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I work at festivals and would say that would be pretty difficult. There's no real way to sneak around backstage, and if you end up back there you won't be there long without credentials. Best way to get backstage is to make friends with the right person, never know who you'll meet that can hook you up. But other than that, probably not going to happen.
Post by purplesafety on Jun 5, 2009 4:16:34 GMT -5
hi there....i am one of the 'pouncing' backstage security guards although i would love to let everyone back there to go meet bands, the probability of that happening is very slim.....all the backstage security guards already went through our training session, and we were told not even to let president obama back there if he didn't have the right credentials....we were even instructed to turn our boss away to go get proper credentials if he forgot and showed up without them.....bottom line is, if you can get your hands on the right credentials, you're good, otherwise, there are over 200 of us scattered around backstage, and even if you managed to slip by one of us, someone would catch you probably within a few minutes.....sorry, wish it was different, it's not that most of us are not cool, we just don't want to lose our jobs!
Maybe you guys could figure out which credentials are allowed where, because last year, depending on who was manning certain gates, Media creds would get through, or it would not.
Particularly the one by the main stage to get into the media area. You could go to it one time and they would let you through, then a couple of hours later, a different person would be staffing that gate and they would make you walk around to the Which stage entrance.
Maybe they could all get on the same page perhaps????
Hmm, maybe I worded my question wrong. Thanks for the info though :]
Inforoo does not condone the sneaky sneaky.
Hehehe not trying to be sneaky, was actually just hoping to quickly catch the attention of someone I know. At other festivals this can be done without actually going into the secure areas, but I've never been to roo. I don't want to sit and have coffee with the bands or anything
Maybe you guys could figure out which credentials are allowed where, because last year, depending on who was manning certain gates, Media creds would get through, or it would not.
Particularly the one by the main stage to get into the media area. You could go to it one time and they would let you through, then a couple of hours later, a different person would be staffing that gate and they would make you walk around to the Which stage entrance.
Maybe they could all get on the same page perhaps????
this is my first year doing backstage security, so i don't know if it was the same situation last year or not......we were all at the same training session, but i don't know who was paying attention to what ....i suppose, as with all large groups of people, that some of us are nicer than others, some smarter than others, some stricter than others, etc......some of us love the music and the fest AND the job, some of us are just there for the job and don't care about anything else........i, for one, love fests and live for music---but also can't afford to get fired .....good luck though, try to get yourself a credential or find someone with escort privledges----and no, i have no idea what pass goes where until i get to bonnaroo and see the checklist for my area, wherever that may be....
it's not like there are artists just hanging out back there anyway. what you will see are a bunch of people busting their asses. if you're back there, you'll likely get in someone's way who has been working for days (even before you got there) and that person might not be as nice as a security guard.
artists hang out in artist hang out areas... you could be backstage and STILL not have access to these areas.