i went to evolve this weekend because some of my favourite bands were playing. i was shocked at the lack of respect other festival goers had in regards to what they chose to bring along with them. Inappropriate were…
1) Kites. kites are dangerous in a crowd of people. kites belong in open fields away from people who are afraid of getting nailed in the head by one. (i saw it happen to an innocent by stander and it was not pretty)
2) balloons/ beach balls. i got hit 6 times during Battles set! please fuck off, it was distracting.
3) glowsticks. glowsticks actually wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t throwing them around! they were all over the ground and i got hit in the head by one on saturday night.
4) Blinking LED light Swords. yeah you look cool with a sword, duh, actual swords are bitchin. but people have seizures you know. i even kindly asked one guy to just hold his down a bit so it woudn’t be right in my face and he was a total asshole about it. he pissed me off, and i was on freaking happy pills at the time!
5)barefeet. it rained at evolve this year. the site was a pit of mud. reasonable people wore boots or shoes. assholes wore barefeet.
please think twice next year! the props and toys you bring to festivals are dangerous, bad for the environment and just straight up innappropriate.
This article appears in Jul 31 – Aug 6, 2008.
Hmmm a lit of rules on utterly trifling matters. You should write bylaws for HRM!
shh shh…there there…take some more happy pills, listen to some more hippy music, and soon you’ll be frolicing in the mud barefoot, playing with glowing kites too….
you sound like a really good time. you must not like going to the beach either- getting hit with a beach ball hurts, and now I have sand in my shoe! wahhhhhh! Maybe if you are so worried about having seizure you shouldnt be taking so many happy pills 😮
What kind of happy pills were you on? Maybe next time you should try the cranky pills.Glow sticks and balloons piss you off? You sound like a grumpy care bear.
Lighten up a little, Maing. It’s the Evolve Festival.Sounds like you had your glowsticks wedged a little too far up your ass to enjoy the atmosphere in all it’s glory.. Plur.
Welcome to evolve. Its about shit like that. Guess you shouldn’t go next year. WATCH OUT A BEACHBALL!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! THE BEACH BALL REALLY HURTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ever read the “Diary of Adrian Mole”? Read it. You remind me of Adrian.
I got hit by a football one of the nights. Didn’t hurt a bit. 🙂
Yeah, I agree lighten up a bit. I went to evolve 3 years in a row and my only problem was the fucking garbage, I couldn’t believe that people didn’t have the decency to bring one garbage bag to put shit from their camping spot in. A lot of people just left bottles and crap lying infront of their tent doors and just walked over it. Strong believer in leaving with what you took. And wtf you we’re at Evolve, half the idea behind going is to be on the so called “happy pills” in that type of environment lol.
I’m still not over this Beach ball comment. That is the single most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. I could be in a bad mood (by having my kid wake me up in the middle of a dream about riding Ostrich’s across the desert) and have some random homophobic plant stealing bus driver who doesn’t tip at coffee shops while using Interac for a small coffee he wasn’t prepared to purchase until he got to the front of the line and made his kid decide at that point what they wanted while someone behind him complained while wearing too much cologne and high heels and Massive bug sunglasses throw a beach ball at me while I am walking on a too hot day and wouldn’t mind.
2 true stories about beach balls at concerts.1) i saw a girl that was wearing glasses take the ball to the face, the frames busted and and the glass wound up cutting her face….. concert over for her.2) dude at jack johnson concert was drinking and a ball seemingly from nowhere hit him as he was drinkng and broke teeth.
Lesson of the day: When attending a concert try to keep your eyes open and watch for flying beach balls, along with flying glowsticks, and other objects. If you are really concerned you could wear a helmet & protective gear or just stay the fuck home! I hate concerts where people just want to sit and enjoy the music….there will be plenty of time for that when you’re 69! What did you people do when crowd surfing was huge? Be thankful it’s a beachball and not a boot!
Uh oh, sounds like someone has the worst kind of hippie trouble, and a particularly advanced case – your hippies have already multiplied to the music festival stage. Simple solutions will not be enough; you only course of action is to obtain a really, really old boombox and blare Slayer tapes until the hippies disperse. It will be ugly, but necessary. Godspeed, my friend.Die Hippie Die!!!
Uh oh, sounds like someone has the worst kind of hippie trouble, and a particularly advanced case – your hippies have already multiplied to the music festival stage. Simple solutions will not be enough; you only course of action is to obtain a really, really old boombox and blare Slayer tapes until the hippies disperse. It will be ugly, but necessary. Godspeed, my friend.Die Hippie Die!!!