by it. But it feels very sneaky to have just put it in the small print last minute.

I've zero idea how it all works but you wouldn't imagine they hammer out details like that a day or two before the festival begins.

So does this mean big queues heading into main arena from campsite? Security going to be looking inside people's backpacks to make sure there's no cans in them?