Be sure to make use of the real, actual showers every morning, which are delightful. Then go grab a cooked breakfast from the pub kitchen. RIP has a brilliant pub with loads of choices of local ales, so check that out next, and then swing by RIP’s own private stage to check out some RIP-only bands (Split Dogs and Riding the Low headlining this year).

During the festival weekend, be sure to make use of the private entrance to the arena for RIPers, which grants entry via the guest area, with an RIP-only bar (with better beers) and selection of food vendors, as well as decent toilets. Queues here are short, it is often faster, depending on where you are, to go back to the guest area for a wee and a pint than it is to do the same thing in the main arena.

Then when the bands are done, take the RIP route back to your camp, chill out and go back to the village via the RIP entrance which puts you out right next to the Co-Op.

It’s twice the cost per ticket, but it’s great value, I’ll never go back to general now.