Okay, there are lots of threads going on with some great suggestions for how to improve the festival. How about we start a proper one, keep it short and concise, and then hopefully we can put all the points together and email them to the organizers? Or at least we can discuss them amonst ourselves properly ....?
These are mine, but a lot of them have already been stated by other forum members.
1) A limit on how people can attend
2) Cleaner toilets
3) Cheaper food
4) A ban on stalls selling pirated t-shirts
5) Drinking water available inside the stage area.
6) No cameramen standing infront of bands on stage
7) Bins in the camping area
8) Move the wet stage closer to the other stages
9) Shorter set-lists. That 2 hour Blind Guardian set was overkill
10) More bands with more styles. More grind, more prog, more classical. Less total death metal vs total true metal.
11) Set up a fifth stage. More stages means lesser people at each stage.
12) Better preparation for bad weather.
13) A large board, or several large boards, with the latest running times and orders. Very important in the event of suddent changes.
14) Put the stages at BOTTOM of the hill, not the top. This creates an amphitheatre effect, so shorter people can also see the bands.
15) Create a media tent. This is a place where any band member (as in band member attending the festival as a regular fan) can go to meet zine and magazine editors / journalists, hand out demos/promos, even do impromtu interviews.
16) Move this damn urinals next to the main stages. By Saturday night the piss from those things runs down straight next the main stages right into the crowd area. Disgusting !
17) More Wacken shuttles. It's okay getting to the festival, but everyone wants to leave at exactly the same time.
Please post yours! I'll try to think of more ....
These are mine, but a lot of them have already been stated by other forum members.
1) A limit on how people can attend
2) Cleaner toilets
3) Cheaper food
4) A ban on stalls selling pirated t-shirts
5) Drinking water available inside the stage area.
6) No cameramen standing infront of bands on stage
7) Bins in the camping area
8) Move the wet stage closer to the other stages
9) Shorter set-lists. That 2 hour Blind Guardian set was overkill
10) More bands with more styles. More grind, more prog, more classical. Less total death metal vs total true metal.
11) Set up a fifth stage. More stages means lesser people at each stage.
12) Better preparation for bad weather.
13) A large board, or several large boards, with the latest running times and orders. Very important in the event of suddent changes.
14) Put the stages at BOTTOM of the hill, not the top. This creates an amphitheatre effect, so shorter people can also see the bands.
15) Create a media tent. This is a place where any band member (as in band member attending the festival as a regular fan) can go to meet zine and magazine editors / journalists, hand out demos/promos, even do impromtu interviews.
16) Move this damn urinals next to the main stages. By Saturday night the piss from those things runs down straight next the main stages right into the crowd area. Disgusting !
17) More Wacken shuttles. It's okay getting to the festival, but everyone wants to leave at exactly the same time.
Please post yours! I'll try to think of more ....
