We had an exciting opportunity last week to work with Future Cinema on their Wilderness takeover project. If I'm totally honest with you I'd never heard of Wilderness before, so I wasn't too excited when we were given tickets for the weekend... How wrong I was!!
The best word to some up Wilderness is 'magical'. Set in the beautiful rolling hills of Cornbury Park the atmosphere was very 'Mid Summer Nights Dream'. There were mermaids floating on the lake, a band of tuba playing foxes, and naked ladies roaming the festival on white horses. Most of the time you didn't know where to look.
Anyway, on the first night we were taken back to the 1920's with the Bugsy Malone takeover. Think Boxing Rings and Can Can Girls.
This is when we first discovered the Wilderness downfall... everything shuts down VERY early. You're sort of left high and dry by 2:00pm, bar a few piano playing hippies on hay bails. The only way round this is to start early, so on day two we cracked open the wine by lunch time whilst we sat by the lake (complete with waterfall) in the sunshine.
On day three Future Cinema put on the classic 'La Haine' accompanied by 'The Asian Dub Foundation'. It was absolutely amazing and I highly recommend you catch a screening when they bring it to London.
All in all it was an amazing weekend. Perhaps due to the lack of bands I wanted to see and the premature closing time, it's not something I would pay for, especially whilst Secret Garden Party and Bestival are still going strong. But if you're in to your smaller indie festivals or for a great alternative family trip, Wilderness is definitely worth a visit. Expect big things for this little festival in the near future.
TTFN x
http://www.wildernessfestival.com
http://www.futurecinema.co.uk
http://www.asiandubfoundation.com
Photo credits to Ollie Hilliard
p.s. hope you caught a glimpse of mini collection no.2 :)
(due for release early next week)
