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Truck festival: leave the car at home

by Alex Denney [Edit this content] ▾ 12 comments 14:16 July 20th, 2007

Keep on trucking, folks – just do it by train, m’kay? Due to the shitload of water that’s just been falling out of the sky flooding the car parks, Truck festival organisers are warning revelolers to use public transport to reach the Hill Farm site.

Fans are also advised to wait until tomorrow to travel to the Oxfordshire festival, which takes place over Saturday and Sunday this weekend (July 21 and 22), according to a bulletin posted on the festival’s Myspace.

The instructions run as follows:

"1.DO NOT COME TODAY (FRIDAY)

2. If possible, take public transport. There are hourly buses from Oxford and Didcot. We are still working on an alternative car parking plan as the parking fields are likely to be very muddy or even underwater.

3. Get dropped off in the village and walk up.

4. We do not recommend that you bring camper vans as they are likely to get stuck in mud."

The festival will feature performances from Idlewild, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Brakes, Youthmovies, The Electric Soft Parade and iLiKETRAiNS.

Keep an eye on thisistruck.com for further updates.

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for people who don't read the messageboards

here's a nice photo of part of the site, taken earlier this morning: http://i14.tinypic.com/4pmk289.jpg

guntrip | 20 Jul '07, 14:17 | X | Reply

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shit

jerobe | 20 Jul '07, 14:18 | X | Reply

har har

ARF!

Camping = for silly people.

Mike_Diver @jerobe | 20 Jul '07, 14:22 | X | Reply

dont come today =

they might still cancel?

Jamie_Summers | 20 Jul '07, 14:25 | X | Reply

bogus

dude

Ultimate_Damage @Mike_Diver | 20 Jul '07, 14:25 | X | Reply

bollocks

that doesnt look so good if we're a band turning up in a splitter eh?! splitters and mud aint a good combo.
bolloxing bollocks.

freestresstest @Mike_Diver | 20 Jul '07, 14:26 | X | Reply

hnnnnngh

Jesus Christ.

It can't be as bad as Glastonbury, repeat, it can't be as bad as Glastonbury.

Jober @guntrip | 20 Jul '07, 14:27 | X | Reply

Nah,

it means 'don't come today because we're gonna try and de-flood it tonight', hopefully.

Jober @Jamie_Summers | 20 Jul '07, 14:28 | X | Reply

didcot parkway is shut.

amazing!!!

fishplums | 20 Jul '07, 14:29 | X | Reply

if anyone passes on..

theres a funeral directors onsite .fact.

Scatterheart1985 @fishplums | 20 Jul '07, 14:33 | X | Reply

They've cancelled the stewards' meeting

Due to inclement weather.

...no shit.

Royter-Hatfood @Jober | 20 Jul '07, 14:38 | X | Reply

that's not all that's cancelled...

it's been postponed til september. the site's unfortunately a complete washout!

vacuouspop @Royter-Hatfood | 20 Jul '07, 16:14 | X | Reply

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