Dispatches from a music festival: All Together Now

When bad weather overrides all good intentions

Aug 11, 2023

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Using a BeReal image, I pose for a selfie from a sheltered stage as people queue under a grey sky for hot coffees. The mud is inches thick.

Oh, I had big plans to get this post to you sooner, but I had to drive to Liverpool this week so that I could get my motorised DaVinci trail rider attachment fixed, something I sorely needed last weekend at All Together Now.

Last weekend was the festival’s fourth outing and it was by far my most difficult festival experience - and I’ve been to Oxegen, I survived Body & Soul 2016 and I just about made it out alive of Electric Picnic 2017. Despite all of the elements trying their best to wreck the buzz, I still somehow had the most fun I’ve had at a festival this summer.

Perhaps there’s something about surviving a yellow weather warning that makes you push even harder to have a good time. Or maybe when your tent collapses on you at 7am on a Saturday morning, fit to blow away if it wasn’t for your own body weight, that helps you realise that things could be worse?

Oh, but they could.

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