Festivals
- Thread starter Benny Bunter
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Local Authority
bitch city
I thought it was more the lack of organisation between security teams that led to the meltdown. Throughout the whole day I felt a distinct lack of presence of any stewards or security. If you don't direct or assist people they'll obviously take things into their own hands. When we left the RA tent at around 12.30am we were met by a crowd of 300 people trying to get in, with only 4 security attempting to keep the situation under control. Meanwhile a steady stream of people were climbing over the fence. What I found striking was how packed it felt outside of any of the tents. After everything started to break down it all felt like a dystopian techno wasteland.
All great fun though.
All great fun though.
SecondLine
Well-known member
yes!
On Bloc.
Levi and I got there at about 5ish. The queue to get in was building rapidly behind us but it was moving quite quickly until we got to the security bit. They had a bottleneck caused by security believing that this 1 sniffer dog was going to be able to sniff over 8000 people, the poor thing looked extremely lost and confused.
Went in and saw Nicholas Jaar then walked around a bit. The whole west side of the site was pretty much empty as all the main arenas were located on the east side where the entrance was pointed.
Later saw Digital Mystikz and then Shackleton, Levi left halfway to see MF Doom. Found him outside after and said the sound was awful. I felt the RA tent, (the only tent I managed to get into the whole event) was lacking in volume and sub-bass. DMZ sounded pretty lackluster and I got right up to the stage for Shackleton to try and make up for it.
Eventually none of the queues that we were in were moving and the boat was pretty much locked off when we got there.
Sat down for a bit at 1am listening to the banging on the shipping containers. Ended up involuntarily chatting to man who had just put MDMA into his fanta bottle an had a dolls arm as a necklace. It was later revealed that the necklace made a great little serving spoon for the cocaine he was handing out.
Ended up walking to Kings Cross from the venue. A 7.8 mile journey estimated to have taken 2h 30minutes according to google maps.
I'll quote an enraged punter we passed on our journey home. "This is not how I envisaged my Friday night!"
Levi and I got there at about 5ish. The queue to get in was building rapidly behind us but it was moving quite quickly until we got to the security bit. They had a bottleneck caused by security believing that this 1 sniffer dog was going to be able to sniff over 8000 people, the poor thing looked extremely lost and confused.
Went in and saw Nicholas Jaar then walked around a bit. The whole west side of the site was pretty much empty as all the main arenas were located on the east side where the entrance was pointed.
Later saw Digital Mystikz and then Shackleton, Levi left halfway to see MF Doom. Found him outside after and said the sound was awful. I felt the RA tent, (the only tent I managed to get into the whole event) was lacking in volume and sub-bass. DMZ sounded pretty lackluster and I got right up to the stage for Shackleton to try and make up for it.
Eventually none of the queues that we were in were moving and the boat was pretty much locked off when we got there.
Sat down for a bit at 1am listening to the banging on the shipping containers. Ended up involuntarily chatting to man who had just put MDMA into his fanta bottle an had a dolls arm as a necklace. It was later revealed that the necklace made a great little serving spoon for the cocaine he was handing out.
Ended up walking to Kings Cross from the venue. A 7.8 mile journey estimated to have taken 2h 30minutes according to google maps.
I'll quote an enraged punter we passed on our journey home. "This is not how I envisaged my Friday night!"
a guy i was chatting to said he spoke to the sound man in the RA tent. apparently noise control were telling them to keep the volume low, he said it was barely turned up and could of been much louder.
the geezer who was telling me this was pretty fucked but it makes sense
the geezer who was telling me this was pretty fucked but it makes sense
Leo
Well-known member
umm...another dumb question: why hold a festival in a location that has noise restrictions? isn't having loud music one of the key points of even having a festival?
CHAOTROPIC
on account
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Does anyone know what this is all about? It seems legit/ bit fierce.
http://www.crowdsurge.com/et-TicketBarcodeBig.php?code=stop-making-excuses-and-sort-it-out
http://www.crowdsurge.com/et-TicketBarcodeBig.php?code=stop-making-excuses-and-sort-it-out
I expect ticket holders are quite a way down the pecking order when it comes to dishing out any funds baselogic have left, legally speaking. Time to put in those paypal/credit card/debit card claims I think...
4linehaiku
Repetitive
Well at the risk of sounding like a (larger than usual) smug prick, I went to Free Rotation instead and it was totally amazing.
Mix Mup & Kassem Mosse were so so good, I would heavily recommend going to see them at the Hessle fabric that's sometime soon. Blawan, Fred P, Magic Mountain High, Shackleton, Mike Huckaby were all great too. Lots of people were going nuts about the 2562 live set as well, but unfortunately I was devoting my entire intellect to remaining upright at that point and can't remember what it sounded like. Move D cried again on Sunday. It was mad emoesh. Didn't even rain much.
Mix Mup & Kassem Mosse were so so good, I would heavily recommend going to see them at the Hessle fabric that's sometime soon. Blawan, Fred P, Magic Mountain High, Shackleton, Mike Huckaby were all great too. Lots of people were going nuts about the 2562 live set as well, but unfortunately I was devoting my entire intellect to remaining upright at that point and can't remember what it sounded like. Move D cried again on Sunday. It was mad emoesh. Didn't even rain much.
SecondLine
Well-known member
It's not really a convincing reason for why the whole thing went tits up. It would require people having some premonition that the scanners wouldn't be in use. Or, if the scanners were fooled by the fake codes, there being a good few thousand people (~25% of attendees, if we're saying this is the main cause of overcrowding) with the pluck to rock up to a festival in the arse end of docklands with a fake ticket.
To me it sounds like it was a basic maths fail on the part of Bloc. Quietus (conservatively, I think) puts tent capacity at 12,000 - http://thequietus.com/articles/09308-bloc-festival-london-pleasure-gardens
CrowdSurge say that the site was calculated to hold 18k and just over 15k tickets were sold - http://thequietus.com/articles/09321-bloc-statement-ticketing-provider-crowdsurge.
I wans't there but plenty of people seem to be saying the size of stages was a joke for the no. of people there - the stubnitz being only ~600, for example: even speaking conservatively, it seems likely that half of the people there would want to check out the boat. Obviously gonna get messy.
But then you'd think they would've triple checked the sums.
speculation's not helpful I guess but I've got nothing better to do