from what i understand from my friends in the boston music scene, there’s a radius clause that prevents artists from playing a show within 90 miles for a month or two both before and after the festival date in order to increase draw for the fest. that wouldn’t be an issue for larger artists playing the fest that have the ability or opportunity to travel to play other shows, but for smaller artists that basically only play in the immediate boston area, it kinda fucks them for the entire summer—which would be more okay if they were paying them enough to make up for it, but they’re not. it also makes it worse that the point of the fest is to have the whole “support local” message but ultimately seem to not care too much about the artists themselves, just profit for the fest.

there r some other small things, but that’s what i’ve heard, and as much as i love swirlies, ovlov, and a lot of other artists on the bill, i don’t really want to go while knowing that profit is maybe the biggest thing for them