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10 things we learnt at The Secret Garden Party
- By Sam Herbert -
- Jul 24, 2012
As the frivolities end, the muddied punters drag themselves home and the clean-up begins we take a look at the 10 things we learned at another fabulous year at the Secret Garden Party.
10. Festivals are made so much easier when you get a lift to and from the site from a friend’s fun-loving uncle and aunt. It also helps if the return leg goes via a beautifully remote cottage deep in the Cambridgeshire countryside for a full English and fresh coffee. Bliss.
9. Just because SGP is situated near Warboys, a village known for its roots in witchcraft (it’s the last recorded place where witches were hanged), there’s no need for cults using arrows and the ‘healing power of the human mind’ to sprout up at a festival. Stop that chanting and get to the bar.
8. Dancing like Audrey from Twin Peaks while listening to Violet (Pixie Geldof’s band) is a perfectly acceptable way to spend an afternoon at a festival. Well, part of it is. We’ll let you decide which part.
7. Dancing in unison with a rabble of random drunkards is fun. It’s even more fun doing it beneath a bandstand next to a lake. NOW DO THE MATRIX!
6. Tim Minchin is ginger (he’s also extremely talented).
5. Risk Assessments are a thing of the past at SGP. Instead they allow people to think and care for themselves (and others) – at what other festival would you be able to swim freely in a lake, dance madly atop of tall hay bales or indulge in some semi-naked mud wrestling in the confines of a place called the Colli-sillyum? Exactly.
4. If the bread man doesn’t deliver the bread you ordered, at the time stated, then serving three measly rashes of bacon with only a plate as an accompaniment is not cool.
3. Back at the beginning of the century not even the maddest Oxide and Neutrino fan would have considered them to be a festival highlight. But the garage duo from London blasted their way through a nostalgia filled set to prove that they can still mix it with the best of them.
2. As far as spectacles go the SGP fireworks show remains the best thing I’ve seen at a festival. And I have a feeling there’s nothing that will beat it.
1. For pure all-round entertainment SGP is the best festival out there. Okay, Glastonbury’s bigger and Primavera has a better line-up but as far as setting, atmosphere and fun go SGP wins hands down.
HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY SGP!
HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY SGP!
By Sam Herbert. Tweets at @herbert_sam
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