#8.10.17

Thank you!! Once I am home and have a minute to regroup, I will post all my pics and videos. My pics aren’t as great of quality as my videos, so I’m excited to see them full sized and not just on my phone.

The venue was honestly a mess. It was a BEAUTIFUL space. The staff was AMAZING. But. That’s about where it stops. I don’t know who decided to have 3000+ GA tickets, but whoever it was needs a talking to. I would have paid double the price of the ticket just to not have felt like either herded cattle or a packed sardine. I have never in my life experienced such frustrating audience experience. Thankfully I was with some fantastic people so spending sixteen hours on concrete was way better than it could have been.

It’s disheartening that for something like this, those that follow the rules and try to be respectful are the ones who get kind of shorted in the experience. We were there 15 minutes after the Parking ramp opened, which was still a full hour before they said people were allowed to line up. That being said, we were easily 750-1000 people back in line. Basically, a lot of it can be summed up by a complete disregard of the rules. Cops were called multiple times, literal dad fights broke out, moms pushing their daughters forcefully to the front of lines and the pits. I was flabbergasted at some of the behavior I saw. Definitely not Harry Styles™ approved. Kindness literally flew away with the tropical storm we were all sitting in.

Once inside the actual theater, it was so hot and cramped. People were passing out all over the place and venue medics were passing water out during the whole show. We were able to get on the far left side of the stage relatively close, despite everything. But again, I would have paid double just so I didn’t have to spend the whole show getting shoved and bumped and elbowed and screamed at and pushed and…