The Electric Zoo Disaster
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Girl the ceo is a CULT MEMBER
Please don't take scentbird sponsorships anymore. The ceo says the wildest most hateful stuff on tik tok
And she legitimately believes in the Matrix. THE MATRIX. She's insane
the fact they cancelled day one only HOURS in advance, when they KNEW the mainstage wasn't ready yet is UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Not too shocking. I’ve been back there watching them build stages. They push n push til the very last min
I was hesitant about going to see Dev live on her tour because of the stink factor but now that I know she is subscribed to Scentbird that won't be a problem!
Look into the creator of sentbird
@@grossberglawoffices9910are they problematic?
@@OO-qf1xu yea kinda, there’s one CZcamsr that did a video on her. I can’t remember their name but I don’t really want to promote another CZcamsr in the comments. Idk if that would be disrespectful or not (edit: sorry I meant the ceo)
@@grossberglawoffices9910said absolutely nothing useful😂
@@KOmyselfthe only youtuber I saw that did a video about that was cyber noob so in guessing that's who there talking about
Looks like I gotta start avoiding music festivals. From Astroworld, to Burning Man, to Blue Ridge, to now this.
Luckily burning man was never a music festival
@@hannah4669what the fuck are you talking about.. yes. It definitely is. It has other things going on, yes, but A LOT of other music festivals have that. It’s still considered a music festival. You clearly haven’t been to many festivals and shouldn’t be trying to sound elitist and condescending about the subject.
@@hannah4669 yeah it’s a social pollution experiment or something lol
the woodstock 99 disaster killed the idea of music festivals for me
These things really are an oddity though. They also only happen at the super-sized mega festivals with 50,000 people. Every medium-sized to small-sized festival I've been to has been a total blast and felt extremely safe and welcoming. At most festivals, the most dangerous thing to you is yourself (too much drinking, drugs, not enough food/water, sun sickness, etc...)
I go to a festival called the Peach Fest in Pennsylvania every year, it probably caps at around 15,000 during the headliners. The festival grounds is HUGE and the stages are spread apart so the crowd doesnt ever get packed in like sardines. There are well-designed walk ways and barriers to control crowd traffic, and the music is classic rock, psychedelic rock, funk, reggae... hippie stuff, which means the crowd is gonna be much more safe, friendly and welcoming than a rap festival or a metal festival.
Do research if you ever wanna check out a festival. Most festivals have a facebook and or reddit group where you can ask questions and find information to give you an idea what to expect.
i went to ezoo this year, the craziest part is they DID mail the wristbands, will call was only for people who ordered after the shipping deadline. there weren’t THAT many people waiting at will call, it really was just THAT slow. 10+ minutes per person
You won't ever want to go to a festival again when you realize that massive festivals in big cities are run like nightclubs (Ultra, eZoo, Coachella) and the VIP is full of tables of young women given tickets for free (I've gone to ezoo year after year for free). Same concept as a club they want the young women to get as drunk as possible for free and sleep with clients so that clients come back. There's a guest list at ezoo vip, etc. Thousand dollar tickets wasted on underage children so they get harmed. Welcome to New York.
Underage children given free tickets and getting drunk because people want them to sleep with their clients??? This is a class action lawsuit waiting to happen...
Coachella isn't in a big city tho?
bruh
@ville__ You are not even good at trolling... Now that's just embarrassing.
@ville__this level of look at me energy just draws my empathy, hope whatever in life that happened to you that made u like this u work threw, cause its cringy my guy
I can't believe there was a festival worse than Blue Ridge Rock Fest
Edit: Never mind Blue Ridge was still worse
All i ever saw was the bad weather, did more happen than just that?
@@killing4mother Absolutely abhorrent conditions for attendees, bands, and especially the staff. Severe lack of water stations, overflowing port-a-potties, no evacuation plans for the storm that hit on that Thursday, 5 hour lines for shuttles from the campsites, little to no food for workers, no showers, etc etc etc. Shit got so bad that the workers walked out on the Saturday leading to the cancellation of the fest (the cancellation was not due to weather).
nothing beats fyre fest
also the fact that people who went to blue ridge are now coming down with giardia from contaminated drinking water
arguably that was a genuine SCAM though, rather than just a failure of a festival!@@TchSktch
I am STUNNED that this isn't about Blue Ridge
Blue ridge was a nightmare
Same omg
Wat happened at blue ridge
Blue ridge got hit with an unpredictable storm. E zoo had everything in their favor to not fuck it up and they did anyway
@@gooberfluben2818what happened
overselling should be way more enforced if not illegal!! its so dangerous and scary
i went to see BTS at Citifield in NY and they had oversold tickets and the general admission area went from like 4k to 7k 😳 it was crowded and people were fainting right next to me, i was with my little sister and didnt wanna take any chances with her safety so we ended up moving closer to the huge monitors and it was great, enough space to throw ass it was perfect for me 💀
love my faves but not risking my safety ya know?
was this during the LY tour??
@@cyburia yup! oct 2018, it was their first stadium in us so it makes sense but honestly everything was kinda disorderly that day 😭 still had a blast tho lol
good for you on keeping your sibling safe!!!
Why do so many festival managers just never get it right? After the long history of disaster festivals that people now hate openly, you'd think they'd learn and go "oh, well I don't wanna be like that hated festival brand so let's make sure that everything is organized and right".
lollapalooza is probably the only festival or concert series i’ve been to that is well run. i’ve been going for four years now and i honestly feel very safe there knowing that they have plenty of resources, dozens of food vendors with good prices, lots of organized beverage and medical tents, supervised hydration stations, and they always have staff walking around the event with packs of water bottles to hand out to people. when people do have a medical emergency like heat exhaustion, not only are the medics very helpful but the crowd itself is very quick to get people out. chicago’s energy is also just so fun and vibrant and i gotta say my favorite set was tyler the creator’s 2021 performance. i 100% recommend lolla if you want a good first time festival experience
This summer I went to the Latin Fest in Spain and the organization was horrible. Me and my friends waited +8 hours to get in, there were no clear lines to go through, the bracelet pick-up section was nowhere to be found, and they didn't even sell water till around 9pm. Thank god the artists were all super good, but the heat was terrible and, like, 3 people passes out.
8 hours to get it?? you mean to tell me you got there at say 9am and waited there til 5pm
hate to say it. but yeah it's spain. Never had so many sketchy shows, as in spain. But the clubs are amazing with their production levels. Go there next time.
@@vjcodec Jajaja yeah, I live in Spain so ik the clubs are really good👌
@@lieutenantfunk yep :')
i was there! avant gardner owns the brooklyn mirage and took over ezoo. they actually cancelled the first day 3 hours before the festival was supposed to open. our theory is it was to sell out their after parties that night at brooklyn mirage, which they did. everyone was stuck in nyc by that point. avant gardner basically just squeezed every cent they could out of all of us
edit: to put it into perspective we spent upwards of $300 each for our festival passes, and ended up spending another $150 each on griz after party tickets for one night and still havent had friday refunded to us yet
Will you be taking this to small claims court? I'm sure you will win more money this way.
avant gardner is so mf evil the amount of shit the amt of shady / fucked up things I’ve heard about any event they’ve ever touched is crazy 😭😭😭
i’ve been to electric forest 3 times and the first two were genuinely the greatest experiences of my life, i could write a book on how amazing it was to attend. i’ve lived in michigan my whole life and when i was a lil scene kid at 12 years old, i heard that electric forest was gonna be an annual thing instead of rothbury fest. i saw the articles and pictures of what it would be and i fell in love. i knew i needed to go. fast forward to me being 19 and i finally went for the first time. my first year was after going to tennessee for bonnaroo, and that was my first festival ever. i had the best time at ef despite some of the wildest complications. and my second year was just as good. i had tickets for 2020, it was the 10 year anniversary but obviously it was held off. we finally reunited in 2022 and honestly…. the vibes were off. it wasn’t the same forest family i fell in love with, even tho it was the same forest i fell in love with. don’t get me wrong, it was still the greatest time. electric forest is genuinely the most magical place on earth, disney couldn’t hold a candle to it. festivals are just kinda, not a community as much as it used to be it seems. there are smaller edm fests popping up all the time, but camping festivals seem to be going out of style and i hate that. i just wanna be PLUR with my rave fam for 5 days straight no breaks again
Was one of the nicest people ever worked with during tour! This is a beautiful festival! and 2022 was a strange year in general. i surprised me how fast people unlearn social skills.
@@vjcodec i genuinely cry at least three times every time i go to forest lol it’s such a beautiful experience and such a mesmerizing place. from what i heard 2022 was definitely really weird for festivals. i really miss the escape 😭
Come back to bonnaroo! The camping was spectacular this year ❤
my parents have been going to electric forest for i think 6 years and they said the same thing about 2022 and that 2023 was worse. it sucks , i know what they love about it is the atmosphere and the people , the only act they care about seeing is string cheese lol
but now they’re done with EF💔 they said it’s not worth the money anymore. makes me sad for them that it seems to be going in a different direction
my mom is also very upset that the umbrella tunnel art installation thing wasnt there this year haha
Isn’t Electric Zoo the robot song Mr Krabs listened to on the Radio?
that was all i could think of
The one that goes beep boop boop bop?
I think the reason we keep seeing festivals blow up like this is because today more than every companies are only concerned w profit and not caring about the experience of the people attending like this one was oversold my 7000 people that shit doesn’t happen by accident
@@k1ss4fr0g probs oversold and that sucks what a waste of a good stage good bands and sound system for it to jus sound like shit and im super claustrophobic so i could not handle that many people pushed up on me. Ive been to moshpits went to warp tour for my first festival everyone was moshing but super respectful no one aggresively pushing up. I mainly go to smaller electronic shows now but even those are slowly being infected by assholes. then on top of people acting like that you got venues overselling venues jus to squeeze an extra 100k or whatever. In a system that prioritizes profit over all else this is where we end up
i went to my first local festival when i was 12, my first multi genre festival at 15, and i've been to at least 20 in the decade since. they're definitely getting worse as the years go on and it genuinely breaks my heart. life is beautiful is celebrating 10 years this weekend and it's my first time not going. the lineups aren't worth it anymore. a lot of artists i've seen since the pandemic aren't into it either. they're either more committed than ever or phoning it in bc crowds are shit. damon from the gorillaz was getting irritated with our coachella crowd this year at some points and alex turner cbf to do much of anything at last year's lib.
tldr; the festival industry is looking grim and has been for some time now
HOW HAVE FESTIVALS BECOME THE ELEVENTH PLAGUE
Shambala in Canada is hands-down, the best festival I’ve ever been to. I do remember one year they were going to cancel Sunday because wildfires completely surrounded the festival ground, but when it rain Saturday night they were able to flip the script and keep Sunday going almost flawlessly. It was beautiful.
The Uk festivals have been good this year! i think the main problem a lot of summer festivals have is not enough shade :( could do with some sort of big tent thing for shade
CREAMFIELDS!
I was one of the people who bought in on the initial batch of tickets for When We Were Young, last year. I was so scared when it started coming out that it might be a scam and that I just signed up for a nearly $700 package, that I was paying increments of $85 every month, for it to not be real. But, come October, I went to Las Vegas for the very first time on vacation with my best friend and we had a fucking BLAST. It was so cool to see all of the bands that she and I formed our friendship around, on all of the same stages, all at once, together after twenty-five long years of friendship. It was really special for both of us and she's going back this year with her sister and hubby. Sadly, I can't afford it, but we are aiming to go to Riot Fest next year.
I went to Riot Fest last weekend, it was my first music festival and it was a BLAST! I got to see some of my fav bands like the Postal Service and The Cure :) truly a special experience
It’s giving Tanacon😍
smells like stan twitter in here
The best festival I ever attended was Glastonbury in 2019. My mom got us tickets for my graduation/birthday and I wanna say it was honestly probably the last normal festival before COVID. I had the absolute best time, every person I met was accommodating and kind to us, and we’re American so we expected the complete opposite. But it’s so much fun and it’s 5 days of nothing but feeling grounded and connected to others through artistic activities and music.
I was there as well that Glastonbury was something special
Holy shit, one minute ago, I've never been this early. You're so cool, yet you make me think of myself, which makes me like myself more!! I hope I get to come to your show!! I'm so excited!!!!
I went to my first festival this year - bonaroo - and I literally had the most fun I have ever had in my life and seeing Paramore, Lil Nas, and Girl in Red live had me almost in tears. Genuinely one of the best experiences I have ever had.
I went to bonnaroo in 2019 and it was amazing for me as well! Even with one of my camp mates turning out to be an absolute drag, it was so fun and felt very safe. I definitely wanna go back, especially now that they have so much more infrastructure with transportation from the camping area to the stages, the walk back to camp was a bit brutal after standing at concerts all day 😅
i played over 250 festivals as a VJ for Don DIablo. in the USA, did most of the big ones like Ultra, EDC, Electric Zoo and Coachella. And i know that Coachella has a lot of Electrical problems. and to get to the festival from the airport is a hellhole. The city is not build for the amount of traffic and power needs of the festival. We also got there 10 mins after our starting time. and lost power 2 during the show. You have to consider the big artist do a lot of festivals in the summer and sometimes twice on the same day. and big bands or artists with instruments are even more hectic to tour on that level. The US festival scene is also weird compared to the rest of the world. But from all the big ones over there i would say that, EDC is the more professional organisation. Ultra has a good infrastructure for being in Miami, but is horrible for the artists. What trickles down in the performances.
But as a european and me personal as attendee i would say go to smaller festivals that focus on the experience and not just go for your favorite artist or DJ. You get to discover new music and the organisation has way more money to put in the utilities, accommodations and side attractions. remember a general price for a A list artist runs in the millions real fast. so with the electric zoo being under new management, their bookers had to pay top dollar for the artists. Most festivals make no profit the first couple of editions, but establish a base of fans and relationships with artists. Sad to see them burn that all.
Small local festivals ftw 💕
It seems like the trauma of corona caused everyone to forget how to plan a festival
i hate being from nyc ,,, festivals (diy or not) used to go so hard here when i was a teenager. ppl like the guys who started the brooklyn mirage ruined & continue to ruin the music scene in nyc. they just throw money at things with zero care or knowledge
went to ezoo last year and it was v solid, I guess the new management really fucked this shit up lol
Yeah this is wild cause ezoo has existed for a while! You’d think they’d have it together
Dev, have you heard about any of the wacky stuff going on with the Scentbird CEO? She like...believes that we actually live in the Matrix and a bunch of weird stuff
I was going to comment this.
Common CEO L
A bunch of lunatics
Would love to hear dev talk about this
Now WTF is a matrix?? I'm not from America so I don't know much about the culture there outside of the pop culture.
@@RandomSwiftie13 I think it's a reference to the movie series The Matrix lol
we need queef jerky fest QueefFest if you will
I would totally attend QueefFest2024🤩🙈lmao
I've been to quite a few festivals (Warped Tour, Lollapalooza, AfroPunk, All Things Go, Broccoli City, Reset Fest, When We Were Young) and luckily, I haven't had any seriously terrible experiences. My worse experience festival-wise had to be at Broccoli City in 2018. I swear that they had no filling stations and everyone was forced to buy overpriced tiny boxed water and to add insult to injury, the festival is held in a stadium parking lot and they didn't set up shaded areas even tho it was a hot weekend so we were all just roasting on the blacktop. I remember seeing the medic cart hauling away numerous people who had passed out due to heat exhaustion. Luckily last year, I got tickets to the second weekend of When We Were Young. The first weekend got cancelled due to dangerous wind speeds. I live on the East Coast and spent a lot of money on flights and accommodations in Vegas so I would have been pretty devastated if the second weekend was cancelled. I remember the girl who checked us in said that the week before she spoke to people who had come in from Australia for the festival 🙃
For some reason this entire video i was looking at the door expecting someone to rush in and do some crazy wacky zainy bit
Warped tour was great. Glad that's the only festival type thing I've been to. They had water stations so everyone could stay hydrated without paying. They had structured stages and a good venue for it. Here in Utah it was the fairgrounds. So it was perfect. Only dumb thing is if you leave you can't come back, so you gotta come prepared to buy food. You get to meet smaller artists at their booths. I just remember loving it so much and that it never felt overcrowded. That and it was just around everyone who loved all our emo music shit 😂 so I never saw aby bad interactions between people. And one time my favorite artist walked by me casually making his way to a photo op booth and I got starstruck. Very cool festival.
Dev I would love to hear more about ur experience in the music industry especially now that you’re touring! Like maybe what goes into planning a tour, what u bring on tour, what kind of things would be on ur rider, how u get ready to go on stage, etc… ty, have fun on tourrrrr!!!
I've only been to Electric Daisy Carnival. We had a big group, so to avoid bathroom lines, whenever one of us needed to pee we created a protective circle around the person. I highly recommend this method. Pee when you need to, don't leave the dance area 👍
This is such a raver thing to do lmao
Plz tell me you used a bottle? 🥲
Warped tour was amazing, was my first concert at 14 and I went every year after that. I wanna cry just thinking about how much I miss it, was literally my favorite day of the year 😭
the last year me and my friends traveled 5 hours away to Scranton PA so we could go to a second date, we usually only went to the Camden NJ date. Traffic was so bad when we got to Scranton it took us hours just to get a couple miles to the venue to park and we had no AC the whole time and it was 90 degrees, and then we had to literally hike 3 miles up a MOUNTAIN to get to the venue and I really thought I was gonna die that day. Then on the way home my friends entire wheel fell off her car like 3 hours from home late at night and we spent hours on the side of the road and getting towed and didn’t get home until 7am the next morning. I would still do it all over again because I had so much fun that day 😅
That year I mainly went for motionless in white(one of my faves of all time since I was 13 in 2013), amity affliction, beartooth, ice nine kills, palaye royale, crown the empire, issues (before all that shit came out about both issues and CTE 😬). I’m so sad we missed 3OH!3 because we were hiking up a damn mountain 😭
I mostly listen to goth post-punk/darkwave stuff, ghost, and hyperpop (everyone listen to dorian electra immediately) but I still have a love for the genres played at warped, it makes me very nostalgic for my teen years and was the first music I got *really* into and shaped me as a person and helped me through so much.
Electric Forest is always a good time! It’s a mix of an art festival and a music festival.
Add this too the list of reasons you’ll never catch me at a music festival
primavera sound in barcelona was brilliant!!!!! so well organized and exciting and relatively cheap
Electric Zoo, and most festivals, do mail your wristband. Sometimes shipping causes problems and people don't get them in time, and othertimes they were resold and name and stuff had to be changed, so then you have to go to will call
Mysteryland is always a super cool experience, the main stage is always so gorgeous and i'm not that big a fan of dance music but i love the visuals
my favourite festival i’ve been too was lost paradise! it was 4 days in the middle of nowhere but it had amazing music, the stages were all different but incredibly designed and there was also so many different workshops and activities you could do if you wanted to. our neighbours were these hilarious new zealanders who had 4 pillows and 2 blankets between 6 people and brought kids kmart chairs to sit on ahah hopefully going back this year!
Please please please dev post clips from your tour, I was dying because I like in the uk and couldn’t see u preform😭😵💀🙏🙏🙏💅
Venue organization just seems to be awful lately in general. I went to see Ghost at CCNB Amphitheater last month and the venue was super disorganized, destroyed the bands equipment, and after making us evacuate for rain kept baiting us and telling us the show was going to go on for 3 hours while making us wait and then rescheduled it at nearly midnight THEN cancelled it the next day
The venue is now defaming the band and bashing them.....
The security was laughing at us and blowing cig smoke in our faces while we were waiting, it was AWFUL.
Not to take away from your awful experience because that really sucks and I know how it feels to have bad concert experiences, but yay fellow ghost fan!!! I saw them live once in 2016 at rock allegiance and met them it was so cool! I’ve been a fan since like 2014 and it’s so amazing that theyve blown up so much because everyone kinda used to hate them back then! What’s your fave song?? I think I have way too many to pick tbh 😅
This was supposed to be my first time seeing them live since I only discovered the band around early 2021! Real unfortunate what happened. I'd say Witch Image is my favorite song! Really underrated and I wish they still performed it live tbh. I am determined to see them next tour though, they're my favorite band :)
i went to lollapalooza this summer and it was such a great experience. everyone was super helpful and there were plenty of staff who were able to assist with where to go etc. there was a lot of food options and a lot of non-music activities, such as the coke youtube studio which actually was so fun!! i definitely recommend, and also chicago is such a cool city you could explore
I've only been to one festival (danish one called roskilde festival), but I went many years. It's a week long, but a part of the whole experience is the queue. At first you queue for the queue. That's without any shelter or toilets for how many hours you feel brave enough to do (I usually went there to queue for the queue for maybe 5 hours), but you want to be early so that you get the best place to camp (you have to run with your tents and shit because you don't pay for a specific place and you have to fight with the others to share the spaces given). When you finally finished queuing for the queue, you are now in the final queue, where you will be over night and be allowed to run inside in the morning. There's no shelter again, so when it rains you just vibe with it while drinking yourself senseless. At least there's toilets and water now, although not enough
It's honestly so much fun to go with friends and plan your strategy to get the best camping spot looking at the map and just drinking and snacking lol
Also at first you're fighting with people to share the space but after you've settled down you just vibe with them like besties lmfao i love the social aspect of it
Omg I was there but I had no idea the rabbit hole went this deep because we actually had a great experience even though this was our first time going and everything went smoothly for us!!! We caught the most insane sweet spot of circumstances, apparently, because we did have our wristbands mailed to us in advance and we only went for Saturday. We caught some of my favorite artists and we absolutely loved the art installation in the center plaza! We heard about all the drama later but at the time we were just like LA LA LA THIS IS SO FUN 😂
I’m from Austin, and every single time I’ve gone to ACL I’ve had an incredible relatively organized time, though that’s probably because of the relationship between the public park and private ownership, regardless it always shocks me seeing chaotic festivals, cuz I’ve done ACL 5 times without issue
I recently went to Randall's Island Park for another event (Pokemon Go Fest) and just getting onto the island is a nightmare by itself, I'm not surprised everything went to shit
DEV DEV LIME DEV DEV LIME IM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH
I’ve worked multiple festivals held at the venue I worked at, and the festivals were great for overtime hours but absolutely awful to work. I worked every single one we hosted for the sweet extra cash, but I would be dragged kicking and screaming if my friends made me go to one.
From the rented extra security who have no clue how the venue works, our rules(or the additional festival rules some of them imposed), and genuinely are on a power trip every time with how aggressive they are to the way festival staff would treat us getting abusively upset when they didn’t explain anything other than whatever rules they imposed on top of our normal ones. I worked multiple roles at the venue while there, and the lines would sometimes get so bad because people would bribe ticket scanners or argue and go off when they bought a scam ticket. Once, a festival admin screamed at my coworker and me because they didn’t have a path set up to allow the ADA transport vehicle to get to the front of the venue where the ADA line and will-call were, and theoretically, we drove through a ticketed area though it was completely fenced off from the rest of festival. they ended up letting us continue using that path since it wasn’t ADA-compliant otherwise.
I did really love working warped tour since they came to our venue every year for years, so they were a delight. Beyond Wonderland was nice the few times they came to our venue as it never was overcrowded, and there was so much medical staff and water stations, so folks were, y’know, making it through the event without putting their life at risk(other than the dangers of potential drugs they smuggled in or took before coming, though they had booths that would check to make sure they were safe)
Yo let's go.. have a great Tour. You look beautiful, your energy is wonderful, and I hope you have fun. Have a great day Dev...
The only festival I've been to (and I only went opening year and haven't been back) is Railbird and that was a great experience. Super easy to park, super easy to go back to the car so we didn't have to buy food and drinks inside, super easy to get back in. The lineup was great, my fave Brandi Carlile was the reason I went and she was incredible. Also the fact that it didn't get super crowded until later in the day was cool, like I got to watch a lot of smaller artists without being squished and was able to just sit and watch on my blanket when I wanted. The only issue was there was a traffic jam getting out at the end of the night but it wasn't awful and it hasn't been an issue in following years, so I've heard. It's definitely a different crowd than I imagine Coachella gets, but it was really fun. Definitely my favorite experience seeing Brandi live!
I went to nelsonville music festival this summer; it was my first music festival ever, and it was so so magical. it was so well-organized, so clean, everyone was so respectful of each other and kind. it was near Athens, Ohio. It was pretty folk-music oriented, so lots of cowboy boots and my friend brought a bubble gun
I've only ever been to one festival, Furnace Fest, a few years ago and it was such a great time. They still book awesome bands every year and they never overdo it. It's kind of cool they've maintained the same quality each year while still going mostly unnoticed by people who attend festivals
Watching dis camped outside The Foundry in philly right now! 3 more days‼️
the will call ticket system makes it less obvious when they overbook, they’re putting a buffer between ticket holders and the entrance gate
Willcall is suppose to help with scalpers, but based on how every major concert still reports tons of scalping issues I would say it doesn't actually do that at all
All the festivals mentioned at the end for ones going bad this year just reminded me of how bad the second day of Pitchfork fest went. It got disrupted due to weather, evacuated, then people were told it was cancelled even though it wasn't. Three sets were skipped (though one was rescheduled) and one was Panda Bear which i wanted to see on the livestream rip
so many festivals were canceled this year too,,, crazy
This might be worse than Disneyland lines, a sentence I thought I’d never utter
A production employee at EZOO spoke up and said the coordinators had given them the floor plan A WEEK in advance… so they only had a week to order all of the stage parts which is quite literally impossible, especially with these big complex stages.
Also! I’m part of the rave community so I’ve only ever been to EDM festivals, but if anyone would ever be interested in any: all the EDC’s are absolutely amazing (going to the Orlando one this year and to the Las Vegas one next year woohoooo), and I’ve only heard wonders of Electric Forest (it’s a rave in a forest, c’mon!!) It’d be unrealistic of me to say that they never have their hiccups (everything in this world will have their ups and downs) BUT, I can guarantee the environment in these 2 festivals at least are all about the PLUR! (Peace, love, unity, and respect). It’s the most welcoming and accepting place ever istg. Even if you’re not from the community, they’ll welcome you with open arms and tons of kandi to trade!!🫶🏼
It's not a coincidence festival disasters are happening more often these days.
Organizations that run festivals don't give a shit, run everything on a shoe-string budget, barely pay for labor, under-staff, skimp on facilities, ticket prices are crazy high, the insurance they have to pay is also nuts. It's all money.
Even if a festival started as a space for music and creativity and community, past a certain point of success, corporate and monied interests swoop in and have great incentives to fuck things up.
That's part of why I try to go to smaller scale events and venues over big ass shows
Yeah I’m glad I got to go to a couple festivals pre-pandemic. I’m good now
America sounds nightmarish for festivals, every festival in the UK has been a great experience for me!
excited to see you in Atlanta!!! will we possibly get a chance to meet you? 👀👀
I went to Electric Zoo all 3 (well... technically 2,) days and it was insane. Still haven't received a refund for friday cancelation.
Anyway, Saturday was a mess with figuring out where to go even to get to the entrance - once we had made it across the bridge we were told to walk to the OPPOSITE SIDE of the island with NO further directions or any workers to direct where to go because the entrance we went to was the VIP entrance. My friends and I waited for 3 hours just at the entrance and not needing to go to will call. People we're dropping like flies.
Forget trying to LEAVE the festival: we left at 11pm and were in line standing in the same stop for 3 HOURS. Not in line for three, the same SPOT. We had 3 people pass out around us and need to be rushed forward. There was also a huge fight at one point.
Sunday getting in wasn't bad for us, and leaving we thankfully managed to through the crowd with leaving 15 minutes early.
It was NOT a plur environment either, and really finalized that I'm only ever going to go to camping festivals.
Wait until you hear about Blue Ridge Rock Fest…
I’m here so earlyyyy🤭🥳🥳 Can’t wait to see you on tourrrr🍋🍋🍋💜✨
Crazy seeing how much festivals have changed. Back in 2007 I bought a one-day (yeah they still sold those back then) Coachella ticket, for the night Bjork was headlining. Bought it the WEEK-of (wasn’t sold out) for $90-$100, stayed at my friend’s extended family’s place about 20-30minutes away, and spent about $40 on food. Saw Sonic Youth, Jarvis Cocker, Jesus & Mary Chain (ft. Scarlet Johansson haha), Tilly and the Wall, Amy Winehouse, Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Bjork, and more, all for less than $150 and I didn’t even know I was going until a few days beforehand. Impossible nowadays.
Kilby kourt was so much fun. Everyone was so nice and caring and I met a lot new friends from that festival
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Positive festival experience I had this year was FEQ in Quebec. Imagine Dragons are one of my favorite bands so in 2019 I went to see them at this festival, waited 10 hours and got barricade. Their set got cut short two songs in due to a huge storm. They were scheduled to come back for 2020 but that got cancelled for obvious reasons. Now in 2023 they finally came back for a full show. Waited since 10 am again with a friend at the gates (doors were about 6 pm and they started at around 9-10pm) While there was rain and storms in the morning aswell as really bad humidity, it was still fun. Grandson had a pop up set a 20 min walk from the gate so I walked through the rain to get there and back (with my friend holding my spot in line) Waited the rest of the day and got barricade. The festival was at a large field with a capacity of 100k but I heard rumors that people broke in and filled it to 127K. I made a poster like I usually do and got a pick from the bassist (hes awesome, ive got like 10+ picks from him already) and these had a design inspired by me! It was super fun, an amazing redemption show
this hat is so iconic and i don't even know what it says
i thinks it benee merch? dont quote me on that
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I live in Columbia, Mo and it has a huge college population and arts culture, so every year in October they host a big music festival called Roots n Blues. Last year was so fun!! Got to see Bleachers, Hippo Campus, Chaka Khan, etc. which are all huge deal for a mid-missouri town of under 200k. This year they were supposed to have more big headliners and did a big rebrand and changed the name. At the end of last month they just randomly canceled it for super vague and weird reasons. Totally bummed everyone and gonna have a big effect on the local economy. Truly not the year for fests!!
Summercamp in Chillicothe, IL has been my favorite festival for years. Great variety of music, cool section of woods with lots of well lit/cool areas to explore, tons of amazing art, etc. That said, after 20+ years, they are changing their format so who knows what the future will hold?
my fav festival and that was my first one was this summer in pukkelpop to see Billie in Belgium. I have waited 10 hours infront for her. it was very hot also open filed but there were security gaurd that gave water each break to the next artist. Afterwards It was difficult to walk but it was definetly worth it and I would do it again for her. The people running was crazy tho.
i went to one festival in Poland (3-majowka in Wroclaw) and it was soooo good. i was 16 at the time, one stage was for metal, one for indie and one for electronic and i enjoyed all of them so much. i'm still convinced that i was in a moshpit with jared leto (he was in fact in poland at the time!!!)
I miss Wakarusa. I know they had problems behind the scenes, but as an attendee it was great.
I just went to Riot Fest this past weekend and it was really fun!! Despite how expensive it was, it was a good experience
Ezoo does mail your wristband but for those who decide to buy tickets last minute end up having to go to will call since there is not enough time for the wristband to be shipped.
In the past, Ezoo has been much more organized so I'm not sure what the hell happened this time around but I was luckily enough to go on the Saturday where the gates were only delayed 2 hours and I had a blast.
The crowding is so fucking scary both after people stormed the concert, but also in the line at the beginning. An uncontrollable crowd where everyone is pushing in the same direction is how horrible accidents like the one in Itaewon happen.
primavera sound 2022 and lollapalooza 2022 in brasil were both life changing and amazing
ugh my favorite indie music festival just decided that they aren’t gonna do it anymore anD IT MAKES ME SAD, i swear festivals used to be so much better WHAT HAPPENED),:
Riot Fest was this weekend and it went by super smoothly minus rain on sunday pushing stuff back. that’s like the first festival i’ve heard of in a long time going that well.
UK festival drama; Download festival was a nightmare this year. Hot weather issues, bad management of disabled accessability and health and safety issues.
As a musical festival fan, it’s great to see this story going viral. In recent years, shit like this has been happening more and more at all kinds of events. Festivals have a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge overhead and very often the companies that run them go bankrupt trying to put on a good show. Some companies are trying to cut costs and max profits as much as possible. Artists are asking for more money when they perform year after year, venues need more insurance and have higher rental costs, and so the experience often ends up taking a backseat to the bullshit.
It sucks because music festivals are such a fun and wonderful experience when you actually get the effort put in to make it so. Insomniac is the best known owner of some of the biggest edm shows in the US, and they have found better ways to cut costs; things like: accepting volunteers in exchange for admission instead of hiring contractors for small labors or booking newer up and coming artists as opposed to large and expensive names. I am attending EDC Orlando again this fall and I am so excited for it. Insomniac likes to buy failing festivals and give them new life too! I trust any festival they run because they never disappoint me.
Brooklyn Mirage has had issues from the beginning. Its in a somewhat remote industrial area in the city where you cant always get reception and caters to a large crowd of tourists and transplants that don't know the area and wind up walking into shady surrounding neighborhoods. Security is really thorough with their checks to the point where you can't bring a stick of gum in, but will extort you at the end of the night to get your stuff back. Theres a big overcriwding issue in their main area at almost every event. Avant Gardner has never cared abt the safety of its patrons.
Only festivals I’ve been to have been for more heavy music and have always been great. I loved warped tour so much and miss it 😭 that and I’ve been to rock allegiance which is cool, rob zombie always puts on an amazing show
I went to coachella week 2 this year. Bought passes with no plan specifically because frank was headlining. We saw the news he backed out just a few hours after landing in LA. I spent a lot of time leading up to the fest listening to artists on the lineup to prepare as well as having a good handful of others I was already excited to see. At first me and the friend I went with were really nervous not knowing who would replace him. Then they confirmed Blink 182 and our hearts sank. No shade, just not the answer 2 distraught frank fans wanted to hear. But we had the suspense of this new slot after blink’s set. When word spread it was likely Skrillex, Fred Again, and Four Tet it instantly brought the weekend back for me. Every set we went to felt worth it. Amazing surprise guests. Perfect weather. The trio’s set to close sunday was one of the most unreal experiences of my life so far.
This year I went to Firefly in Vermont and it was the best/worst experience at a festival I’ve ever had! It’s an art festival in Vermont that is also like a mini Burning Man because it’s a week long and a massive structure gets burned as well. Camping in the woods with my family and bringing art projects to set up in the woods are truly the reasons why I love this festival :)
There was torrential rain in the last part of the week though - it happened that same week Montpelier was completely flooded- but we were up in the hills, so it didn’t flood. However, all the roads turned into thick mud similar to the depth of the mud at burning man, but it smelled like horse shit instead. It took us the entire day to pack up and leave and I was soaking wet just trudging through the mud in my crocs because fighting it was futile. There was some chaos with trying to leave, but nearly everyone got to leave on schedule.
I absolutely love this festival though, it’s such a fun and kind community and amazing artwork and music, but it’s just really intense and not for the feint of heart! This was just a bad year for festivals, but I will live and die for Firefly ❤
Queff Jerky cover of Mad World called, "Queff World". jus saying itd b iconic
my first festival was this year i went to kilby block party!!! so much fun i agree seeing so many artists at once is so awesome and inspiring and seeing ETHEL CAIN JAPANESE BREAKFAST INDIGO DE SOUZA DOMINIC FIKE AND FAYE WEBESTER ON THE SAME WEEKEND??? mind blowing
yessss i went this year too it was so cool
I went to Governors Ball in 2015, which was also on Randall’s Island, same as the Electric Zoo that just went down. Had a great time. Plenty of toilets and free water, great weather (mostly), no will call. Only festival I’ve ever been to. Decided to retire from festival-going w/ a .1000 batting average after that
been to electric picnic twice because its only five minutes down the road from me, but this year was possibly the best experience of my lifeeee, saw some of my fav bands, the weather was great and the campsite was class
This is making ep sound like heaven
One of my first festivals, almost ten years ago was a rave in a cave in Southern Illinois. Infected Mushroom played and the next morning day I did mushrooms for the first time.
Boston calling is always well put together as well as anything that happens at the rose bowl in pasadena
i was around for the mid-late 00’s warped tour years and tbh every year things went pretty smoothly (i was also about 14-16 so maybe i just wasn’t as aware but)