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Arriving to Sticklinch carpark with people camping there. It’s a bit of unclear how is it for me to get to gate D from there?

Got my ticket today! and i live 2800 kilometers away.. if they intentionally sent international ones first, good decision!

I've currently put it in clashfinder as Chemical Brothers - Christine and the Queens - Elton John. ..but knowing who I'm with it is more than likely I'll end up seeing all three Pyramid headliners..

We were 6 of us there last year and i’d say you could even fit 8 there. 6 is the max to feel comfortable, to have some extra space for bags etc. we didn’t try but you could bring people in during daytime if i remember correctly. You can not get extra people to sleep if that’s what you mean, unless there’s a tipi with less people and willing to give you their wristband. We are 5 this year so i might have one extra…….. We did actually measure them knowing someone will ask but of course i can’t find it anymore. I did make a picture tho:

That drone shot is amazing. You’re right it depends what I watched. I remember being slightly frustrated at Charli XCX, Yungblud and Gorillaz. I enjoyed your example of Nia Archives, thought that worked well. Smaller size of the venue helped a lot I think. In reality it was much larger than it seemed? 😄 This Sofi Tukker example kind of shows what my issue was - you can clearly see that crowd going off and having a great time but it somehow feels like they’re unable to get a good angle of them. They’re never the main thing in the frame unless it’s a close-up of a few people. Showing the back of the artist / the stage with back of the audience is not a crowd shot.. or at least it’s not something i’m so desperate about here. But i completely understand that’s my personal matter.

I did occasionally watch the stream and found some things odd. The way they chose to direct it was them not involving much from the audience. Audience audio mix was really lacking at times and what really surprised me was them almost not showing the audience at all, most notably there were no crane cameras being used which usually gets great audience shots. For me personally a great live footage includes the atmosphere - a connection between the artist and their audience. I think BBC manages to capture this really well. BBC showing Glastonbury always makes me want to be there, but footage of Coachella did not, even if bands themselves were giving great performances. I had the same issue with 2022 Coachella stream. People in Coachella subreddit are praising the stream, so I guess I'm in minority.

https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2023/worthy-farm/2575665 this one? I'm still on this one. 🙂

Elrow has been great, that would be a huge miss… the only thing that really dragged me to Party Arena… and i had my first ever crowd surfing experience there last year… good times… oh well…

Great content! Can you tell us more about this? What is this newly created cultural committee and why does part of the island now belong to them? What do you think is the real motivation of this committee for making such comments? Is the economic impact of the festival known among locals? I imagine great tax revenue, larger incomes for local businesses around the city and great advertisement for Budapest/Hungary overall. How much has the organization of Sziget tried to publicly defend themselves through these points? How much (if any?) negativity does Sziget get locally considering the festival being very LGBT friendly?

The system clearly said last time that my tickets are to be collected from the box office, as I was an international customer. This time it does not say anything about this so I'm assuming I'm getting them sent to me. (I live in Europe) I just contacted See Tickets customer support last time and they changed it to my friends address.

We were able to change box office collection to our friends address who lives in London (traveled through London). It was a good plan but out of 6 tickets only one arrived at his place so we still had to go through box office.. This time we rented a car so I'm really hoping we don't have to circle to gate A and we get get tickets some other way..

I don't know, I guess it's above avarege set of headliners and the issue is maybe in me. Definitely feels like I've been going to too many festivals and there's not much headliners left who would feel new and unique to me.. But I do have to say that this is going to be my 8th Sziget and this is going to be 4th time Macklemore performs at the festival. That's a good statistic to reflect my disappointment. Then again if you look at Sziget's festival evaluations https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WCWEgRvJck8QFfT8AASyW2NwlrEGPebI/view Very interesting numbers there, most importantly, only 25% of their visitors are returning. So who cares if I'm seeing Macklemore for 4th time? With my 8th time I'm probably 2-3% of people. 75% of their clients buy tickets for the festival itself (including me) What's really interesting there is that 57% of their visitors come with daily tickets, 25% of them with 6-day tickets and 11% with 3-day tickets. For me this proves the need for bigger names to keep selling daily tickets. Plus it does not make a lot of sense to me that if 75% of people come for the festival itself, 57% of them buy only a daily ticket?

tbh i would put the whole poster in alphabetical order, including headliners. Would be fair to all and might even get a bit more attention to smaller names. It’s not like they need to sell tickets and need a poster with big names standing out.

Oh that’s great! The fact that people could pitch their idea and even ask for a budget brought some great out of box visuals to the festival. My group of friends have an idea and would apply if Art of Freedom really comes back!

It was 2017 if i remember correctly. Yeah I do remember someone talking about Timothy now that you’re mentioning it. Kutcher/Kunis case was something similar - they just saw a few acts and disappeared….

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, but they didn't really wander around, they were watching the show from FOH tower.

I just can’t see a DJ / producer headlining with a DJ set… ever. No matter how big they are. This is really common at other festivals. Chemical Brothers are playing live, even tho i doubt it has made a difference to audience. If i look at past electronic headliners (incl. smaller main stages) there’s a clear difference between who’s been chosen and who is not - with a few exceptions they’ve never been DJ sets. There’s a reason why Calvin Harris played Arcadia and Bicep West Holts. The way they perform electronic music is totally different. searching fred again festival shows on youtube… that’s a hard one - he’s somewhere in between - i guess he could do it. 🙂 he is mostly playing his own music instead of mixing different stuff together for a good party. And he’s not alone - it’s almost like band! Yup he could do it 100%.

it was there. Checked my phone - i came from the piano bar Monday morning (5.46) and made a video at the circle, here’s a screenshot to show the atmosphere.

Any festival historians here know if there’s going to be daily tickets available for this as well?

Still a lot of different options available for Worthy View and Sticklinch. Looks like it does not sell out within minutes again, like last year.

No, it's literally inside the festival area.

Got it second time in a row, stoked. I was super worried this year how am i going to get it again..

Got Tipi 12:09, which was surprisingly late.

what about tipi or sticklinch or worthy view one? 🙂

Yeah, I did go see every headliner last year, but this year so far only Florence. I've seen Billie two times at Glasto, both left me disappointed. Undercard is really strong for my taste so luckily there seems to be plenty of alternatives. And can't believe they changed a day for her BUT still fucked up her name in the announcement? lol.