Hope and Glory festival .
Set up to be a great festival - Pretty decent ticket prices , good line-up , great location , great weather.
Well , what a monumental fuck up that was !
Don't know if anyone else off here went to this , but it beggars belief that that a music festival can be so disorganised .
The signs were ominous from the off . Jumped a bus in to town and getting off the bus saw queues stretching around the back of St Georges hall . Took us an hour to get in !
Things got worse when we got inside . The Acts were already one and a half hours behind schedule and this was at 2pm . The sound system for the main stage wasn't working right which added further to the delays .An hour queue at the bar to get drinks . Ridiculous queues for the bogs , which seems to be a trait of all British festivals ( no separate urinals for the men ?). Poor site layout and crowd management - bottleneck could have got very scary ! Acts pulled or artist play list reduced to try and get things back on track .I could go on.
Surely there must have been some redeeming features . Nah , not really - it was fuckin shit overall.
The bands were good though , and luckily the crowd were pretty good natured all things considered . Could have turned nasty , but it didn't .Beer prices were cheaper than similar festivals - £4 a pint which wasn't too bad.
What is it with Liverpool and music festivals ? Sound City was great , but they've turned that into an overpriced , soulless piece of shit .
Back into Hope and Glory today , and expect to see improvements . They'll succeed because it couldn't be any worse .I'm headed in later , will watch the bands I want to see and fuck off out of there as soon as I can .