Guildford (England)

Guilford Festival was sunny, hot and smaller than you're average festival site, but that did not hold us back!! The gate organisation needs to be reviwed for next year but that was the only hold back.It was a great day for all the family at last a festival thats safe and friendly for children!!The site is on a hill so it didn't matter how far back you sat, you could see! The line up this year was the best yet from Van Morrison to David Gray it suits all kinds of music taste it also had an unsung heroes stage so you could show up with your guitar and play! I will be going next year I recomend ... more

The main thing I enjoy about Guilfest is the great atmosphere, and is is suitable for the whole family. Aside from the music there is a kids play area, with lots to keep anyone under the age of 8 entertained, and a comedy tent. There is a good variety of music styles, with the Ambient Lounge playing chillout music, the Tropical tent dance music, with a number of famous DJ's. The Uncut stage is played by lots of upcoming local bands, and is where I spent wuite a lot of my time in 2004. Most of the actsin this stage are rock acts, but there were a number of others as well, and if you are by rthe ... more

If you want to experience a festival where you can easily get cheap tickets (£90 for weekend camping) and you can get right up close to the bands then Guilfest is for you. Guilfest is in the middle of guilford and so, if you want to you could visit the surrounding areas. Also across the road is a handy leisure centre- there are no showers at the festival site so it's useful to go to the lesisure centre for a freshen up. That seems to be the only negative point about Guilfest- no showers, although this doesn't really bother me because the festival experience is all about being dirty! You can ... more

Guildford festival is still fairly small and new in comparison to those established ones such as Reading and Glastonbury. However in the past few years it is now offering a better variety of bands, including current or crowd-pulling ones, whereas it used to be full of 'has-beens' and 'unheard-ofs'!! Although it is local to me I haven't yet attended this 3 day festival because there haven't been enough bands playing of interest to me to warrant spending the money on. However this year they offer, as I previously said, a greater variety and more known names. Among them Motorhead, Terrorvision ... more

I have odd memories of this festy, mainly due to a harrowing nine hour car journey. As I stretched my arms on getting out of the van in the well stewarded car park, the legend that is Bob Harris walked past me. Good start I thought. By the time we had got in heaved bags around for awhile a companion decided that as we'd missed everybody else we couldn't miss Alice Cooper who was due to commence in but five minutes. So I found myself somehow in a sea of mullets and denim and some little memory of Alice (I think with broken leg) Sadly he was not the Alice of my youth, I or he had become old but ... more