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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lily Smith

‘A godsend at 5am’: the ultimate, sometimes surprising, festival kit list, by the experts

A person is walking through a festival field holding a large bag to the front and carrying two large bags on their back. They where a sun hat as they stride between two colourful festival flab poles
Come rain or shine, festival season is upon us. Guarantee yourself a good time by being prepared, whatever the weather. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

Packing for a festival is serious business: get it wrong, and it can mean the difference between the best weekend ever to one spent wet and miserable with a bad back (shout out to my friend Amy who forgot her raincoat for last year’s Lost Village, a daytime-focused music festival set in a woodland, and was forced to wear a bin bag).

More so than normal camping, festival packing requires taking the right stuff to be comfortable on your feet all day (and probably night), but packing light enough to be able to lug it all to your site. You can’t change the date of a festival to a weekend with better weather, which could mean heatwaves or thunderstorms. Or both.

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