, attached to 2024-08-18

Review by PrimuSucks

PrimuSucks Here's the thing... Im not complaining about the festival as a whole, but this day was completely a legendary bust to cap off an otherwise sweet weekend. Which is a huge bummer especially considering that curveball was like a complete disaster, but at least it was the state government shutting it down... this was Phish looking out for our/safety almost too much and it was an enormous mistake. I understand starting at 1pm, but they should have played a longish 1st set and taken a "set" break saying they'll be back in a few hours weather permitting, taken a long break checked the weather and then played a second set if the weather held up. They could've gone on at like 6ish played til sunset and even done a fireworks display maybe. This didn't feel like a festival ending at all. I was there during this set and I was loving it, the songs and jams were good, but I imagined then that even if the weather got bad we were gonna try and rage the best we could, instead I followed directions and am back home in NYC instead of raging and celebrating a great festival... like what an absolute joke. We were adults, we all were ready for bad weather, we could've followed directions. It's insane that what shoild have been such an amazing 4 night festival was instead a 3.5 day festival concluding prematurely and therefore will always be my least favorite show. Blown opportunity, tell us we you are closing the concert field and evaluating weather and prepare to shelter in place and I'd the weather holds up YOU PLAY THE SECOND SET ESPECIALLY AT A FESTIVAL?!?! We are at a festival to rage... thats rock and roll, not rushing out of our campsites at 6pm with our tails between our legs. People were willing to deal with weather if you warn them, if you warn people they can leave if they think it's a good idea if it might rain alot or stay if they are willing to get muddy and hunker down! To me it just means to alter your expectations, because that was not as advertised as a weekend in my estimation based on the choices made on how to handle this last day show. And it sucks so much worse because they were playing amazing! And still could've planed to end the day best case scenario by sunset and play two sets, it's a tough one to swallow.


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