Download Festival Essentials, What to bring camping and Tips 2022
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- In this video I run through all things I consider essential when going to a festival and give you guys a few tips too.
Everyone seems to have a different experience camping, personally I love it!
I hope this video and my experiences can help some people out and stop them going through the camping growing pains as I did.
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me and my boyfriend are doing download for the first time this year!! this was so helpful thank you 🖤
Glad I could help, hopefully we get some decent weather for your first time.
I am taking my 10 year old son to his first festival this year just pray for no rain
I highly recommend the putting everything in black bags it literally saved me in 2019
100% it’s a good idea if you know the weather is going to suck.
Watching from Australia just wishing for the day I can travel to Europe and experience your festivals. Great video btw
Great tips Simon! May I add a few myself?
For keeping your kit dry, I use a rucksack liner. Stops my clothes getting damp and they're so much more effective than bin liners. And adding to your point about sleeping bags, take the comfort temperature rating with a pinch of salt. I have one that's supposed to be comfy at -1 celsius, but I still had to wear a thermal base layer and a hoodie. Just don't expect to stay warm in it if you're stark bollock naked!
And I would personally use combat boots over wellies. Sure, wellies are waterproof, but they're not exactly the most comfortable things to wear when you're on your feet all day. Well broken in army boots should do the trick nicely.
Head torches are amazing. Get one of those instead of a regular torch.
We were camped next to you dude 🤘🏼🤙🏼 hope you had a good festival
I'm heading to Download this year solo from Australia, this is super helpful! Thank you!
Bro I'm heading solo from NZ!
@@eilysmiley Let's definitely have a beer!
@@menacemode666 yo!
first time this year, been a long time coming. cheers for the info my dude!
No worries, hope you have the best time ever! 🤘🏻
Can't wait. People moan about then lineups but nowhere has quite that same early noughties Kerrang/Scuzz vibes. Me and the missus will be flying from Ireland for the third time for it. This year I promise to continue getting one last bottle of white wine in the Co-Op way too late at night, in preparation for the first drop of Limp Bizkit in the Doghouse.
That’s awesome you guys travel over, I miss the Scuzz days!
This is going to help us for 2023 first time camping thanx
Have you seen the layout for this year? Blue/yellow/black camps are essentially on a huge hill. Those of you who have camped in the west car park before will know that there's a pretty steep incline into where the village will be this year. I recommend good sturdy boots as well as wellies and plenty of spare socks. Your feet will thank you.
Yeah I’m interested to see what it’s like, I remember there being hills but it’s flat at the top, as far as I remember, will be weird.
Just get a hotel in derby and have a much more comfortable time lol, only joshing man great vid! Just download camp sites so far away from venue if you dont arrive early i prefer the hotel and bus in each day, do camp at bloodstock but much smaller site
I’ve considered doing the hotel thing a few times, also upgrading to RIP, will probably do both at some point.
Same man, doing hotel in notts this year 30 min drive to download. Will be camping at bloodstock though!
Hey guys! I'm from Brazil and I'm thinking of going to Download festival next year, but camping there is not an option hahaha could you give me some tips of where is good to stay near the festival?
thank you Simon, very useful!
No worries! Happy to help 🤘🏻
It’s almost time! Can’t wait!
Yah
Buzzing!!!! It’s gonna be here before we know it.
Only 5 weeks to go, I'm so hyped!
I know!!! Let’s just hope the weather holds up, can’t remember the last proper sunny Download 😂
@@simon_bond yah we deserve it
2016 was so bad weather wise that I’m surprised I went the next year luckily by then I was a download veteran and was in rip (that probably helped)😂
Yeah RIP was way better! The normal camping was shocking.
@@simon_bond yeah. I went everywhere that year so I could film the entire place. Some tents in red camp were in a hell of a state. It doesn’t surprise me that I got a few heckles for wearing my rip shirt 😂. Felt bad for everyone but also glad I wasn’t in the thick of it. I’ve been victim to some shite weather there myself over the years. Always got lucky with tent location though. It’s the ones that camp near the toilets I feel bad for
Maybe a dumb question. But, how do you cook your noodles etc? I was told you weren't aloud any gas cookers etc on site?
I’m coming for the first time on the campsite can you tell me how is with the car park do I have to book it or something..?Thanks
Car park passes are all sold out on the website but you can purchase one when you arrive on site 🤘🏻
First time going to download this year
It’s so close!!!!! Can’t wait! You’re gonna have a blast 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I once took a £30 single layer pop up tent to download…. Baddest decision I ever made, it was leaking on the first day I was there, all my stuff got absolutely soaked including my sleeping bag. It Ruined the whole festival
I bet that sucked! Yeah I hate those pop up tents, hopefully you’ve got a good one now 🤘🏻
Hi bud cheers for the info 👍...May I ask your good self a few questions pls?... First one, how far a walk is it from the car to the campsite?
2nd, If the camping thing went tits up, are you allowed to sleep in your car in an emergency?
What time do u reckon arriving at the event to set up before kick off?
Trying to get as much heads up as possible as I'm bringing a huge Metal loving 12 year old.
Are you doing this year with 5 night camping?
Great video 🤘
Ive only ever been download once for the day not done a weekend but plan to this yr, if you have your own medication and must bring it what is security like at both campsite and main arena entrance points with that? Do u have to show i.d cause your name is on the labels of the medication stuff like that really
They won’t necessarily go through all your stuff, most likely just a quick check to see you don’t have anything dangerous, I’m sure any medication would be fine, but bring ID just in case, sometimes they might ask you for it at the bar.
Can you take as much drinks as you want to the campsite ? Just not into the arena ?
You can take as much booze as you want to the campsites, just make sure its all in plastic and not glass otherwise they won't let you in with it.
They don't allow anything in the arena you have to buy drinks in there.
Does the arena area get really muddy in bad weather, or just the camping areas? This will be my first time attending but I am staying in a hotel and have arena/hot ticket entry.
The arena is the worst of all in bad weather because of the foot fall, turns from grass to a mud river in a day lol, let’s hope it stays dry 🤘🏻
Main stage is the worst when it’s wet. Slightly downhill and lots of footfall. Often straw goes down overnight but I’d recommend wellies or walking boots if it’s raining
I hope adam cox looks like nick frost because you a double of simon pegg 😂
It's Etickets now, had an email to say that I've had a refund of £2.50 for a paper ticket so looks to be the way of the world.
I was wondering when it would finally change to e-tickets, I’m all for saving those trees 🤘🏻
I haven’t got any email saying that yet 😬
I haven’t had e tickets yet
@@seanyalexandra7035 me neither, will probably get an email a week or so before
@@simon_bond I’m RIP and usually we get some fancy waste of paper and plastic booklets/passports 🤣
Can you just turn up with your car and get a pass as you turn up or do you have to pre order a car park pass... Because I can't get any on the website??
You can get one there, so I wouldn’t worry, all good 🤘🏻
@@simon_bond ah that's great thank you, just saved me a lot of Hassel and stress. Thanks Simon 🤘🏼
GIVING ME ALL THE EXCITEMENT MAN
I’m hyped dude!!!! So close 🤘🏻
It says online you can't bring your own food or alcohol
Of course you can, just not into the arena, in the camp site your find to bring your own food and Alcohol
cheers , see u in the pit
YaaaaaS