Wednesday 8th May 2013 by Victorinox | Photos by WENN.com

Lost at a festival: Frank Turner, Miles Kane and more

Stars get Festival Ready and reveal their experiences of losing all their mates

Frank Turner: "I had some pretty wild lost weekends at Reading festival, wandering around campsites, not sleeping, not changing my clothes, that kind of thing. It was fun! I think that if you're sensible you should always have some kind of base camp, you know, that you can go back to if you need to. But also you should embrace the moment as well, and go make new friends."

Miles Kane: "I've not been lost, but you should keep your mobile phone on you and switched on - and take a whistle with you."

Fall Out Boy: "I had a friend who was so out of it and he got lost at a festival. He was one of those guys who could get super sad about things like that, and he did. When we found him, he was so upset that all we could do was to wrap him tight in blankets. He was having a super bad time."

Pigeon Detectives: "Losing the band at festivals is impossible anyway because they're all so tall. I'm average height, six foot - OK, five ten. But these lot are all like six and a half foot so they could be the other side of the festival and you could see them. We always find ourselves at the bar or whatever so I reckon if people just head towards that you can't really go wrong. Head for the bar."

Noah And The Whale: "There was one Glastonbury where we were playing the Old Queen�s head stage before we even had an album out. I�d driven there in my old Ford Fiesta and we had to carry our gear ourselves. There was two of us and we had an hour to get from my car to the stage. I think we underestimated how big Glastonbury was. We were walking with keyboards and guitars, knee deep in mud, but that was the closest I've come to missing a show."

Sebastian, Crystal Fighters: "A festival on a Sunday can actually be quite a depressing place to be and it can feel quite isolated if you�re lost and you can�t find your friends. Not for that long, I'm usually fine with that sort of thing. Not physically lost anyway, mentally lost maybe.

The Other Tribe: "I got lost at Beat Herder last year. We played a set on the mainstage and then had a DJ set to get to. They have this small village that they build in the forrest and someone pointed me and my friend in the wrong direction and were lucky to make the DJ set in time. You�ve got to have something very conspicuous to find your friends. At one festival we had these really powerful laser pens that we pointed in the air. Our tour manager just purchased the loudest whistle that you can buy, so he�s going to use that. Lots of noise, bright lights and silly hats normally get you noticed."

Tags: Miles Kane, Frank Turner

Come on, we've all been there. One minute you're pushing your way through a crowd at a festival with your mates at your back - the next you're stood, alone, confused (a little drunk) and totally alone.

It's not a great situation to find yourself in, so we can all benefit from Festival Ready,the brilliant new free app from Victorinox, which is designed to keep friends together at festivals all summer, with its weather reports, torch to light up with your tent and ability to let you share messages with friends (once you've found them that is). Plus, download the app and you could win tickets to this year's Wilderness festival.

But it's not just joe-public who will benefit from the app. We caught up with some of the biggest names on the 2013 festival scene including Frank Turner, Fall Out Boy and Miles Kane, who discussed when they had been lost at a festival - or give some hints on what to do if it happens to you...

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