This Years EDC, while fun, was honestly one of the worst events I’ve ever been to crowd wise.
I’d like to preface this with this year was fun, my group was amazing, and the actual event was incredible. But honestly, we are losing control of where the scene is now.
We have people that are pissing in crowds, pissing in the Mesa, pushing their way through majorly overcrowded areas to get their group of 17 people in the spot that only one could fit comfortably. I saw people get pushed out of their edc recordings. I saw people encouraging already plastered people to keep drinking or push through instead of taking care of themselves.
Then the event itself: the speaker stacks getting wrecked day 1, the fireworks shooting into the crowd, The lack of cool down areas in the track, the cooling room from last year was turned into a taki’s stage that fills up and heats up. There was very little protection from the elements for something like this where they know temperatures could rise. My lady almost got denied using her INSOMNIAC PASSPORT, because the guard told us, her wristband wasn’t covered in their briefing.
All in all, I believe both insomniac and the attendees need to do better. You guys make this festival what it is as much as insomniac does. We all have a responsibility to make this place the beautiful area we came to enjoy and teach the new comers how to prolong the life of this scene. Before it gets taken over and we have situations like they did at rolling loud. WE NEED TO BE BETTER PEOPLE.
EDIT: I’m working on replying to everyone. I want to say, I’m not saying this just to complain about the event, I really want to see change to it, and as much as I know that this is a redundant post every year, I wanted to share my experience so hopefully someone with some power can see it and take some notes. I love you all and I hope you all had a beautiful weekend despite its pitfalls!
UPDATE: So Pasquale and Insomniac announced yesterday about “DUSK TILL DAWN”. The posts say they will expand to two weekends with the same amount of people across both weekends. Do you believe this will fix the issues we experienced this year with overcrowding? Or do you believe this is another money grab situation? Let’s talk!