As as first timer at the Isle of Wight Festival at the age of 42 I thought it was great, the line up was what really attracted me so well done on that. I have been a huge fan of The Stranglers, The Sex Pistols and The Police for many years and the opportunity to see all of them in 1 weekend was too good to pass up.

I travelled by train and foot passenger to the site and had no problems in either getting there or getting away Monday morning. (just one word of advice, buy your bus tickect early, I did and it saved queuing with a heavy rucksack, I just got staright on a bus).

I have only really one quite small gripe and that is that I did not arrive till about 4:00pm on Friday and by this time finding a place to pitch the tent was somewhat difficult, I know I was a bit late but that couldn’t be helped but wehat was annoying was that there did not seem to be any information availiable as to where there was any space left or if any space had been held back for latecomers. I paid the same price so why should I not get a space to put up the tent.

For next time, could we have an alternative to the lager/cider I am a real ale fan and had to pop into Newport on Saturday to get a decent pint.

As far as line up go I would say just keep it a diverse as possible, some old stuff and some new stuff and mix it up through the weekend. Definately keep the Big Top, but as many other have said keep it away from other load music. This also applies to the Platform One stage, where I saw some excellent performances that were somewhat competing with the noise form the varoius fairground rides with their thumping music.