mercutiouk

Aye, download had it this year too. Works rather well. (So long as the venue doesn't then want to charge £7 a pint at least).

The thing is, almost any festival has massive queues for everything. This (tramlines) started out as something pretty small, got about 4 times bigger this year and I'm sure there will be some lessons learned. Not blindly defending the organisers, just not being knee-jerk reactionist blindly attacking either. A little perspective is perhaps needed. That said, yeah, if there's another couple of years like this I'll happily be slating them with the rest of you. There does seem to be a good bit of folks being smug they didn't bother getting tickets/pass jumping on any complaints to validate their choice. If you want to specifically see a particular act, make an effort to do so the rest of the year. Festivals are generally about the thing as a whole, not just about seeing specific acts. Constructive criticism: They need a bigger entry area (at least for peak times/start of day) and a couple more bar areas. Going cashless might be an option too for getting the bar sorted quickly (you have a token you charge with cash before, flash the token to pay, so the bar becomes "I'll have 4 X please" which are probably pre-pulled a few seconds before. You then just flash the token and walk away, it's a... 20 second transaction).

Wu Tang tends to attract a certain type of crowd though too. I'll not go on as I'm definitely not a fan but they're not an act I'll miss. Sorry to those who were looking forward to em.

There's usually a pretty good selection of u-switch deals for others too. They definitely do one for Virgin if you can get them in your area. Virgins a whole different can of worms but if the area you're in isn't overdue a capacity increase (e.g S8/Norton Lees was terrible last year, better since May this year) there's definitely some good uswitch deals for them. I'm getting 100Mb for £27 a month including the line rental (for 9 months, 3 months at £27 a month + £17 line rental then I can walk).

Are the tickets even remotely transferable? (As in are there some heavy anti-touting measures in place or they slightly more tradeable)? I had a pair of tickets booked, turns out the venue sold out ages ago, were waiting for more, they never came. Now I'm stuck with 3 mates here on the weekend and don't have a pair of tickets for me and the missus Just curious before I go to lengths if it's even remotely worth the time and effort or if they are effectively blocked for any kind of resale/transfer.