Lionator

Kiwanuka is a shoe in surely oops, saw the previous page.

I’m very skeptical. Would Sting and Patti Smith not be big enough for the first two rows? Plus the National twice. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is 90% correct though.

They replied to my comment on Instagram that they’d sorted the toilet situation out!

It’s enjoyable. It’s fairly easy to access from the city centre. The weather is great. The logistics inside the festival were atrocious last year but for the overall price/Madrid experience I’d say definitely do it once.

Looks like Pearl Jam.

I assume it's at the same 'catastrophe waiting to happen' venue?

Sufjan Stevens definitely doesn't have motor neurone disease, he had guillian-barre syndrome which is a very different thing. If it was motor neurone disease, he wouldn't be learning to walk again.

I love this festival but nearly £300 is a lot of money and is very hard to justify in the current climate. I'm sure it'll still sell out and quickly but I for one am priced out of it.

I think they were winging it!

We didn’t get to many of the smaller stages because there was so much going on but our favourites in no order were: 1) Robbie Williams, as @prefab said it was a great show, self indulgent, entertaining, cocky, just what you want to see from Robbie. 2) Tash Sultana, she is just a breathtakingly impressive musician. The Spanish absolutely love her. 3) Paolo Nutini seems like a long time ago but was a great start to the festival and he’s still definitely got it. 4) Mumford & Sons, great headline set and that comes from a guy who isn’t their biggest fan. 5) Left RHCP for a mooch and came across the Hu, who Id seen some hype about. They’re fantastic. 6) Sigur Ros, svefn g englar possibly my favourite song so to see it live was amazing. What a sound. We also enjoyed Black Keys, Liam Gallagher, Prodigy, Years and Years etc etc. it’s a great value festival in terms of acts.

The first day was chaotic wasn’t it? The queues, the bottlenecks. I think if tonight’s crowd had attended on Thursday there could’ve genuinely been a catastrophe, but thankfully they sorted out the teething issues, although the toilet entrance situation was shambolic. Saw some really good acts, RHCP were easily the worst. I feel like a lot of the worst critics probably haven’t experienced some of the UK festivals where etiquette isn’t quite as good as on the continent.

I think Mad and Cool is probably a good description of this bizarre experience of the past few days.

That is insane, they’ve been there since Thursday! Toilets are operating a one way system today, let’s hope security can enforce it and people are sensible.

Much better day two except for the toilet system, what a mess 🤣🤣

It’s fine at the minute although I’m skeptical. They’ve put a sh*t ton of security/stewards by the toilets too so hopefully it’ll reduce the chaos.

Here already, there is no queue, there are people with megaphones, stricter drug checks, water fountains spread about more and toilet barriers.

I’ll allude to NOS again but that venue is fairly similar, if not worse as it’s on the beach but they deliberately board everything up so you can’t even see the beach/water. I get that you didn’t enjoy it and I think your reasoning is legitimate, I’m guessing if you enjoyed the old site you must feel like you’ve lost a good thing but, yesterday was still a good experience for a lot of us. I’d say organisationally it reminded me a lot of All Points East. I do hope that they iron out the issues from last night today but I don’t think it was by any means awful. I actually thought the Region of Madrid stage was a nice place to watch music.

I think the toilet issue could easily be solved by just making one entrance and one exit, the problem was being caused by people travelling in both directions. Also the toilets were fine during big sets so if you need to go I’d pop off for 5 minutes then. You’d like to think they’ll be able to adapt today but this is mad cool.

This article is overly dramatic, the metro and bus situations are fine and it was a lot easier to return to the city than it has been when I’ve been to NOS alive. Of course it’s going to be busy because there’s 70,000 people. We arrived at 5.45 yesterday and were at stage 3 by 6.45, that was with wristband pick up and a very long line. If you have a wristband to pick up I’d recommend getting there 60/90 minutes before to make sure but otherwise it shouldn’t take you too long, especially with today being day 2 and the 3-dayers having their wristbands.

Ok I don’t think it was fyre festival II but it’s clearly not a good idea to do a big event without a dry run. Robbie and Sigur Ros were great.

The toilet bottleneck is a death trap. Straight from the 1989 South Yorkshire police workshop on event organisation.

I read a similar thing before I went to NOS alive and we had the time of our lives there.

I reckon if there’s a similar sized band on the bill then it could work. I bloody love a Jungle show, the funnest band to see live.

I just don’t think that line up/headliners in any way justify the ticket price. But I am aware that Green Man is more about the vibes than the music. Just if you going for the music alone, I think you’d be very disappointed that there aren’t some bigger ‘names’.

Primal Scream? Doing their full screamadelica show?