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Friend of mine was at the Acoustic for Dervish and the Gypsy Kings, both of whom had sound problems that continued for most of their sets, with constant gesturing towards the sound desk. When Arooj Aftab was playing on The Park stage, loud music suddenly started coming out of one of the nearby tents, causing her to ask "What the f**k is that?!" Thankfully that did stop after some time.
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I thought this was a fantastically well-written article and really enjoyed reading it. I think the festival is good at evolving and responding to demand - as is pointed out in the argument the development of the Woodsies area and the re-shaping of Silver Hayes have been two recent successes. Agree that not all options need to be dance orientated though. Get more acts on in the bars late at night, maybe? I bet a lot of people are ending up at these venues because it’s the only thing still going.
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The SE corner needs a rethink imo - there are some brilliantly designed stages but its being ruined by pure numbers. Either it needs expanding somehow (not sure what space is available) or the stages rejigging to alleviate bottlebecks as its currently a highly unpleasant if not dangerous experience with 1000s of people trying to traverse it. If not, i think a crush incident is inevitable. Imagine the current situation with thick mud. People would stumble and that would be that. They alleviated it at Arcadia this year so the festival clearly do listen to concerns.
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Aye.So as much as everyone here is trying to gauge the weather they are at the mercy of making the call way sooner than they wished. Always next year I guess. NO LANYARDS?!! I draw the line with that! 2 years ago I had a wonderful interaction while waiting in the queue for the ribbon tower. This little girl came up to me and wanted to trade lanyards because mine matched her purple butterfly outfit. I quickly obliged and her parents were buzzing. Oh yeah, how were the rucksacks this year? I dont think I saw anything about them at all come to think of it.
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By NotAnInsider · Posted
That's a good article but I do think part of the problem is the current ticket situation. The stuff you need to do well in the ticket sale (decent tech, big groups) all tend to favour one particularly demographic who take a big chunk of available tickets and all want to do the same set of things once they are there. I certainly don't think the answer is to get rid of the more weird areas like GOS or Carhenge in favour of yet more DJs as they suggest - I spent a fair bit of time in both of those this year and enjoyed them. More they need to rebalance the population of the festival a touch away from the coke n ket crowd. Yeah, a ballot would fix it but I don't think it's the answer. Mostly because I tend to do quite well in the existing system...
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