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NME Festivals Blog 2009 - Festival action, all year round -  Festival action, all year round

By Luke Lewis

Posted on 13/06/08 at 09:04:05 pm

Who says festivals are becoming too gentrified?

Certainly not Karen, an HR manager from London who we found quaffing chilled pink Chandon with her friends in the Zebra Champagne Garden.

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The 37-year-old festival virgin laughed off suggestions that such a genteel, monied enclosure jarred with the traditional, cider-and-mud festival vibe.

"We've got a lot of cash to spend," she said, matter-of-factly. "If festivals want to survive they need to attract people like us."

Next year: free spa treatments for every punter.

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