Never Have I Ever... Camped at a Music Festival

[upbeat music] A few weeks ago on this podcast, I was talking to Vanessa Ogbonna about reality TV, and somehow we got onto the subject of music festivals.

I've never enjoyed a festival.

Oh, my God, I feel the same about them.

I don't think that we need to be outside for that long.

[laughs]

I also don't think that we need to see this many people at once.

At once.

Also, camping.

I've never camped at a festival.

That's what I've never done.

No, I don't mind camping.

I like camping.

What I like-

At a festival?

... clean toilets.

So you don't like camping at a festival.

[laughs] No, I've never camped at a festival.

Yeah.

The prospect of trying to sleep while somebody nearby is singing Wonderwall at 3:00 in the morning over and over and over again, and yet every single summer, hundreds of thousands of people will voluntarily pack up their cars, head for a field, and then for the rest of the year declare that that was a highlight of their year.

Now, something called Forest Fest is about to get underway in my home county of Laois.

All Together Now is just around the corner, and before long, there'll be 80,000 music lovers descending on Stradbally for Electric Picnic.

So what am I missing? Why do otherwise sensible adults spend a weekend living in conditions that they wouldn't tolerate for a single night anywhere else? So never have I ever camped at a music festival.