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ala pitchfork, FORM, etc. Mainstream festivals give me anxiety!!
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This past 'Bank Holiday' Weekender-bender here in London I noticed that there have been at least 3 'festivals' from Friday to Sunday***:
Wide Awake, Gala (??) and Cross the Tracks. At least two apparently in one place: Brockwell Park. [Imagine the poor cleaners having to deal with the mission impossible to Purify the entire park full of cans and other multitude of festival trash in just 24 hours like....]
The other, which I have never heard of, was nearby - Peckham Rye.
***On Monday, a friend was even like doing a DJ set for a festival called 'City Splash' AGAIN happening in Brockwell Park, literally the day after.
In less than a week there will be another addition: SXSW festival for the first time ever on the English lands with an unmissable dj set by ERYKAH BADU, then brand-new 'Lido' with CHARLI XCX having the 3083568458947th party of the year,
then pops up of Pride gigs like Mighty Hoopla Festival,
then Southbank Meltdown under Little Slimz' curation,
then BTS Hyde Park with a rare performance by Stevie Wonder, then of course you go up north and you sneak in (with your mind) to Glastonbury or you can choose to fly to Primavera Sound in Porto (Barcelona is like off-limits due to the extremely-claustropho/Bi/c gay-panic there will be with headliners like CHAPPEL ROAN, SABRINA CARPENTER, CHARLI XCX (x3) ), then the classics 1-day-jamboree: All Points East, Wireless, Download Reading and Leeds and Electric Picnic.
The list in like endless and I cannot keep up.
Since 15 I have been the enthusiast concert-goer par excellence, imagining myself even someday to cross those amplifying stages, but now it feels like.... overwhelming?! Idk if this represents more opportunities for small artists but yeah it seems that there is too much on the roaster to even try to engage fully to any big event and it's a shame, because of the unfair pricing monopoly of ticketmaster/live nation I think all those new shows are made to grab lots of cash from the pockets of the Gen Z (big majority) who can barely afford even a fancy meal in a local cafe.
Mixed feeling on this, what do you reckon (from the East-to-West coast)?
May 27, 2025
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Skipping prom and using the money I would have spent on prom to attend Pitchfork Fest and Lollapalooza (and on the night of prom going to a Tera Melos show instead)
Is math rock hipster ????
See also: owning the AA jelly sandals so much that the clasp broke
Feb 8, 2024
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