Post by gongoro73 on Jun 9, 2023 22:19:08 GMT 1
Festivals are a young people thing. Lots of my funniest and fondest memories, many of them unforgettable, comes from the festivals I attended or played with my band when I was in between 18 and 30 something years old. I didn’t care about all that discomfort you have mentioned. Everything was ok, as long as I was with my friends. I discovered lots of bands, met people that became friends, had incredible, surreal experiences…. and I still enjoy going to a Festival if there are some bands I like. I love to watch young people enjoying, and they enjoy a lot, as we did before them. I don’t care If I have to walk too much, or have a pee in some shiaty place. I can live with it. The only downside I see it’s that terrible sponsorship on almost every inch of the venues, wich indeed affects directly into a thing you also have mentioned: those ridiculously high prices for drinks, food, tickets and so on. That wild, greedy, agressive, out of control capitalism is not for me. It wasn’t like that in the old days, at least not in my country.
But lots of bands playing, music outdoors, young people having fun? Of course. Who can complain of something like that? Keep it coming, please.
When I go to see my favorite bands I want to see their full touring setlist not an abreviated shortened setlist because of time constraints and city and county curfews.
Festivals are nothing more than lucriative cattle call and cash grab for artists and promoters. They are often oversold at the disregard and discomfort for the people that attend them.
For me going to a concert is a lot like doing recreational drugs. When it ceases to be enjoyable or fun, than why do it. I have always been of the opinion that attending a concert should be fun and enjoyable and not an endurance test of how much annoyance and discomfort you can withstand.
Festivals are the buffets of our times, where every taste is made available to the customer or concert goer, but whenever you allow the general public to handle food you create a petri dish for contamination. As long as the general public accepts this kind of sub-par concert experiences, promoters will continue buying these type of shows and the demand will only increase as long as there are buyers.
If you enjoy this kind of concert experience, good for you, you are not in the minority. Everybody has their own way of enjoying a concert experience, and that is fine people can do whatever they want but I remember when the concert going experience was a lot more enjoyable and not an albutross of endurance.
I don't go to buffets either.
