There are festivals of all sorts, not just music based, that's for sure. I had my fair share of multi day ones. Some of my faves are Shambala up in British Columbia, Groove and Bass here in Quebec, Peach festival which takes place in various parts of the US. This year was Colorado. I love all sorts of music but am especially an Electronic music lover. Here in Montreal where I'm from we have the Igloofest (the coldest outdoor festival on the planet) every winter for 4 nights a week for 3 weeks a year where people are outside enjoying their favorite DJ's from all over the world right over the old port and sometimes it's downright polar like -25 celcius, not including the wind chill 😰❄️🎧🎵😂 some of my friends will be like hell no but if it's a DJ I really admire especially some of my favorite DJ's on the planet such as Lee Burridge, D Nox, Charlotte de White, Carl Cox, Sasha or John Digweed to name a few. I'll be out there from start to finish, regardless of how cold it is. I have worn ski goggles, ski gloves (with hot paws inside), fleece neck warmers, ski doo boots into these places to avoid being cold. I'm sure all of it sounds crazy I know 😂 but it makes for great stories. If you are curious to see what igloofest is like, they have multiple videos on RU-vid. Those events get sold out regardless of outdoor temperature or if it's snowing or raining ice pellets. It's irrelevant. In the summer Montreal hosts all sorts of festivals. We have a massive jazz festival which is really cool, we have the just for laughs which is a world famous comedy festival, we have Osheaga which is similar to Chicago's Lollapalooza. I've been to both Osheaga and Lollapalooza. Both are real fun and you get to see many big name artists for one set price which makes it a great deal. I've been to the fringe in Edinburgh where you and Cathy filmed this video. Your mom is very right as well, you should never go to any day time festival without high SPF sunblock. Especially now, melanoma is no joke and it can happen to anyone. The UK has great festivals that I've been to as well. 2 of my faves are Creamfields and Glastonbury. There are also countless concerts worldwide too. I've been to the Wailers (in a hotel conference room in Jay Peak Vermont of all places), U2, Tom Petty, Tragically hip to name a few. And of course well over a hundred of electronic music concerts. For example in Europe I've been to events like Tomorrowland, All day I dream and Cercle. Some of them are absolutely magical. It's true what you said about accommodation as well. I've laughed at a group of my friends over the years as they decided last minute to join me for Mardi Gras in New Orleans and had to stay half way out to Baton Rouge because they couldn't find anywhere to stay any closer. I ended up letting a couple of them stay in my room. My girlfriend and I went to the Carnival in Rio back in April which was a massive bucket list item for both of us but heads up. Bring absolutely nothing of value and beware of pickpockets. Anyways, festivals are a near and dear part of seeing the world in my heart as a whole and of course the sites are awesome too but I definitely recommend each person reading this to check out a festival somewhere that tailors to you and what you're about. There are thousands upon thousands of them in this world.
Wonderful video :) Great advice even for people like myself who go to Bush Doofs (outdoor multi day psycadelic dance festivals in the aussie bush. A farmer complained about the "doof doof" music keeping him up at night and it stuck).
Don't forget that burgers are not the only fast foods. Even if you don't make dining reservations, Scotland has great fast foods without a burger in sight. Hand pies and rolls of all sorts. See if you can go totally burgerless for a week.
Arrived home from Germany! As to festivals in US the Scottish Irish Festival in Estes Park Co is awesome check it out Mark. If you want to wear a kilt and go commando this is your opportunity! Ha!
No need to feel self conscious about spending time with your mom You only have so much time together on this planet and when she is gone, you’ll regret it if you didn’t spend time with her
I normally watch most videos at 11⁄4 speed, but for some reason, this started at normal speed. So Mark sounded like he had already been on a few Whisky tours! Nice coincidence that one of the DON'Ts was to warn of a spiked drink! Jocelyn would probably say that Mark is too much of a man for her to handle! Seriously, sometimes it's even guys who will spike guys drinks either to make it easier to roll you, or for the more nefarious aspects. Women know enough but men need to be reminded more-so these days to ALWAYS watch your drinks!!!
For the Oktober my tip would be: don't wait with going to the toilet until you really urgently have to go XD drinking beers from 1 liter glass in total my consume lots of liquid in a relatively short time and while being in a tent you don't want to go out, so you are stuck in the same toilet lines with dozens of people and toilet lines tent to be extremely long and everyone is really desperate to go.
At outdoor festivals hiking boots are your friends. Don't wear new ones so you don't have to break them in and you will be less upset if they get destroyed.
Hey guys, Greetings from Killarney co. Kerry Ireland. have a question if you wouldn’t mind, I’ve around 50,000 Avios points with BA between myself and herself which expires at the end of the year. I’ve booked premium economy to go to joburg and I want to use my points for an upgrade but BA say not possible. Any thoughts? Thanks guys
In a big crowd for instance for a music festival...don't go sit on your boyfriends shoulders. Yes your view will be good no doubt, but for the unfortunate shorties behind you and your man/boyfriend not so much....
Pass all together, last thing I want is to be surrounded by people on drunk or on drugs in a potentially fatal situation. Much prefer to the indoor gigs.
As a veteran of several music festivals, where I had a miserable experience every time, I finally gave up and now only have one don't on my list: Don't go in the first place. And believe me, as a musician myself, that's really saying something. There are too many overly wasted people screaming too loudly, crashing into people and collapsing and puking, you can never get close enough to the stage to see the performers clearly, the noise level from all the people is so loud it distorts the music, the weather is either too hot, too cold or too rainy, the cloud of dust kicked up by all the festival goers leaves you covered in dirt the whole time, parking is impossible, the lines to the portapotties are outrageous, and the costs for all this "fun" are ridiculous. I've attended other festivals (cultural, Renaissance, art-based, food-based, etc.), and while they had some of these drawbacks, they were nowhere near the hellish chaos of a music festival, so I was able to have a lot of fun.
Depends on the festival but yes I agree with some of the things you said but it's also part of the experience. It's not for everybody. For a veteran festival attendee I find you lack a bit of the spirit of the whole thing.
