{"id":14600,"date":"2014-10-10T13:08:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:08:36","slug":"rocking-the-daisies-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/rocking-the-daisies-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking the Daisies 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saturday 05 October 2014<\/div>\n

Rocking the Daisies<\/a> managed to expand from its colossal\u00a017,000-odd crowd last year<\/a> to around 20,000 this past weekend. The weather was great and, as usual, there was plenty to see and do.<\/p>\n

I may have gone for just one day (well, one and a half if you count the long wait in the queue to leave the fest on Sunday) but believe me when I say that one day was enough to leave my senses saturated and my body broken once I returned home.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots from Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"Crystal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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The ticketing system was different this year, and while I read a lot of complaints from Friday of people being stuck in 3 hour-long queues and a general sense of confusion and frustration of the whole ticket registering and transferring process, everything ran pretty smoothly when I arrived on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

I’m not mad about the idea of running around with our IDs around our wrists, but I understand the need for security\/anti-fraud measures etc…It’s a tough one. At any rate,\u00a0I did not envy the Daisies officials who had to deal with the new system and the impatient festival-goers when the gates first opened…<\/p>\n\n\t\t