Everything you need to pack for the ultimate Summer Festival experience. Make 2010 a classic summer!

A Strong Friend – This fellow can be a vital commodity for many things at the festival; carrying beer, sitting on their shoulders for a view and even protection if you happen to bump into the wrong person too many times.

Cereal Bars – Trick your stomach into thinking you’ve eaten a breakfast.

Fancy Dress – Festivals are funny so why not add to it? If you’re single, dressing like an idiot is a sure fire way to garner some attention. Just steer clear of that old Harry Potter costume: Not cool.

Cigarettes/Tobacco/Skins – Even if you don’t smoke, in camps these can become a rare luxury and by the final morning they are traded like currency, just like in prison. Yay.

Wet Suit – Stay super cosy if it rains and also handy for a spot of crowd surfing (gawf!).

Toilet Roll – Don’t get caught short, panic and have to use a sock. It’s happened before, trust me…

Cardboard Cut-Out of Yourself – Can be used to hold your place in the queue for the loos while you try and locate that much needed falafel.

Mini Spirit Bottles – Fight the inflated alcohol prices at festival bars and hide these in places they can’t be seen for that extra hit when the mood takes you.

Wellies – Don’t risk not taking a pair. If you do, it will rain and it WILL be all your fault.

Wet-Wipes and/or Deodorant – Shower in a packet/and or can, although everyone’s as likely to smell as bad as one another by the third day.

SOS Flares – Make sure you and your friends can always find each other with ease.

Step Ladder - Guarantee yourself a good view in any crowd.

A “Cool” T-shirt – Instead of ‘I Am Spartacus’, or ‘I Am The Stig’, I’ve got a ‘I Am Big Jeff’ shirt. Jealous?

Condoms – For obvious reasons…don’t take home a kid or any diseases as a memento.

Drugs – No not the naughty kind (we couldn’t possibly condone that!) but anti-acids, paracetamol, ibuprofen and the odd rennie could come in handy on more than one occasion.

Ear Plugs – Ram them in your ears as you collapse in your tent to be sure you wake at a reasonable hour the next day, say 2pm. Just don’t get caught wearing them during the daytime or it’s image suicide.

Rubber Dingy and/or a Canoe – Remember Glastonbury 2005? Well this could come in handier than a tent.

Night Vision Goggles – Find your tent and way to the toilet at night without tripping over those guide wires.

Sun-Cream – You never know?

Oh, and the ticket. Don’t forget that.

Adam Hooper and Matthew Whittle www.matthewwhittleblog.blogspot.com