Built-in stereo science with the Quiksilver Premium range

As any festival fan knows, after getting all fired up by a cracking headline set the last thing you want is for the party to stop. Well, now it won't have to.

If you can imagine "Pimp My Ride" with a rucksack then you've probably just pictured something not dissimilar to Quiksilver's latest offering.

This perfect party backpack features a fitted stereo system for your iPod, with controls built onto the shoulder straps so you can keep the music coming for as long as you like.

Posted by Clare Joslin on August 13, 2025 10:30 AM in Camping Gear| Festival Gadgets| Festival Must-Haves
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Be a virtuous Freeloader with Ecotopia's solar powered charger

If you’re brave/stupid enough to take your iPod, Blackberry, or PSP (seriously?) to a festival and can’t face queuing for nine hours to recharge it, then say hello to the FreeLoader from eco-supermarket Ecotopia.

Housed in an “impact-resistant, rust-free aluminium body”, the Freeloader is a small little thing and weighs about as much as a tube of toothpaste. While its solar-powered battery could take a while to get going in this rubbish excuse for a summer, it's handy. It can simultaneously charge a device as well as itself via its internal cells or with its USB charge cable (a cheat, but a necessary one: it takes a cool five hours of light to charge fully.)

Posted by Kat Brown on August 2, 2025 2:32 PM in Festival Gadgets
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Super wind-up lamp

Although this wind-up light doesn't match the gorgeous Orla Kiely wind-up torch, it doesn't mean that is isn't desirable. Going for functionality over looks, this great lamp gives you light when there is no electricity or sun to hit your solar panels.

This wind-up this LED camp light for a minute, and it lights up for a full 30 minutes. Great for when you're wrestling with muddied boots in your tent. If you want light for longer, wind it up all the way and it'll give you four hours of bright light or 48 hours' worth of its dimmer nightlight setting. Find out more by clicking here and buy one for £19.95 by click here.

Posted by Mof Gimmers on July 12, 2025 3:35 PM in Camping Gear| Festival Gadgets
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Sexy festival buddies: The Energizer Advanced Headlight

We’ve all been there. Festival campsite, middle of the night, pitch dark. You make it to the loo, but on the way back – just as the end is in sight – you end up going arse-over-tit in the mud because you didn’t see that uneven ground. Well a natty new festival gadget looks set to fix that.

Posted by Sophie Bruce on July 10, 2025 9:23 AM in Camping Gear| Festival Gadgets| Festival Must-Haves
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82ASK launches free Festival Helper Service

The clever people at 82ASK have launched a service to help out poor bewildered and befuddled festivalgoers. If you're not familiar with the service, 82ASK claims to be able to answer any question you care to throw at them (and if your question's weird enough, maybe it'll end up in their next book) - you text your query to 82275, their "Texperts™" stroke their beards and scratch their heads (i.e., search the internet, one would imagine), and they get back to you with the answer.

Now they've launched a Festival Helper Service - and it's (almost) completely free for new users. If you happen to be at one of the "major" festivals (classed by 82ASK as Creamfields, Global Gathering, The Big Chill, T in The Park, Glastonbury and The Reading and Leeds Festivals), you're entitled to three free questions.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on June 21, 2025 12:34 PM in Festival Gadgets| Festival Must-Haves| Music News
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Avoid queues for the loos - use a She-pee, a Whiz or a Go Bag

Nothing says Glastonbury more than a brave lady holding a cardboard piss-tunnel. Right?

All you ladies who've snagged a ticket to Glasto should be having your very last visit to a real, live toilet that you don't have to queue for round about now. Touch the loo roll, savour the smell of clean. Because, as we all know, queuing is all part of the experience.

Until now. Because the infamous She-pee is back. If you haven't heard of this ingenious invention, you're probably a man. It's basically a female urinal, made to help girls avoid the loo line at festivals.

Posted by Issy Sampson on June 21, 2025 11:23 AM in Festival Gadgets| Glastonbury| Music News
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Sonim XP1 - Die Hard With A Text Message

Hate my phone. It's so... so... normal. It is not remotely ruggedized. What, you don't know that word yet? Get with it, Pops. For "ruggedized" is how the Sonim XP1 is described by its manufacturers. On this site it is even pictured being held in some kind of industrial glove, so ruggedized and downright dangerous is it.

Anyway - the reason this phone is mentioned here is that it is ideal for "a variety of outdoor and sports activities", plus it features "high-output audio", which I think means that it is "loud". All of which makes it ideal for making that call to your jealous, loser mate who couldn't get tickets to Glasto and who is missing out on Hot Chip's amazing set RIGHT NOW.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on June 1, 2025 12:02 PM in Festival Gadgets
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