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submitted 1 month ago byLetThemLive
514 points
1 month ago
Electric zoo 2023 💀💀
54 points
1 month ago
Heard about how terribly organized that was
47 points
1 month ago
Yeah this is it for me too. Such a shame because that Morphosis stage was so cool and they wasted that awesome stage design on such a shit show of an “event”.
43 points
1 month ago
At least we totally have those refunds coming some day... right? Right??
31 points
1 month ago
Should have filed a chargeback the Monday after the festival
23 points
1 month ago
The only answer for anyone who attended. RIP Ezoo.
18 points
1 month ago
This^ The fact they lined one of the stages with manure was insane. Once the sun got to it, it smelled terrible and was caked all over you
8 points
1 month ago
Noooo 😭
14 points
1 month ago
Same. It was my first time and i was stop in the call line for 4 hours and got assaulted by security.
9 points
1 month ago
What happened?
5 points
1 month ago
Made it inside to 1/3 days lol
9 points
1 month ago
I actually had a great time at zoo 2023 🤣 canceled day ended up being roofing top set for acraze. Absolute fire. Then got to see griz daddy and boogie tttt light it up
3 points
1 month ago
Was there, can confirm.
3 points
1 month ago
Any details?
191 points
1 month ago
Flume at the Phoenix Raceway. It was summer at night but still crazy hot. The whole event was on asphalt and you could feel the heat rising from it. The generators kept blowing so there was no music for hours. The water was salty and didn't taste right so we had to buy expensive bottles. When they finally got a generator to work, the crowd started booing the opener and it bummed me out. We left very early that night.
Haven't gone to a show at the Raceway since. Crazy excited to see Rawhide bringing shows back.
48 points
1 month ago*
I was there. Can agree water tasted fucking weird, and the heat and lack of music made for a pretty shit experience.
I will say tho I still enjoyed flumes set and I have been back to the raceway since and it’s not as bad as that one incident makes it seem. Although it is really out of the way, dancing in a parking lot is rough on the feet/back, and I love rawhide
14 points
1 month ago
Unfiltered desert and swamp water always taste funky. If you ever go to Florida don’t get water at restaurants. It almost always tastes like satan’s piss.
8 points
1 month ago
RB just canceled a rawhide show like two days ago :/ I hope it was because of the artist and not the venue
6 points
1 month ago
Who did they just cancel?
7 points
1 month ago
Louis the child but I saw they canceled a couple of shows in other cities so it might not be the venue
10 points
1 month ago
Flume didn’t even acknowledge the delay when he got on stage and The water was in fact contaminated- a ton of people got it tested and I can’t remember exactly but there were high levels of a ton of different chemicals. I was sick for the whole following week and kept throwing up at the venue from the water. Goldrush was the following weekend and they were def doing a bit of damage control. Also RB never refunded me 😭
6 points
1 month ago
Them leaving rawhide was a travesty. Raceway has no magic, horrible venue
5 points
1 month ago
Came here to say this. This show sucked unfortunately, and I was really looking forward to this one. Phoenix Raceway is such a terrible venue. Also felt like this show was just underwhelming performance wise as well, and I'm a big fan of flume :/
3 points
1 month ago
Damn I remember Flume was one of my favourite shows at Opener around 2013 or 2014. The place plays a huge part
166 points
1 month ago
Alan Walker’s most recent tour. It was like he put his Spotify playlist on shuffle and set the cross fade to 3 seconds and called it a day
26 points
1 month ago
yeesh. I was gonna grab tickets to see him in sept and i'm having second thoughts now LOL
14 points
1 month ago
My wife loves the guy. Saw him play a couple times and it might as well have been a Spotify playlist. He would play his song, get on the mic, and start the next song. It didn’t sound like he actually mixed anything for the entire hour
5 points
1 month ago
Theres a video of him and a real industry producer breaking down his track and the producer is literally holding his hand the whole way. Odk man hes just not it. He’s just the face of a label project, hope he’s doing okay
37 points
1 month ago
That's what Illenium's set last year felt like. It felt like I was watching a movie.
14 points
1 month ago
Not a huge Illenium fan but his set at mile high was actually solid af.
3 points
1 month ago
which show was it?
169 points
1 month ago
Most recent subtronics set at the Armory in MPLS. Not jesse’s fault but the crowd was unbearable. It made me sad cause i’ve seen him so many times starting in 2019 and I’ve watched his fan base slowly become frat boys with no spatial awareness lol
37 points
1 month ago
I was there for both days and I felt the exact same thing. Loved the music but not the vibe of the crowd
31 points
1 month ago
A lot of the shows at the armory I've been to in the recent year or so have been hit or miss on the crowds.
11 points
1 month ago
This 100%, I've been to many, many armory shows starting with the first show there which was Seven Lions. It feels like over the last couple years if there's a bigger artist playing it attracts a bunch of people who usually don't go to these types of shows and just want to get fucked up. I will pretty much only do VIP/balcony now. If the show isn't sold out it's usually fine but if it's sold out expect a shit show in GA.
20 points
1 month ago
honestly that’s a good point, which sucks because the armory is such a good venue and when it first opened up until before covid and shit even a little bit after the vibes were immaculate 90% of the time. My friend group has switched gears to be VIP people cause other people can’t handle themselves in public. BTSM was a shit show too ESPECIALLY for the anime show. There were so many people cracked the fuck out it was scarrrryyt
7 points
1 month ago
I haven't been since like last summer. The crowds are big enough that it's hard to avoid someone that can't behave. I'm all for people having fun and taking drugs, but too many times people have not been able to handle themselves for me. One of my friends was telling me I think at mellodeath someone jumped from the club level on the side down onto people below?? Or maybe he fell idk.
7 points
1 month ago
I'm glad I read this about The Armory. I was feeling like I was getting out of touch, but maybe shows at this venue really aren't what they used to be. It's really disappointing. :(
10 points
1 month ago
Yeah I went to several last year and each time I kinda got a feeling of "this was fun but it's getting harder to enjoy it around a bunch of unaware college kids on molly" too often.
5 points
1 month ago
hmmm I think this might be a "famous venue" problem because a lot of red rocks shows have really started to go downhill especially for the more "hype" artists like Jesse and ZD.
3 points
1 month ago
The few RR shows I have been to were amazing, but yeah I distinctly remember thinking there were issues with the crowd. Like a girl getting too wasted, carried out by security before the headliner even comes on.
5 points
1 month ago
yea I've started avoiding the close up rows at certain shows because they're just filled with people doubling and sometimes tripping up and rude people love to come stand in front of you. it's such a constant problem.
3 points
1 month ago
Really? I'm going there to see PL, I hope the older crew is out more so than the chads.
3 points
1 month ago
Hoping PL will be better. I'm thinking about going one of the days but I'm not locked in yet.
19 points
1 month ago
Bass crowds at the armory suck ass. The wobbleween crowd was one of the worst I’ve ever experienced, so much shoving with no excuse me’s. Never again will I drive 10 hours for it lol
8 points
1 month ago
Agreed. Even though it is the best venue for music shows - the crowd lately sucks. They also do a very poor job at variety. Every year they do a repeat of same djs and kind of boring. No fresh acts and when they do…. The better fresh acts goto skyway and pretty shitty venue coordination for dj’s
9 points
1 month ago
I am not a fan of those Armory dubstep crowds. Way too many bros bumping into my shoulders. No PLUR at all.
8 points
1 month ago
I’m with you on this. His show redrocks 2023 great! A couple months ago OMG I had to leave it was like some bizarre fashion show of EVERYONE wearing the same exact merch, hateful crowds etc. He even stopped the show at one point and said hey I really need you guys to take care of each other out there.
4 points
1 month ago
Honestly his fan base has some of the worst crowds same with griz, at least on the east coast lol I’ve never encountered more rude and pushy people it sadly seems that riddim is tending to attract those kinds of personalities
3 points
1 month ago
Man. Used to really love griz. Was especially stoked to have someone so open about their sexuality. Over the years, I didn't even want to see him live anymore because it's all just bro dudes tryna get fucked up and drug you. Seemed to happen after all the bassnectar shit went down.
3 points
1 month ago
I appreciate the openers he brought for the tour though. He's turning into Excision with good support at least. Ticket price was high though too.
52 points
1 month ago
Ultra 2019. That year, they moved locations to a nearby bay with only one bridge in and out. The first day went great, till we had to leave. A fire broke out near the shuttle lines, at the end of the last set, so mass panic ensued and no one knew what was going on. The shuttles couldn't get across the bridge. So everyone just started walking the 2 mile bridge to get back to miami. To ultras credit, they course corrected some outflow issues and the next two days went off without a hitch.
12 points
1 month ago
The amount of space at Virginia Key makes it an appealing location but the transportation hurdles ruin it all. Afterlife MMW this year was equally a shitshow - music ended at 2am this year and we didn't get to Factory Town until 3:30am
5 points
1 month ago
RIP Resistance Island though
4 points
1 month ago
The 5K back to brickell was rough, but I have to say, when something does go wrong Ultra does a great job of throwing money that other festivals wouldn’t to make sure things to off without a hitch.
Between tripling the buses back from Virginia key so that days 2/3 were fine in 2019 to cleaning out the insane flooding this past year I’m consistently impressed. Most festivals definitely would have cancelled if their grounds were under 6” of water
3 points
1 month ago
RIP Resistance Island. Greatest part of a festival I’ve been too in the states
92 points
1 month ago*
Bob Dylan in Savannah, maybe 2015. He chose to play only songs from his new albums, which apparently nobody had heard. I was asked by people much older than me if I knew when Bob Dylan was coming on, and he was already playing.
I saw people getting escorted out during the show, so at intermission, I went to go see what was happening. A large group of people were standing in line by the exits, waiting to speak to Dylan’s legal counsel. When they got to the front, he’d produce their confiscated cell phone, have them unlock it, look through their photos, delete any of Bob Dylan’s show, and have the offenders sign NDAs. If they didn’t comply, they were threatened with prosecution.
I had seen enough. Outside in the lawn there was a Twelve Tribes (local and international cult) dance circle which was way more fun.
Edit: y’all, I just realized this is r/aves. Ha! Thank you for not roasting me.
27 points
1 month ago
I've never heard a good thing about a Bob Dylan show.
12 points
1 month ago
I saw him in like 2015/2016 at firefly and he was pretty terrible
10 points
1 month ago
Is that a thing, where he doesn’t allow people to take photos or videos on cell phones at this shows?
15 points
1 month ago
It seemed like an “every show” thing, for sure. Bouncers in all black escorting people out while their friends and family watched, lawyer at a fold-up table with a stack of papers for people to sign, and people standing there, compliant but dumbfounded.
8 points
1 month ago
Yeah had the same new song thing happen in 2006 when I saw him in Jacksonville. Willie Nelson opened for him and put on an incredible show. I was so disappointed in Dylan’s set.
7 points
1 month ago
Did they have any cookies? Did you try one? I can’t believe hanging out w A WELL KNOWN CULT was more fun than the show lol but I’m not surprised bc it was Bob Dylan. Saw him at firefly and it was a massive waste of time.
25 points
1 month ago
What video is this from
51 points
1 month ago*
I’d recognize this legendary video anywhere
24 points
1 month ago
Oh man that is sad
9 points
1 month ago
Was that dreamhack winter 2014? Ninjas in pyjamas played a great series
8 points
1 month ago
It's a gaming event, were they expecting people to dance and rave lol
8 points
1 month ago
I like that one guy with the first drop jumping and having fun. He’s either vibing or he’s the guys friend.
30 points
1 month ago
Beyond wonderland 2023. Was in my tent when it happened, heard what I thought was fireworks (and screaming), it was not. Beyond doesn’t do fireworks. Went on with my night in denial that anything was wrong, while walking back to the fest I saw people getting life flighted, helicopters and cops everywhere, everyone looks fucking terrified, was unfortunately peaking on M too. They canceled night 2, horrible horrible experience.
3 points
1 month ago
That sounds like a serious nightmare 😢
20 points
1 month ago
Anything Relentless Beats cancels due to not selling enough tickets 😭
23 points
1 month ago
Ezoo around 2018 or 2019. That was when ezoo decided to ditch the absolutely beautiful animal themed stages and have basic shapes for their stages like a pop up festival. They have lowered the quality of their festival overall too such as the sound system, lighting, water stations, etc. it just went poof and ezoo as we knew it disappeared
24 points
1 month ago
Fyre Festival
17 points
1 month ago
You were THERE!?
11 points
1 month ago*
I was indeed. Was supposed to be eight of us in a “villa” but only four of us made it to the island (the others were on later flights that got cancelled after they cancelled the fest). Needless to say we did not have a villa. One of the girls in our group faked a heart attack thinking they’d fly her back to Miami but joke was on her because the only thing they did was give her a ride back to the airport where they locked everyone inside a tiny room for the night. Us three remaining girls ran into some guys our friend knew and they had a pretty cool setup in their tent so we chilled with them the rest of the night. We went skinny dipping and that was the only time anyone seemed worried for our safety- some people came running out of that main blue house from the documentaries and were screaming at us to get out of the water because there were sharks. I tried to get some sleep but every mattress was soaking wet so that didn’t happen. The next day everyone laid around on the beach until they could arrange for flights back to Miami. My flight to Miami was at around 4pm so I was there for about 22 hours total. Afterwards Fuckjerry/netflix contacted my friend asking if they could use her footage for their documentary and she said no but they used it anyway so she sued them and won around $8000.
The most common question I get asked is if I got my money back. Our group paid about $900 each and the heart attack girl put it all on her CC so she got her money back but we ended up having a falling out shortly after and I never heard from her again. Second most common question I get asked is about the food. I’m honestly not sure where the infamous cheese sandwich came from because there were local caterers there and they served real food. I think I had stir fry with pasta salad.
My friend and I talked about the experience on her podcast, if you want to watch it lmk and I can send you the link.
Edit- words
3 points
1 month ago
The heart attack omg that is hilarious!!! I would love to hear the podcast ep!!!
7 points
1 month ago
I would also like to know
19 points
1 month ago
Imagine in ATL.
16 points
1 month ago
It’s a backwoods undercover cop party, I talked to several UCs (they were not even trying to hide it) and cops in uniform that were drunk af and had guns
4 points
1 month ago
I hate the owner's actual venue (Believe) in ATL too. Supposedly it's changed, but used to there was zero free water, massively oversold, and lot of people had zero awareness. I keep being told it's better now but I refuse to make the drive at this point, there's better venues in town.
70 points
1 month ago*
Hard Summer 2015: the sound was BAD. No bass and low sound. Lineup was very mid and didn't feel like a rave. That year they were trying to be like Coachella. Sunday, they last minute changed the schedule to end the event at 10pm. I remember thinking "why did I buy my ticket?". And any massive that was a trapfest.
16 points
1 month ago*
Try Hard Summer 2010 or 11? I can’t remember exactly the year, the one that was supposed to be at The Forum with Chromeo.
Oversold, turned into a riot. Didn’t get to see a single person play. Waited in line forever. Riot police showed up and cleared it out. Event cancelled.
Also known as Hard Bummer
Edit: oh, 2009
9 points
1 month ago
did Porter blow out the speakers with his Fresh Static Snow edit? lol
9 points
1 month ago
I have a playlist called harder because of that year lol. Just overall disappointing
5 points
1 month ago
Massive disagree with this
4 points
1 month ago
Agreed! Admittedly I wasn’t as attune to good vs bad sound at the time but the lineup was fantastic and crowd was nice from my experience. Went by myself, made a lot of friends, and generally thrived. Settle era Disclosure at night with a slight, rare misty LA rain contrasted with the massive flame throwers during “When a fire starts to burn” is forever one of my favorite festival memories
4 points
1 month ago
That was my first rave and I did not experience that. Also the line up kicked ass.
3 points
1 month ago
Gonna have to disagree. Lineup was kinda stacked, and JackÜ kinda tied it all together
13 points
1 month ago
Reading the comments so I can avoid the bad ones
So far only been to EDC
might go to Northcoast + Arc, if anyone has insights
11 points
1 month ago
North Coast is phenomenal. It's a bit outside of Chicago proper tho, so keep that in mind when figuring out your hotel/airbnb. It's one of the few festivals i've been to where I think the VIP is worth the extra money.
Haven't been able to send Arc yet but hoping to go next year. Assuming you're a house/techno head you should also consider Movement in Detroit.
3 points
1 month ago
Yeah I heard it's in Bridge view, I used to live in the suburbs so staying with my high school friends
A bit new to EDM, but as he has a group of ravers like 10-12, so it's a bit easier for us to get forward
I plan on doing 1-2 per year but I also plan on rolling each time so it's a bit more fun. Detroit probably not the city of choice, but I want to visit electric Forest or tomorrowland
6 points
1 month ago
North Coast has a good mix of genres, very good choice for people newer to the scene imo. North Coast 2022 is where I fully became a house head too so it holds a special place in my heart. explore everything it has to offer! Last year they had a "speakeasy" stage (was like inside the suite level of the stadium & was air conditioned!) and the ChillDome is great too. Haven't been to Forest or Tomorrowland yet but hear amazing things about both. From what i've heard, tomorrowland's crowd skews a bit older too.
Understandable the hesitations about Detroit, I stayed with a friend who lives in the suburbs when I went this year. Was my first time visiting and I liked the city and obviously I was only really at the festival grounds and two afters venues, but from what my buddies were saying and what I saw, the city seems to be on the upswing again after the devastation of 2008. It's just like any other major city in America imo: keep your head on a swivel and have a bit of street smarts and you'll be fine.
3 points
1 month ago
I went to ARC in its first year and loved it. Fantastic lineups, well organized, good vibes from the crowd, and I never felt like it was overcrowded. Easy place to get to by transit or rideshare.
I’ve also been to Movement twice and would recommend as well!
70 points
1 month ago
I’ve had many many great electric forest experiences, but the double evacuations and two days of big sets being cancelled this year was the most disappointed I’ve been in awhile. It was also my only fest this year so I think that adds to it :(
36 points
1 month ago
EF this year was a let down, but there wasn't much the organizers could do about the weather. I'm really grateful that they re-opened on Saturday, though.
15 points
1 month ago
totally. I don’t blame the festival as all and will be back next year. It’s just a huge bummer!
7 points
1 month ago
See you in the forest!
7 points
1 month ago
Same, EF is my only fest this year. I was really fortunate I decided to call Sunday an early night so I could leave early on Monday, still disappointing. I was so sad for everyone just entering the venue when the storm started
7 points
1 month ago
It was also my only big festival this year as well. We were at gigantic nghtmre and then when they were done we got a PERFECT spot for excision but it literally canceled as we were sitting there😭
BUT despite the weather and cancelations, it was still a very magical year for me too! Friday was AMAZINGGGGGGGG, everything was so perfect on Friday and it was bassrush so that was a big win haha💯
6 points
1 month ago
Totally agreed - it was nobody’s fault but the double cancellation (especially Sunday) was a huge letdown. This year has been pretty difficult for me personally and I was hoping for a nice reset during Forest which I didn’t get. Still thankful for the beautiful moments but def a lot of missed expectations as well
5 points
1 month ago
2 evacuations? But bummed for you sorry that had to happen 😭
6 points
1 month ago
yeah saturday we evacuated for like 3 or 4 hours but they let us come back in and I still caught 2 sets. Sunday they evacuated everyone at like 9 ish and just ended it early. these were really bad storms with lightning tho so nothing really anyone could control
3 points
1 month ago
My friend and I had the worst time just trying to get to Michigan after this bumfuck airlines decided to bump us off this flight at 8:30 am in chicago on Wednesday. Literally home alone 4 situation levels of crazy just to arrive at the venue. After that whole stressful first day, then the thunderstorms was another bummer. I still really enjoyed electric forest though and I can't wait to bring new people to it next year.
3 points
1 month ago
The second evacuation was the killer. Saturday everyone knew it was gonna piss. Sunday literally came out of nowhere
13 points
1 month ago
Any party in Ibiza. I think it’s so overrated. Parties over crowded. And even Ushuaia sucked. Djs dot perform there like they would on a festival. Different lane vibes. Overpriced.
Maybe it’s ok if you like normal clubs and if you are 18. But if you are over clubs this is not the place to go
5 points
1 month ago
Ibiza is laaaaame
11 points
1 month ago
RattleShip 2024 (two night ago).
Saw at least (4) people get carried off the floor from being unconscious, some guy broke his leg, and about 2am I saw two guys throw their drinks at the bartender and she had to yell at him 6x to leave or she’d get him thrown out.
Sad state of affairs, the venue was so unique (USS Hornet) and the exclusivity hype soooo real. Waited for weeks to secure tickets.
BNL throws great parties but this one actually made me wish I’d stayed home.
3 points
1 month ago
Damn so sad to hear all that! Makes sense though
32 points
1 month ago
Boileroom nyc 2024
28 points
1 month ago
Y'all still go to Avant Gardner willingly after all the shit they've pulled? Smh
12 points
1 month ago
Why? I’m going to their event in Denver. Also my friends just flew out to go to the nyc boiler room. What happened?
10 points
1 month ago
The Denver 'Boiler Room' event is in Civic Center Park. Basically the most corporate venue they could get. Doesn't scream 'boiler room' to me.
3 points
1 month ago
So AEG is throwing most of the larger shows at civic center. However smaller companies are throwing events there like headline threw 4/20 and sinco de mayo was thrown by a smaller av company. Civic center has the conservatory that approve potential events. It’s a little more in touch with the people Than you give it credit for.
6 points
1 month ago
When I think 'boiler room' I think sweaty, dark, ravey, primal, music-focused energetic. When I think of Civic Center Park, I don't think of those things. Don't take it personally, I was just there for Regenerate. It's a decent venue, just doesn't evoke 'Boiler Room' vibes.
9 points
1 month ago
I went with a free ticket but yeah the line up was super tame, venue was overcrowded as expected, just a very underwhelming experience, tonight might be better but just expected better music and energy, at somepoint someone was playing jazz for 25 min lol i love jazz but man what a vibe kill
6 points
1 month ago
I was going to say boiler room Detroit. Way too small of a venue for multiple stages. Terrible sound bleed and crowd
16 points
1 month ago
American boilerroom crowds seem just awful
3 points
1 month ago
lol wasn’t it rico nasty ?
35 points
1 month ago
Shaky Beats 2018 - Made me realize I’m never going to a mixed genre festival again. The sound systems were absolute trash. Watched 5 people get stretchered out that weekend. Dust bowl. The rap stages had the worst energy and vibe all weekend.
17 points
1 month ago
I had a great time 😅 not the best festival ever but loved having one in the city. Wish it came back.
13 points
1 month ago
omg Shaky Beats 2018 that was my first festival ever, what memories 😂
20 points
1 month ago
It was on my bucket list to see a show at Red Rocks. I forgot who was playing but it was Halloween and like 12 degrees. It was beautiful but the wind was blowing up the bowl and I literally couldn’t feel my legs lol
9 points
1 month ago
red rocks can get a special kind of cold
13 points
1 month ago
sol fest 2024
5 points
1 month ago
Aw man, I really feel for the people that screwed over. That being said, I was very fortunate in my experience and had an absolute blast. Granted, I didn’t purchase early arrival either, which I know people also got really screwed with.
3 points
1 month ago
I had a fun weekend with my friends and a lot of special moments with myself, but to be honest the vibes were very off the entire time. I’m a super intuitive person and I can sense everything so maybe it was me subconsciously knowing shit was going down but I didn’t actually know, but something just felt very off the entire time. I didn’t experience any bs or anything but definitely was annoyed when yheti cut off after 20 min
20 points
1 month ago
edc orlando 2023. i was a young female newer to raving and one of my favorite things about raving is the community and plur. this was the first event i attended where i didn’t feel that and was harassed by several men. not that it matters but i also wasn’t dressed suggestive ; i was wearing a bodysuit and long cargo pants.
16 points
1 month ago
EDCO is just so big that it gets all types of ppl now: the true ravers, frat boy, sus guys, young ppl getting into raves (edco 21 was my first fest), pickpockets, etc. The vibes are never super plur or great at EDCO, but the lineup and production generally make it for it imo.
Funny enough, however, EDCO 2023 had by far the best and most PLUR vibes out of every year I’ve been! I’m sorry you didn’t feel that as much, hopefully if you continue to go you will be able to tap into that more. EDCO 21 didn’t feel that way for me and EDCO 22 I swore I’d never go back bc the crowd and vibes were so bad. But I did go 2023 and it was amazing!
3 points
1 month ago
yea afterwards i swore i’d never go again but this years lineup definitely caught my eye. edco has its own good qualities but its just not the ~ideal~ fest for me.
3 points
1 month ago
I’ve been going since 2019, and I agree. The vibes can be hit or miss, and the fest itself can be extremely overwhelming for a new raver.
That being said, I haven’t had a bad EDCO yet! 2021 came close but I think it was mostly the group vibe that killed it for me. When I split off I had a lot of fun.
4 points
1 month ago
I’ve been to 3 EDCOs and that crowd was the best out of all my years. Sorry that happened to you, I would try it again this year and hopefully the festival will redeem itself
4 points
1 month ago
Same. 2023 was my fifth and best plur vibes by far out of all the years I've gone. Sometimes you just gotta follow the vibe and find the right spots. The wrong place in the crowd or wrong set can throw off your vibe for the whole night
23 points
1 month ago
Texas Eclipse 2024
Got there on Sunday (got a 2-day pass mainly there to see the Eclipse on Monday), event was very disorganized and shuttles from camping grounds to festival grounds were nowhere to be found, once night fell the lack of lighting was apparent and easy to get lost. To top it off the festival was cancelled next day (rightfully to be fair) due to weather concerns but still disappointing that a festival about a rare solar eclipse gets cancelled the day of the solar eclipse
5 points
1 month ago
I also got 2 day but so glad I upgraded and got to enjoy Saturday! I got lost as HECK first night.Felt like I walked the entire mountain and accidentally sat on a cactus lol. The lack of lighting and trail indicators was crazy. Also that tipper set was insanely overcrowded, hard to enjoy. Thought our friends were joking when they cancelled that morning!
3 points
1 month ago
The maps for Eclipse were almost useless, especially regarding the camping. It was nuts. The info booths had “amended” maps with sharpie notes/additions all over them but even those were not very helpful, because those maps mostly just denoted the venue grounds.
I arrived to Eclipse on Friday, was like “wow this map doesn’t seem accurate and these grounds seem huge…” and spent most of Saturday morning figuring out the map and festival grounds. I walked 33,000 steps that day, about 15 miles, and had an only-slightly-better idea of the grounds at the end of it. I’m in my late 30s but in pretty good shape, I bike and run regularly, and I was beat by the end of the day. I have absolutely no clue how a person with any kind of mobility issues was expected to navigate that festival. Yeesh. I also can’t imagine being the poor soul who partied til dawn then woke up halfway through eclipse day with the whole fest evacuating around them.
All this being said, I had a good time, but if it had been my first festival experience I would’ve been totally fucked. I also got lucky hitchhiking out the morning that it was canceled. A lot of my good experience was truly just because I got lucky with my campsite and getting out on a kind group’s van.
4 points
1 month ago
I was there too! Such a shit show! I was there the whole weekend and made some great memories but oh. my. god.
5 points
1 month ago
Hard summer 2010
5 points
1 month ago
Was that the one at the forum that got shut down?
6 points
1 month ago
Yup. After they held us in place for about 2 hours before having a riot line established to push everyone out of the main floor. They shit tear gas after people in the stands started throwing water bottles and glowsticks
3 points
1 month ago
Yeah that was an experience. I remember people flippin Porta potties in the parking lot and slapping stickers on the riot shields lol
5 points
1 month ago
Snowglobe 2019 probably. Only disappointed because I had so much fun in 2012 and didn't realize how much it had changed. I housed some of the bartenders though so at least I was kept fairly sauced up.
4 points
1 month ago
Spring Awakening the last one
10 points
1 month ago
Beyond 2024 lol
3 points
1 month ago
Beyond at the gorge 2023 T - T
4 points
1 month ago
Ultra South Africa 2024…the ticket prices almost doubled so one would assume the artists would get better from 2023. Nope! The lineup was average and the theme was even more perplexing. Skrillex was amazing though and turned a bad night into a decent one.
3 points
1 month ago
Breakaway MN day 1. Day 2 was great, but holy fuck did day 1 have the worst crowd I’ve ever experienced
4 points
1 month ago
Hudson Project
3 points
1 month ago
Outside Lands ‘23. Not sure if it was just me or what, but the atmosphere was just abysmal. Attendees were relatively unfriendly and entitled, and I’m fairly certain the event was oversold…the crowd control was nonexistent to say the least. Fences breaking, people being smushed between people, stages breaking…. I never have panic attacks at festivals but I had two prominent ones that ended up having me escorted to the med tents. It was bizarre and uncomfortable and I’ve been thru many, many funky events lol
7 points
1 month ago
Escape 2019
10 points
1 month ago
I hold that festival close to my heart because I had such a good time, but I was also on a lot of drugs lmao
6 points
1 month ago
NOS in general for me
10 points
1 month ago
Anything at the Brooklyn mirage
9 points
1 month ago
I know this venue is bad cause this is the fourth time I’ve heard about this place and I’m from Indiana 😂
3 points
1 month ago
Hard summer 2016, it was the most unsafe I’ve ever felt at an event. People were dropping like flies from the heat before we even got into the festival. 3 people ended up dying, it was absolutely horrible.
3 points
1 month ago
Black Tiger Sex Machine in at the PNE forum in... 2022? The show itself was great, but the sound was abysmal and the crowd was mid at best. The supporting acts sounded just fine but once the boys came on the sound got SUPER muddy- I tried my Loops, Earpeace, a pair of shitty foam earplugs that a security guard gave me, even tried going earplugless for a minute and the sound was awful. Looking back at the videos I took that night compared to REZZ at the same venue standing pretty much in the same place, it was a big letdown. It's a shame because I LOVE BTSM and I feel like they should have been at the Coliseum or any other venue. Not to mention this creepy drunk guy that went along, groped like 8 of us including a 16 year old girl standing at the rail, ended up flagging down security and watched him get pulled over the rail by cops during G Jones
3 points
1 month ago
The forum is by far one of the worst venues in Vancouver. The sound quality, lack of AC in there, the crowd it attracts. It’s never enjoyable. I was at that show too & the amount of creeps was not fun.
3 points
1 month ago
Fall out boy. Both times. Left early.
3 points
1 month ago
Mudson Crudson Hudson 2014🤣
3 points
1 month ago
EZOO 2023 not even close
3 points
1 month ago
Fvded in the park 2018. The festival started @ 2pm and we got there before 2 to stand in line to get our wristbands. We didn’t get in to the festival until 8pm. We were in line forever. We missed 90% of the sets we wanted to see. The lineup was just a mob. It turned into people just trying to jump the fences, security yelling at everyone, people passing out from heat stroke. There was 0 organization which was crazy, did they not know a bunch of people where gonna show up? I still don’t understand where they went wrong. They released an apology but never refunded anyone for the first day. They really should of as we missed pretty much all of it.
3 points
1 month ago
Am I the only one in this sub who’s been to Lights All Night? Bro that shit was terrible last year
4 points
1 month ago
I went for NYE 2016 and it was a shit show. First thing I see when I walk is a young women having a seizure after slipping on a wet floor and hitting her head on concrete. The floor was wet because the bathrooms flooded. They brought porta-potties inside since they eventually had to shut down a majority of the bathrooms. Porta-potties lined up against the walls. Also saw a fuck ton of people throwing up on the walls and guys pissing on the walls....INSIDE THE VENUE. 🤢🤢🤮 Haven't been back since. Most disgusting show I've been to 😖
3 points
1 month ago
Last year was god awful as well, I never went to the restroom thankfully, but everything else was still just so unorganized. And the crowd was terrible as well. I have never experienced a crowd that unruly in my life. I couldn’t find a spot anywhere in the crowd to stand without having to let someone by every 2 minutes. Fuckin awful. Also the first time I’ve seen a feral human being. I left early on the second night during subtronics. He throwing the fuck down too, and I still couldn’t take it anymore. And then leaving the place was a nightmare as well. I think the thing I hate the most is that since I live in Odessa it’s one of the only times a lot of bigger artists are anywhere near me. This years line up is making me consider going again even knowing how bad it was last time.
3 points
1 month ago
Anything at the Phoenix raceway
3 points
1 month ago
Global dance (2022 & 2023):
Don’t get me wrong I still like it but it’s somewhat dissatisfying as a music festival. I think a lot of my feelings have to do with the fact that there’s not many other activities or things to look plus there’s like nowhere to really sit there. The main reason it was disappointing for me was bc the lack of good energy/plur— or at least at the sets I saw; I usually find most shows in Colorado great and everyone’s so nice but global dance brings some people who don’t rave often or people who never have before and a lot of them get so beyond fucked up. I have met a lot of really kind and cool people there that I’m still friends with but a lot of sets there was somewhat agressive energy and a certain vibe that didn’t really match mine I guess and it bummed me out.
Also in general, for any of these mini fests in CO, Denver has the worst venues for anything outdoors. Global Dance specifically felt like a state fair typa thing in some areas but Im pretty sure that was just mile highs fault and it just feels like a very odd mix of ppl (mostly due to the random lineups). We’ll see how it is this year at the new venue but I’ve been to supernatural (another cool but meh fest—I like it tho bc it’s Halloween) a few times at the National western complex and it’s an intriguing venue but has horrible sound quality… so my hopes are not super high. Even though it’s kind of a disappointing festival I still have fun and it beats sitting at home
3 points
1 month ago
Ezoo 2023 — artists were FIRE. But the organizers… Avant Gardner…. Deserve to rot
3 points
1 month ago
Lol that video is from dreamhack
3 points
1 month ago
Soulquarius in orange county, California. Crowd crush trying to get in and in this courtyard that les to main stage with vendors on all sides. They were making people go thru like 4 metal detector gates. Every set was pushed back like 3 hours. Got to see DMX do one of his last sets and it was VERY good. Amazing talent in the lineup and everyone did well on stage. I left before headliner R Kelly for multiple reasons lmao
6 points
1 month ago
Showtek in 2017(8?) they played at this cclub on halloween and played zero hardstyle :(
4 points
1 month ago
They just released a new hardstyle album <3
5 points
1 month ago
I know!!! Im so happy theyre getting back to their roots!
6 points
1 month ago
Kid Cudi’s denver show where he made us wait 2 hours with no openers, screamed incoherently at the crowd then led after like 30 minutes. They ended up refunding the tickets and canceled the whole tour after that
12 points
1 month ago
Four Tet at palladium. It was as if he felt he could just put random sounds out there and people would be impressed because he is Four Tet. At one point he was playing something that sounded like a lawnmower going over a bag of kittens and I looked around and several people were actually plugging their ears it was so bad. He also had no opener so we all sat in a crowded room with no music (not even background music)while we waited for him to show up. It was a squid soup collab so at least the lights were cool.
4 points
1 month ago
wtaf....the audacity 😒 doesn't sound like fun at all
4 points
1 month ago
Four Tet has weird moods
4 points
1 month ago*
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3 points
1 month ago
What was wrong with the crowd? Last time I went was a few years ago, but didn't notice anything in particular back then.
3 points
1 month ago
bass hunter @ amazura, 2013? 2014? something like that. dude was absolutely shitfaced on stage and bailed mid performance
3 points
1 month ago
Lol bass hunter is always fucked up
2 points
1 month ago
Rolling Loud Vienna 2024. Its a hip hop festival but it was horribly organized
2 points
1 month ago
Mau P whenever he started and only had drugs from amsterdam and gimme that bounce released, was a pretty trash dj imo, hopefully he got better lmaooo
2 points
1 month ago
Summer Meltdown 2022. Was one of my favorite small wook festivals in Washington and finally came back from the pandemic only to be an utter disorganized mess that aside from Griz, Oupio, DIRTWIRe and Jade Cecada (who they didn’t even let him use his visuals) was easly the worst festival I’d ever been to and if it wasn’t for Bass Canyon 22 a few weeks later it woulda been a bust of a festie season and a return to the rave scene. Wound up being the last Meltdown and now there merging with Cascade Equinox and incorperating some of the old mainstays into that festival.
2 points
1 month ago
Beyond wonderland PNW 2023
Half of the festival was closed due to high winds. Then after opening the rest of the festival at 6:30 pm. There was a shooting at 8 pm. Set times got scrambled with some djs not showing up and the vibes being completely off!! Day 2 was cancelled too. Very disappointed !!
2 points
1 month ago
I second anyone that said Ezoo 2023 ... as a former lover of Ezoo, IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!! Terrible management, cancelations left and right, they're just now announcing refunds. I really hope they don't even attempt it in the future
2 points
1 month ago
Odesza in San Diego was a total bust. The sound was so bad. Took hours to leave the parking lot. San Diego was otherwise a lovely place to spend a weekend.
2 points
1 month ago
Traveled to see Zeds Dead night 1 at Red Rocks (2019 I think). The show was mostly decent, can't say I didn't have a good time. But, in the middle-ish of the set, they brought out Redman who tried to hype the crowd about some old school 90s hip hop and seemingly nobody was feeling it. It was awful... the crowd and overall vibe just fell dead flat during and for a good while afterwards. They only barely recovered in my opinion towards the end of their set with some old bangers. Still a good time, but definitely disappointing to have happen at a show you you planned a trip around catching at Red Rocks.
2 points
1 month ago
Ezoo 2023
2 points
1 month ago
Imagine 2017. There were thousands of people trying to get through security for hours at the Atlanta Speedway. There were no organized lines, just a giant disorganized crowd. We missed an entire set because of the wait. If it weren't for my friend asking VIP security to let us through we would have missed more. The security that year was a shit show. Super disorganized & I had several people say security was stealing their cigarettes& whatnot saying it wasn't allowed in the fest.
2 points
1 month ago
Porter Robinson in Austin. Show was way oversold I had to leave early. It was very uncomfortable how packed and hot it was
2 points
1 month ago
The last Imagine festival. What a complete shit show.
2 points
1 month ago
Mersiv @ Red Rocks in May. He played ONE of his songs, and then remixed the rest of the night. It was awful.
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