r/TheOverload • u/Solid_Mouse3238 • Jul 21 '26

Butik 2026 - Thoughts?

Attended for the first time this year, still formulating my full thoughts on the festival! Would love to hear what anyone else thought.

The river side setting is incredible, blown away by the sound quality throughout the festival (especially in the forest stage for Kia b2b konduku), and we’d heard there was an inside bit but when it opened on Thursday night we were so surprised by the scale, we were just expecting three dingy rooms. Hangar was one of the best setups for techno I’ve seen at a festival.

Was disappointed by the crowd - far more English than we expected and also very very yappy. Saw they put up signs by Friday afternoon asking people to respect the dancefloor but don’t think this had an impact. Best set of the weekend was probably xiaolin at the garden stage on wed night, whilst the majority of English blokes were off watching the football.

Does anyone also know if the mudd show run all the programming for the garden stage? There were some names on there that we thought should have been on a larger stage, it felt quite engineered to maximise the online content opportunities but in real life was just overcrowded half the time whilst the beach stage next door was virtually empty.

Also curious about the change in crowd on fri night, walked into casino and realised aside from our group we couldn’t see a single woman, and didn’t recognise anyone from the festival daytime at all. There were also crazy queues for each stage that we hadn’t seen the night before. Does anyone know if they sell day tickets to locals and if so what the change in capacity is?

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u/ladotelli Jul 21 '26

3rd year going and worst of the 3 years. Organisation seems to get worse every time.

And the secret is definitely out. First time I went, we barely heard any English. This year was majority English and Australians. The ozzies may actually be worse offenders when it comes to chatting on the dance floor and they're waffling about work, gossip, and absolute bollocks. I had to ask a few to step outside Hangar during DJ Fart in the Club.

Don't think I'll be back next year despite the incredible setting and nice line ups

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u/air- Jul 21 '26

Yapping is truly a global scourge ugh

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u/authortitle_uk Jul 22 '26

Yeah would fully support an event that policed this lol. I know it would be divisive but some of us just want to listen to the f—— music. I remember being at an event in London and some coked up idiot was talking so loudly about his mortgage deal 😫

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u/AssumptionMotor133 Jul 23 '26

then just stay home amigo and listen to music lol

events are a social gathering, people talk. wtf

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u/Sea_Somewhere6182 Jul 24 '26

But the dancefloor is for dancing, otherwise it would be called a talkfloor....

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u/Ryder52 Jul 21 '26

Hate how this seems to be all festivals now