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  1. Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023 + Primavera Sound Madrid 2023

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    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!

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  9. Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023 + Primavera Sound Madrid 2023

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    4 minutes ago, festivalguy97 said:

    So it’s Blur, and who else at Boiler Room? Some random DJs? And I guess all the other concerts like Halsey, Drain Gang and so on are canceled? 

    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."

  10. Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023 + Primavera Sound Madrid 2023

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    26 minutes ago, xxialac said:

    I’m sure they were open to the possibility of rain, rather the failure was not realising how seriously this would affect the usability of the site.

    Unless it was usable yesterday and they cancelled for financial reasons and used the rain as an excuse…

    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...

  11. Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023 + Primavera Sound Madrid 2023

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    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!

  17. Sziget 2022

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    Posted · Edited by weirdfishes

    What are the chances of finding a decent camping spot (within the free camping area) if I arrive tomorrow afternoon? I suppose that most people will arrive earlier in the morning

  18. Sziget 2022

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    49 minutes ago, activean said:

    They can't just change the destination, wtf. 

     

    Giant rooks cancelled 😕 Ho replacement announced 

    They just sent another email apologizing, it was a glitch... They scared the shit out of me hahaha, Bulgaria is cool but there's no Sziget there 😂

  19. Sziget 2022

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    I just got an email from WizzAir saying that my flight tomorrow from Castellón to Budapest changed its destination to Sofia in Bulgaria, and my friend leaving from Bari got the same email. Did anyone get this as well? I really hope it's a glitch 

  20. Sziget 2022

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    Maybe it's just bad planning but... We're arriving to Budapest on wednesday, and since we can't bring our own tents on the plane with us we were hoping to buy one once we arrive there, at Decathlon. But it appears that all the tents at Decathlon are sold out, does anyone know any other place where we can buy cheap tents in Budapest? Or if it's true that they're out of stock at Decathlon?

  21. FIB (Benicassim) 2022

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    Yeah even on the smaller acts it was very busy, I was impressed as I didn't have many expectations after knowing the line-up. The festival tickets were cheap, but everything else is quite the opposite, they make you pay for absolutely everything, and not a small amount. It's like the Ryanair of festivals, in the end you end up spending more than in a normal-priced festival... I don't like this new "low-cost" approach they're taking. The organization has been really good overall, with no excessive queues to enter the festival or at the bars/food trucks, and security was good. Outside the festival though, for those of us going by car there are long queues. Yesterday we spent more than an hour stuck in traffic trying to get to the parking, it's faster to just park in the town and go walking from there. Also the first day we got given wrong indications by police officers about how to find the parking, and both me and about 20 other cars got stuck in a dirt road in the middle of nowhere with no idea of where to go lol. But in the end we made it, late to the first concert though.

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