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We're f—ked': California's music festival bubble is bursting
(www.sfgate.com)
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A friend of mines band played one of those Vegas fests (not the ones you mentioned). All the bands hated it.
I only know a bit about it, but when we were young basically can happen because livenation gave pretty significant advances to a lot of bands who were struggling in 2020-2021 in exchange for a guarantee that the band will play their festivals. As a band back then, a $50k or whatever advance was kinda impossible to turn down. So livenation essentially bought fealty from every emo band and can now host a festival with all of the bands people my age liked in high school.
It is one facet of the disgusting wholesale capture of live music by livenation/ticketmaster. Many venues are also now exclusively run by livenation for the same reason - livenation "rescued" them during the pandemic, but now are reaping massive benefits on what were pretty cheap investments, at a time where there was plenty of cash flowing around for the investors and the venue owners and local promoters were fucked.
Please tell us more.
Nothing damning. Just hot as shit, Vegas having a weird cursed energy, Felt bland. Maybe a stretch to say everyone hated it, but it was not fun at least from what my friend told me.
I've been to Vegas for a few conventions; the cigarette stench is everywhere and I got laryngitis just being there, so I can understand that.
Also, contemporary Vegas' casinos are just glorified rest homes; a bunch of boomer-themed "slot machines" that are just giant iPads and such, silent as a morgue.