weirdfishes

My impressions from friday: The buses were an absolute mess. I had to wait 2h in a kilometric queue to return from the festival. Very bad organization. The site being 40km away from the city center and without any public transit connection doesn't help. There's a reason no one uses that venue. The site itself was fine, maybe soulless compared to the Fòrum, but nothing wrong with it. They recovered well from the flooding, except at the Amazon stage, where there was a lot of mud under the fake grass. The main stages were absolutely packed. I don't know what the ticket sales looked like, but it definitely didn't look empty in those two stages. I've seen many comments that all the other stages were half empty, but honestly with the incredible back to back DM-Kendrick-Fred-Skrillex sets, most people I talked to didn't see the need to go to any other stages. Today will be a more "balanced" day in terms of stages, so I guess that we'll see the real attendance here. The acts were amazing. Four Tet had one of the best DJ sets I've seen. Kendrick did a power performance with all the classics. Fred again's set was super beautiful and energetic and emotional. Skrillex was fire after fire with no rest, he played his old songs and I felt like a teen again. Baby Keem had sound issues at the beginning, but they could solve it and he did a very energetic set with a great crowd. The Boiler Room delivered with its sets too. 10/10 in this regard Overall, the artists were great, the venue and the organization were not. Barcelona is indeed a much better festival, and I don't think they will repeat a Madrid edition unless they change the venue. PS: To those complaining that there's no metro after 2am: that's just the general experience of a night out in Madrid, you either suffer through the night buses combinations, you party/wait until 6am, or you get a taxi, nothing the festival can do there!

I have a ticket for the auditorium today but can't go to Julia Holter, can I still go for Swans? Are there enough seats for everyone with a ticket or is it like the first ones that arrive get the seats?

Last year I got a bed in a decent hostel for 30€/night, close to one of the tram stations that get you to the festival. I get that hostels aren't for everyone, but it's certainly much cheaper than 1400€!

Considering tomorrow's festival goes ahead as planned... Should I buy some rain boots and raincoat poncho? Serious question lol, I have no idea whether I should expect a mudfest in there and don't want to destroy my shoes hahaha

Yesterday they cancelled at 8pm, so sadly there's still time

Tomorrow there's a Guns N' Roses concert at the stadium, so maybe they needed today to dismantle the Primavera stage and build the GNR stage and prepare for the concert

If you can't get tickets for Blur today, I suggest you try the Boiler Room. The Bassment is one of the best techno nightclubs in Madrid, and while I don't know the artists that are going to play, a Boiler Room is a unique experience and rarely disappoints

On Twitter they said: "The availability of the bands and the venues is very limited with so little time considering the circumstances. Our team has worked all night without rest to be able to offer alternatives. We're sorry to not be able to reschedule Halsey."

It wasn't usable yesterday, some parts of the venue were flooded, including the main stages, the entrance, storage area and artist zones, and they spent the evening trying to remove the water with pumps and excavators (without much luck I assume). The venue is poorly designed for drainage I guess. Let's hope they can fix for tomorrow and that it doesn't rain much more...

Seeing the pics of how the festival grounds are doing after just one evening of rain, and that the forecast predicts more rain for tonight, all of tomorrow and for friday morning... I don't think Primavera Madrid is going to happen, sadly. I know people close to the security heads at Primavera, and apparently the general sentiment is that too. But of course, they'll do all they can to fix/prevent more damage and wait until tomorrow to take any decision. Last summer, a storm hit Medusa Festival at Valencia which destroyed a couple of stages, killing one person and hurting 40. They almost cancelled the festival because of the weather, but decided to continue regardless and a tragedy happened... It's still very recent in everyone's minds here, so I guess that it's a big reminder for the organizers that safety always has to be number one priority in these events. I have tickets for friday, and I'm super excited to see Kendrick... and I live in Madrid, I can't imagine how all this must feel for everyone who traveled for this festival. Let's hope that the weather gives us a break and lets the festival happen!

I have a day ticket for the Madrid festival. Is there any way I can go to a Primavera en la Ciutat concert without a full weekend ticket? I would love to go to the Black Country New Road show in Madrid, but could only afford a day ticket

EDM festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The first confirmed artists are: Alesso Amelie Lens Armin van Buuren Bedouin Boris Brejcha Camelphat David Guetta Dixon Imagine Dragons KSHMR Marco Carola Martin Garrix Salvatore Ganacci

Do you think the day tickets will sell out soon?

Do they make it difficult to sell your tickets? I really want to go but there's a chance I won't be able to make it to the festival, would it be easy to sell my ticket to someone else if that happened? Is there any name change required?