Alright, Lauren Seracene hooked it up with free tickets for myself, Erin, and this crazy kid Brett to go to all 3 days of All Points West, a 3-day, no camping, festival in NJ. Going for free was amazing- if I actually had to pay for a ticket, I would not.
Here are some good points of All Points:
-great lineup varying from Jay-Z, gogol bordello, pharcyde (who put on a really funny&entertaining performance), kool keith, mstrkrft, coldplay, vampire weekend (so impressed with, in addition to gogol bordello), tool, list goes on.
-some cool sculptures
- full-time electronic area with GREAT music by dolab
- great view of manhattan skyline&statue of liberty
- nice vibe overall in crowd; douchebag level was low
- i got a veggie jalopeno corndog, which is impressive
OK, just some the bad points:
- public transportation took WAY too long for where it is, and is way too complicated, with many transfers, etc
- not enough portapotties, AT ALL> the lines had literally 50 people waiting at times; a line that winded across the span of the concert field
- beer garden is the only place to drink booze& on top of it, it is way too far from any stages to benefit drinkers
- garbage cans were made out of cardboard, for a festival that rained 2 of 3 days
-recycling not up to par, if even existent at all
- large screens would list who played previously, which is of no help to concert-goers looking to see what's next where
-after arriving from public transportation, there is a 1+mile walk to the actual concert
-No parking if you drive
- Much of the food& other areas were set up so you could hear 2 of the stages at once, which sucks if you have ears
- No where to do a renegade piss/ no trees hide behind
- My luxury sandals were stolen when I was busy
As I said before, I very much enjoyed myself. But if you are going to throw a festival, you should know what you are doing, and if you don't, then do some research. I guess people from the city just don't know any better, so the All Points people don't have to go by the standards I am used to. There really were like 99 reasons why the festival sucked
And by the way, I missed Sunday, cause it was torrential downpour. Instead I had an amazing time at these Turkish/Russian baths. Then indian food at a weirdo place. I laughed so much i ended up not being able to stand by the end of the evening. I was literally falling on the ground cause I could not stand up.
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