Isle of Wight Festival

[NelsonR32]

Who's going then?

[Baz Tench]

Me!

[epom]

Not me however I am flying over to Manchester for Pearl Jam on Thursday

[Baz Tench]

I'm going to see the Stone Roses at Heato Park the following Friday too. I will be seeing the Vaccines and Primal Scream twice in the same week!

[NelsonR32]

I'm there for Primal Scream, Tom Petty and the Charlatans. Everything else is a bonus!

[Baz Tench]

Pearl Jam, the Charlatans, Primal Scream and Feeder are top of my list.

Hipshaker lounge is also a must for me this year. Had great fun in there last year!

[NelsonR32]

Pistonheads meet anyone?

[joesnow]

Hi All, I'm playing banjo and guitar with Rosie Meek and the Open Road on Saturday - come and say hello.
You can find us on Spotify if you want a preview!

Edited by joesnow on Wednesday 20th June 12:42

[Goatboy]

If you have a choice of vehicle 4x4 seems to make sense.

Seemingly a bit muddy

[Shnozz]

I'll be there. In body at least.

[Fittster]

How's it going? The media are painting a bit of a bleak picture.

[Kozy]

All I can say is I'm glad I was able to walk to work this morning and just watch the traffic sitting there out of my window.

Local businesses are making a lot of noise about suing the organisers, and rightly so.

[Gwagon111]

If anyone's going and needs a free place to park a car right near the red funnel ferry terminal in Southampton, give me a PM. I live a stones tthrow from the terminal and have a free allocated parking spot.

[pc.iow]

Fittster said:

How's it going? The media are painting a bit of a bleak picture.

It’s a total fk-up of the highest order.
The festival organisers chose not to spend the money on putting proper roads into the car parks, causing them to be un-useable within 2 hours!
Cars are being towed/dragged on site so fk knows how they’ll get out again on Monday.
Ferries were stuck in the Solent through the night for up to 4-5 hours as there’s nowhere to get the cars off.
Roads are gridlocked, and have been since yesterday morning.
Lorry’s carrying road chippings have had a police escort to get them to the fields and back.
Main stage had sinking problems whilst being put up last week.
Big top evacuated last night due to high winds and full of mud.
They are getting roasted on their facebook page, unsurprisingly.

[y2blade]

Just Got a picture message on my facebuuuke, posted by a friend it's fked!!!! proper fked!!!!

[pc.iow]

y2blade said:

Just Got a picture message on my facebuuuke, posted by a friend it's fked!!!! proper fked!!!!

I would say it's a lot worse than that!

[Gwagon111]

It's fking hilarious. They have about 7 4x4s trying to drag over 600 cars into the field. Even with a police escort, it ain't working very well.

[B Huey]

On Sky News at the moment.

Looks fun.

[Heartworm]

sounds like a repeat of download a fortnight ago, atrocious organisation in car parks.

[Promised Land]

Heartworm said:

sounds like a repeat of download a fortnight ago, atrocious organisation in car parks.

Not just the car parks, all main roads around Donnington and the surrounding areas, I had the joy of working in Donnington Friday and Monday while that festival took place. They should be ashamed of themselves how they organised traffic around the village/track.

Hopefully the council will look into this for future events there.