The Bad Things About Big Day Out

I reckon they put lots of things on the wrong stage at Big Day Out. Firstly, My Chemical Romance were on really early in the day before Evermore, Jet or Muse, and yet they are much more popular.

Kasabian were not on the main stage, which is ridiculous for what have been called ‘the best band in britain’. The crowd when they were playing were HUGE!!! You could barely walk around and there was no chance of seeing the stage. We got really near the front and couldn’t see a thing. (Dan wanted to see them, not me.) And Evermore were on the main stage at the time Kasabian were on the small stage. Stupid. Who are Evermore?

Another thing, is that there’s only one big screen and it’s not very high up, so it can be hard to see. Like for me at the Killers. There should be two or three screens – definitely one on each side of the stage. And high up, so you can see it from a distance – especially as, unlike V or Glastonbury, BDO is not on a hill. Shame they don’t have a fake incline or something they could use next year.

Finally there just seemed to be too many people! It was so hard to get anywhere!! There were massive queues for food, and for the free water. And BIG queues for the women’s toilets, as usual. I did a lot of holding on.

Actually, not finally, as I haven’t mentioned The Drinking Cage yet.

If you wanted to drink alcohol, you had to go to the drinking cage. It was so bad!! You had to get a wrist band to prove you were over 18 – after showing ID – and then you entered a special area where you could buy a drink. But you couldn’t take it out of the area, so had to sit in a caged off area! Like at a zoo!! And they didn’t have any vodka drinks. Just beer, wine and JD & coke cans. I had to drink bourbon :( Then they searched my bag when you went out to check you weren’t smuggling drinks. There was a rather over-zealous bag checker woman, so it took me ages to get out of the area, and you know how impatient Kent is! And later in the day, the queues to get into the area, then to actually buy a drink were so big, that me and Dan didn’t even bother!!!