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Camp Bestival 2009

Camp Bestival Festival When: 24-26 July

Where: Lulworth Castle, Dorset

Camp Bestival information: Florence And The Machine, Laura Marling, PJ Harvey and Goldie Lookin Chain will play at the castle by the sea at Bestival's baby sister festival Camp Bestival.

Camp Bestival tickets: Adult weekend tickets with camping are £130 and £100 without. You can also take the whole family (two adults and up to 4 children aged 15 and under) for a respectable £295.

Website: www.campbestival.co.uk

Camp Bestival Blog

NME writers off the leash: reviews, rants and gossip direct from the festival front-line...

Rob Da Bank's Camp Bestival Blog - The Aftermath

Phewee, well it’s all over save for picking some beer cans out of the woods, waking up the last remaining people still snoring in the backstage camping and packing away my tipi. [...] Read more!

Rob da Bank's Camp Bestival Blog - Bongs, Flaming Lips And Hi-De-Hi

Oops sorry, appear to have missed a day! That'll be running a festival for you. [...] Read more!

"Don’t blame Me When Your Hair Beehives Overnight!" - Rob Da Bank On The Opening Day Of Camp Bestival

We’re open! Half an hour late but after sweating for six days to get the bloomin place ready in time it’s quite a relief. At this point I’m sure I should feel ecstatic but I actually feel a bit sick and tired. Could have been the sausage...

Rob da Bank's Camp Bestival blog – 24 hours to go!

Oof, hello NME-ers … just taken 5 minutes to have a sit down and meticulously check five different weather forecast sites for the weekend – all predicting completely different weather conditions from storm force winds and hail on one, through...

Rob da Bank's Camp Bestival Blog - the site starts to take shape

Him/her/it upstairs is smiling on us – it is another glorious day down at Camp Bestival HQ. All the crew are toiling in sweltering heat as I crack the whip. Ha ha! [...] Read more!

Rob da Bank's Camp Bestival blog - 3 days to go!

Tuesday July 15 Day three in the Camp Bestival house … or more accurately trying to get back to the Camp Bestival house which incidentally now contains 3 babies, 2 nannies, 4 grandparents and a smattering of hangers on and mysterious folk that...

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