Tomorrowland, the biggest electronic music festival in the world, has been held annually in Belgium since 2005. I posted the 2012 aftermovie, which was released yesterday. It already has over 2 million views.
This year, over 180,000 people attended the three day event. This was their 8th year doing it -I’m hoping to make it to their 10 year anniversary event in 2014, which will be the same year I graduate from school.
I talked to a buddy of mine who tried to buy tickets when they released them in April of this year - apparently all 180,000 tickets were sold out within two hours.
Out of curiousity, has anyone ever gone/considered going?
Until you posted this, I had never heard of this event. I’ve got to say, it looks awesome. I don’t expect that I’ll ever make it to this. I’ll have to live vicariously through YouTube, and some of you youngsters, if you make it there and survive to tell the tale.
This is from the Wikipedia entry:
“The 2012 edition took place on Friday, July 27, Saturday, July 28 and Sunday, July 29. The line-up consisted of 400 DJs, such as Skrillex, Avicii, Skazi, David Guetta, Nervo, Hardwell, Swedish House Mafia, Afrojack, Steve Aoki, Carl Cox, The Bloody Beetroots, Paul van Dyk, Martin Solveig, Chuckie (DJ), Fatboy Slim and Pendulum, playing on 15 stages per day. Because of the enormous success of Tomorrowland and the fact that it is a Belgian festival, ID&T decided to give Belgians an exclusive chance with a presale (80,000 of the 180,000 tickets) on Saturday, March 24. In less than one day, all of the tickets sold out and at some moments there were 2,000,000 people on the online waiting list. The worldwide sale started Saturday, April 7 at 11am. Within less than 2 hours, the other 100,000 tickets sold out.”
They’re really fun, the only thing is it’s really hard to go all day for 3 days especially when you don’t take drugs
That being said the festivals are a lot easier than the club events. I went a 2 day event at a club which ran from 11pm-6pm each day. By 3:30-4am each day I was pretty much ready to go home while my friends who were on ‘stuff’ were still going.
Music festivals are better in that you can sit down and take breaks.
Cudi is the man, had a bunch of high school classes with him.
I think it would be like having a big party with a badass dj, rather than going to a rock show. ie. not into watching the act, but still into the music.
If any of you guys are seriously planning on going to one of these mega house festivals (there are quite a few in North America and England don’t worry) and want to take drugs of some sort be sure to bring girls with you.
They’ve really stepped up the searches at the door. The only real place you can store your shit without worry of confiscation is a woman’s pussy. We literally had 3 girls with pussies full of coke and mda lol.
You can’t even sneak in alcohol through the ol’ unopened bottled water trick. They were only allowing empty capless bottles into the facility.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
That looks like a hell of a good time. I’d go for the party, rather than seeing the music live, and the girls…[/quote]
It’s amazing.
The music grows on you. It did at least for me.
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Same here.
Ever since my son started composing EDM 6 or 7 years ago, I’ve been a fan of the good stuff. He’s headlined shows this year and I hope his popularity grows to the point where he’s invited to Tomorrowland in a couple of years!
The boobs are no longer safe either. They were grabbing the girls bras, pulling them forward and then shaking the shit out of them to see if anything will fall out.
If you’re a guys they grab your balls every single time.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
That looks like a hell of a good time. I’d go for the party, rather than seeing the music live, and the girls…[/quote]
It’s amazing.
The music grows on you. It did at least for me.
[/quote]
Same here.
Ever since my son started composing EDM 6 or 7 years ago, I’ve been a fan of the good stuff. He’s headlined shows this year and I hope his popularity grows to the point where he’s invited to Tomorrowland in a couple of years!
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[quote]Aggv wrote:
That looks like a hell of a good time. I’d go for the party, rather than seeing the music live, and the girls…[/quote]
It’s amazing.
The music grows on you. It did at least for me.
[/quote]
Same here.
Ever since my son started composing EDM 6 or 7 years ago, I’ve been a fan of the good stuff. He’s headlined shows this year and I hope his popularity grows to the point where he’s invited to Tomorrowland in a couple of years!
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That’s pretty cool
A couple of years is a lofty goal though!
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Not really when you consider the “newness” of the genre, it’s size and relative underground status. The potential for artists bringing something new here is better than those trying to break into a mainstream genre.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
That looks like a hell of a good time. I’d go for the party, rather than seeing the music live, and the girls…[/quote]
It’s amazing.
The music grows on you. It did at least for me.
[/quote]
Same here.
Ever since my son started composing EDM 6 or 7 years ago, I’ve been a fan of the good stuff. He’s headlined shows this year and I hope his popularity grows to the point where he’s invited to Tomorrowland in a couple of years!
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That’s pretty cool
A couple of years is a lofty goal though!
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Not really when you consider the “newness” of the genre, it’s size and relative underground status. The potential for artists bringing something new here is better than those trying to break into a mainstream genre.
Ultra Music festival down here in Miami gets crazier every year. I love EDM music, but don’t participate in the drug aspect. Basically all of my friends that go will roll face every day of the festival. If you guys watch vids of Tomorrowland or Ultra, and you see everyone wearing sunglasses even when it’s night time, you know why. That’s another reason why they sell water for like 5 bucks a bottle. And even though the music is great, it’s always fun to people watch.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
That looks like a hell of a good time. I’d go for the party, rather than seeing the music live, and the girls…[/quote]
It’s amazing.
The music grows on you. It did at least for me.
[/quote]
Same here.
Ever since my son started composing EDM 6 or 7 years ago, I’ve been a fan of the good stuff. He’s headlined shows this year and I hope his popularity grows to the point where he’s invited to Tomorrowland in a couple of years!
[/quote]
That’s pretty cool
A couple of years is a lofty goal though!
[/quote]
Not really when you consider the “newness” of the genre, it’s size and relative underground status. The potential for artists bringing something new here is better than those trying to break into a mainstream genre.
My son is already starting to make waves.
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Does he do any remixes of Phil Collins songs?[/quote]
