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Rogan, for a festival cheap wins when you stagger back to your tent to find it has been puked/pissed/shit/has a drunk lying on it.
As mentioned by fasih, the Gelert solo which can be found for £20-30 at go outdoors. They are of the lie down only type, not enough headroom to sit up in, and a bit dark inside, but worth looking into for a no worry budget summer choice that could be left at festival......
The Wild country Zep 1 you can sit up in and is nice for a single person, the Zep 2 is luxury for a single and cramped (snug for 2) but more like a 3 season tent.
For packing, as per others strap poles to frame, instead of supplied packing bag get a dry bag, neatly fold and roll the tent and cram into a dry bag, then expell as much air as possible before folding over the dry bag, you can reduce the volume quite a bit be going to a dry bag.
Got a Terra Nova Laser 2 about 12 years ago, still going strong, worth the outlay. It is getting cramped 2up now, i did look into the wild country Zeps last year and some Vangos and Force 10, Hilleberg is out of my price these days...... (the Zephyros is the budget verison of the old design TN Laser, TN bought out Wild Country)Terra Nova do clearance through there own website, i bagged a Zep 2 XL lite last year as they have dropped that model, it's larger than a Laser 2 but still under 2kg and can pack down smaller than the supplied bag it comes in.