West Mid Showground, Shrewsbury, reviews by real event-goers

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Throughly enjoyed the weekend

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Positives. Excellent vibe. Friendly staff. Most of the bands were excellent. Magic teapot awesome vibe. Camping well organised. Plenty of bins. People kept areas clean, no litter. Campsite litter free when we left. Decent selection of food and drinks not overpriced. Really thoughtful putting up some shelters.
Negatives. I think people moved pitches after being shown in. Some people pitched too close to each other and us not great for fire regs. Toilets not great. Some sound issues.
Suggestions for next year. A few more independent traders with unique products. Stricter Pitching. Better sound

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Well organised pleasant staff good set up in music venue and stalls etc. friendly , family atmosphere . Bands excellent ,Sound let it down very poor shame for the bands . Campsite very dated, dirty not enough showers , toilets and bins not emptied enough full and smelly all weekend .

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

My 1st time going & I loved it. The vibe was more relaxed with a more mature audience. I'm definitely thinking of coming next year! The bands were great. Beer prices apparently dearer than the previous year & I was disappointed to be told I had to pay £3 for a Woodshrop plastic cup for my 1st drink making it £9 for that pint, & non refundable! Not given an option not to have it, but after we saw people with free standard plastic cups, so that was annoying, a miscommunication somewhere I guess. Food stalls much more reasonably priced than other festivals, the beer was actually cheaper than most festivals, so providing prices aren't hiked you're onto a winner. Great venue too. Might camp next time 😉

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

My 1st time going & I loved it. The vibe was more relaxed with a more mature audience. I'm definitely thinking of coming next year! The bands were great. Beer prices apparently dearer than the previous year & I was disappointed to be told I had to pay £3 for a Woodshrop plastic cup for my 1st drink making it £9 for that pint, & non refundable! Not given an option not to have it, but after we saw people with free standard plastic cups, so that was annoying, a miscommunication somewhere I guess. Food stalls much more reasonably priced than other festivals, the beer was actually cheaper than most festivals, so providing prices aren't hiked you're onto a winner. Great venue too. Might camp next time 😉

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

The best tribute acts for us were Beatles, Neil Diamond, Trex, Stones.
The sound system let everyone down tho...and we didn't stay for Jovi because of that.
Fleetwood Shack were NOT the best.... altho I think they think they are! Tribute band Rumours are far, far superior. Perhaps check out Theatre Severn's site for tribute acts for Jimi Henrix and Thin Lizzy... who are both A- mazing.
Festival staff on gate and behind bar were really nice and we had a good time, thanks.

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Fantastic festival. Everyone enjoying themselves was good to see. Tribute bands very good. Nice selection of street food and stalls of merchandise. Only downside was the prices at the bar £6 for a pint and £3 for a can of c**e, you expect to pay a bit more but seems a bit excessive.

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

A great line up, though would have appreciated shorter intervals between acts - though appreciate it takes time to change sets between performers. Jenny Powell's nattering was annoying, and was disappointed that banarama appeared to be lip synching rather than singing live, and that they appeared to finish their set early.

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Will be back next year, but need to sort out sound engineers sometimes it was embarrassing for the acts, these guy's are professional so should the sound people, see you all next year hopefully all will be sorted

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Firstly the sound was awful. Sound issues on saturday and sunday that made the bands sound awful. This is not the bands fault but whoever was doing the sound needs to sort it out totally unacceptable the feedback and loud crackling and vocals dropping out. Secondly bins were overflowing by Saturday night and they werent emptied in time for Sunday so go even worse. More portaloos would be nice avoid a que. Need to sort out phone reception both calls,. texts and 4g (with EE at least). STAGE: why not rotate the stage 45 degrees so more people have a better view of it rather than to the side or put the stage up the top by fun fair looking down the grass. Bizarre placement. Couple marquees were a nice touch but a couple more to avoid rain would been better. Sadly people were out at 7-8am putting chairs out under cover in prime spots and then not coming back for 4 /5 hours its like being on holiday in spain where people put towels out at stupid times on sun loungers. Should be a sign and enforce no siting chairs and tables until your actually there. some positives though didnt smell w**d all weekend which was amazing and security seemed to deal with one or 2 people quite quickly.

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Fab weekend ?'? Great Artists with a good mix of music. See you next time 😊

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

Good atmosphere only spoilt by very poor mixing of the music! The sound engineer must have been an amateur! Even the acts complained about the poor sound quality! I hope they have someone who knows what they are doing next year!

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival

The acts were amazing the sound was poor and there were loads of issues with the sound effect guys.
Loads of the toilets were out of order inside. The outside ones were disgusting by day 3.
Nowhere near enough bins

Review of Woodshrop'24 Festival