To be at a festival and wish everyone would just grow up!?

[bumbleclat]

Each year I'm 'lucky' enough to be given free tickets to a very well known music festival which runs over four days (live nearby so organisers give local residents tickets to keep them sweet).

It's your usual hippy fest with lots of workshops, vege food, healing yurts and a variety of music.

Each year I go, I become more bored of the cliche hippydom, for example faces full of glitter, posh white youths wearing ironic vintage clothes, dub beats in the background, overpriced drinks, pious recycling regimes, home educated children called 'Oak' and 'Cloud' being wheeled around in metal wagons with fairy lights around the edges at 3am, the constant wondering from tent to tent, the illusion of freedom and the naive art work everywhere.

I must be getting old but these events just don't do it for me anymore, I see men and women in their fifties and sixties wearing fairy outfits and elf ears and it just gives me this, 'oh just grow up' reaction inside.

I dislike this judgemental threatened Katie Hopkins like beast that seems to rise up inside me each time, but I think next year I will just sell my much coveted ticket to a more appreciative visitor.

I am BU aren't I!?

Dear OP, I know exactly which festival that you are referring to - and I feel exactly the same - If I never go again it will be too soon... - but that said, CU there next year then..?

I've been volunteering at festival for 20 years, and they've definitely become far more 'mainstream' over the years. I can live with much of the 'hippy crap', as that aspect has been around for years, but the hipsters really annoy me, as they have this air of know-it-all sophistication and a certain self-righteousness.

The worst kind of festivals goers are the really laddish types, who seem to have become much more prevalent at certain events over the past few years (Reading is now particularly bad for this).

Not into festivals myself, although loved Glastonbury when I was younger. Dp and I went to lego land without kids. I loved the Lego model village, that most of the kids were totally uninterested in. In fact it was mainly middle aged dads spending time looking at the model village, so not a kids thing at all. Although I would never pay full price.

I am seriously never as happy as when I'm in a field with my family and friends singing and dancing with a drink in my hand.
My kids are the same and even as babies would get into their onsies and climb into the buggy to sleep.
I love the kids workshops and watching them do all the art and craft activities, play with friends and run around in fairy dresses and wellies.
I will however admit to having a camper van so it is a lot easier for us.
I am happy to use your free tickets next year 😂

ha ha

I used to go to reading festival every year as a youngster and felt the same as op tbh

for me, festivals were brief absolutely amazing moments, ie watching your favourite bands, but mostly boring and dirty and quite a hard slog. often, remembering them was the best part iyswim? as you don't remember the mud, the shitty vile toilets, the crowds and the just, all round, uncomfortableness :D