Keep a little something hidden for Sunday! Whatever your tipple keep some in the car and forget about it!!! On Sunday when you wake up with empty pockets and purse take a walk back to the car and BOOM! A quick and easy way to liven up Sunday while everyone else is feeling the strain!

Going camping you gotta think wet, so pack a good tent, wellies, mac and hat.
But of course it'll be sunny so take suncream and shorts, and a towel is needed as a matter of course.
Money for beer & food, snacks to keep you going, and dancin shoes for the night.
Pack all this, enjoy the bands, and you'll be alright!

*CAMPING ESSENTIALS*

1)The added 227 grams (roughly) of weight to your luggage is little bother to you in comparison to the chaffage caused by a poorly wiped bottom. Hence, toilet roll AND baby wipes are a must.

2)You do not understand the struggle of arriving back at the tent in the late night darkness with alcohol pumping through your veins to find your temporary nylon home torn or broken. Duct tape and bin bags are your saviours for this eventuality.

3)You also do not understand the struggle of NOT arriving back at the tent in the late night darkness due to the alcohol pumping through your veins and the fact that your tent is identical to the 50 other Aventura 4 man dome tents within 100 yards of yours. Buy a stand out tent or get a flag which will be your beacon in the distance. Do both if you intend on taking drinking to a new level.

4)Last, and certainly not least, become buddy-buddy with the people around you. You're heading off for a weekend of love, peace and fun. A turf war is the last thing you need. My ultimate tip for festival-friend instigation is take a tent peg mallet. Everybody needs one and nobody's got one. You offer that around and it'll be free drinks for you all weekend.

Here's a cautionary tale. My friends Mark and Kath are probably the world's most efficient campers. There's nothing they don't think of. Mini shampoos saved from hotel visits, dry socks wrapped in cling film, microfibre towels… They even bring a tiny dustpan and brush to keep their tent clean. It's become a bit of an obsession. But all this preparation couldn't prevent the disaster that befell them last summer. After a wonderful and particularly well-refreshed festival evening, Mark retired to his sleeping bag, happy as could be. Waking in the night to find himself urgently caught short - and not being able to face an unsteady journey between guy ropes to the nearest toilet - he relieved himself into an empty plastic water bottle. Being the tidy camper he is, he even managed to unzip the tent and stand the bottle neatly on the grass outside. Problem solved. Or so he thought. Sleeping in the next morning, Mark was woken by screaming. While preparing breakfast in the early sunshine, Kath had felt thirsty. She didn't recall bringing any fruit drinks with them, but happily opened the chilled plastic bottle and gulped at its contents.

They eventually spoke to each other again by the end of the day. But it took huge amounts of water, toothpaste and grovelling apologies from Mark to win Kath round. So, to avoid a similar camping catastrophe, always pack some labels printed ‘Unfit for human consumption'. And remember not to drink any unfamiliar apple juice.

Top 5 must haves for camping:

1. Food (Lots of it) (I mean like 10 pot noodles)
2. Wellies (When it rains you will be ready)
3. Beer (No explanation needed)
4. Towels (A flooded tent is not good)
5. Hand Sanitiser (Germs are bad)

A few tips:

- DO NOT pitch your tent near the toilets (You can guess what happened to us once)
- DO bring extra money (When you run out of beer on your first night you will thank me)
- DO NOT pitch your tent near one that is similar (Unexpected visitors sleeping in your tent is a tad awkward)
- DO have loads of fun!

Take a sledge!! You can tape all your equipment, drink etc to it and slide it along to your campsite to set up, making it much easier than carrying it. Also, if your tent leaks you can prop it up as a rain cover or if its muddy its a good (fun) way to get around. 101 uses!!

Earplugs. Small bottle of hand sanitizer gel. Box of red wine - take silver bag out of box - drink cheap wine, when empty blow air into silver bag - voila pillow. Cereal bars - don't go off or get wet and will keep you going when you are hungry - get the ones with chocolate chips in - yum. Drink plenty of water. Head torch for tent and finding way around in dark. Tie those glowsticks with holes in the top to your tent guy ropes to a) find it and b) stop drunk people falling over them.

If you plan to bring food, think about what you can freeze ahead of time - e.g. beer cans can be frozen (with a danger of explosion - if you want to risk it, then the higher the alcohol content the better - Ed) and used as an ice pack to keep other food cool - then drunk chilled and disposed of! Freeze your sausages/bacon/bread rolls/pint of milk etc for second day - if in a cool box they will gradually defrost. Freeze small cartons of fruit juice likewise...

Agree a meet up time/place in advance with friends in case of phone loss/failure/no signal issues.

Condoms - in case! :-)

Tip 1 I have found the best way to know that my belongings are not at risk of being stolen is to dig a small hole under the tent, put belongings in then cover over. If its a phone obviously might want to put in waterproof bag first. I have found this to be affective and had to go to these measures after my tent got raided at a festy and £200 stolen :o

Tip 2 take dry shampoo! its likely u wont get a chance to wash ur hair, even if there are showers these can be kinda dingy and overcrowded with big queues so this will stop your hair looking like you could fry chips in it!

Tip 3 take baby wipes! festival essential! For Faces, underarms, and general bodily cleansing to stop you smelling like the fun you've had.

Tip 4 Smoothies! These will replenish vitamins, help fill you up and a great festy breakfast to get you ready for the day ahead. Also they make good mixer ;)

Tip 4 Take a torch, you will need it when trying to navigate through all those tent pegs and will help you locate your own tent (everything looks so different at night!)

Tip 5 Face paints/Make up/Bright clothes/Fancy dress - There's nothing worse than feeling under dressed and you are serious risk of this if you just bring your standard everyday clothes so pack bright!

Tip 6 Take something with wheels like a wheelbarrow or sack truck, this will help u immensely when taking things to the camp site and then u can go all out and bring that airbed without breaking your back.

Tip 7 Let go, have fun, and take a disposable camera to record it all on (as it is all too easy to lose valuable phones and cameras!)

Oh and hope for the sunshine and bring on trrruuckk

(Tip 8: you can never have enough tips, especially Tip 4s - Ed :) )

I suggest a large hip flask full of Jack Daniels. Best use to be made at a festival restricting the consumption of your own drink in the arena. It saves time and expense at bars and less time in the toilet allowing you to enjoy your fave bands set!!

1. On your first day at the campsite/festival, enough dirt will be tracked into the tent that you can grow all the food you need for the rest of the trip in the rows between your sleeping bags! Just pop some seeds in, and the leakage from the tent will do the rest…

2. The urgency of a late night bathroom trip is directly proportional to the outside temperature, how complicated it is to get out of your snug sleeping bag and how many layers of clothes you have on.

3. Except, if you do go to the toilet at night, make sure to wear shoes, because toilets are a throw-up hot spot, trust me, you don’t want to be woken up at 5am from the smell of someone’s dinner on your feet.

4. Sighting a bald eagle is thrilling to campers of all generations. Sighting a bald man, however, does nothing for eagles. Unless it’s serving as a target...

5. If you’re camping with kids, take along the ones who know how to cook. That way, you can relax in your camping stool while your dinner is being made!

6. A hot rock from the campfire placed at the bottom of your sleeping bag will keep your feet warm on chilly nights. A hot enchilada works well too, if you don’t have a fire, or are simply drunk enough…

7. Waterproof clothing isn’t, non-stick pans aren’t, one size fits all doesn’t, anything bug-proof isn’t and waterproof matches aren’t.

8. An effective way of really compressing your sleeping bag into its stuff sack is running over it a couple times with your car, may get a little muddy, but it’s worth it; you’ll be saving a lot of unnecessary frustration.

Meet Findus Milner, the party horse!

With a 1:1 scale fibreglass horse at your side you will always cast a large enough patch of shade for you and your friends to keep cool, and the best part is, being made from the same material as small boats, he is 100% waterproof.

My tips are:

1: take an empty pillow case with you. You can fill it with clothes to make a pillow, saves carrying one.

2: always keep your valuables inside your sleeping bag when you go to bed. Thieves love a festival unfortunately.

3: don't keep all your money on you. Leave a stash in the car for emergencies.

Plenty of toilet roll, wet wipes, dry shampoo, floral hair band to distract from grease,

Best not to stay in a tent on your own, the more people the warmer you can get at night time. Then in the morning you can open the doors and let the air in.

We always take a bucket so that we can have it for emergencies for when the queues get ridiculous for the toilets.

Get friendly with your "camp neighbours". It can be a real giggle getting to know the people around you. When we went to a festival last time, we made friends with these 2 older ladies, they were hilarious!!! When we stepped out of our tents in the morning, they handed us sausages sandwiches and cider!! They were brilliant and they were camping pros. We had forgotten all sorts of little essentials and they helped us out. Just like we would for others.

My tip is don't leave all your stuff & your car key in one bag in your tent. I did at Truck a couple of years ago and my bag was stolen. Scatter your stuff around and keep important items with you. How about a free ticket for a bad luck story?

I'd suggest you take the following items; water bottle, toothbrush, bog roll, alcohol, glitter, torch tent, sleeping bag onesie, sombrero, binoculars, spare pants and wrap all these things up in plastic bags when you pack – you can never have enough to keep stuff dry/ keep the damp stuff separate from the really wet stuff. When you bed down embrace your inner hamster/tramp and make a nest in your bin bags of soggy clothing. Also duct tape is very useful for tent repairs, taping your teddy bear to the end of a telescopic tent pole to mark your location, attaching your torch to your head (this allows you to night-roam with both hands free) and silencing people with different opinions to your own.

My ingenious camping tip is how to distract from greasy hair, because let's face it after being sweaty and having beer thrown all over you, your hair isn't going to be looking it's best; therefore my tip is to wear the BIGGEST most extravagant crazy floral head band, that way everyone's attention is going to be drawn to that instead of your disgustingly unwashed hair! #FLOWERPOWER

1. Buy a waterproof tent! Last years thunderstorm meant I woke up in a lake of water!
2. Take a bandanna to shelter you from the sun, and to fit in with avid festival goers
3. Take wet wipes and dry shampoo to keep you looking fresh
4. Bin bags have many uses - to help patch up a damaged tent, put your dirty clothes in or act as a stylish poncho
5. Take plenty of small snacks to keep you going through the day and night
6. Emergency phone charger!
7. Take a ball or guitar to keep you entertained when the music stops
8. Hire/buy a small cart to pull your bag/alcohol, saves you carrying it!
9. Buy a bumbag to keep your valuables safe.
10. Make sure you have a torch so you don't trip over tent strings on the way to the toilet in the night!
11. Have fun, enjoy the music and the company of your friends.

There is no such thing as glamping. If it fits in the car, take it!
Bacon. And Eggs. Great for that first morning festival hangover.
Bog roll is a must and anti-poop tablets are voluntary!

Cheap wellies are fine as long as you have half decent socks (mine have added cushioning on toes and heel)

Don't forget the wetwipes!

Take some binbags for rubbish, dirty clothes, rain poncho in an emergency!

Don't be that person who has to have a full wash at a tap thus inconveniencing lots of others. Take a couple of 2 litre bottles of water and wash at your tent.

Take a bunch of mates and just enjoy yourself! :)

(Don't be that guy with a guitar or bongo, you and friends might think you are all awesome but everyone else is fed up hearing your crap version of Wonderwall at 4 in the morning!)

Can't beat a cheap festival poncho for staying dry.

To stay cool, as soon as the sun comes up and starts baking you alive in your tent, just get up! Make the most of every second of Truck. Grab some breakfast and drink plenty of water.

My friend gave me a great tip for keeping warm at night. Make sure you change all of your clothes before you get into your sleeping bag, don't just crash in what you've been wearing all day. I think it's something to do with moisture being in your clothes, but it really makes a difference on cold nights.

As for not getting burnt, I get one of those once-a-day sun screens, slap it on in the morning and you don't need to think about it again!

Because you are out in the elements most of the time feativals are places to dress like its winter, even if its spring/summer.

For nightime warmth I always use a sheepskin to sleep on. Its like an electric blaket and is fluffy and makes a spartan camping matt feel more generous. hot water bottle too. Makes all the difference. If travelling by car bring a duvet (synthetic fibres is best as doent pick up the damp) and a sleeping bag.

Blankets can almost be worn as shawls and are really good. Coats that look like sleeping bags are good too.

Dry- wellies with welly socks, brollies and rain ponchos!

fireproof- use common sense no?

Happy camping!

Hang a "fresh linin" car air freshener in your tent. Makes a huge difference!

It's nice to keep the tent doors open on a warm evening, but you risk attracting all the biting insects into your sleeping quarters. To avoid this, just light a few slow-burning joss sticks/incense sticks outside the tent door. The smoke will deter the mosquitos and midges from entering.

In a crowded site a few cheap solar-powered garden lights can help to mark out your tent when you're trying to find your way home. Solar-powered lights can also be very useful markers to avoid tripping over guy ropes at night.

If you're a frequent tea/coffee drinker, take a vacuum flask with you. Whenever you boil a kettle for a cuppa, fill the flask, too, so you can make yourself more cups without having to use gas again. If you fill the flask with boiled water after your last brew of the night, you have water in the morning that only needs a very quick re-heat for the first cuppa of the day. Less waiting for that morning brew!

of course after tent and sleeping bag must have are wet wipes, dry shampoo and toliet roll but vital are menthol tissues ( to cover nose when you have to use portaloos, any time after the first few hours of the event as they will be reeking) oh and dont forget your alcohol gel as soap is first thing to go in these toilets.

also advice dont take expensive things like cameras, i phones, jewellery etc as they will most likely be stolen, broken or lost.

Camping on the level, flat ground might not always ensure you keep dry if it rains - sometimes that might be where the water collects into a nice muddy pool. Pitching your tent on a slight incline might be a good idea. One year camping when I didn't know this led to a quagmire inside, and at the entrance to the tent - horrible.

A remedy against ants is to put talcum powder around the tent, it will serve to move them away.

Be prepared! I never go to a festival without the following- Do not take anything you are not prepared to lose. Buy a 10 pound mobile phone. A towel, silver blanket, toilet roll, zip ties, duct tape, pack your clothes into plastic bags inside your main bag and most of all leave your daily drudge behind at home, one last thing stash your valuables at the bottom of your sleeping bag when sleeping and have an amazing time.

Take a bucket with u and toilet roll.... Saves walking long distance on ur own in the night! Safer n cleaner no doubt lol

To save carrying around a big camping light, fill up one of the camping water containers, then put a head torch around it facing inwards, the light will be diffused through and make the whole water container glow.

My best buy ever, a small camping wok, stir fry veg from tesco, tinned tuna or Quorn. Boil in the bag rice - tasty and easy meal for next to nothing.

Take a thermos for keep precious water hot.

One of those little food waste buckets with a lid, spot of disinfectant in the bottom.. a life saver when you need the loo in the middle of the night!

I've seen the other entries, and they're all very useful! But I would say to hell with all that... you'll be having so much fun you'll barely sleep, if you do need to sleep do it outside in the sunshine whilst listening to some great bands (*wear sunscreen). Speaking of which, yes, the weather will be fantastic so who needs to fix their leaky tent?! No need to bring food either, just enjoy the treats on offer. Basically just go with the flow and have a blast - screw everything else!

Use a quilt instead of a traditional sleeping bag, saves you weight and it is much more comfortable!

1. Take an empty pillow and fill with clothes- good way of storing it and use as pillow
2. Take tinned food to save money and time cooking
3. If you encounter a grizzly bear, do not run away, avoid looking the bear in the eyes, and slowly back away. If its a black bear, instead of attempting to run, you must try to scare it off, as black bears are scavengers and will happily eat humans.
4. Bring large water containers to minimise trips to taps.
5. Bring wellies or some sort of water proof shoes.
6. Take a portable phone charger, it will save you so many times.

Tie strips of carrier bag to your guide ropes - makes them more visible in the dark and hopefully stops people tripping over them
If travelling by car take a sheepskin rug to sleep on, the best insulation against floor chill

Diposable pants and baby wipes. Anything else you can put up with....

Along with TENT.......take a house and hide it under an invisibility cloak.....people will think you camped when actually you're in your own bed.

1) If you are in a campervan, park as close to the entrance as possible to prevent being stuck in the mud amongst hundreds of other vehicles also trying to get out at the end of the festival.

2) If you are in a tent, park in the quiet zone - may seem boring but well worth it for a good nights sleep.

As I learned this camping this cold weekend - a hat (or improvised head covering) and some big socks.

Don't pitch your tent in the dark in an overcrowded festival camp site! You might end up blocking someone else's tent entrance and they will find a way to get in no matter what! (and yes it does involve jumping on your tent) :)

Wet wipes

camelback hydration system

poi

Get some self-heating pouch meals in. Idiot-proof & saves spending beer money on food.

Wear a large coat all the time as it will keep the rain off, make sure you are warm at night, has long sleeves to wipe your nose on and will keep the sun off your back!

my top tip is "do not leave an open drinks unattended, )for safety reasons,

extra socks, onesies for night time,
wet gear, wellies,
wet wipes,
best tip enjoy yourself

When camping where late nights are involved, get your bearings. This isn't so that you can stagger back at 2am and know your north from south, no. This is because it is summer. A brilliant-bright light wakes up the outside world from 5am. By 7am your tent is like a polytunnel - more suited to growing pineapples than sleeping. At this point you cast off your sleeping bag. But by 7:30am it's oven-hot in your tent. You must get up, get out and get some cooler air. Getting up at any time before 10 is too early if you want to be on top Trucking form on day 2.

So here is my first tip:

Get your bearings so that you can find shade from the east, you'll thank your lucky stars that you did!

For other tips, meet me in my distinctive blue and yellow dome tent towards the east of the site. I will be flying twin flags: one of the Green Party, the other is white with a huge, smiling crescent moon. There will be something high to shade me from the east.

If you only take a tent and two other things to camp at a festival, they should always be;

A) Bin bags
B) Gaffa tape

They will solve almost any problem you can have - waterproofing a leaky tent, making instant waterproof clothing, something to sit on, ways to waterproof your shoes, a way to attach cans of beer to your person, fixing your rucksack that you broke from carrying too many cans of beer, something to create fashionable accessories from, instant gaffa tape eye mask, gaffa tape hats and spare bin bags to collect all of the rubbish bits of bin bag and gaffa tape you end up with from doing all of this!

TAKE/DO:

Black wellies for evening wear

Paint nails to avoid the knowledge of dirt under nails

Remember tent

Awesome friends

Moo Moo biscuits to share with awesome friends

My top festival camping tips are to equip yourself with: a blanket with a waterproof bottom, earplugs, a sense of humour, good friends and ideally some scrumpy.

Take many hundreds of bags in all sizes. Bin bags, carrier bags, food bags, tea bags lol!

plenty of loo roll and a sheewee!

Always check the tent poles and pegs are there.

Never leave anything in the tent you don't want to lose.

Wet wipes and if you can carry them air beds,

Wrap a head light around a milk bottle to make the best all round light when you're trying to get yourself sorted in the evening in your tent!

Baby wipes to keep clean and dry shampoo or talc to keep your hair looking fresh for as long as possible!

A big sleeping bag than you might need, much more comfortable than getting your legs all in a twist!

Camp Tips.

Stuff to pack -

Flag and pole x 1 - preferably pirate. Hilarious name of your camp optional. (We're at 'truck' festival)

Sandwiches x infinity - Always hide your favourite as these will be eaten the quickest or given to *those blokes over there* by your fellow campers. Because they love to make you cross.

Wet Wipe packs x 3. Because you might get lucky. Night one Go for it! Use all three packs. Night Two - Don't bother. Any amount of wet wipes will not make you clean.

Money x ££££ - For bacon and egg in the morning when all of the food you brought has been eaten by everyone else. Also new sunglasses which were lost at last night's 3am rave.

Mates - To carry you back to camp MotherTru......

Always pack bin bags! They are absolutely essential to make sure you don't leave behind any litter, but also double up as something to sit on, to protect stuff from the elements, and perfect for chucking everything into if you get fed up with weather and want to return home without filling the car with mud!

For a more fun camping trip, I have used strong bin liners as a replacement for a sled before too! Was an extremely chilly trip, but so much fun!

(1) Push 2 sticks in the ground outside your tent and hang your muddy wellies upside down - that way they won't get wet on the inside and your tent will stay relatively mud free!

(2) A plastic poncho type cover over and a pair of crocs to slip on should be ok for quick trips to the loo in the rain when it's not too muddy.

Andy finally .... Here's hoping you don't need either of these tips for TRUCK ... bring on the sunshine!!!!

Wet wipes! Good for a wash and for wiping up spills etc.
Ear protectors if you are bringing any wee ones.
Keep your tent doors shut to keep pesky flies out and to keep the warmth in.

1. Take Dental floss - it's tiny to carry but can also be used as string to mend things, to hang up washing, replacement shoe laces, even to help start your fire!
2. Don't leave home without your Swiss army knife or equivalent multi-tool device - it will prove invaluable.
3. Take a 'flavours box' with your favourite herbs and spices - to make any camp dinner taste absolutely delicious.

1. Bring gaffer tape, really helpful if your tent has a rip, especially with non-guaranteed British weather

2. Take a print out of the line-up!

3. Bring ear plugs, when you have been listening to music all day and most of the night, you will want some silence to get to sleep

A picnic waterproof mat to be able to sit and stay dry!

1-Pick a sturdy tent so that whatever the weather your tent won't be the soggy broken down one when/if it rains

2-Canned food such as canned fruit is the best investment

3-Take Baby wipes with you so you feel a little clean if no showers

4-Roll on if you can't bring aerosols in

5-Get a roll mat so in the day it can become a sunbed

Baby wipes! Baby wipes are a must they sort out any problem from a spilt drink to a quick wash.

1 - always have/carry a little bottle of antibacterial gel!!

2 - take toilet roll/wet wipes with you!

Camping tips:

1. Find a really posh/rich friend who will lend you or give you their VW campervan for the weekend (I know but its Oxfordshire, its possible!)

2. Make sure that you book a campsite where you can have a campfire - its just not the same without one.

3. PE kit string bags thingy - essential item for toiletries/bathroom stuff etc - campsites can have really weird showers, sometimes with totally wet floors all the time, so this type bag helps to keep all your stuff in one place and dry and accessible plus you can just hang it up in the tent/camper... easy!

4. Take a guitar. Ok so maybe you don't play. But on a campsite you can usually find someone who can and hey presto instant party.