can u bring in a small string book bag to hold a sweater or somthing?

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Originally posted by Konijn it's worse than last year for me -- i can't take a deep breath without coughing... way more people than last year. -

yea it was the worst by sunday school, but the whole place was maddd dusty, i got home and looked in the mirror it looked like i slid headfirst from 3rd base all the way to home...got in the shower and seen just dirt coming off of me blahhh horrible, you cant really blame no one except mother nature but yea my nose and throat are clogged up horrible

review:
go there just in time for gareth and i really enjoyed his set, he played close to 2 hours good stuff all around

markus theres nothing you can say that hassent been said already very cool set kinda sucks it was shorter then expected but overall great job by markus

went to the ta meet-up it was a epic fail on numbers wise, but the crew we had was deff fun time haveing joked with all the furry boot raver girls
me: (feels girls boots) is that real animal hair?
raver girl: no
me: oh so its your underarm hair then?
raver girl: what??


went over to the main stage with boris to see what he would play opening for atb and honestly he played some good tracks hey hey over right back to you,and my jam of the summer... butch-no worries
and a few other housey tracks

atb came on and was crap same bullshit songs as always teased till i come about 4 times and never played it lol

went over to sunday school but didnt hear too much of reboot cause i was tryin to meet back up with people

paco came on and layed it the fuck down proper holy kanobi banging beats didnt stop moving during his set

went over to see axwell and i enjoyed his set and that tent was just rammmmmed very hard to get into his set when its like that but i enjoyed it for a lil bit

richie hawtin was easly the set of the day hands down, guy was pure murdering shit wow i though he was suppose to spin till 10:15? lol guy spun till 11 shit was soooo good

overall the party was alottttt of fun and had a blast
a few pro's and con's...

pro's: better food and drink choices this year (no brooklyn brewery bullish)
better sound in the tents... my ears are ringing a lil bit this morning but i dont mind cause even outside of the tents the music was loud and clear
better production with lighting and visuals on the main stage and in the tents
more vendors is more places

con's:
i dunno why the red bull tent was bigger then the river side and sunday school tent? the sunday school tent was bigger then last year i give made props for that but its still not big enuff imo

bathroom lines were alot worse then last year i dunno if it was cause of more people or what but it was horrible

when leaving randalls island the wait for buses were a mess

booking major lazer and atb over pvd = fail

again overall it was a huge success i asked one of the bouncers when leaving how many people they think were there today he said probly close to 15 or 20 thousand...it was deff alotttt more packed then last year just a sea of people
cant wait to party it up in a few all over again
then marco carola, guy gerber at pacha
then neptunes tomarrow

see you all in a few

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we scream,we dance,we laugh,we love to the beats...non stop with the beats

Does anyone know what they were charging for 1 day tickets at the gate?

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Originally posted by tatgirl Does anyone know what they were charging for 1 day tickets at the gate?

$116.

Is this the thread where I post the fact that Markus played "One"? It was awkward.

Anyways, I had a great time. Stuck around mostly in Hilltop/Main Stage which unfortunately included every DJ playing a lot of the same tracks. Gareth/Markus killed it. I missed the beginning of Afrojack so I didn't hear him say that, and that's pretty unprofessional of him. I did enjoy his set though. Kaskade was a blast, especially with those balloons. Axwell took a little to warm up but finished off big.

I set the over/under on "One" at 20 for the entire festival. Any takers on the under?

Day 1 was a waste, IMO.... Who books Markus and gareth before shit acts they had later on..? Arrived at 2, waited in the worst crowd control line of all time. Fucking 1.5 hours to get in? You gotta be shitting me! Fucking lazy ass staff moving as slow as shit, cops holding up the lines before it, half the lines closed.. I was expecting Love Parade stampede to erupt any second. How that didn't happen, is a pure miracle, as some of you mofos were pushy and rowdy.

Bathroom lines were huge and people were just pissing out in the open... Trully a zoo.

Now, onto the show:

1. Some time ago, ATB was a purveyor of shitty pop that noobs thought was EDM, right on par with Dj Sammy. I must have missed the train on which ATB supposedly rode off into a " cool again" realm. His set was without any flow, full of random tracks, most of which totally sucked. Throw in some shitty pop rock songs, zero transitions or mixing, throw any flow out the window, and you get the gist of his "performance". I couldn't wait for him to get off the stage.

2. The rest of the acts, Dirty South, Benni, even Chems were.... Meh. Tried catching axwell, that was also too hard and techie for my taste. but I think they should have let Major Lazer close the night. I've never seen anyone clear the area so fucking quickly!!!!!! Too funny. Moment they came on, more than half of people ran away from MS.

Lastly... Fucking rapist cabbies!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holly fuck what a bunch of scumbags... To hitch a ride off the fucking island to downtown - quoted as much as $90!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally grabbed one for a "bargain" $55.... And dude grabs two more people to ride along with us. So I figure we split the cost, not a bad deal. ****** drives all 4 of us and then charges these guys an additional $30!!!!! Fucking scum.

So, driving in today. Fuck that.

Overall - disappointment. Made dropped the ball on Saturday.... Hope they fix some shit today.

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Day 1 was fucking incredible. Has to of been 20k+ people there easy, prob more like 25k. The hilltop tent was freggin huge and awesome. The sunday school tent was cool as hell how they set it up with the trees. Markus ripped it, CVS ripped it, Reboot ripped it, Hawtin ripped it. Even Chuckie ripped it, I went over there to meet up with people and ended up staying there the entire time. He plays cheesy shit but there was so much energy in there it was amazing. He made the entire crowd do a sit down, it was bonkers, need to see that vid.

Getting in took 20min which sucked, bathroom lines took 15 min which sucked, the dust sucked. But who cares cause it was fucking awesome! Resting up hard for today. I expect more of the same plus bpitch afterwards, fml

Found it, hahaha, nuts!

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Originally posted by diabloargentino I set the over/under on "One" at 20 for the entire festival. Any takers on the under?

lol yeah i remember u tellin me that! good times yesterday!

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First of all, ATB was never good lol. I'm not sure why you guys think otherwise. I'm glad the techno guys ripped it up as usual. Burak is starting to see the light
As for the dust, sounds like I would have needed my inhaler. I remember blowing my nose for days last yr and grime was just coming out

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I got to the Zoo during prime time hours (4pm). Def was surprised how much more people there were compared to last year. Tents were a major improvement from last year. Getting in was def took longer than expected, even when I did cut half the line. Booze line also took forever. The lines did get shorter around 7pm. Only negative, i think Made needs to somehow improve the way people get to the island, maybe discobuses.

Dirty South was good, could have been better. Performing on a main stage really is an art form, probably why Tiesto, PVD, Ferry, usually perform main stages.

Paco was nuts. Heard a good amount of the set waiting on line for the bathroom.

Chuckie always brings the energy. You will always have fun when he performs.

Axwell was mint. Def needs to come to NYC and do a proper club gig. Got to meet him after his set finished. Thought i had a couple of pics with him on my camera. Turns out it wasn't saved.

I had to use 10 Q-tips to clean the dirt from my ears, and when I took a shower, holy crap, thought I was at a construction zone all day...lol...
Overall, I had a blast, lines sucked for the bathroom. Left at 7:40 to beat the crowds on the Ferry,...saw who I wanted to see, had a nice dinner, and off to bed...cant complain

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overall it was a great time i think - with a couple obvious things to complain about that people have already touched on in here.
waiting in line sucked - i got searched and was waiting to have my ticket scanned well before my friends got searched in the adjacent line (probably 15 min before) but they still had to wait 20 minutes for me through the gate because the idiot scanning tix in my line had a faulty reader. instead of recognizing that he just kept trying to scan each persons 10-15 times before taking it to somebody else to scan. so stupid

got in just as markus was coming on, i knew it was ON and i was ready for the day. my friends and i were jumping up and down dancing our way to the front of the tent. such amazing atmosphere up there- i was sweating so much from dancing haha. markus killed it, of course. i'm not really surprised that he played one - last time i saw him, earlier this summer in LA, he played it...and ppl dig it so w/e. towards the end of his set a lot of the guido types were pushing their way to the front of the crowd to wait for afrojack. which was very annoying - because i was surrounded by ppl dancing and then all of the sudden all around a lot of us who were dancing were guys holding beers and just standing there staring at markus, giving ppl looks. when i heard perfect start to come through at the end of his set i went NUTS . so nice. and yeah afrojack making that comment was dumb as hell, i remember hearing that too. i don't understand how so many of the ppl that were loving markus' set instantly got into afrojacks. weird.

was nice meeting a lot of you guys too! i bumped into burak a couple times over the course of the night- and 2 or 3 other guys too but i'm bad w/ names and can't remember ha.

after meetup i went to see claude - he was fantastic, especially the last 30 min of his set or so. i didn't enjoy reboot quite as much but only stayed for the first 15 min- needed to get money out of atm....what a disaster that was.
met up with a bunch of friends i had been dying to see right as paco was coming on...i was so happy to see all of them and we were all dancing while paco was just so good

hawtin was great too. during his set i was and maybe a little at the beginning but he was so fun.

i stayed at pacha's after party til 5 or maybe a bit later. it's only the second time i've been there and, for what it's worth, i kinda hate the place LOL. tons of dudes walking around with no shirts on, all guidod out. most of the same dudes are shameless and relentless, borderline offensive, when it comes to picking up girls - was dancing next to my friends gf while he went to the bathroom and this one guy kept grabbing onto her and she'd scamper over to me and he'd keep trying. but rivera was good, sharam was ok - i only caught a bit of dresden and johnson. kinda expected better so i bounced.


p.s. i wish i had went sunday too!!!

p.p.s. +1 to whoever said something about how the set times were kinda weak. obviously markus and gareth in the morning sucked - i even missed gareth..and markus should have played that tent after dark, but he had another engagement so w/e. sunday school was the only tent that seemed to kind of get it right i feel like. i wish kalkbrenner had played later i would've liked to see him. cvs->reboot->paco was great tho. i think hilltop arena had no flow or progression or w/e at all and aside from redbull tent, mainstage was the one i avoided the most.

p.p.p.s. walking past the redbull tent a couple times ... ROFL. for rusko -> straight up a borderline cult. you look in there and the entire crowd is moving in unison, everybody dancing EXACTLY the same. i had to do like a triple take. and then after that for flying lotus, who i've seen before and kind of can get into ... pure hipster scene in there lol.

p.p.p.p.s. needs more lazers

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