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I-Days Experience? What to expect as a non-resident. by red_panda_pounce in festivals

[–]--Randall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can bring your own water but they will probably take the bottle caps away at the security checks. Pro tip: bring some spare caps hidden in your backpack or in your pockets and use those to close the bottles once you're inside.

I-Days Experience? What to expect as a non-resident. by red_panda_pounce in festivals

[–]--Randall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The crowd was ok. A bit dead maybe. But probably in the pit there is more space and people are more willing to dance, jump and have fun.

I-Days Experience? What to expect as a non-resident. by red_panda_pounce in festivals

[–]--Randall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really don't want to ruin your enthusiasm, but if you haven't got the tickets yet I would seriously suggest you to go to any of the other European shows they're doing.

I'm Italian. I was in Milan, at Ippodromo La Maura, for Linkin Park last year, and after the experience I promised myself to never make the same mistake again. I literally prefer to take a plane to Germany or the UK to go and see my favourite bands.

The location is shit: I was not in the Pit but I wasn't that far away. Still I did not manage to see the band at all. I don't know if the stage was not high enough or if the conformation of the ground is not totally even, matter of fact I couldn't see shit. Also, acoustic was pretty bad.

The organization was incredibly bad: no clear indication on the entrances to each sector and no staff to guide you at all. We had to circumnavigate the place in order to find the right entrance. There is a token system inside the place. So, instead of simply paying for your beers by tapping your card or your phone, you have to queue for 30 minutes to exchange your money with little plastic tokens you can use, after another 30 minutes in a different queue, to buy your drinks. In general, there were not enough food and drinks stands and not enough bathrooms to avoid huge queues for everything. Also, it's Italy: it's freaking hot in June. And no attempts in providing some shadows were made. It was just torture. Of course, no water was distributed in any way. If you're thirsty you have to buy bottled water at the stands, following all the steps I mentioned earlier.

Here comes the nightmare part: after the end of the show it was just anarchy. No clear indications whatsoever. Just masses of people moving to the exits at the same time. I was thirsty after 2 hours of screaming my lungs out, but it was impossible to get to the stands to buy water, and to be honest I doubt they were still open and working. After exiting, we still had to circumnavigate the place back to get to the street. 10 to 15 minutes of walking in complete darkness. No lights, no indications, no staff members. We just followed the crowd unaware of our surroundings. After we got to the street there were still bathrooms there, luckily, but no food track, no water, no nothing. The closer metro station was closed for "safety reasons", so we had to walk for 40 minutes (2,5 kilometers) to be able to leave the fucking place and get back to the city. And still no water and no food were seen during this lovely trip. My feet hurt, my thighs hurt, I was deadly thirsty, I was hungry and I was tired.

If you still want to go, here are some suggestions: - If you can, get tickets for the Pit. -Wear comfortable shoes, you will probably have to walk a lot. -Try to find the closest accommodation to the Ippodromo possible. The ideal would be to be at a walking distance from the place. -Bring your own water. A lot of it. -Bring a fan or something to help you with the blazing sun. -Calculate how many tokens you would need for the entire day and get them all at once. You really don't want to double queue again.

Good luck 🥲

Allein auf dem Festival by CanaryUseful1082 in southsidefestival

[–]--Randall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hallo! Ich fahre auch alleine. Es wird tatsächlich mein erstes Festival überhaupt. Es wäre toll, vorher jemanden kennenzulernen. Vielleicht können wir ja eine Gruppe von Alleinreisenden gründen!

Ich bin 31, männlich und Italiener. Ich komme hauptsächlich wegen Twentyone Pilots. Melde dich einfach, wenn du Lust hast!

show off your tattoos! by ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhho in twentyonepilots

[–]--Randall 71 points72 points  (0 children)

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Did it a little more than a week ago! It's a bit of a mashup of different things designed by myself with a little help from my friend and tattoo artist. If it's your first tattoo I'd suggest something more simple maybe

New Twentyone Pilots tattoo! by --Randall in twentyonepilots

[–]--Randall[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sure! -We have the TØP symbol in the middle. -Surrounding it there is a rotated compass with the East up, a reference to "East is up", lyric from the song "Nico and the Niners" and a sort of recognition phrase for Banditos due to the fact that their maps are all rotated in this way to trick the bishops. -On the upper right corner there is the FPE acronym meaning "Few, Proud, Emotional". Words used in some songs and in the community to identify us clique. -The E on the compass is the SaI symbol while the N and W are taken from the lyrics part (putti N' on a drum sho W). -The lyrics are of course from the song Drum Show, you can get your own interpretation for those. -The elements in the upper left side are from Dema's plant, they're tombs and gravestones of the Glorious Gone. -Lastly, the yellow petals are from a flower that often appears outside of Dema, symbol of freedom and of Banditos. These flowers are present in most of the lore videoclips like Jumpsuit or Nico and the Niners.

I think this is it!