Mad Cool 2018

[Hot Grape]

Hoping someone can help me.... I need to catch a flight from the airport at 6:30am on Sunday, was planning on leaving the festival straight after Underworld (4:30am). It says that Metro Line 8 is 24 Hours but is this just from the stop nearest the festival into the city, or does it run to the airport? if the Metro isn't an option are there plenty of taxi's outside the venue or are there any other options? Google Maps suggests it's a 2 hour walk

Cheers

[Yelo, the Parmiggiana]

When do the gate open today? I need to catch the wristband and I don't want to get stuck in the queue... I read 4.30 pm, am I right?

[The Placid Casual]

Today's the day guys!

[The Placid Casual]

How's the heads?

[Dom Wall]

Just landed from Stansted, plane was full of people heading to the festival so good vibe!

[birchtree29]

2 hours ago, Yelo, the Parmiggiana said:

When do the gate open today? I need to catch the wristband and I don't want to get stuck in the queue... I read 4.30 pm, am I right?

Gates open at 5 pm today

 

[birchtree29]

3 hours ago, Hot Grape said:

Hoping someone can help me.... I need to catch a flight from the airport at 6:30am on Sunday, was planning on leaving the festival straight after Underworld (4:30am). It says that Metro Line 8 is 24 Hours but is this just from the stop nearest the festival into the city, or does it run to the airport? if the Metro isn't an option are there plenty of taxi's outside the venue or are there any other options? Google Maps suggests it's a 2 hour walk

Cheers

Metro line is from mad cool to the city with no stops. You should either take a taxi or uber/cabify/mytaxi

They have updated their transport page. You can check all of the options from there. 

https://madcoolfestival.es/en/news/transports-mad-cool-2018

[birchtree29]

Does anyone who went to MGMT concert last night remember which song they start their setlist with?

They rotate their setlist quite a lot but in Rock Werchter and other festivals they usually start with Time To Pretend. If they do start with Time to pretend I need to leave Justice 10 mins early. 

[OddRon]

1 minute ago, birchtree29 said:

Does anyone who went to MGMT concert last night remember which song they start their setlist with?

They rotate their setlist quite a lot but in Rock Werchter and other festivals they usually start with Time To Pretend. If they do start with Time to pretend I need to leave Justice 10 mins early. 

WEEKEND WARS, was mental last night but crowd was dead for flash derlrium which is their best song

[Dave]

I was also on the 8.25 Stansted flight!

On another note... does anyone have any tips for the best tapas bars near La Riveria/Sol?

[AAlex]

2 hours ago, The Placid Casual said:

How's the heads?

Pretty rough, ended up going back to these lads apartment and when I left I realised I needed a key to get out the gate, and one to get back into the front door that had just slammed behind me, was there for an hour 45 ? Sweating it out now though, bit worried about the queue for wristbands to be honest.  

 

[AAlex]

Anyone else using Uber? Was just reading the article and sounds pretty good with the Uber drivers having their own access point and you skip queues, and that Uber eats sounds decent considering people were complaining about queues last year.

[scatteredscreens]

Anyone know if this extended line 8 opening hours is heading to Barras? Or is it ending at Feria De Madrid.

[OddRon]

Fucking stupid that you can't pick up wristbands early, If I miss an act waiting for a wristband I'll be livid, won't even let us queue and doesn't even look like they've  finished building an entrance, having to walk along the highway to get to a festival is ridiculous, entire thing reeks of piss poor preparation

[The Martini Police]

21 minutes ago, James96 said:

Anyone know if this extended line 8 opening hours is heading to Barras? Or is it ending at Feria De Madrid.

It’s going to Nuevos Ministerios, without stopping.

[scatteredscreens]

5 minutes ago, The Martini Police said:

It’s going to Nuevos Ministerios, without stopping.

I'm confused as it says line 8 will be running , but I don't know if the includes feria de Madrid to Barras or further (think the last stop is the airport)

[scatteredscreens]

Anyone queuing at the IFEMA, seems to be a big queue here and that's just to walk through the building to get to the festival site. Anyone at the festival gates yet?

[OddRon]

7 minutes ago, James96 said:

Anyone queuing at the IFEMA, seems to be a big queue here and that's just to walk through the building to get to the festival site. Anyone at the festival gates yet?

We got to the gates and they've made everyone just sit on the street outside

we went alongside highway rather than iferma

[scatteredscreens]

2 minutes ago, OddRon said:

We got to the gates and they've made everyone just sit on the street outside

we went alongside highway rather than iferma

Oh dear. To be fair if anyone is thinking of queuing from this side the queue is so big you'd probably be better going along the highway like you guys have done.

[scatteredscreens]

5pm and nothing has happened?

[OddRon]

1 minute ago, James96 said:

5pm and nothing has happened?

No toilets or water outside waiting either 

[scatteredscreens]

2 minutes ago, OddRon said:

No toilets or water outside waiting either 

Yeah shocking. Still just stood here and nothing has moved.

Edited July 12, 2018 by James96

[bryano1000]

Really bad start. They said 4pm start, it’s past 5 now and no movement, plus no water etc. In primavera you can collect your band the day before - why not here? 

[Lukie74]

Had two bursts of movement but nowhere near, surely they've got to be better than this or everyone will miss the first act or two

[scatteredscreens]

Anyone near the IFEMA? Queue here is mental