Are music festivals best enjoyed from home?

Why huddle in a muddy field as the rain buckets down when there's live music all over your television?There comes a point in life when the "full festival experience" loses its attractiveness. For me, that happened upon arriving at a wet and muddy gathering in Oxfordshire, unpacking the tent and discovering that the poles were still 90 miles away, on the kitchen floor. Using the canvas as an anorak for our sleeping bags was not the Bear Grylls-style success we had anticipated; even the prospect o...

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