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https://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/2024/smallstagesreview.shtml Great, here's yet another one, with a welcome focus on the smaller stages. Couldn't agree more on the beauty of the new Tree stage (there's a lovely picture of it right at the start of this review), and on the Egg deserving higher billing - I remember them playing the Glade a few year ago? -
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I can only assume that if dangerous crowd conditions are noted by the festival and the Council, that they both try try to improve year on year.* If they are noted and not acted upon then surely any major 'incident' would mean that GFL, Eavis, possibly his family too etc become corporately liable? * - The problem, I suspect, is that Glastonbury doesn't have another better crowd control functioning Glastonbury to compare itself too. This means that it can't directly learn. That means that any flow analysis systems from elsewhere, if used, wouldn't seem to me to be able to be used accurately. So what are they using? Are they even monitoring it in such a fashion? One would expect that they are. Personally I'd be whacking it (with fear) every festival, if it were my festival and I hadn't done continuous homework in this area. -
Her guarantee on this tour is around $2 million USD. She is easily clearing that per night. And she probably couldve sprinkled in a couple stadiums shows on this tour cause of demand. 6 dates here in LA alone and that wouldve sold out Sofi Stadium which holds about 50k for a standard gig pretty easily. -
Depeche Mode still out there for now. Would go off similar to The Cure I bet especially if they tweaked the setlist to be all big songs and minimal new material. Theyre usually pretty good about that at festival sets anyway.
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I mean they signed a 20 year agreement with the city of Indio to operate the festival a couple years ago. They own the property and actually update their infrastructure? Its not their fault they can invest in their sh*t for the long term. ( own all the staging and pa systems too ) One year after Coach had 20,000 sneak into the fest in 2010 ( first year they tried rfid wristbands ) they built a border wall and then kept improving stuff from there. Sneaking in is pretty minimal now and people just find wristbands for cheap anyway. My thing is, you will have to address this at some point because luck runs out. Its been near misses for a long time in terms of nothing happening. You cant keep operating that way. You cant keep saying " oh yeah, thats how it goes, leave it alone." If one of us or somebody we know ended up getting hurt cause of a crowd surge and all, then what. Like yeah, they put the wall up when they finally saw it get so out of control, but now people have figured out something else and will exploit it to no end if left unchecked. Things came to a head this year due to bad scheduling and an obvious audience shift. If theyre not taking that into consideration when booking artists and subsequently scheduling them as to avoid crowding and such then theyre just out of touch. Its obviously not about money either for the fest, but if people arent having a good time cause they have to worry more about getting around, even if its to go to the restroom or get food then what kind of experience is that?
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