Music festivals invite an all-or-nothing mindset. You have paid for the ticket, travelled to the site and received a timetable full of artists, so it can feel wasteful to miss anything. The result is often too little sleep, too much walking, irregular food and a final day spent watching favourite performers through a fog of fatigue. A better festival is not necessarily the one where you see the most sets. It is the one where you still have enough energy to enjoy the performances you care about. Planning around rest, food, weather and transport may sound less exciting than studying the lineup, but these practical choices create the space in which the fun actually happens.
