Justthefacts

Do you fancy the more varied approach I.e multiple days with multiple bands or the singular gig at a venue? Spend more and maybe make that money back figuratively, or dish out $30 to see one of your favorite bands at a rad venue with an equal minded crowd.

I feel at music festivals people are subjected to artists they'd otherwise not see while waiting for their favorite act at the end of the night, desperately trying to make it further up in the crowd when people leave after seeing one of their favorite bands end. Which isn't terrible. But a gig at a venue you get equal minded individuals all thinking the same thing: that one band. That's why at festivals, especially, theirs sometimes that disconnection between the artists and the crowd.

For example: I went to Bonnaroo this year (as all of you I'm sure know, I hype the shit out of that place) and the first day I was their The Growlers, Iceage, Courtney Barnett, and Mac Demarco are all playing back to back at the same stage. I'm thinking shit can't get any better. (And it actually did because I got a rail spot) But I know people are mainly in this crowd waiting for Mac Demarco, as was I, but I was waiting for Iceage above all. And during their set I was maybe the only hardcore Iceage fan. That's not true, but it sure felt like it. They aren't the usual festival circuit band, but they destroyed me, and the few others that enjoy their music. All the while the typical suburban kids that go to these things have never heard an Iceage song in their life and it's obvious standing in a crowd full of them.

All that being said, I prefer music festivals. Where else can you go and see The Flaming Lips, then Jack White? Or Vampire Weekend, then Kanye West, then Skrillex? Or My Morning Jacket, then Slayer, then D'Angelo? And the exercise you get hopping around all damn day making absolute fucking sureness that once mastodon ends, you're heading to the next stage for Ice Cube.

Why would someone detest these types of events?

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