Skiddle's Guide to: Large Music Festivals with Quiet Camping

Photograph: Leeds Festival

Continuing with our Festival focus, we move onto large festivals with quiet camping areas, an essential ingredient in order for you to get the perfect balance between out an out recklessness, unbridled hedonism, with a much needed quiet night's (or afternoon's) kip.

With most of the large festivals being a full on affair, with riotous gigs, crowd surfing, pint chucking and mosh pits being par for the course, what most lack is somewhere you can genuinely rest up, to recharge your batteries for the next days onslaught.

With some of the big hitters like Glastonbury and Boomtown getting wise to the beauty of having quiet areas, festival goers have been taking full advantage of large music festivals with quiet camping by getting the perfect balance between rest and play, making their choice of festival more of a holiday than a test of endurance.

We have looked at a couple in particular which have the guaranteed advantage of having designated quiet camping areas - the perfect antidote for the fast paced frenzy that is the large festival.

Two of our favourite large festivals that offers the quiet respite are Leeds and Reading. Widely known as full on, high octane affairs, Leeds and Reading have become festival favourites with everyone from school leavers going wild at their first festival, to the hardened metal and rock fans enjoying their yearly pilgrimage. With headliners this year including the likes of punk heroes Green Day, American rockers System of a Down, Scotlands finest Biffy Clyro, Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails, and the EDM and dubstep wonderkid Skrillex, its clear to see that this year’s Leeds and Reading installments are shaping up to be an unforgettably manic affair.

With more mosh pits and crowd surfing than you can shake a fist at, you’re going to need to need all the energy you can muster to get through the punishing but ultimately rewarding glut of anarchic gigs.

If you enjoy your festivals full of energy and intrigue you can do no better than Leeds and Reading. But if by the end of the day, or early morning as might be the case, you find yourself in much need of a rest, and don’t fancy the energy of the festival spilling over into your sleeping area, Leeds and Reading have implemented the Brown Site, or quiet camping area to you and I.

With a good nights sleep in you, you’ll awake fully prepared to face the carnage once more.

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