Storytime! What's the craziest thing that happened to you at a festival or gig? Tell us for $7!

Picture the scene, it's Download Festival, it's muddy as all hell. The bands haven't even begun yet, it's the time of the 5 day campers.

We are a curious bunch, choosing to camp longer than is required but it's these days that honestly bring out the weirdest and most wonderful.

All through the camps there had been repeated tales of a guy calling himself "The Mud King" - mainly because it seemed he had fallen over in the mud and then just lent into the name by using any muddy path as a slip n slide opportunity. Our friend Simon however was not content with a would be monarch proclaiming to be king simply by being muddy.

Simon decided that the real measure of a king's worth was in battle and so decided to challenge the mud king for his crown.

By this point quite a crowd had gathered, all with phones out, some chanting for the mud king and others cheering for this would be king, looking to bring a sense of dignity and pride to the throne.

Cue the muddiest duel you will ever witness all in the name of being The Mud King of Download.

I've put the video link below and got it to start at the point you see Simon (the clean one in his pants to begin with!) approach the king!

Beginning of Summerbreeze. An alternative to Wacken in the north.

There was a wide offer from the health and beauty sector at this event. Various Metal Doctors offered their services. Breast expansion by Magic Metal Hands…But let's not talk about how I got Magic Metal Boobs.

At this time, if you were chosen, you could have an illegal super Laser Pointer from China. Like one which goes +2km…. Anyway I had one of these in green. Do you think I was the only one with one of these? Hell no and the battle was on... and this my friends is how we became the only two Metal Jedis of Summerbreeze. After a long battle in the Sky we finally met at the tentside. It tends to if both moving around it is harder to find each other.

But we met and we jugged Beer.

So 20k People and there are two shitheads with badass lasers creating the Metal Jedi Class. Was ist fun?  Hell, yes.

It was a few years back at a summer music festival, set beautifully on the seashore. I remember Pet Shop Boys headlining that night. Their performance was scheduled around 1 AM, and by that time, many in the crowd had enjoyed their fair share of drinks.

I was making my way back from the restrooms, hurrying towards the stage to join my friends. That's when something unusual caught my eye. Someone was struggling to stay afloat, clearly drunk. Without a second thought, I rushed into the water. The person was a young woman, barely able to stand in the knee-deep water.

I pulled her to safety, trying to converse over the roaring music to find her group. But as I was talking to her, I noticed another person stumbling into the water. This repeated throughout the night, and I found myself as a lifeguard until the early hours of the morning. At one point, I even had to swim out to rescue a man who had wandered too far.

Completely drenched and exhausted, I missed the entire show, but it was worth it. There's a good chance that night I helped save a life, and that's more memorable than any concert could ever be.

I was at a festival with my step-brother. We have the same father but we didn't grow up together, so apart from a very early childhood meeting I've never seen him. This was our try as adults to get to know each other. He bought me a bucket of mojito and said but he's not going to be responsible for me. I shrugged fine, he didn't know I could handle my alcohol very well.

He got offered some 'cigarette' by his friends and that didn't agree with him, he got high very quickly and had no idea how to go home. The complication was, he was supposed to go to another town to meet his wife's family and she was calling him early morning like where the hell are you??? So I had to call his wife back (whom I've never seen or spoken to before) to figure out where ha had to go, took him to the station, put him on the right train and he was fast asleep as soon as he sat down. So I had to call wifey again to tell her to get him off the train at their destination.

So big brothers never underestimate your little sisters, it might be them having to get you out of an embarrassing situation :D

My really pretty friend went to see Wheatus back in the days when crazy things happened like mosh pits, and crowd surfing.

For teenage dirtbag she got picked out of the crowd to join the band on stage. As she was getting lifted up by security another jealous girl punched her in the face and knocked her out 😂

So instead of going up onstage she ended up sat out to the side getting first aid.