I know people love to do the annual run to local music festivals. Many amazing acts perform at them. Often, the number of acts you get to see are huge in proportion to what you pay. Often, the “admission” fee is well worth the number of acts. HOWEVER…MANY of these “local” acts are visible for little or no cover charge at local venues (which is moot, since 90 per cent of local venues pay their acts a set fee and take the admission fee PLUS the beverage sales as profit). GO TO A FREAKING LOCAL VENUE TO SEE LOCAL TALENT INSTEAD OF PAYING TO CAMP OUT, OVERPAY VENDORS FOR FOOD AND NOT SHOWER! —I fully expect to get slammed for this post
This article appears in Aug 7-13, 2014.
In most parts of the world people do this without the music. We call them refugees.
I’ll slam you…
op – what’s it to you?
I guess you don’t understand what a festival is. A festival is camping, drinking, BBQ’ing, along with many many different acts performing not to mention the hundreds of people you encounter (including some of the bands) that aren’t drinking in the usual spots downtown. We plan ahead and bring all the supplies we need and always end up having an amazing experience. The lines for food and water are usually quite entertaining as well.
Downtown you can pay a small cover, pay for your drinks and food too, then go home to your bed. This is of course after seeing one, maybe two good shows tops.
Nukka hits it on the head. There’s your differences.
Pbbbbfffffttttttt….you can’t drink all day and do mushrooms and E all night for three days at some lame show in a bar. You sound boring as fuck!!!!