Extreme SMF
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Location: Austria | I really do not want to argue about this. All I can say is, that at all the festivals I've been to over the years (around 30) a case like this has never happened before, where one band just switched places and set length with another band, without any real explanation (like, for example, being delayed in travelling there, making it impossible to keep the original schedule, like what happened with Soulfly at Graspop... if that would have happened with TS, then it would have just been bad luck on my part and no one to blame really). Also, it's different to change things before a schedule has been posted, but once one has been posted, they should just fucking stick to it, unless there is an emergency.
They posted that TS would be co-headliner and promised a 75 mins gig to the fans. It is disrespectful to the paying customer (and in a way even cheating them... I do know why I generally wait until the last minute to buy tickets for a festival... it's too easy to get fucked over, should your favourite band, for whatever reason, drop out, your stuck with a festival ticket and no chance to return it), who base their decision to go to a festival and travelling times, on the promised schedules, to just change things seemingly on a whim (and not make a news item out of it, so more people are getting aware of it). And it is unprofessional to hand out thousands of outdated schedules to the fans and keep outdated schedules on the website and hugely advertise a fucking app, which was supposed to give you the latest news and have that app feature a wrong schedule. But there are professional and unprofessional festivals... some who give a shit and some who don't. Probably I've only been to festivals that give a shit.
The more I think about it, the more I realize, it certainly was not my fault for leaving, as a) I had no other choice, b) I certainly wasn't happy about leaving and c) I checked the schedule, which told me it was fine to leave and I did check the schedule at the time it made the most sense, on the day of the festival (and I certainly didn't leave for a camera... I never would give up a front or second row spot for anything other than a exploding bladder... I left because I had to go check into the Hotel I paid for 2 nights). It was the fault of those fuckers organizing the festival to not make sure that only current information is accesible through their website and to not make a note that the printed and downloadable program has a wrong schedule. And, unlike Graspop, there weren't any schedule notices on the screens between bands or posted anywhere else, also there were no schedule announcements and on both days I was there, I did not see one single schedule on the whole area in the hands of people, that wasn't ripped out of the program and thus was outdated.
Edited by PatrickS77 2013-07-01 7:19 AM
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