Outside Lands debacle
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beth, posted 2 months ago
Last night was...a bit of a disaster.
It was the Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park, and I was going solely to see Beck and Radiohead.
List of Debacles:
1)Getting there. I wanted to leave work in time to make it to Beck (starting at 6:40pm) and Jason decided to BART in at 5pm and then we'd take Muni up to the park. Of course, finding a bus that actually stopped took us ages since there were so many people and by the time we actually got to the park and went in the wrong entrance (which led us to the far side of the park) Beck had already started.
2) We figured we'd try to see part of his set, but once we actually made it over to his stage, we looked down on the crowd (couldn't tell you how many people...20,000?), we turned right around and went back to the main stage to wait out Radiohead. So, I didn't even get to hear one Beck song. :(
3) Then came probably the worst decision that Jason and I could have made. We went to get food, and while waiting in the never-ending line, we decided that I should go stake out a spot for us while Jason ordered. There weren't a ton of people there yet and the instructions of "Walk straight that way and I'll find you," somehow made sense. BAD idea. Clearly. I didn't see Jason again until 12:30am.
3a) I spent the entirety of the show being stressed out and trying to find him (he didn't have his cell phone (!) and the cell service was non-existent anyway. I'm not sure if it was just att&t, but calls would not go through and texts would take 30 minutes before being delivered, if at all). Radiohead was amazing, but I did not have a good time since I was so worried about finding Jason and I ended up being in a terrible location (directly behind the speaker stand so I couldn't see the stage).
4) The sound at the venue was iffy and actu (more)...
It was the Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park, and I was going solely to see Beck and Radiohead.
List of Debacles:
1)Getting there. I wanted to leave work in time to make it to Beck (starting at 6:40pm) and Jason decided to BART in at 5pm and then we'd take Muni up to the park. Of course, finding a bus that actually stopped took us ages since there were so many people and by the time we actually got to the park and went in the wrong entrance (which led us to the far side of the park) Beck had already started.
2) We figured we'd try to see part of his set, but once we actually made it over to his stage, we looked down on the crowd (couldn't tell you how many people...20,000?), we turned right around and went back to the main stage to wait out Radiohead. So, I didn't even get to hear one Beck song. :(
3) Then came probably the worst decision that Jason and I could have made. We went to get food, and while waiting in the never-ending line, we decided that I should go stake out a spot for us while Jason ordered. There weren't a ton of people there yet and the instructions of "Walk straight that way and I'll find you," somehow made sense. BAD idea. Clearly. I didn't see Jason again until 12:30am.
3a) I spent the entirety of the show being stressed out and trying to find him (he didn't have his cell phone (!) and the cell service was non-existent anyway. I'm not sure if it was just att&t, but calls would not go through and texts would take 30 minutes before being delivered, if at all). Radiohead was amazing, but I did not have a good time since I was so worried about finding Jason and I ended up being in a terrible location (directly behind the speaker stand so I couldn't see the stage).
4) The sound at the venue was iffy and actu (more)...