Bestival: the main event on this year's festival calendar  Rob
and Josie Da Bank have survived debts, deluges and David Icke on
their way to turning Bestival into the party of the year Rob da
Bank and wife Josie Rob da Bank and wife Josie, organisers of
Bestival. Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian  We've all
watched in horror as the storm clouds of doom have gathered over
a defenceless festival site. But imagine how it feels when it's
your festival about to endure a physical and financial rinsing.
"The panic was awful," confirms Josie Da Bank of the year when
the rains came to Bestival, turning the site into a swamp and
making the underwater fancy dress theme feel like a cruel joke.
"We had to have a plastic floor driven down from Newcastle in
the middle of the night. Without that we wouldn't have been able
to open. Our producer had to stay up all night paying people
cash to lay it in the rain. Every time they tried to walk off
he'd hand them another tenner."  In a way, though, the great
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