Posts Tagged ‘metalfests’

Your Scene Sucks & It's Your Fault

Your Scene Sucks & It’s Your Fault

I was gonna do a longer write up on why so-called “fests” are bad for the scene, outlining what’s wrong with them in all the gory details, but I think I’m gonna keep this short and sweet, and let the following graphic do most of the talking for me. I’m not going to insult your intelligence. You know what’s wrong with local “fests” and how they hurt the bands in the local scene. We all know about these monstrosities and the assholes that put them on. Fests are the “thing to do” these days, but they’re nothing more than aborted efforts to make a scene seem bigger and better than it really is, all too often while taking advantage of the local bands and offering nothing new to the local fans. We’ve all seen it: they don’t draw, they’re poorly organized, promoted, and run. Anyway…. here ya go:

MegaUltraAwesomeFest

MegaUltraAwesomeFest