who's been to Homelands before ?

i went in '99 - really enjoyed it. the venue is actually brilliant because you're in the Bowl which is this valley-like plain and you have high hills surrounding the site so jeep lights at the top look like meteors, haha. its fairly easy to get to but it did take quite a long time to get in at about 4pm on the Saturday, traffic jams etc. - people being too monged to park properly etc. other potential highlights: the line-up is usually the best any big dance event gets in the UK nowadays, those silver sheets that keep you warm at night, the possibility of bumping into Russell Brand and attempting to 'out-loon' him with your deranged ramblings about The Flumps, losing all your mates before 10pm and not seeing them again until 5am at the earliest...

one downside is its corporate branding central and if you're not with Orange you probably wont be able to charge your phone unless they've switched to Vodafone for a site charging station this time, but thats no big deal considering its a 20 hour event or thereabouts. be wary of scallies on the blag and security corps rummaging through your bags for smuggled booze and spliffs tho eh?

It's good pisces but the main problem as I said on ILE is, you take a few pills or whatever and it's great and you're fucked for a while, but then you try and decide who to go and see, and it's like massive massive clashing between all the acts, and you're constantly paranoid you're missing something. Personally I enjoyed Creamfields Ireland way more last year cos there was only 6 acts I wanted to see and they were all in the same stage so I just hung there all day safe in the knowledge that Sasha et al were at the other places.

Oh security checks were tough yeah, we sellotaped stuff on the insides of our shoes and things. It was the scariest checks I've ever seen though, massive long line, single file, sniffer dogs, I guess they wanted to make people panic and throw away their stuff.