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Article: Next time I go to a festival, I'll be taking my own Pringles...
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2008
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Until last weekend, I had never been to a festival. Or, rather, I
had never done a festival: I have, in fact, visited a couple,
masquerading behind a day ticket while quietly heading home at
midnight to spend the evening in my flat, a place so luxurious that
it houses not only a bed and a fridge but also - oh the decadence -
a functioning toilet.
I suppose they've just never appealed to me. I'm not really - how
to put it? - the camping kind. I quite enjoy having things like
electricity and hot water. Demanding, I know.
But this year I was tempted. It was partly peer pressure: my
boyfriend first mooted the idea in spring, and has brought it up
every other week since then. Andnearly everyone I ...