Hey this is my first review! its more of a rant! 2000 trees is a small eco festival with 2000 tickets being sold. 3 sources of music main stage, acoustic and dance corner. £40 for 2 nights camping = cheap, why so cheap you ask. Let the moaning commense!!! The food was very over priced small portions- for example 4 pound for a half of a curry!!! I thought having local produce it would have brought the price of the food down. The cider was awesome 8%+ murkey as piss, well stocked bar!! When your outdoors and dancing and drinking you need good food, youll need much more than 30 pound for food if you go Friday and leave Sunday. I think the only think which made this festival family friendly is the fact that the music stopped at half 11.. repeat..music stopped at half 11!!!! on the dot with no notice!! imagine dancing with all your mates then bam no music and members of the council going round saying we cannot even make kinetic noise thats not cool is it kids On a plus side back stage was fun on the last night(saturday), no security what so ever, so you can go jam with who the hell you like, we sat with this group of 10 people from this band( to drunk to rember who) and looked back at the dead campsite at 3 in the morning playing flutes and guitars which was very pretty. final verdict Some great live acts, a little corner with a garden shed for house, dance/trance music tree stumps to sit down on, a main stage and a moderate sized acoustic tent(enough to fit about 300-400 people out of the rain: ) price of ticket- you get exactly what you pay for, which is quite frankly an pile of shit. this was mainly due to the fact that music stopped without warning at half past 11. i was not the only shocked one! although banging on bin lids is awesome fun live music at night would be much more special with the amount of effort that had gone into lighting up the site at night(green lights on trees etc quite magical (having drank rather enough cider to keep my bare feet warm in a foot of mud at 11 at night), meaning every body went back to the beer tent or back into there own little groups to avoid the pissing rain, good live music of sorts would have kept the spirit alive well into the early hours of the morning, rather than crawling back into sleepy minute social groups. The toilets are average being vomit worthy of any festival having rain on the site for a month before and the same in the actual days of festival. The small and intimate feeling of this festival, is what initally drew me in, it would make a fantastic first festival, especially if your local, if your not local charity rock concerts can easily give you the same feeling as 2000 trees and they have half the amount of people, the atmosphere was not the best, and this was not because of the rain. i gave this festival 2 stars when it deserves 5 for effort in recycling and organisation and man power was excellant. Music was what youd expect from a small festival- some diverse bands and sound system sounded ok to me! read more

Times have obviously changed since Arf wrote their review! This year was my fourth, and it was as incredible as usual! The food for the festival is pretty normal prices, as is the drink- but the festival lets you bring in as much food and drink into the festival as you want (into the arena as well), so not much cause for complain there. The toilets won best festival toilets last year and maintained the same high standard this year, ok it's not exactly on the same level as the 'best festival in the world' award, but hey it does mean that Arf's complaints would now seem a little unfair! One thing I think is great about Trees is the stuff going on after the curfew (by the way, basically every festival in the UK has a curfew, so it's hardly unusual for the music to stop at 11.30pm), the silent disco in three different venues is always a crowd pleaser, owing to the choice of about 6 different frequencies- music to suit all! As well as this, the band stands dotted around with secret acts, as well as the secret stage hidden away near the greenhouse meant that you could go to bed at 4am and there'd still be things you were missing out on. And lastly, a line-up that included Dry The River, Frank Turner and The Mystery Jets can hardly be something to complain about (although this does admittedly depend on your personal tastes!) All in all, a great little festival that has really got so far in the last 5 years (it was even sunny this year!) read more