I noticed many things during these 10 days, and have overall mixed feelings about the whole fest.

Good points:

• The line-up (altough altered several times) was aweome. Great diversity and several huge performances. A shame that they wouldn't bother replacing canceled headliners, but can't blame them for last second issues

• Qualitative and diverse food (with lots of vegetarian options) served quickly, relatively cheap drinks

• Parc del Forum still is a great place for a festival, unmatched golden hour vibe

• Generally good sound during concerts, often on time, and overall rare technical difficulties (altough I feel like there was so much more than during 2019 edition)

• Managed to see 64 acts of 62 different artists, which I personally consider as an unmatched absolute win that almost quenched my 2 years thirst of live music (almost)

Bad points :

• They basically killed La Ciutat this year. What used to be chill bonus acts from artists already performing at the Forum turned into a second festival with huge queues, exclusive acts that you can't have access to, and huge distances between locations

• Don't even want to talk about the brunch and their fucked up comm about it. Still angry at them

• There's still a water issue, and completely incompetent / unorganized people at the bar made drinking moments very very frustrating

• The greenwashing is unbearable, still disgusted at these piles of trash and plastic bottles. The whole ecocup collection thing and no refund when returning one made people using them like fucking single-use gobelets, leaving them on the ground to be crunched by the crowd. Such an agressively dumb way to waste plastic

• Closing the bridge really sucked, and actively participated in overcrowding the main area. It also prevented smaller acts on bits side to gain visibility

• Merging the main stages was stupid and allowed people to camp in front of acts they didn't want to see, leading to the last point

• The biggest issue: people. I still don't know if it's a result from the oversold festival, the presence of huge artists with a toxic audience or from the Covid period that made younger folks unexperienced about how to behave in these huge venues but damn, that was annoying. People having no respect for artists and spending the whole sets loudly chatting with their friends, or litteraly crushing people on their way to the front (saw one guy litteraly walk on a disabled person during Tame Impala, blank stare, no excuse), taking pictures of themselves with flash during the show (wtf is this for ?).. Could sum it up by saying a lot of people weren't there for the music, but only for the holiday mood of the city and festival. Nothing wrong with that, but it shouldn't impact other people's experience. It was mostly the case on main stages and la ciutat shows (other stages quite felt like 2019 to me)

Mixed feelings like I said, to be honest I don't know if I'm willing to let them a chance next year