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I stood at This tent for 40 minutes after 12 before I realized that they were setting up for D'Angelo. I checked the app throughout the day and it always said 11:45. They were the main reason I came this year. Sorry for whining guys, just feeling extremely shitty right now
I stood at This tent for 40 minutes after 12 before I realized that they were setting up for D'Angelo. I checked the app throughout the day and it always said 11:45. They were the main reason I came this year. Sorry for whining guys, just feeling extremely shitty right now
The app definitely had the time right but I'm sorry you missed it
I stood at This tent for 40 minutes after 12 before I realized that they were setting up for D'Angelo. I checked the app throughout the day and it always said 11:45. They were the main reason I came this year. Sorry for whining guys, just feeling extremely shitty right now
The app definitely had the time right but I'm sorry you missed it
the app definitely ISN'T right. at least for me and a few other people i asked
Post by ellisintransit on Jun 15, 2015 13:57:31 GMT -5
The app most certainly was correct all weekend for me, i didn't take my printed schedule in to Centeroo at all, and missed nothing. There was a good crowd, but I would imagine it would have been better with all the people that really wanted to be there for it. My favorite metal moment at Bonnaroo yet. My buddy and I stood around This Tent stage left for most of the hour after they ended and had to tell at least 30 people that they missed it. There are giant screens at almost every tent and stage now, so maybe they could stop showing poetry and start showing schedule changes.
Post by kilgoretrout on Jun 15, 2015 14:30:23 GMT -5
Right there with you...main reason I bought a ticket this year was because I wanted to see Slayer at roo....I get there at like 1130 and find out it's over... They're one of my favorite bands, and I've seen them several times; however, I still wanted to see them at the farm.... I was mad about it, but got over it...what ya gonna do...
Post by notdarkyet on Jun 15, 2015 14:58:37 GMT -5
I felt like it was a well attended set. If you got there at the end it may be that the 3 huge circle pits had chased a lot of people to the perimeter and at some point they collapsed so everyone left in the tent pressed forward. Also, 3 big circle pits at Slayer bonnaroo was super awesome.
Post by drewduction on Jun 16, 2015 11:21:53 GMT -5
My friends and I walked back after MMJ to recover before Mumford and I was a little out of it.
A couple guys asked us if we were gonna check out Slayer, it was around 10:20 at this time. I told them I thought it started at 10, it changed online, probably after the schedule was printed.
They argued in some form of denial and basically convinced me I was wrong. Felt pretty bad for them when I saw D'Angelo was on instead.
How do you move an act earlier and not make a bigger announcement about it when the print is wrong? Later is not that big a deal, but they must have known a ton of people were going to miss this.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jun 16, 2015 12:23:39 GMT -5
I know at least on Thursday and Friday the tent screens would show the times of bands playing that day, just kind of scroll through and put up random times. I don't recall if I saw this at all on Saturday, by then I think it was just tweets and shit. But given the amount of changes from printed to actual schedule, it would make sense to somehow more aggressively communicate those changes.
Only notifications I got on the app were stupid. Didn't get this, I'm lucky I happened to check my email about 20 min after the announcement or I would have missed also
The app definitely had the time right but I'm sorry you missed it
the app definitely ISN'T right. at least for me and a few other people i asked
Every so often you need to go into settings and choose "update app data" it pushes any changes to the app. The change to 10 actually happened before roo started.
I wasn't skipping Mumford to see them but was curious to see how they communicated the change since they made it it a couple of days before the festival. As per usual, they underperformed in the communication department.
I don't recall an email or twitter notification of the schedule change. Nothing posted at the gates or handed out with the guides. I didn't notice anything flagging attention to the change in the screens, though they probably flashed the correct time in their rotation.
The giant posted scheduled in Centeroo were correct, though. (I kept checking to see if Childish Gambino and Robert Plant were still a go.)
They really never addressed any of the schedule changes (Slayer, Sturgill Simpson, Broken Lizard, etc.) with the exception of a tweet a few days after the Broken Lizard drop out.
In the past they have been able to handle this. Specifically, I'm thinking of Kanye's original time shift from 8:30 to 2:30 in 08 and the addition of Jimmy Buffett to the schedule in 09. They placed big signs at the Centeroo exits and covered their bases.
I don't know why they suck so, so bad at something as simple as sharing information that everyone should know and that would only help their festival's performance. It is mind boggling.
I missed them too. Biggest heartbreak of the weekend. For me personally, it wasn't a huge deal because I have seen Slayer 5 times in the past... But I camped with my friend Tina and her cousin Eduardo from Brazil; he didn't speak any English and Slayer was litterally the #1 reason he came to Roo this year. Came all the way from Brazil to hang with his cousin and go see Slayer. He even had a costume for the show. And he missed it.. I felt terrible.
I missed them too. Biggest heartbreak of the weekend. For me personally, it wasn't a huge deal because I have seen Slayer 5 times in the past... But I camped with my friend Tina and her cousin Eduardo from Brazil; he didn't speak any English and Slayer was litterally the #1 reason he came to Roo this year. Came all the way from Brazil to hang with his cousin and go see Slayer. He even had a costume for the show. And he missed it.. I felt terrible.
I can understand the average person not paying attention and missing this change. But how did someone on this board miss it? We don't miss anything.
I missed them too. Biggest heartbreak of the weekend. For me personally, it wasn't a huge deal because I have seen Slayer 5 times in the past... But I camped with my friend Tina and her cousin Eduardo from Brazil; he didn't speak any English and Slayer was litterally the #1 reason he came to Roo this year. Came all the way from Brazil to hang with his cousin and go see Slayer. He even had a costume for the show. And he missed it.. I felt terrible.
I can understand the average person not paying attention and missing this change. But how did someone on this board miss it? We don't miss anything.
Lost my cell phone coming into Roo this year, so I was relying on the paper schedule and asking random people what time it was all weekend.
Did everyone refuse to look on the website and the large schedules posted throughout centeroo? Not to mention this was covered at length in the schedule thread.
It wasn't exactly last minute, but it was close enough that probably more should have been done to communicate it.
Basically, if it occurs late enough to not make it into the schedules they hand out on-site, then there should be specific signs/displays that relay the change.
Really it's not unreasonable to expect the festival to communicate any and all schedule changes as a courtesy. If this were my first year I'd assume that if they put a schedule out I wouldn't expect it to change. Certainly not as radically as it did this year, at least.
That sucks. This change happened a couple days before roo though.
I think you're kind of shaming the victim here.
I agree that they could have communicated it better. But I would expect a member of this board to not have that happen. He could have checked the app, checked the big schedules on the farm, looked at the video screens.
And I retweeted it to the spambots that follow me. I'm not saying that the information wasn't out there. Just that I feel it's irresponsible for Bonnaroo to rely on us noticing and communicating their changes.
With the spotty cell service that was widely reported all weekend, the ap and twitter may not have been very efficient. (I just received a week's worth of notifications from the ap in the last hour.)
That kinda leaves attendees with a best practice of verifying that the schedule that organisers provided matched the ones they posted up. An easy solution would be a flyer that noted the differences.
I just think that they should try harder.
(Again, please note that i was aware of the schedule changes and did not miss anything because of them. These aren't sour grapes.)
Really it's not unreasonable to expect the festival to communicate any and all schedule changes as a courtesy.
That is not unreasonable at all, and they have been printing the Bonnaroo Beacon at least since my first year in 2004, and as a courtesy it's free. On Saturday I picked up the Beacon, opened to page two and it told me that Slayer was playing at 10:00 pm. I don't want to "victim shame", but I also believe in personal responsibility. Nobody has to worry about relying on word of mouth or the schedule that comes with the map, because they've literally been printing the schedule every day and giving it out for over a decade.
Really it's not unreasonable to expect the festival to communicate any and all schedule changes as a courtesy.
That is not unreasonable at all, and they have been printing the Bonnaroo Beacon at least since my first year in 2004, and as a courtesy it's free. On Saturday I picked up the Beacon, opened to page two and it told me that Slayer was playing at 10:00 pm. I don't want to "victim shame", but I also believe in personal responsibility. Nobody has to worry about relying on word of mouth or the schedule that comes with the map, because they've literally been printing the schedule every day and giving it out for over a decade.
Eh, the Beacon is not that widespread, and people shouldn't have to search out the correct info.
They fucked up, and didn't help people out that much. There should have been a sign warning about schedule changes as you walk into Centeroo. Or they could have advertised the change on the screens in between sets. They had many opportunities that they didn't take advantage of.
We knew, because we obsess over this shit. The average person doesn't.
I missed them too. Biggest heartbreak of the weekend. For me personally, it wasn't a huge deal because I have seen Slayer 5 times in the past... But I camped with my friend Tina and her cousin Eduardo from Brazil; he didn't speak any English and Slayer was litterally the #1 reason he came to Roo this year. Came all the way from Brazil to hang with his cousin and go see Slayer. He even had a costume for the show. And he missed it.. I felt terrible.
I can understand the average person not paying attention and missing this change. But how did someone on this board miss it? We don't miss anything.
Hell if it hadn't been fer Jay I would've never found out about the Slayer change. But I did and fer that I thank you, buddy.
That is not unreasonable at all, and they have been printing the Bonnaroo Beacon at least since my first year in 2004, and as a courtesy it's free. On Saturday I picked up the Beacon, opened to page two and it told me that Slayer was playing at 10:00 pm. I don't want to "victim shame", but I also believe in personal responsibility. Nobody has to worry about relying on word of mouth or the schedule that comes with the map, because they've literally been printing the schedule every day and giving it out for over a decade.
Eh, the Beacon is not that widespread, and people shouldn't have to search out the correct info.
They fucked up, and didn't help people out that much. There should have been a sign warning about schedule changes as you walk into Centeroo. Or they could have advertised the change on the screens in between sets. They had many opportunities that they didn't take advantage of.
We knew, because we obsess over this shit. The average person doesn't.
Luckily I had the printed out inforoo schedule so none of my campmates or I missed the show. I warned them when we set up camp that the printed schedule was wrong. I think the newspaper had the correct time though also.
EDIT: This happens at all festivals and none of them communicate changes well.
