Last Saturday was what it was supposed to be one of the most important events of the London summer. After assisting, I have confronted feelings and opinions about this first edition of this festival in Victoria Park. Let's say the bad things first:
- The toilets and the bars were definitely not enough as you had to cue for more than half an hour and fight with the people to get a single beer and the toilets were literally overflowing after four hours the event started. As a consequence, the people improvised toilets all around the park.
- The sound was terrible in most of the stages, and you couldn't hear anything even if you were just some metres from the stage. Some of the stages were maybe too small, such as the Homefires stage, that was overcrowded during some concerts.
- Half an hour for most of the acts was probably not enough.
Let's say the good things now:
- We were lucky as it was one of the hottest days of this horrible summer, and the spirit of "one day out in the park" was actually fulfilled.
- The place is great for an event like this, near from the centre and well-communicated.
- The spirit of a small festival with not-so-big names in the year 2007 is not easy to get.
- the apology e-mail from the managers of the event about the toilets-bars chaos.
Let's hope next year they try to solve these problems and keep the good things and probably then is going to be a great date to remember.
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