Zoo Thousand music Festival Camping Information
Camping is available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Camping is for weekend ticket holders only. Day ticket holders will not be permitted onto the campsite. There is separate family, disabled, motor home and VIP camping areas.
FREE camping is available when you register your weekend ticket no later than midnight Thursday 1st May 2008 using our camping booking form. All camping after this date will be charged at £5 per head
There will be a shop on situated in the campsite selling camping equipment, warm clothes, blankets, toiletries and snacks. Also there will be cafes and bars selling hot food and snacks, hot and cold drinks and alcohol. As well as this campers will get superior toilets along with water points, washing facilities and ATM cash machines.
Although we will endeavour to provide as much security as possible, campsites are always potentially vulnerable. Please do not leave valuables in your tent - keep cameras, money, cards, etc on you and make sure you write your postcode on your camping gear. There will be lockers available for bags etc if you wish. Please note that we cannot accept responsibility for any losses. If you see someone acting suspiciously or something happens to you, please don't be afraid to report it to a member of security or a steward as they are there to help you and keep you safe
Camping Wristbands:
Customers must exchange their ticket for a wristband as soon as possible after arriving on site.
Re-admittance to the site is possible only with a camping wristband. Entrance to the arena is only possible with a valid wristband, tickets will not be allowed through at this point. Wristbands removed from wrist or tampered with will be rendered invalid and will not be replaced.
You are allowed to bring in food and drink to the camp site. However, you will not be allowed to take this into the main event arena.
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Boutique Camping
Providing stunning and funky places to stay. Set apart from the main camping area will be a Tipi Village and BusBed dormitories! Each Tipi has a 17’ floor and sleeps up to 6 adults. You know that hot, sticky, 'nylon tent of a summers morning' feeling? With a Tipi you can be warm at night and stay cool during the day. Visit www.boutiquecamping.net
Each BusBed Hostel has 11 beds, divided between 3 dormitories with shared access to tea/coffee/cereal bar as well as air conditioning, electricity, hospitality area, chiller cabinet and proper beds!
Until Zoo Thousand and Eight
GALLOWS (FRANK CARTER)
“We are very, very excited to be there, it’s probably the best line up I have seen for a festival all year. I mean even just on the grime front, Mitchell brothers, Wiley and you’ve got Stanton Warriors and Pendulum, it’s just going to be a really good weekend. So I think we are playing Friday but if there are still weekend tickets available then I think we are gonna snap them off ya. I want to be there for the whole weekend”.
HADOUKEN (JAMES)
“Zoo8 looks quality and we are looking forward to playing this year, we’re
definitely gonna check out acts such as The Cribs, Gallows, Does it Offend
You, Yeah and hopefully the Zebra enclosure”.
THE HOLLOWAYS
“ZOO8. What a pun. If this zoo themed festival turns out to be half as much fun as I’m hoping then it'll be mega. We might have to write a head banging song for the giraffes. There's some top bands I’m looking forward to like Ash, The Young Knives and The Hives. There seems to be a glaring omission in the line up though - no Zootons?”
Metronomy, The Teenagers, New Puritans and Yousef are among the latest acts confirmed for Zoo Thousand And Eight Festival.
Metronomy will take to Friday's main stage, alongside headliner Mark Ronson and many more, while The Teenagers will perform on the Saturday ahead of bill toppers The Cribs.
The first ever Zoo Thousand festival takes place at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent, from 4–6 July 2008.
Additions have also been made to the smaller Tap ‘N’ Tin stage with We Start Fires playing live and Cut Copy DJing.
Meanwhile Liverpool DJ Yousef joins the line-up for the Devious / Pukka Up tent on the Friday and These New Puritans replace Lupen Crook as headliners for the Suburban Kings tent.
The Hives are set to headline Zoo-themed festival Zoo Thousand and Eight.
Taking place at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park between July 4 and 6, the band will play the festival, which will also see performances from Gallows and Ash.
Speaking to NME.COM, The Hives' singer Pelle Almqvist said he was letting the zoo's animals influence his choice of setlist for the gig.
"We're a bit scared that the gorillas will start a riot if we don't play the right songs," he explained. "We've never played a zoo before you know? Once we played at a festival in (hometown of) Fagersta in a field and their were cows there. Did they like our music? Well cows are pretty chilled out generally aren't they? So yes, I think so."
Almqvist said that although she thought it was fine for some of the bigger animals to listen to their set, it didn’t seem right on the smaller ones. He said: "I don't think it’s fair on the small birds - they'll be pulverised by our sound."
The band are also looking forward to playing on the same bill as Ash.
"Last time we played a festival together we had a wrestling match together and we ended up grappling them with a chair," explained the singer. "I think we are ready for a re-match - I'm ready."
