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Always camped on bonnie, yes you miss sleep but you get used to that and it SO much more fun on camp, Bonnie maddness in the night and the pre-event warm up @ bonnie is where to be…..

Highlights for me the warm up at bonnie camp and the beach parties!! Skinny dipping at the beach, s3x on the beach

Music Hot Chip, Tings Tings, Justice, Booka Shade!!!! (really impressed with them) Erol Elkin (how eva u spell it , was very good!) Raconteurs where great too. I did watch DJ Supermarket, but in such a mess was jus melting into the grass for whole set….

All in all, the line up wasnt was strong in 2008, but my god by far the best festival I did that yr once again!!

But at the same time, 9 days of benicassim was fantastic!!
From waterparks to random people you meet, from Justice giving one of the best performances I have ever seen (and probably sweated the most ever too) to being up front for Babyshambles and the Raconteurs. To my friends that jumped over a flaming piano naked and had to go home early, to the random people that pitched in the middle of our tent circle.

Benicassim truly is a fantastic festival. Yes it has lots of brits there, but make no mistake about it, this is not a british festival. There are elements I hated at the time – like my opening paragraph explained – but looking back now I laugh. The festival was fantastic and if the lineup was good in 09…I’d do it all over again…

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Camped on camp Fib again this year, and found for those complaining about the heat…it was positively chilly compared to the previous 2 years!

The daytimes tend to zip by and theres plenty that can be done in and out of the suns baking heat. For the first time this year we got the car and headed into the mountains, found a fantastic shadey wood overlooking the town from about 5000ft up and spent the afternoon getting the best sleep Ive ever experienced in the town.

Music wise, I was a bit crap this year, I managed to miss half the people I wanted to see! Babyshambles gave a good gig, as they did last time they played, they had been promoted to the mainstage this time though. By far the biggest highlight, and the act I wasnt going to miss was Leonard Cohen, I grew up listening to his voice on my parents casettes in the car. He was simply amazing, graceful, and modest beyond belief, a true gent and a true legend. The rest of my group were a couple of years younger than me, and had never heard of Leonard prior to the event… They all loved him, “he is one swarve motherfucker” being a favourite quote from one of my mates.

Downsides for me was going to see Morrisey when I should have left him to his millitant vegitarianism and gone and partied away at Justice like the rest of the world… Yeah he is tallented and a bit of a legend in his own right, but I couldnt help feeling being lectured on the fact Im an omnivore was less “fun” than dancing like an ass at justice.

All in all a great weekend that nearly didnt happen at all for me (the morning I was due to fly out I ended up in A&E after a stupidly fast mountain bike crash-ended up doing the festival with a duff wrist, a painfull back, a smashed face and a good amount of amnesia….Brilliant!)

I satyed in benicamp… it was ideal. There were two supermarkets a stones throw away, we were 10/15 min walk to the beach, but in such nice weather walking isnt a problem.

The busses to and from the venue were like every five minutes or less they were clean, new, air conditioned coaches.

The venue its self was amazing JUSTICE made my festival, the energy was tangible!

The spanish were lovely apart from the theiving cow that robbed all my money (pick pocketed) pretending she was collecting for charity.
I literally had the time of my life in Beni and im going again next year.

Had the best of both worlds with the access to the campsites if wanted and air conditioned apartments with pools down the road for refugeeand coaches getting us to the festival quicker than mates staying in Benicassim walking. Lets hope for better acts next year as Im definitely going again.