[jayswin]

Originally Posted by flameswin

...and just to go on a mini rant for a sec here......

I'm really not a fan of all the complaining that goes on in th city towards Virgin festival (and I was even guilty of it a bit before). From music fans, from the media etc...

I mean, let's look at this realistically. They bring a festival to town, and for $140 you get to enjoy...

-One of the top bands in the word in Pearl Jam
-One of the top candian bands right now in Billy Talent
-Other great acts such as Tokyo Police Club, Metric, K-OS, Wintersleep, Arkells, Thunderheist, etc
-Two awesome days, drinking beer in the sun with thousands of other happy music fans


It's friggen great value. Calgary is a city of just over a million people, we're not Toronto or Vancouver or any other city that people often point to and say "look at their line-up, our his BS comapred to that".

IMO, getting 34000 fans out over two days should be looked at as a success, and something we should forward to again next year, and not just say "Well it's not as big as I think it should be and therefore it's stupid and an insult to our city". The alternative is to just not have a summer Rock music festival at all. I'll take some killer bands and a fun weekend over nothing any day of the week.

...and in true rant fashion, I made about 10 mistakes.