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I know it's a pain to call ahead to make sure your private jet is fully stocked with the finest wines and foods before departing on your overseas trip to Primavera, but you should be having your butler or assistant do that anyway. After that just take the elevator up the roof and from there it's a quick helicopter ride to the airfield and before you know it you'll be at the festival.
good article that pretty much echoes what we've been saying around here for years. thanks for sharing.
So, where does this leave us? Does it mean that festivals will either have to start booking with heart or stop occurring? Essentially, yes that's exactly what this means. When it comes to a music festival, let's not kid ourselves, the whole thing can be a giant pain. Parking, what you can and cannot bring, the prices of food and drinks, and of course the festival grounds navigation are all kind of exhausting. So in the end, it's essentially more about the experience and a lineup that's based off of love, not based off of numbers.
While Metallica and Paul McCartney are two acts that should make people excited, look great on a balance sheet, they might not be what people actually want. In the future, if festivals don't start booking acts that can bring it as well as names that are that nice little addition, as well as experiences that make the attendees feel special; then we'll start seeing more and more of these music festivals drop off sooner than later.
Great read but did you have to put it in this thread. </3
I found it because Day for Night posted it on facebook
yeah I'm really hoping the picture of janet meant "don't worry, we're not booking janet, but we might get MBV". i mean its a lot to speculate, but pictures are a thousand words.
I found it because Day for Night posted it on facebook
and the prediction of the article, whether it pans out or not for D4N, is that festivals that put in the energy to carefully curate lineups and the festival experience in general stand a better chance of surviving (and thriving) than cookie-cutter GV/C3/LN fests.
this is a particularly interesting year for Bonnaroo. The headliners are not rare or special, but there was clearly more effort put into the undercard over 2017 and even 2016, and significantly more effort put into the overall experience. If the 74,000 predictions are correct, this is a good indicator for the overall quality of future festivals.
It’s unfortunate that this author isn’t so obsessed with festivals that he and his friends didn’t event discuss a potential fyf lineup considering the stellar grouping the pulled last year.
Didn’t Woodstock lose like all the money? Why should we care? If a cool festival can afford to stay afloat in 2018 good on them. Otherwise seize the moment and move on.
All of the evidence laid out in this make a pretty good case for why homogenized megafests will continue to thrive while smaller, more unique fests will suffer but they argue the opposite. I don’t get it.
Do you know how last year fared? It felt pretty well packed and I assume they knew they'd lose money for the first few years.
I'm not exactly looking at spread sheets or anything. But all I heard is they lost money again.
It’s not really that surprising. There was a decent crowd but the booking and production budget must have been incredibly high given the size of the festival. Not to mention all of the discounted tickets.
All of the evidence laid out in this make a pretty good case for why homogenized megafests will continue to thrive while smaller, more unique fests will suffer but they argue the opposite. I don’t get it.
A boutique boujee festival in California went out of business due to lack of interest, its sister festival in NYC is on its last legs. But they are arguing that the solution to festivals going under, is more boutique boujee ones
Post by wufinancial on May 15, 2018 11:25:36 GMT -5
All I could think about (and probably kept repeating out loud to those around me) was how under attended every set felt. Other than Tom Yorke and Jamie XX I never felt crowded, or was any more than a stones throw away from the stage. In my non expert opinion, it certainly seemed like they were losing a ton of money on this thing. Never waited in line for anything other than a goddamn veggie burger.
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