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Earthcore Festival

by Andrea Crome

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Earthcore festival happens in two states in Australia every year and has been going for over ten years and takes place in two locations; New South Wales and Victoria. The only festival I had been to really was Glastonbury in England which is Europe’s third largest, so when I heard that Earthcore festival was on and it was one of the biggest in Australia I was really excited. Plus the festival was the week before my birthday, yay!

The day of the festival we headed out of Melbourne and drove through a lot of nothingness for about two hours and finally arrived at the festival entrance, where we then sat for four hours waiting to get in! The festival goes on for three days, or so the flyer says! We finally got through the gate at 10pm Friday and I went off to explore straight away.

The first thing that struck me was “where is the rest of the festival?’ It was tiny and hardly any people. I then found out that its always that small, usually attracting a tenth of Glastonbury at about 10,000 people (but I reckon its much less that that!) The partying stopped at 3am and then there was nothing till 12pm the following day! Three day festival? - I don’t think so!

The next day the heat kicked in and there was no shelter from trees and there were huge sand and dust clouds from where people were dancing on the dry ground – I thought it was smoke at first, ha ha! Luckily there was a river near by, loads of people swam naked but I’m a prude so went in with all my clothes on and when I got out even my jeans were dry in less that 20 minutes!

There was no ATM, no shop, nothing! Just a few dance areas and a bar, plus a couple of places to eat – not what I had expected at all but I still had a great time. Maybe Glastonbury isn’t the best festival to go to first!

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