My Boomtown Experience

I've recently bought my Boomtown ticket and am really excited about it even though it's seven months away. I've been to quite a few festivals, from the little local, 'Beautiful Days' to the televised,'Bestival' but nothing compares to the sheer surprise that I experienced last year at Boomtown.
We got there and had to weave in and out of giant beds placed on the hill without the early birds already relaxing on them in the sun. We walked past dozens of interesting stalls, selling all kinds of quirky objects. And then we came across what was to be one of our favourite stages of the weekend 'Arcadia.' An enormous steel spider with rotating stages placed on the top, and platforms that the artists could run down to interact with their audience meters below.
After setting up we enjoyed a weekend in the sun (very surprising for England I know)  where we could wander into the forest to listen to reggae. Or walk about the town watching the rap battles, parades, flash mobs and so much more.
But when the night fell, the place transformed, and everyone came out in their fancy dress covered in glitter and paint. The cardboard town had somehow expanded to reveal more stages,  most very small and with living room furniture to properly set the mood. One of my favorites was hidden inside a telephone box and upon entry you must state that you know Charlie Brown then once inside, it is set up like a 1920's speakeasy with fake police staging acquisition's. It felt so real the first time, but the fact that everyone played along just shows the nature of the festival. Another great stage was the bank, with this stage you had to walk though a cloakroom to collect a blazer before actually going in. I had never seen anything as exciting as this before, every new stage we found surprised us, and gave us a sense of achievement.
Boomtown was definitely my best festival of 2012, I would recommend it to any festival goer. However I don't think this should be your first festival, as it might be a little too much to handle plus any festival afterwards would be a let down.

http://www.boomtownfair.co.uk