October 9, 2008
After The Backlash.
So, after a number of people voiced their disapproval at the shitty organisation of the recent Rocking The Daisies festival, they released an official statement on Facebook, sort of apologising for the whole thing, and promising to be better next time.
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September 2008, saw the highest ever recorded rain fall on Cloof Wine Estate, the venue for the Rocking the Daisies music festival hosted from 3-5 October. As a result, mud and the subsequent congestion of cars trying to enter the camp sites, was an issue and were unable to get cleaning vehicles into the camp sites to clean. Although precautionary measures to combat the mud were put in place, the organisers did not anticipate such an enormous turnout. Initial infrastructure was intended for the anticipated 8,000 festival goers. When informed of 4,000 tickets being purchased on Friday, 3 October (the first day of the festival), additional infrastructure was provided to cater for 10,000. This included additional ablution facilities, security, opening new camp sites and deploying extra cleaning staff. In order to combat the congestion issue, additional land was hired to accommodate parking and a park and shuttle system was implemented to transport festival goers to their camp sites. At the same time, additional drainage ditches were dug, wood chips and hay bales were bought and laid down to absorb moisture and tractors were on call to assist those getting stuck. The organisers, in conjunction with Webtickets, are now refunding all full weekend online ticket holders who left the queues. Simply go to www.webtickets.co.za/refunds and complete the form to apply for a refund. All refunds will be processed within one week. Full weekend ticket holders who returned on Saturday when the congestion issues had been addressed, are entitled to a refund of R70 - the difference between the full weekend and Saturday/Sunday ticket price. We regret that people had to queue for so long and would like to thank all those who did for their patience. Rocking the Daisies is now in its third year and we strive towards bettering our facilities and creating a seamless festival experience for all those who attend. In this vein, we appreciate any constructive feedback and look forward to implementing all the lessons learnt in 2008 to Rocking the Daisies 2009. For more information go to http://www.webtickets.co.za/rockingthedaisies/ |
I dunno. Surely there should have been a cap on the number of tickets made available? What do you think? Should we give them another chance?
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I suppose the fact that they have actually apologised makes it a bit better.
Let sleeping dogs lie, and all that.
I appreciate the apology, I think they did ok on that front - you can’t always predict everything.
What really bugged me (to air a smaller griper)was that they said we couldn’t bring glass bottles but then sold them themselves - and restricted us from bringing our own booze up to the stage area and even around the lake. I thought that was a bit cheap.
I have to ad that I had a rad time despite this though - and thought the bands were great.
the apology is good, but, the only really problem were the people dealing with the tickets at the venue being rude and incompetent … letting friends drive thru when they clearly weren’t allowed to and blatantly ignoring others when asked a simple question … professionalism and doing your job should not be seen as doing the other people that were there a favor
I think they did a great job after facing such adversity. I went last year when there were only 5000 people and it was fantastic, but any festival is expected to grow with time, but they ended up doubling their numbers in one year. I think next year is gonna be awesome coz i suppose now they will know they can afford to cap their tickets and can actually prepare for the amount of people they can assume will come after this year. NEXT ROCKING THE DAISIES HERE I COME!!