courtesy of example mag last weekend we found ourselves press packing round wickerman festival in scotland. we arrived friday evening with the standard example hamper of golden rum, crisps, bread and peppered salami! i whipped up a salt an vinegar special, made up a rum an coke and headed for the music…..only to be stopped by the gate an told "NO ALCOHOL" BUY IT OFF US AT EXTORTIONATE PRICES, in fact don't buy it off us…buy vouchers off us from the 1 location that sells them, then trade those for our extortionately priced drinks.
i downed my drink an off we went in drinkless!!! the search was deep !!! looking for alcohol tho not ya erg.. first thing i remember about the gaff is police everywhere, even inside….in uniforms? this is not what festivals our about, an they DID NOT MAKE ME FEEL SAFE! just on edge.. the crowd is very familyish and the usual festival presence of mind altering substances was minimal, so if your the kind of whopper who takes their kids to festivals…this one isn't THAT bad.
the music is anything but electronic, with headline performances from JAMES and FEEDER, james put on a good show for the sing along massive, with a mystery man walkin centre stage halfway through 1 song with a low tom an beatin' it in an epic tribal manor …..for time….was sick! FEEDER were borin' ….i'm not a fan anyway but after watching 'THE PIGEON DETECTIVES' smash the gaff to bits the coral an feeder looked like old men in a pub band. overall worst festival of the ones i've visited.
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