Festival Watch: Chaos at Pemberton
From the Daily Swarm, a roundup of local news reports detailing massive disorganization at Canada’s first European-style festival:
Complaints about ever-present dust, overflowing toilets, chaotic parking lots and lax security were as pervasive as talk about the music on Sunday, the third and final day of British Columbia’s inaugural Pemberton Festival. (From the CBC)
Organizers are poring over what went wrong—the chaos festival-goers experienced when they began to arrive Thursday, the toilets filled to capacity, and the long lineups to get into the nightclub tent, beer gardens and even the showers—to make sure next year’s event runs more smoothly. (From The Province newspaper)
The Swarm has lots more.
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As I think you noted in an earlier post, Coldplay has a piece of this festival. Interesting how no one notes that in the coverage. It’s poignant how everyone tries to pretend they had a good time. Meanwhile, the Rolling Stone rawk on verbiage is beyond embarrassing.
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