A festival works for me when I've spent more time singing than I have sleeping... and when I've seen more old friends than I have wasps!

A lot of these festivals "work" because they're the same people attending every year. Oddly enough, I see some of the same people at a different festival and the vibe is completely different.

It gets the feeling of a big family gathering. You have the older generations sitting back, doing what they always do and looking on at the youngsters with that feeling of 'they're relations, we have to tolerate them'; the younger generations looking at the oldies and thinking 'man, what squares, if I ever get like that, shoot me'; and the middle generations wanting to be with the younger crowd but thinking privately that it would be nice to sit by the fire with a beer and chat about the old times...

I'm the batty old aunty who recognises no social boundary and whom no-one wants to come for Christmas. :D

LTS