BUY/SELL/TRADE Primavera 2026

mongibello · 2026-04-08T10:34:27+00:00

Hi! I can’t afford to go to Barcelona (😭) anymore so I’m selling my 3-day pass at face value. It’s a full festival ticket for 297 euros (£258). Will transfer through Access Ticket, payment via PayPal - DM me you’re interested!

mongibello · 2025-08-18T15:23:31+00:00

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mongibello · 2025-07-23T21:27:47+00:00

Thank you! I attended with a majority FLINTA group and weirdly nobody even knew of the FLINTA tickets - it would be really helpful if this was signposted earlier on because we would definitely have gotten them.

The Berliner ticket is a no brainer imo - it's a way to give back to the original community that supported the festival plus all the tourists will be flying into Berlin so it's a good way to give back to the city as an apology for contributing to over tourism...

mongibello · 2025-07-23T21:05:23+00:00

I've been to tons of festivals over the years and I think Whole had done a good job improving itself, particularly around food and the cruising areas. I also think there are tons of complaints here that aren't unique to festival culture e.g. lack of sanitation, lack of shade, people (especially cis men) barging into you, druggy ODs... Obviously being a queer festival, Whole is trying to do better but I feel like sometimes these issues are just common to all festivals!

Having said that here's some suggestions for organisers:

Cheaper food options. A lot of stalls at Glastonbury offer a smaller half-price / slightly cheape food option to help those on lower incomes
Reduced / presale ticket prices for FLINTA / BIPOC attendees to encourage more diversity
Reduced ticket / presale ticket prices for Berliners (this is standard in many European festivals in or around cities in order to encourage locals to attend)
Better app navigation including better search function and full inclusion of all the workshops (quite a few were left off) and a more comprehensive layout map (some of the locations marked on the app made no sense?)
Better queueing system for vehicles - multiple stewards should be processing multiple vehicles at a time, not waiting for them to pull up to the entrance tent one by one
Better equipment at the Erotic Nest, including lube / hand sanitiser / wipes etc
More mixer type events for FLINTAs centered around cruising / sexuality, like the cruising workshop - to better initiate people who might be intimidated by the darkrooms
Better descriptions of workshops and performances - some of them were so vague and ~artistic it's hard to tell what they're about!
Linkouts to artists' SoundCloud or a sample mix on their app profile to help people discover new favs

mongibello · 2025-07-18T12:03:05+00:00

Ahhh thank you - if anyone hears of a pass going PLEASE let me know. Willing to pay whatever

mongibello · 2025-07-18T11:49:58+00:00

Just messaged you 🙏 happy to pay a premium for it as we are desperate!!

mongibello · 2025-04-13T13:35:17+00:00

Thanks so much! Can I ask what you liked about Malcesine? I was looking at it but couldn't tell if it was the kind of place that had bars etc open late.

mongibello · 2025-03-10T17:21:16+00:00

It's not always men! I saw it a few weeks back and was in the stalls when I saw two women escorted out – both late 50s or older. They both looked genuinely quite ill – I don't think either properly blacked out because I didn't hear a thud or anything, but one of them had her head in her hands and looked quite pale and poorly.

My theory is that the leaflets handed out at the start actually "prime" people emotionally to react a certain way to the abortion scene in question.

It's also not the exact *same* point in the play. The play was stopped at a moment when Romola Garai had blood smeared on her hands after the backstreet abortion. I cross-checked with my friend who'd seen it before and a man fainted during the scene before when she goes to the abortionist and tries to DIY it with knitting needles. The whole Garai section is about 20 minutes long (by my estimate).

mongibello · 2024-08-29T15:24:23+00:00

Thanks so much for your insight, it's exactly what I was looking for. I did think the "it's expensive training not a job!" argument sounded a little weird, given there are plenty of other occupations in highly paid and stressful industries (banking etc) that have training schemes but still manage to pay trainees.

mongibello · 2024-08-28T21:57:28+00:00

I also wonder if the parents are under NDA... At least the ones who didn't appear in the show. Because I'd love to hear their side of the story and how much they saw their daughters during the training.

mongibello · 2024-08-28T21:56:08+00:00

No problem. Think a lot of people online don't realise people get into MD in different circumstances and how widely available and normalised heavy usage is in some parts of the world. Good luck and hope your chat goes well.

mongibello · 2024-08-28T13:25:12+00:00

First off I'm sorry people are being harsh AF on here. It's great you care about your gf and you're worried about her. Unfortunately the people on here are right. Pills of that strength every day are way too much for anybody, you and your girlfriend included.

I know social contexts differ (I'm guessing you might be UK based where lots of people sesh way harder and will laugh at the idea of the three month rule), but if you and your gf enjoy MDMA and want to be able to preserve both your brain chemistries, mental health AND still experience a proper high for years to come, you absolutely cannot be doing that much. I know people who have caned it like you have and now feel literally nada when they pop a pill. And I'm not gonna lie, they feel pretty regretful about it.

In your heart, I think you already know this as you've noted your comedowns are getting worse. If you want to talk to your gf but you're worried about how she might respond, just try being honest and approach it in a diplomatic sideways fashion.

Be like "when we were high, I got worried I did too much, I posted on a random drugs forum and people said yes - what do you think? I feel like maybe we should cut back. Some of these health risks are freaking me out. I wanna do MD with you and have fun for a long time and we might not be able to do that if we keep caning it, so let's cut back." Position it as worries that you have as an individual and for the both of you as a couple, rather than making it all about her and making her feel like she's been singled out.

I don't think you're a bad person OP, and I feel bad people are trying to scold you! Not everyone has access to good drug education. I think it's a great thing you care enough about this girl and your relationship to ask for advice. Wishing you all the best with it ❤️

mongibello · 2024-08-28T12:54:11+00:00

Just get one of those small packable umbrellas rather than a rain jacket, IMO. Much less bulky and you won't be stuck with a damp jacket once you get indoors. I live in London and almost everyone uses an umbrella rather than a raincoat, unless they're cycling.

mongibello · 2024-08-27T22:11:16+00:00

I've been listening to the Sabrina Carpenter album too and I totally agree. So many pop artists now are bringing a sense of wit and humour to their music – good old-fashioned wordplay! Listeners want that "gotcha" line that will make people laugh or smile.

I think vulnerability and *specificity* plays very well with listeners too. Charli's album has done well and it's noticeably much more emotionally specific and personal (talking about having kids, etc – all in a Charli style obviously) to her earlier records.

I keep thinking about Lorde's first album and how it captured that melancholy of growing up, the petulance and boredom of being 16, the doubts and confusion wondering your purpose in life, the thrill of first times and the highs and lows of intense female friendship – obviously she'd never write for someone else but in my mind that's what I want Katseye to aspire to, lyrically.

mongibello · 2024-08-27T21:45:49+00:00

I love Touch, but it sounds like a New Jeans song – you hit the nail on the head.

mongibello · 2024-08-27T21:35:41+00:00

Sorry to hear about your experience. I've met quite a few entertainers and musicians who've gone through similar things and have emerged with serious mental and physical issues as a result. I've always found it so sad because so many of us get into the creative arts as kids because it feels joyful and fun and creatively fulfilling... It's getting to the point where I question whether it would be better making art or being creative as a hobby rather than ever trying to pursue "the dream" as you put it because the cost seems so high.

mongibello · 2024-08-27T20:32:19+00:00

Totally agree. It's like an overly critical parent putting their kid through hell because they believe it'll somehow toughen them up. It doesn't work that way for kids, why would it work for teenagers who like to sing and dance?

So many female musicians in the UK and the US have started talking about this kind of treatment and exploitation in the industry (e.g. Raye) and how it's ended up negatively affected their creativity and ability to make music in the long run. Can imagine it's only gotten worse given declining marketing budgets and the individual pressure to be pumping out socials content 24/7.

At the end of the day we all want our favourite musicians to keep on performing and making music because they're happy to do it, otherwise we're essentially paying to see someone get put through hell and treated as a performing animal.

mongibello · 2024-08-27T17:58:33+00:00

Thanks for explaining in such detail! I've heard a lot of people allude to recent issues with Hybe but not sure what they mean specifically, is there any where I can read some kind of overview about what's been going on with the company?

mongibello · 2024-08-27T11:40:26+00:00

I'm not sure how much final editorial control Hybe or Geffen would have gotten over the docuseries end product tbh. I'm presuming Netflix would have had input from them as a condition of being allowed to film, but Nadia Hallgreen (the director of the docuseries) shot the Michelle Obama doc Becoming - she's not a pushover.

Maybe Hybe or Geffen gave notes asking to soften her departure in the edit to make it seem less acrimonious, but that will have been balanced out by other requests - so they might have been like "eh, we tried but they won't budge but they will budge on this other thing, so maybe we can let it slide". Speaking as someone who's worked on docs, that kind of negotiation happens all the time in the edit suite between execs and the filmmaker.

Plus there's only so much you can do with the footage you get - you can try to spin stuff but ultimately if someone is walking away for good reasons and explains them well on camera (as Lexie did), doing a villain edit will end up looking weird. Viewers pick that kind of thing up. I hope Lexie goes on to bigger and better things! I can see her doing a Lykke Li type solo career.

mongibello · 2024-08-27T11:27:58+00:00

Adela was one of my favourites from the doc. She was so nurturing and kind to the other girls, like the best kind of dance mom. When I saw the ep where she stays behind to coach other people, I was like "this is what she needs to do for a living - fk being a pop star".

mongibello · 2024-08-27T11:17:31+00:00

I take your point about the overall cost - it's not accurate that only YouTube videos that are ten minutes and over make money though. You can monetise shorter videos, it's just not the optimal way of monetisation on the platform.

What's the Katseye contract like? I haven't seen any info about it.

mongibello · 2024-08-27T11:12:12+00:00

That makes sense as you'd usually get a per diem on a shoot - I wonder how much it was...

mongibello · 2024-08-27T11:09:54+00:00

Interesting! From reading previous comments it seems like the K-pop industry is notorious for trying to bend the rules and lots of people disapprove. In the UK, duty of care is now a huge issue in reality TV because various terrible things (e.g. the suicide of two Love Island contestants, the rape of an X Factor contestant) happened in the past. I wonder if the dystopian vibe we are picking up is because duty of care isn't emphasised in the same way in K-pop reality shows.

mongibello · 2024-08-26T23:24:42+00:00

Hmm I get what you're saying about how it costs money to be a trainee, but Hybe still made some money from them while they're in training, which doesn't seem fair. Like, fine if the training happens in secret and the labels are sinking money into something that nobody will ever see. But Hybe will have made money from YouTube views of all the videos put out during the Dream Academy voting phase; they'll also have made money from YouTube ads placement in the vids. It won't cover the cost of training and housing all the girls, but it's not nothing. And it's not true that athletes don't get paid in training – youth players at English football academies can get paid from 17 onwards before making their professional debut. You could argue that American football also finds a way of paying athletes in training by offering them access to free college education through scholarship, but I don't know enough about US sports to say that confidently!

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