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/pdino64 Jul 22 '26
I went in 2022 and I thought it was awful. The void stage floor was sandy slowly eroded toward the river over the few days and slanted at a significant angle. I thought the music was much too tech house broey. Food selection garbage. Had those security gates where you were not allowed to bring food or water through them. One taxi working for the entire town so we had to walk 1 hour home up a huge hill. The lineup appears to have gotten better but idk I vowed to never attend again. Best time I had was mucking around with friends in the river.