🎪 Knockengorroch Festival 2026: Master Plan
📅 Dates: Thursday 21st May – Monday 25th May 2026
👥 The Crew: Carla, Lucie, Rasheeqa, Taey, Amber
Weather check - Dumfries and Galloway
TRAVEL
➡️ Outbound: Thursday 21st May
- Train: 08:30 Euston ➔ 13:05 Glasgow Central
- ⬅️ Return: Monday 25th May
- Knock Bus: Leaves festival site at 10:00 (Carla booked. 2–3 hour journey pending traffic).
- Train: 15:57 Glasgow ➔ 21:54 Euston
3:57pm Glasgow - 9:54pm Euston
Accommodation
https://redkiteyurts.com/product/knockengorroch-festival/
5 metre bell tent with carpet & lights £375 (£75 each)
Single bed with duvet & pillows £50 each
Double bed with duvet & pillows £100 each
- Carla sleeps in with us in tent + sleeping bag / may chip in later if can
Eating
Stove? Single ring - Carla
Cup
THINGS TO PACK
Individual packing
- Train snacks on Thursday
- sunglasses
- waterproofs: trousers and jacket
- suncream
- tooth brush
- spare clothes
- spare socks
- wellies
- torch
- Hot water bottle
- swimmincostume
- towel
- toiletries
- Plate
- mug for tea
- earplugs
Camping bits
Food
Breakfast of your choice
oats, yoghurt, nuts and fruit (Carla)
Snacks
Communally packing (please put your name next to the item if you can bring one, so we don't pack same things)
✅ ❌
- 2 toilet rolls / rasheeqa
- Large pot / rasheeqa
Cafetiere / rasheeqa
- 2 bin bags (supermarket bags) / rasheeqa
Sharp knife / rasheeqa
insect reppellant / rasheeqa
extra knife / extra bin bag / chopsticks taey
- wet wipes / taey ✅
- hand soap x 2 / taey ✅
- washing bowl / taey ✅
- 4 noodles / taey
- toothpaste / taey ✅
- Lighter 🔥 / taey
tuna cans / taey ✅
muesli / taey ✅
space light (Carla)
Gas ring (Carla)
Gas canister (Carla)
Gaffa tape (Carla)
Small kettle (Carla)
battery pack lucie and carla
v small cooler bag (Carla)
Washing up bowl bag ( Carla )
Small pot /saucepan (Amber)
Cutlery for eating (Amber)
Plastic tumbler cups (x4) (Amber)
plastic bowls (x5) Amber
sponge (amber)
washing up liquid (amber)
chopping board lucie
5 litlre plastic bottle for water lucie got
Speaker lucie got
Tin opener got
Bottle opener got
Drinks
1/2 litre rum and mixer (carla)
Teaabags (Carla)
Almond milk (Carla)
Tequila Lucie got
coffee (amber)
green/brown rice tea / taey
Food wise
(how do folks wanna eat? cooking or buying? 4 dinners, 5 lunches) if you wanna cook put your neame beside the meals you want to go in on to make sure we have enough ingredients:
Carla - mostly cooking and a few bought meals
Food ingredients list
thai curry ingredients (Carla)
Noodles ingredients (Lucie
Oil (Lucie)
Salt (carla)
pepper
Paprika (Carla)
Bacon (Lucie)
Bread (Amber)
Eggs - in Scots land
Pesto (Rasheeqa)
Veg / salad(Rasheeqa)
Bulghur (Rasheeqa)
Pasta (Carla)
TIn sardines/mackrel x 4 (Carla)
Tinned ocra Lucie got
Oatcakes Lucie got
Lentils precooked Lucie got
ginger
garlice (Carla)
Coffee (Amber)
soy sauce / sesame oil / taey
Menu ideas (add your ideas below)
Dinners
Chickpea thai curry (onion, ginger, garlic, ricee augbergine, tin chickpea, courgette, pepper, tin coconut milk, salt, oil, coriander) - Who wants to eat: Carla
Lucie - dinner idea for last day - noodles with braised tofu skin and pickles. - yum
Di
Lunches
pasta pesto and tin fish (pesto, pasta, tin fish, cheese) - - Who wants to eat: Carla
mean plan
21st thursday arrival
breakfast - on the train
lunch - somewhere near station
dinner - cooking
22nd friday
breakie
lunch pasta pesto with tin fish
dinner
23rd saturday
breakie oats with tuna and seaweed
lunch
dinner chickpea thai curry
24th sunday
breakie
lunch
dinner noodle with tofu / lucie
25th monday leaving
no breakfast - hasty morning
lunch - pickup near station
Line up
https://www.knockengorroch.org.uk/line-up/
Other considerations
Taey's Access Doc (health-wise) + Taey snores.
Money bits
Trains + bus - Taey, Rasheeqa + Lucie paid to Carla ( £84.5 each + £35.84 = £120.34 each (for Carla)
Accomodation - Taey paid £143.75 to Ra
We have bus ticket for Amber - £35.84 to Carla
euston station breakfast bits
taxi to burrow lands £11 (rasheeqa)
Next Time
- chopping board
- outside and inside doormat (equivalent thingy) and dry thingy
- extra fire fuel
- sun hat