Every year festival republic host a focus group where they attempt to take feedback from patrons to the Leeds and Reading festivals in an attempt to improve them. Someone on another forum has kindly typed up these questions, as there are so many we won’t publish them all in this article but will attempt to summarise them and make the full list of questions and answers available here: http://carlingfesty.com/2008-focus-group-qa/

• Improved competitions
• Improved publicity of webcasts and more coverage by the BBC
• Two sets of pre-sale tickets for 2009, one directly after the festival and another in October/Christmas. Each batch will be 15,000
• Will look in to free velcro wrist bands
• No increase on programme prices (no higher than £8)
• Improved sign posting
• No more Friday to Saturday tickets due to massive confusion caused
• No more tickets will go on sale
• No wednesday night entertainment, potential thursday night entertainment
• More tap water points
• No more carling but Tubourg, Carlsberg and Gaymers
• Might bring back cold beer swap but they know about the Tesco Value Lager trick
• More urinals
• May open showers 24 hours a day

This isn’t all just the best summary I could do, if you want more information read the page here: http://carlingfesty.com/2008-focus-group-qa/