Went to LED Festival on Saturday and thought I would give some feedback for what was a mixed day....

The Good -
- Jaguar Skills - Amazing set and the crowd went wild!
- Netsky - Sounded great while chilling on the grass outside the tent.
- Skrillex main stage set - Thought it was a great mix of dubstep and electro.
- Zane Low - Got the crowd going mental on the main stage!
- Friendly security - apart from one over zealous guy at Bar 2.

The Bad -
- Deadmau5 - Anybody else leave dissapointed after hearing the headliner's set? Was expecting huge things and while the visuals and stage setup were massively impressive, the set was most definitely not. Far too progressive for a headliner's set and loads of people leaving before the end.
- Calvin Harris - Another poor set that took away all the energy that had built up from Zane Low's and Skrillex's sets.

The Ugly -
- Buying a drink - You invite however many thousand people into Victoria park and then give them 4 places to buy drinks from (3 bars and a Kopperberg tent). Spending 40 minutes in a queue to buy a drink is not fun and not how I want to be spending my time at a festival!
- Buying food - You invite however many thousand people into Victoria park and then give them 8 places to buy food! Leading to another hour and twenty minutes spent trying to get something to eat!
- Bar prices - Expensive drinks is something you expect at a big event like this but £4.10 for a 440ml can of warm Tuborg is pretty horrendous. As was the 40p difference between the flavours of Cider! And by only opening 1 till at each bar at the start of the event meant the bar staff were queing to put the money in the till, so 15 minutes to get to the bar and then another 10 minutes once you had handed your money over!


Overall I was left with a feeling of overall dissapointment. Saw some quality sets but this was pretty much ruined by the constant waiting and strangely dissapointing headliner. I'm not a proper house/electro/dubstep/dnb fan and went to the festival with a pretty open mind so the regulars may have a different view of the music.

What are everyone else's thoughts?

You'll find most inner city people will be used to city noise anyway and naturally filter it out. Same as if you work in a shop you tend to find yourself naturally filtering out whatever shit that's being played on any given day.

This.

Busy body ol' cunt that lives next to Victoria park will be used to "normal" city noises. No matter what frequency they are, festival noise is not the same noise.



Yes necessarily.

true that, although it does still have an effect. i've no idea where the articles are as i was sent them in my last job on the isle of man but there was quite extensive research done into the effect on the brain that datacentre workers undergo & despite most large comms environment employees having no negativity mentally towards the constant noise of their workplaces - the resonance etc still poses long term and generally unnoticeable to the ignorant (wrong choice of word, probably) eye/ear.


take it you've heard of the brown-noise?

missed out the word effect there too, woops!

Yeah the brown noise was a load of bollocks.

But anyway, the point you made, whilst very thought out, just backs up what me and Dom are saying, particularly this bit.


Anyway, i'm not sure why i'm comment, I didn't even go.

Me either. Well, not this year. But when I do, I understand to a degree the need for the levels to be kept low. If it's high levels you are after, find a club with a phat system or go to a free party in a field with a phat system.

You made the right choice. If I wanted to listen to dubstep I'd load a game on my commodore 64.

haha, good point, neither did i :P although i do live round the corner from it!

i getya tho, u and domp are talking about what people actually *mind* - whereas i'm faffing on about the detremental effect of frequencies on the brain....

there was a documentary on the use of music to torture prisoners of guantanamo a while back, playing things like slayer & metallica to people to drive them a bit bonkers because culturally they didnt want to and couldn't hack the sound of it........i guess the same as my rents hating nirvana when i was a kid :P

i think i might need a pint to shake this off i'm having a severe geek day!

deffo agree, there residential areas round viccy are massive & built up, not really fair to crank it up considering theres probably more people living there than there is at the festival...perhaps?

Canb I suggest a whole bottle of Vodka instead?

I'm well aware of all that.


Roadworks right outside my window for a couple of weeks a year isn't normally city noise like traffic, trains, sirens etc are.

It's the timing more than anything. These festivals don't go on late. Isn't SW4 finished by about 9pm? It's not like they're stopping everyone from sleeping. Most people are up by midday. Not everyone is up at 7:30am though. I'd suggest probably more are asleep than awake.

The councils hate clubbing / clubbers and love it when locals complain so they can hamper good clubbing ideas.

can i have gin instead??

They were resurfacing the road I live on at 8 this morning, coulda fucking killed someone, if I wanted to kept awake by the sounds of dickheads I'd move to London ;)

During the week isn't so bad. I generally don't go out Friday nights so Saturday morning is really the only time a week I get a chance for a lay in. Don't even go to bed most Saturday nights / Sunday mornings.

It's so infuriating when at 7:30am Saturday morning you hear so much noise. We also get the Crossrail works which generally go on all hours of the night and day.

I'd swap a couple of afternoon festivals a year for Crossrail engineering everyday of the week. These people that live on the boundaries of a park with their nice quiet canal should count themselves lucky.

mate, have u ever lived in bow? ;P

As much as you hate it, they are actually normal noises. Road repairs go on all over the place, all of the time. You are not alone.

Loud music though doesn't, and is out of the ordinary.

The issue is not what is objectively loud or out of the ordinary. It just comes down to what people will complain about, and people hate the thud thud of it.

People will complain about repairs outside their window on a Saturday morning, but nothing can be done about. People will complain at a planned music event and it won't get planning. Or if it does, it gets restricted.

South london calling got cancelled last week due to the police and local council being a bunch of anal cunts, was looking forward to it as its 5 mins from my gaff.