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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @steviev958
    @steviev958 3 года назад +304

    I organize festivals in Montreal and it’s definitely the hardest, craziest and most stressful thing you can ever do but I still love it

    • @jumpingjeffflash9946
      @jumpingjeffflash9946 3 года назад +8

      check out fyre festival documentary for a good laugh on what not to do...in 6 months.

    • @steviev958
      @steviev958 3 года назад +4

      @@jumpingjeffflash9946 just me, watched it a few times when it came out lol

    • @phoenix5054
      @phoenix5054 2 года назад +5

      Respect! I personally would not be in a music festival since it doesn't vibe with me but I can imagine the stress that comes with it. Probably only 2nd to a wedding planner for a bridezilla.

    • @amilcrrr
      @amilcrrr 2 года назад +2

      Stevie I'm in Montreal I'm a PM, summer is coming lets work together! Got some ideas. Ping me

    • @shessinglemedia
      @shessinglemedia 2 года назад +1

      Can you give us some tips? We’re trying to get into the business

  • @StrangeAttractor
    @StrangeAttractor 2 года назад +515

    An old mate of mine is a founding member of the Outlook, Horizons, Dimension and a couple of other summer festivals. But the same crew also put on regular nights in several UK cities. That's a proper business plan, spreading risk and maximizing the productivity of all employees. Resting all your hopes on one festival seems like madness to me.

    • @RaulBaracus
      @RaulBaracus 2 года назад +4

      They're *trash* , they don't pay any of their "workers", it's all on interns and volunteer basis. They get paid on food and t-shirts.

    • @alanweis7856
      @alanweis7856 2 года назад +10

      There are two kinds of people. Settlers and conquerers. Conquerers must have low environmental foot mark but big sociologic impact on their tours. Settlers or in this case capital city spirits must built with rocks and stones, but have only moderated influence on society.

    • @rotation-y2n
      @rotation-y2n 2 года назад +6

      @@RaulBaracus you make it sound like they dont choose to be there or something lol

    • @onkevents
      @onkevents 2 года назад +1

      We are looking into going into cultural festivals

    • @Jeffdachefz
      @Jeffdachefz 2 года назад

      yup in america we have insomniac events and they are thriving providing EDM raves galore.

  • @ferrenolmsted5184
    @ferrenolmsted5184 Год назад +7

    Live in the US and worked about 6 festivals this summer while living in my van. So grateful to have been even a small part of what they do.

  • @gnardawgyt
    @gnardawgyt 3 года назад +195

    Great documentary. Really appreciate all the interviews. Provides wonderful context.

    • @northernhemisphere4906
      @northernhemisphere4906 2 года назад

      Like what

    • @n119511m
      @n119511m Год назад

      I also thought the documentary was great. It aged greatly as well.

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 Год назад

      Zombie Turds Goto Music Festivals - The enablers of this ugly entertainment industry.
      Some More Ugly Facts? in terms of Carbon Emissions (CE)
      ★ Average CE of High-Profile DJs = 53.5 tons per year (@25 return flights every year)
      ★ Average CE per audience (in EU / North America) = 20.3 tons per year
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +10000 watt sound system = 220 tons per day
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +20,000 watts sound system = 450 tons per day.
      ★ Average Waste Generation of medium capacity festival = 2300 kgs per day
      ★ Average Waste Generation of large capacity festival = 5100 kgs per day
      ★ Average CE of a four member band taking 20 flights a year = 208 tons per year.
      ★ Average water consumption at 5000+ capacity festival = 2200 litres per day.
      ★ Average water consumption at 20,000+ capacity festival = 8550 litres per day.

  • @pfowler92
    @pfowler92 2 года назад +218

    The sad reality of the events industry is that you need to have the capital to be able to sustain a few losses, because it's impossible to guarantee success, especially in the UK where the weather plays a massive in role in how much money the bars and other traders make. It's the main reason why all of the major festivals are done by companies like AEG and Live Nation.

    • @onkevents
      @onkevents 2 года назад

      So true

    • @Andrew-rc3vh
      @Andrew-rc3vh 2 года назад +2

      All the radio stations are now owned by similar faceless corporations. Eventually they become stale and people give up with them.

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад

      @@Andrew-rc3vh that's the spirit! :D

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 Год назад

      Zombie Turds Goto Music Festivals - The enablers of this ugly entertainment industry.
      Some More Ugly Facts? in terms of Carbon Emissions (CE)
      ★ Average CE of High-Profile DJs = 53.5 tons per year (@25 return flights every year)
      ★ Average CE per audience (in EU / North America) = 20.3 tons per year
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +10000 watt sound system = 220 tons per day
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +20,000 watts sound system = 450 tons per day.
      ★ Average Waste Generation of medium capacity festival = 2300 kgs per day
      ★ Average Waste Generation of large capacity festival = 5100 kgs per day
      ★ Average CE of a four member band taking 20 flights a year = 208 tons per year.
      ★ Average water consumption at 5000+ capacity festival = 2200 litres per day.
      ★ Average water consumption at 20,000+ capacity festival = 8550 litres per day.

  • @Giftedtib
    @Giftedtib 2 года назад +13

    Long live festivals! Patron for life. Music is the answer

  • @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul
    @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul 2 года назад +176

    This is very good analysis. I've been a Live Music Concerts/Festivals organiser for over thirty years. True, it's not for the faint hearted.
    But I do also think that the world NEEDS Music. Music lifts Spirits, makes life better.
    Farmers too go through huge risks, so do other people in life.
    Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤❤️

    • @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul
      @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul 2 года назад +1

      @@stanvanillo9831 thank you 👊🏿❤️🖤

    • @senna3812
      @senna3812 2 года назад

      Hello! I’m very interested to hear about your experience working with such a large organization such as Live Nation. I read that you were from Uganda, but were you made aware of the Astroworld tragedy that took place in Houston, Texas by Live Nation? How have they been acting since that?

    • @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul
      @BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul 2 года назад +2

      @@senna3812 Greetings. I'm not affiliated with Live Nation, I've been doing the festivals independently.

    • @bunnyfrosting1744
      @bunnyfrosting1744 2 года назад +2

      You’re so right about the world needing music. I can’t imagine a life without it

    • @bxstar5276
      @bxstar5276 2 года назад

      The show will go on.

  • @LightestEvening
    @LightestEvening 5 месяцев назад +1

    As someone recently very interested in being involved in a festival like a years ago, seeing this now makes me very hopeful and inspired of it all!! Even though this showed many hardships these independent festival companies had to go through, I want to be in a strong role with a music festival and want to find more of these opportunities. Right now I am figuring out which way I should narrow down what I can contribute, because I do find the photography/videography, sound mixing, stage set up, music performance, and DJing to all be an amazing part for festivals and I can see myself doing any of those

  • @MayorSom
    @MayorSom 3 года назад +48

    I love small and non mainstreamish concerts & festivals.

    • @playgroundofsound7683
      @playgroundofsound7683 2 года назад

      Ever heard of Nelson ledges ?

    • @naeemakhtar928
      @naeemakhtar928 Год назад +1

      I prefer listening to music at home lol

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 Год назад +1

      Zombie Turds Goto Music Festivals - The enablers of this ugly entertainment industry.
      Some More Ugly Facts? in terms of Carbon Emissions (CE)
      ★ Average CE of High-Profile DJs = 53.5 tons per year (@25 return flights every year)
      ★ Average CE per audience (in EU / North America) = 20.3 tons per year
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +10000 watt sound system = 220 tons per day
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +20,000 watts sound system = 450 tons per day.
      ★ Average Waste Generation of medium capacity festival = 2300 kgs per day
      ★ Average Waste Generation of large capacity festival = 5100 kgs per day
      ★ Average CE of a four member band taking 20 flights a year = 208 tons per year.
      ★ Average water consumption at 5000+ capacity festival = 2200 litres per day.
      ★ Average water consumption at 20,000+ capacity festival = 8550 litres per day.

  • @tamsinrhayward
    @tamsinrhayward 3 года назад +38

    Well done Standon - great small festival & interesting video to get an insight into the covid impact & tight margins.

  • @robert12011
    @robert12011 2 года назад +7

    Nice interesting piece. Big thank you to everyone evolved in putting on festivals so that we can come along and have a great time! ❤🎉

  • @tito_inc
    @tito_inc 2 года назад +5

    I just discovered this and it’s such an helpful documentary.

  • @nickmerkel5773
    @nickmerkel5773 7 месяцев назад +23

    Any1 else here for Ib case study?

  • @manavmishra9071
    @manavmishra9071 3 года назад +9

    I love music festivals especially Tomorrowland from India 🇮🇳

  • @icefire99699
    @icefire99699 2 года назад +1

    Shout out to Montebello Rockfest Canada, the best festival I've ever been to.

  • @lynneakalynno
    @lynneakalynno Год назад

    This is a business and all things need to be taken into account. Personally I support it as I understand the motivation and support the entertainment industries wherever I can.

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 Год назад

      Zombie Turds Goto Music Festivals - The enablers of this ugly entertainment industry.
      Some More Ugly Facts? in terms of Carbon Emissions (CE)
      ★ Average CE of High-Profile DJs = 53.5 tons per year (@25 return flights every year)
      ★ Average CE per audience (in EU / North America) = 20.3 tons per year
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +10000 watt sound system = 220 tons per day
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +20,000 watts sound system = 450 tons per day.
      ★ Average Waste Generation of medium capacity festival = 2300 kgs per day
      ★ Average Waste Generation of large capacity festival = 5100 kgs per day
      ★ Average CE of a four member band taking 20 flights a year = 208 tons per year.
      ★ Average water consumption at 5000+ capacity festival = 2200 litres per day.
      ★ Average water consumption at 20,000+ capacity festival = 8550 litres per day.

  • @joshmitchell300
    @joshmitchell300 3 года назад +6

    Great film, Standon Calling is brilliant little festival to attend.

  • @romanvitek1366
    @romanvitek1366 7 месяцев назад +20

    Any IB students here getting ready for paper 1? :D

    • @noahss3959
      @noahss3959 7 месяцев назад +5

      i’m scared

  • @lorierobinett8910
    @lorierobinett8910 Год назад

    Lostwoodz Entertainment, in Montana had experience throwing 3 Electronic Music Festivals in the Flathead. A lot of legal foot work had to be done. Founder Paul Amundson had a vision to bring other compassionate artist together and share thier music with all from around the world. Much support from family and friends made it all happen with little repercussion. Much love to all artist and fans that came to Perspective. Love Mahdrey.

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    @lucyweilbel6681 3 года назад +50

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  • @edhowie4613
    @edhowie4613 3 года назад +32

    I would imagine that branding plays a MASSIVE role in the success of a festival business. The music acts, the marketing, the tents, the stage designs, ticket sale platfrom, even how long the lines are to get in... will all add or subtract from the brand. Why has A

    • @sebastian3004
      @sebastian3004 2 года назад

      Nah. Probably money or connection to book A list bands. Imagine you try to Brand it with unknown nobody artists....

    • @matthewburris769
      @matthewburris769 2 года назад

      @@sebastian3004 i dont even know what Howie was talking about....or 'imagining'.

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 года назад +1

      I puked a little

  • @gianshant
    @gianshant 2 года назад +3

    We will all recover in 2022! Power

  • @OrbitalVibes
    @OrbitalVibes Год назад +4

    Good tip for festival organizers, contact artists or their managers directly, NOT their labels.

  • @micahdesforges6332
    @micahdesforges6332 2 года назад +6

    Great piece, we need more of this for the entertainment industry focused on North America if possible!

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 Год назад +1

      Zombie Turds Goto Music Festivals - The enablers of this ugly entertainment industry.
      Some More Ugly Facts? in terms of Carbon Emissions (CE)
      ★ Average CE of High-Profile DJs = 53.5 tons per year (@25 return flights every year)
      ★ Average CE per audience (in EU / North America) = 20.3 tons per year
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +10000 watt sound system = 220 tons per day
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +20,000 watts sound system = 450 tons per day.
      ★ Average Waste Generation of medium capacity festival = 2300 kgs per day
      ★ Average Waste Generation of large capacity festival = 5100 kgs per day
      ★ Average CE of a four member band taking 20 flights a year = 208 tons per year.
      ★ Average water consumption at 5000+ capacity festival = 2200 litres per day.
      ★ Average water consumption at 20,000+ capacity festival = 8550 litres per day.

  • @donialubiba9480
    @donialubiba9480 7 месяцев назад +24

    any ib business management students watching this for paper 1?

    • @jimenabecerrilrevilla3321
      @jimenabecerrilrevilla3321 7 месяцев назад +1

      me too!!! Good luck

    • @hashirnaseem9090
      @hashirnaseem9090 7 месяцев назад +2

      Never back down never what

    • @maths9647
      @maths9647 7 месяцев назад +2

      Yep, good luck lads

    • @artman40
      @artman40 6 месяцев назад

      What's paper 1?

    • @maths9647
      @maths9647 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@artman40 Paper 1 is an exam you have to do if you do the International Baccalaureate. Every subject has 2 or 3 exams and they're called Paper 1, Paper 2, you get the idea. In the Business Management subject, Paper 1 consists of a case study of a fictional company. The case gives to us is about 2 sheets long (front and back), however we get the first 15 lines a months or two before taking this exam. This years Paper 1 was a case study of a festival company so many people researched how the industry works and what-not. Hope this was helpful.

  • @sitiokapataganchannel
    @sitiokapataganchannel 3 года назад +2

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    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 года назад

      very telling, thanks for you comment man :)

  • @alvaromedinagarcia
    @alvaromedinagarcia 2 года назад +7

    Great video. Here in Chile we have a few imported festivals (Lolla, Womad), but I just realized watching this video that our version of UK's summer festivals are the free, one day "festivals" that throw the municipalities in the summer, specially in elections season. Is one of the two big income sources for the musicians and music workers (the other being the national festivities in september). I wonder if people accustomed to attend free concerts would be willing (or even able) to pay a commercial festival.

    • @Daniel-is3tb
      @Daniel-is3tb 6 месяцев назад

      Chile NEEDS more festivals. Antes de la pandemia hacíamos caleta de festivales, ahora con cuea queda el Lolla y Creamfields. Y todos en Stgo, por cierto. Y carísimos.

  • @tanujSE
    @tanujSE 2 года назад +1

    Yes night is celebration,either summer or winter,we must not take this away

  • @onkevents
    @onkevents 2 года назад

    I am grateful for this content

  • @cmucodemonkey
    @cmucodemonkey 2 года назад +10

    I miss my festival days. My college roommate and I would go to a rock festival in Ohio every year. Unfortunately we both had to give that lifestyle up after careers, houses, and kids entered the picture. Good times though!

    • @dllocke2
      @dllocke2 Год назад

      Rock on the Range

    • @cmucodemonkey
      @cmucodemonkey Год назад

      @@dllocke2 Yes indeed!

    • @mohammedbinopata9977
      @mohammedbinopata9977 Год назад

      Kids? Na bro just do it and go hard

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 Год назад

      Zombie Turds Goto Music Festivals - The enablers of this ugly entertainment industry.
      Some More Ugly Facts? in terms of Carbon Emissions (CE)
      ★ Average CE of High-Profile DJs = 53.5 tons per year (@25 return flights every year)
      ★ Average CE per audience (in EU / North America) = 20.3 tons per year
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +10000 watt sound system = 220 tons per day
      ★ Average CE of Music Festival running +20,000 watts sound system = 450 tons per day.
      ★ Average Waste Generation of medium capacity festival = 2300 kgs per day
      ★ Average Waste Generation of large capacity festival = 5100 kgs per day
      ★ Average CE of a four member band taking 20 flights a year = 208 tons per year.
      ★ Average water consumption at 5000+ capacity festival = 2200 litres per day.
      ★ Average water consumption at 20,000+ capacity festival = 8550 litres per day.

  • @LeandroDaRosaMarques
    @LeandroDaRosaMarques Год назад +1

    I will say this: Let's all go to the next Standon Calling and make it shine. We will buy tickets, buy many cups of beer and steaks and give out free hugs. You are the best. We love you Standon!

  • @robinhazell6019
    @robinhazell6019 4 месяца назад

    I think WOMAD was originally set up by Peter Gabriel. What was good about it was the fact that it was in a different location each year. I went in 1985, when it was staged at Mersea Island in Essex. The only festival I ever went to that I actually swam in the sea from the beach. The Fall, The Pogues and New Order were the Headliners for the main stage, but all of the other smaller Marqueee stages with World music also attracted crowds. I honestly thought that Womad had stopped at the end of The 80's.

  • @ThaBoss3006
    @ThaBoss3006 2 года назад +1

    Woo Luminosity 2022 here we come

  • @CrimsonAlchemist
    @CrimsonAlchemist 2 года назад +1

    They should hire Rain Stoppers from Asia. It worked every time, in Myanmar it cost less than 10$ to book them.

  • @elvergalarga4325
    @elvergalarga4325 2 года назад

    Really appreciate hearing the numbers and percentages

  • @mike9347
    @mike9347 2 года назад

    If you guys ever need an Event Manager, I have been 2IC for the Skyfire/Skyshow series in Australia. Good doco. Informative.

  • @wiidzon
    @wiidzon 2 года назад +40

    Hello guys, I’m watching this because I am from mexico and in my local region there is no such thing as music festivals. Sometimes we get artist coming to local fair events but no live music festivals. I feel people will appreciate something like this since I know people enjoy this type of events but have to travel really far in order to go to one (which involves extra costs for them). I have a team whom I plan to start one. No big thing you know. Just something small like a “party” and see where it all goes from there. I am not afraid to lose my money. I believe and have faith in this in the hope that it can strive for years. Any tips from any organizers?

    • @caigenproject
      @caigenproject 2 года назад +11

      if at first you don't succeed.... keep going. and try to include the local community, they are a stakeholder as well.

    • @MikuHatsune12
      @MikuHatsune12 2 года назад +11

      Start small, find out local musicians or near local and talk with them and spread the information using fliers or social media, if you can convince them find a small venue see what happens, good luck

    • @manuelau9665
      @manuelau9665 2 года назад +8

      research "DIY festival organizing", there's some valid lessons for first timers in the underground free music scene. Or grassroots organizations, benefit festivals, etc.

    • @Evelyn55515
      @Evelyn55515 2 года назад +5

      Some people love to help set up in exchange for tickets

    • @ElFresco214
      @ElFresco214 2 года назад +2

      There are small festivals, like Dream fields was last week, EDC mexico, Vaivén, Bahidora... But yes there needs to be more parties, more Berlin type of night life

  • @Y2uM1U0bLdIT
    @Y2uM1U0bLdIT 3 года назад +4

    I'm on the side of festivals, but I would suggest use of a source other than the Association of Independent Festivals for an estimate of the contribution to the UK economy and employment. Perhaps HM Treasury or the Department for Culture, Media and Sport?
    Otherwise, fascinating report. Really excellent!
    I suppose during the pandemic, you would have to assure customers they can receive a full refund if they test positive for COVID-19 (ahead of the event) to prevent them attending while carrying the virus; which would then necessesitate a doubling or tripling of the standard ticket prices to offset expected losses. And, of course, few people in festival-going demographics could afford that.

  • @V4rya
    @V4rya Год назад

    (Physically) volunteering to build a festival borders on self harm. In just one month i can’t feel my big toe, i’m bruised all over and can’t sit still at night due to back pain. Wouldn’t miss it for the world tho. It’s like living in a village you’re building from the ground up

  • @jack-g4112
    @jack-g4112 2 года назад +5

    00:00 i’m the weirdo jumping and clapping haha

  • @aaronho4242
    @aaronho4242 Год назад

    From what I know in the US most companies don’t make their money off of big festivals but of everything else going on through the year. Festivals mostly make you well known.

  • @brewtalityfilmsllc4871
    @brewtalityfilmsllc4871 2 года назад

    Thanks for this.

  • @pormflakes
    @pormflakes 2 года назад +9

    my toxic trait is thinking I could organise this

    • @therealstephenschott
      @therealstephenschott 3 месяца назад

      Man I have 280 acres in a good area and thought.. How hard could it be? The watched this.. Lol

  • @dav1ddjg
    @dav1ddjg 2 года назад +4

    Nobody was putting on benefit concerts for those that put on the benefit concerts.

  • @thevigoproject
    @thevigoproject 2 года назад +30

    Travis Scott disagrees, festivals are a piece of cake.

    • @TakeFlight
      @TakeFlight 2 года назад +1

      Travis scott is a satanist. For as long as people don't believe in it they will keep on getting away with all the awful things they do

    • @liamcollinson5695
      @liamcollinson5695 2 года назад +3

      Bad taste

    • @Hashdollars
      @Hashdollars 2 года назад +1

      Same with getting views right I mean I see your uploads don’t even have 150 views after a full year lol

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 года назад

      it's free money

  • @Mr22lukinhas
    @Mr22lukinhas 3 года назад +2

    Amazing, thanks for the hard work!

  • @VaibhavAli
    @VaibhavAli 2 года назад

    Beautiful

  • @joshuaojo-aromokudu4176
    @joshuaojo-aromokudu4176 2 года назад +28

    What happened to Alex is how the prison system should work. He made a mistake, got punished and a chance to reform and now he’s back as a productive member of society. I just wish we could extend that sort of fairness to our POC members of society

    • @roothik
      @roothik 2 года назад +1

      No, prisons shouldn't be there for punishing people for mistakes. People shouldn't be locked in somewhere to learn from their mistakes.

    • @Stratus41298
      @Stratus41298 2 года назад +1

      @@roothik I'm sure there's more than a few victims out there who would disagree that criminals shouldn't be locked up at the very least.

    • @josephbrennan370
      @josephbrennan370 2 года назад +1

      @@roothik 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @playgroundofsound7683
      @playgroundofsound7683 2 года назад

      Yea no thanks POC are uncivilized who hate their country. Be much better off n their homeland quit simping for ppl who hate u . Try to grow up n b a man

    • @m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n
      @m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n 2 года назад

      he seems like an ok guy but im sure being released back into your viscount family is helpful in avoiding reoffending

  • @TrogdorBurnin8or
    @TrogdorBurnin8or 2 года назад +15

    FT's first example of a high-risk business is a Viscount, "a British nobleman ranking above a baron and below an earl," using his aristocratically titled lands and palace to throw a party and charge admission, and then *MANAGING TO GET THROWN IN PRISON FOR NOT PAYING THE PERFORMERS*. And then getting out, and throwing another one, because he STAKED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on the outcome; He has lost none of the means. He's just some rich partyboy who wants to party and has zero consequences for failure.
    Open a new restaurant on mortgage LOC debt sometime why don't you.

    • @matthewburris769
      @matthewburris769 2 года назад +2

      Doesn't suck to be him. Why are you mad? Did you want him to start a textile company, instead? Join the clergy?

    • @TrogdorBurnin8or
      @TrogdorBurnin8or 2 года назад +5

      @@matthewburris769 I'm not mad at him. I'm mad that FT considers this a high-risk-of-failure occupation whose entrepreneurs we should lionize, and it brings in a failson crook who managed to turn zero downside risk into prison time. Like taking some time to praise the Primitive Skills movement for how they have reminded society where we come from, and how much risk they undergo in survival situations, and then interviewing the Unabomber as a meritorious example.

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад

      @@TrogdorBurnin8or festivals cost millions to produce. So, only the richest can produce them. Would you rather Standon Calling didn't exist because the guy who puts it on is a trust fund baby?

  • @TheShpmusic
    @TheShpmusic 3 года назад +2

    Nice video.

  • @ridereport5289
    @ridereport5289 2 года назад

    Maribou State... nice booking

  • @teeone1066
    @teeone1066 2 года назад +7

    So 'fairly independent' means literally owned by the royal family...

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад

      quit complaining and start your own festival then.

  • @pdrg
    @pdrg 3 года назад +9

    Whole sector lost so many good people

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 года назад

      I hope people in the sector will try new things, maybe smaller scale, with more inclusion for local forces.

  • @L.C.Sweeney
    @L.C.Sweeney 2 года назад +18

    Musical Artists almost always make absolutely nothing from album sales. The profit they make from sales go towards paying off their advance from the label which pays for music videos, living expenses whilst writing and the studio expenses. If they're making about 4-8% from their album sales and advances can range from £5k to £1m you can do the maths. Even the biggest acts in the world are perpetually paying off their advances. From what I've heard in the music industry even Ed Sheeran hasn't made any money.

    • @matthewburris769
      @matthewburris769 2 года назад +11

      That's not really entirely true at all. They make money, they just don't make MONEY, and F you MONEY is what they mean when they say they're not making any. BTW, the biggest acts in the world, aren't getting advances. They're fulfilling contracts. Want MONEY? Write the songs, become a sought after producer. This isn't the 70's anymore. No one is worshipping a guitar player any longer.

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 года назад +1

      @@matthewburris769 lol no, they're just greedy. also touring is tiring, it's a carrer, lol. s/o les bénévoles mdr

    • @m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n
      @m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n 2 года назад

      been a pro for nearly ten years and never had more than 2k euros advance. made a bunch of albums that have done well. made a few flops. toured and made money. defs have toured and lost money. i had a seven piece band so touring was actually subsidised by our album sales!!!! after covid though i moved into doing music for different art forms like dance etc. the margins were already so tight after brexit and the pandy just underlined the lack of sustainability. im sure the youngens will work it out x

  • @yaneliavila6799
    @yaneliavila6799 2 года назад

    You can choose for one of the above gifts

  • @Peggers
    @Peggers 2 года назад +1

    Great video.

  • @msaniloy3503
    @msaniloy3503 2 года назад

    I like it overall

  • @chelseaargabrite2930
    @chelseaargabrite2930 2 года назад +1

    I love working festivals, but would never trade my well paid cushy albeit boring job for the uncertainty of full time festival life.

    • @playgroundofsound7683
      @playgroundofsound7683 2 года назад

      Mind telling me a couple of your experiences working them? I’d like to this summer and I could use some insight. Thankyou

    • @Jinkowado
      @Jinkowado Год назад

      My dilemma is I don’t have a well paid cushy albeit boring job 🥲 so it’s either full time event or starve

  • @dantu5377
    @dantu5377 2 года назад +2

    Why don’t festival organizers rent out abandoned mall /out let malls and have it indoors

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад +5

      you want to put people and deafening sound together in an abandoned building?

  • @currentphonograph7487
    @currentphonograph7487 2 года назад

    interesting insight

  • @StuHolland
    @StuHolland Год назад

    "the son of viscount trenchard" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @archmad
    @archmad 2 года назад

    this is sad, i feel them

  • @SirusAsgarov
    @SirusAsgarov 3 года назад +2

    Want to avoid Covid restrictions in order to join lively activities

  • @karmagirl314
    @karmagirl314 Год назад

    I'm an event planner and I don't do weddings or outdoor music festivals. I might do a wedding for the right amount a money (way more money than anyone should be willing to pay) but there's not enough money in the world to make me do an outdoor music festival.

    • @valkilmer724
      @valkilmer724 Год назад

      What kind of events do you plan ?

    • @ackerwoman16
      @ackerwoman16 10 месяцев назад

      Do you have LinkedIn or some other platforms to connect with?

  • @Snook_
    @Snook_ 2 года назад +12

    Didn't realise all of them are as badly organised as FYRE on netflix lolol

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 года назад

      "entrepreneurs"

    • @AnarchistMetalhead
      @AnarchistMetalhead 2 года назад

      lots of ventures in creative industries start as passion projects, and just a few of them remain around to get the routine and experience for running smoothly
      a couple long standing festivals have managed that, for example Brutal Assault
      then again, it was the 25th one for them this year, so it"d be strange if it didn"t run well at that point

  • @ianwimbles1440
    @ianwimbles1440 2 года назад +7

    It’s all about the money!not one organiser said they were in it for the love of music and bringing the people together!us hippies showed them all yes eavis is hippies that started festival and all free then you landed gentry saw the pound notes and now we have hundreds of festivals every year unless you are a true hippie who used the events to meet family and friends etc but alas if you got cash you can go if you haven’t exclusion

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 2 года назад +1

      biggest irony/feature, they use the "cool hippies doing drugs and listening to music in fields" to sell Disneyland but with E. it's sad man.

    • @Bettinasisrg
      @Bettinasisrg Год назад

      Yeah who can afford a $500 ticket and another $500 for food etc? Seriously! And that's on the low end!

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад +1

      They need to break even on the festivals. It's art for commerce. People need to eat. Relax.

  • @Bettinasisrg
    @Bettinasisrg Год назад

    I love smaller festivals anymore. They all used to be a lot more about the music and the people and now the larger ones are about corporate greed and have none of the true magic they used to have.

  • @onkevents
    @onkevents 2 года назад

    I will love to connect with great event industry creators

  • @nickcook7408
    @nickcook7408 2 месяца назад

    The average festival burns about 200,000 litres of diesel to run the generators that provide all the electricity.

  • @JaviMaldonado
    @JaviMaldonado 2 года назад +7

    What's the song at 5:50?

    • @leonard2794
      @leonard2794 2 года назад +4

      Think about things - Daði Freyr

    • @JaviMaldonado
      @JaviMaldonado 2 года назад +1

      @@leonard2794 Brilliant! Thanks a lot!

  • @stevenblackford8379
    @stevenblackford8379 2 года назад +5

    355k for 11months sign me up

  • @NyanyiC
    @NyanyiC Год назад +2

    I attended 1 festival in 2022 and never going to another one. I hate portaloos, and I starved because they didn't have enough food stalls so there were long, winding queues. Every artist beside the headliner were awful-fine you can't really compete with Florence and the machine but still.🤦🏾‍♀️🙄 I'm sticking to normal venues from now on

  • @jk484
    @jk484 2 года назад +1

    When a festival is canceled during the middle of the day due to weather or other events, do ticket holders get any type of refund?

    • @gerybaboona2421
      @gerybaboona2421 2 года назад

      likely not, they'll have disclaimers printed on the tickets saying as much

    • @MrWright0085
      @MrWright0085 Год назад

      Depends on the event. Multi day events may not but single day events typically will refund or reschedule

  • @GerekJordan93
    @GerekJordan93 2 года назад +1

    Glastonbury was the first to cancel and it had a cascading effect?? Or….. was it the pandemic that caused cancellations? Didn’t know it was a race. Clearly Glastonbury deserves a gold medal for canceling first lol.

  • @wildhorsemusic1111
    @wildhorsemusic1111 2 года назад +3

    I still owe 35k on a festival my father put on 15+years ago

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад

      yikes! How is that your financial responsibility though?

    • @wildhorsemusic1111
      @wildhorsemusic1111 Год назад

      @@machupikachu1085 he took out a loan against our family property for the festival, we lost money on the Festival, then he passes away a week after. I still pay every month for a 3 day festival back in 2008

    • @wildhorsemusic1111
      @wildhorsemusic1111 Год назад

      So I guess 14 years.... Feels like forever

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад +2

      @@wildhorsemusic1111 oh man. I'm sorry to hear that! If I ever make it out your way, beers are on me.
      Cheers!

    • @wildhorsemusic1111
      @wildhorsemusic1111 Год назад

      @@machupikachu1085 that would rock, we got some awesome breweries in Michigan:) ✨✨✨🎶🎶🎶

  • @SkinnyEMedia
    @SkinnyEMedia Год назад

    Absolutely discouraging at best. I make music myself but after multiple applications to various music festivals, no response. None! I ask why bother?

  • @Johnhasa1
    @Johnhasa1 2 года назад

    13:30 note to self.

  • @philliphead8760
    @philliphead8760 Год назад +1

    Cooperations took over the festival game. So therefore, it’s now become a waste of money and will not survive for much longer

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад +1

      ummm...that's because you can lose millions in a day? Corporations give festivals a chance to survive. Would you rather festivals didn't exist to spread joy to millions of music fans?

  • @nomadawg
    @nomadawg 2 года назад +1

    2:47 John Cusack

  • @electromamma
    @electromamma Год назад

    good he had an insurance of bad weather , that's why he was kind of smiling lol

  • @i.valencia4043
    @i.valencia4043 2 года назад

    whats the track starting on 13:16 ?😊

  • @kevinhardy8997
    @kevinhardy8997 2 года назад

    Was it really a festival if it didn't burn to the ground?

  • @AlexJoneses
    @AlexJoneses 2 года назад

    and yet they still haveen't solved the problem of buying more narcan kits

  • @Benleonardo
    @Benleonardo 2 года назад +1

    i wish youd say what festival this actually is

  • @marcinkarpinski9163
    @marcinkarpinski9163 2 года назад +1

    A year's work for organising a couple of milion worth festival.
    Well hello from Earth. Most people don't even make a fraction of that working full time jobs all year round.

  • @BenDonahower
    @BenDonahower 2 года назад

    I don't know for sure but I have the sense that I grew up in a hayday of festival at least in the musician niche that I'm most interested in, Christian rock. There was no other way to figure out about the music. We have a great local radio station for Christian music but outside of the Friday Night Rock Jam at the time, you found out about new bands from shows, your friends, and record labels. It's a little different now. RUclips can find bands that you like for you.
    PS. Dadi (don't know how to type it) is awesome. He rocked Eurovision the other year.

  • @hemlockricky8393
    @hemlockricky8393 2 года назад +2

    whos here after the travis scott incident

  • @Josh-ri7hy
    @Josh-ri7hy Год назад +1

    Says it’s a multi-million dollar business… then shows a figure of almost 2 billion…

  • @MalaysiaBarista
    @MalaysiaBarista 2 года назад

    Title is wrong . It should be ‘how are they coping with covid’

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад

      Yeah, your RUclips documentary on the subject was far more accurate. Way to show us how it's done!

  • @mariosk.5173
    @mariosk.5173 2 года назад +1

    4:20 this is what you wanna hear from someone, that's exactly how the prison system has to work. Understand the mistakes we humans make and become better people. We all make mistakes but the point is to learn from them

  • @traviscoates6878
    @traviscoates6878 Год назад

    How can someone make a documentary about the risks of music festivals, and not even mention the debacle that was Fyre Festival. It’s the biggest festival failure of the last 20 years...Just because it wasn’t in the UK???

    • @ma-moomoo
      @ma-moomoo Год назад

      Yes, it’s about the industry in the U.K. you plonker.

    • @traviscoates6878
      @traviscoates6878 Год назад

      @@ma-moomoo Gotcha. No wonder it sucked so bad. Nobody cares about the UK

  • @chloelucas4513
    @chloelucas4513 2 года назад

    Whats the song playing at 8:36??

    • @Osccr91
      @Osccr91 Год назад

      Elder Island - Kape Fear

  • @johnalver
    @johnalver 2 года назад

    Coming together to see a computer play live

    • @machupikachu1085
      @machupikachu1085 Год назад +1

      What do you think costs more? Hiring a band of five people, or one guy and a laptop?
      If you want to see a full group of people perform - buy their albums and merch, go to a bunch of their concerts, and bring friends!!
      Only then can they have the funds to keep the band members on payroll, and not use a laptop. Simple as.

  • @ram1984-e1m
    @ram1984-e1m 2 года назад

    I have help set up stage and lighting at Festival

  • @privateequityguy
    @privateequityguy 2 года назад +7

    *12 Simple Self Improvement Principles For Mentally Strong Men*
    1. Drink more water
    2. Eat whole foods
    3. Practice daily gratitude
    4. Pick up a book
    5. Daily walks outside
    6. Listen to a TED Talk
    7. Forgive someone
    8. Take a day and leave behind your phone and all devices
    9. Keep phone away from your bed (even better rest from all those devices)
    10. Join a group of supportive individuals
    11. Stop nailbiting/nailpicking habit for good (if you do it - consider stopping it as it makes you mentally weak + affects your confidence and all other areas of your life!)
    12. Congratulate yourself for this growth
    Take it easy and I hope you found one thing helpful in this list.

    • @frieza2235
      @frieza2235 2 года назад

      Thank you 😊
      Although when I'm doing school work I can't help but nailbite. It's either nail-biting or tearing several hair strands out.

    • @trashsnapple4183
      @trashsnapple4183 2 года назад +1

      Listen to a Ted talk???? Lol

  • @aonang2613
    @aonang2613 Год назад

    COVID had no impact on festivals at all. Silly government bans did.

  • @yusufabdoolla5919
    @yusufabdoolla5919 2 года назад

    My guy sounds like Boris jhonson

  • @noopz8035
    @noopz8035 3 года назад +2

    Travis Scott knows

  • @JasonThompson-n2e
    @JasonThompson-n2e 11 месяцев назад +25

    This is very good analysis. I've been a Live Music Concerts/Festivals organiser for over thirty years. True, it's not for the faint hearted.
    But I do also think that the world NEEDS Music. Music lifts Spirits, makes life better.
    Farmers too go through huge risks, so do other people in life.
    Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬️

  • @adrianbona
    @adrianbona 2 года назад +1

    I was going to get sad until I remember the tickets prices and then I went MAD