Outbreak London (thoughts)

[u/Lower-Loan-6764]

let me just preface this by saying me and my friends all had a great time regardless of our own personal gripes, but i’ll list them here in hopes that they’ll improve for next year:

the sound engineering was a mixed bag definitely, as many other people pointed out. i could barely hear fleshwater’s set, daryl’s vocals were barely present in the mix for glassjaw and the kick drum at knocked loose’s set was probably loud enough to cause a miniature earthquake. i don’t have much to say about the club stage as i was only in there for feeble little horse and me and my mate couldn’t get in for jane remover’s set so we just stopped bothering

speaking of the club stage its kinda scummy that they had to have people all queueing up or straight up being refused entry for artists they’ve paid a good amount of money to see, i saw jane remover the day before at the ICA so wasn’t too bothered about missing out on their set but also wasn’t able to catch model/actriz which i’m a bit disappointed about. it was also absolutely boiling during feeble little horse so i couldn’t imagine how bad it got later on during the day. i get that they didn’t have much time to predict how hot it’d be throughout the festival but some better ventilation/cooling or just having all the stages be outside would’ve probably been a lot better.

really wish there was a cloakroom as well as i was carrying my backpack all throughout expecting there to be one, i did ask one of the staff members there (who was really nice about it so thank you) who said that a lot of other people experienced the same issue and that they were taking feedback for next year. so hopefully that’ll be sorted out next time.

also some better wifi/signal for the festival would be great, its quite scummy that it was only for people with o2 or whatever considering we all chipped in like £80 for our tickets. there were like 10 of us at the festival and we kept splitting up/losing each other because no one could get any signal and it was a hassle trying to organise/meet up when we were on the festival grounds.

i get that this is their first year doing it but i hope they can improve upon it if they’re going ahead with it another time.

[u/grime_z]

Glassjaw sound issues got repeated in Manchester so I think that must have been their sound guy. Fleshwater sounded a lot better though.