the "no"s are nice.
who cleans up?
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1. Cleaning up the stage areas takes place every day during a short pause in music at the end of the afternoon (so it's not really 24 h a day).
This is actually done by contracted festival visitors who earn their ticket this way.
2. at the entrance every person get a standard dirt bag.
Some festivals, like the Boom/Portugal, let you pay 5 euro for it, which you get back when returning a full bag when leaving the festival.
At Ozora people on the camp sites create central places where the bags are put together, to make it easy for the organisation to collect them after everyone has left the scene.
3. those festivals take place often in protected nature areas (like the Boom).
Anyway at the entrance every visitor gets a plastic sleeve with screw cap to put his stubs into for later trashing (!).
Believe it or not, but you'll hardly find stubs in the fields on the wide area, and especially not on the stages floors, as people tend to go barefoot.
For those without any mony: for ten filled sleeves you get a beer...
4. in general: Psy people have selfdiscipline: you won't see fields full of trapped plastic cups or any garbage.
At stages they collect bottles etc. in bags tightened at the construction elements.
[quote from garyb:
it's absolutely a money maker. it's a big money maker.
answer:
you're probably wrong.
Keep in mind in those typical festival areas is no electricity, nothing.
They build up the area during several months, witnessed by the small 'secret gardens', the small kitchen gardens, the dried mud sculptures, the often huge and complicated buildings from bambu elements, etc.
Imagine a team of dedicated volunteers, artists, construction professionals, etc. check the websites of you want, see addresses on the map above
[quote from garyb:
you can be sure that there are those who are blessedly happy that the youth are burning out on drugs and mindlessness. too many people to pacify these days... on the other hand, i don't doubt for a minute that a festival like that is as fun as it can be, a super fun time. also, it has no autotune, except on samples, which means something to some people. i'm thinking that, aside from the dirt, there aren't many more fun musical experiences.
answer:
not sure what you're aiming at.
Psy festivals are not places of 'lost mindless youngsters who don't know how to deal with drugs', for that matter.
[quote from garyb:
hubird, you're a typical deadhead, although the Grateful Dead had singing and they are now defunct. i bet i can use a typical Grateful Dead joke in this case(just changing the name of the band/style) .
what did the Psy festival camper say when the drugs wore off?
"gee, this music really sucks!"
answer:
Rolling on the floor and laughing, really.
You tell this joke also to the ganja loving reggea musicions you're often recording in your studio?
Btw, never liked Gratefull Death when I was young...
I had a girlfriend with me, she didn't know anything about Psy music, let alone Psy festivals.
I can tell you, she was b l o w n a w a y by the music, the disciplined and gentle people, the way or presentation by the organisation, the soundsystem (always the best systems in the world, as Psy needs a ultratight subbass).
For an American it's probably hard to believe people do something with soul and love, and not for money.
On the other hand: didn't you have that famous music and arts festival in the desert, what's the name again?
Same story, just other music.
Some tracks can go on for 15 to 20 minutes with only minor EQ changes, some pad sweeps, a few FXs that come and go and a fixed rhythm that never changes from the beginning to the end of the track.
for a guy here in the Z, from London, called Roberto? He duplicated my album making 100 copies of it, and then distributed to the London underground dance boxes in the city, the album was accepted but people would wonder what this jazz-trance kind of music was. Well, many here were after me because I was into Fusion and most were into Trance.