5. The staff is completely clueless about where anything is. I asked four different people where the press center was—which isn't even marked on the map in the booklet—and not a single soul knew, not even the folks at the info booth.
Look, hand on heart here, this kind of mess happens everywhere, even outside of America. Honestly, I think the press operations are always secondary to Live Nation.
6. The selective bullshit with people and just picking and choosing who gets what based on whoever they feel like is totally pointless. One day I'm allowed to bring my Walmart camera, then the next day they won't let my friend in because she's hanging out with some idiot.
The security guards are just thugs, there's no debating it. They should be dealt with one by one. Though, I guess if you're a journalist you might get a pass while she doesn't, so there's some twisted logic to it, I suppose.
electricgull20 said:one guy had almost $167 on his card but didn't have any receiptsdiv>
And who exactly told him to pad his card using someone else's pension instead of actually keeping track of his receipts? 🤣
But yeah, they're jerks, no doubt about it. The beer is definitely overpriced, too. If they weren't such morons, the crowd would probably spend twice as much instead of just loitering around the entrance like a bunch of losers.
They didn't have to give away the rain ponchos for free; they could have at least sold them. $1.75, they would have sold like hotcakes. Same goes for the boots. And don't even get me started on how they could have fixed that whole mud disaster. It wouldn't have needed to be everywhere; just fixing up the party tent area would've been plenty. Someone mentioned sand and straw, but when I was over in Austria once, they used sawdust. And huge rugs! Meanwhile, the main stage setup at Sziget uses those plastic interlocking tiles—honeycomb structure, honestly a brilliant solution.
Total amateurs after nine years in the game. Maybe that's their "surprise" for the tenth anniversary—acquiring zero-brainpower staff instead of booking a heavy-hitting headliner.
Well, at least they brought back the cards this year. And they finally brought back the program booklets; last year they acted like they'd never heard of them.