progressive house trance etc music thread
02-23-2013
, 10:54 PM
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, 10:48 PM
02-25-2013
, 11:54 AM
So, a little over a year ago, I went to the SHM show and Madison Square Garden, there's a pretty long trip report I put up somewhere in this thread (show was December 2011 I think if you want to go back and look).
I really had a great time and thought it was a great show. F the haters. I enjoyed it so much, I got tickets to the One Last Tour show on Saturday at Rogers Centre.
So here is my trip report on that.
The entire experience was a disappointing cluster****.
Background: I'm from just outside Detroit. Went with just myself and girlfriend. I'm ****ing old (33). On Tuesday we drove up to Blue Mountain, skied Wed & Thurs, drove to Toronto Friday. Friday night did the tasting menu at Trevor Bar and Kitchen (fantastic, more deserving of a trip report than SHM).
Saturday, did a little shopping, had a couple drinks at Lucien. headed toward Rogers Centre. Stopped at Jack Astors for a couple drinks and sandwich. All going well so far. I had been keeping a pretty close eye on twitter, and knew a few things.
doors 7:30, otto knows 8:30-9:30, SHM 10-12:30
Every thing Friday indicated the line to get in was really long, and took forever.
We planned on getting there at 7:15 which we did.
Now, a little logistics explanation.
There were three types of tickets: VIP small area to the sides of the stage. GA floor. GA stands. GA floor had no chairs and was what would normally be the field of a baseball stadium (Rogers Centre home of the Blue Jays fyi). Last was GA stands, which was standard baseball stands. So in this area, you would be jumping, fist pumping dancing whatever in a row of seats that were GA.
Now, little more about Rogers. Baseball capacity is listed as 49K. Concert is listed at 10k-55k. Record was for Wrestlemania at 68k. I think if you take the baseball capacity, and cut a third of it, you would probably be pretty close to the stands capacity for SHM which is 33k. Plus how many people you can fit on the field, another 10k or so? not sure. for the purpose of this, lets say 45k total for SHM. I'd totally believe it was at max concert capacity of 55k, but i don't want to exaggerate, so lets say 45k.
This is the email I received before the concert:
Floor Ticket holders: Gate 6 & 10
Level 100 Ticket holders: Gates 5 & 11
Level 200 Ticket holders: Gates 4 & 12
VIP Ticket holders: Gate 9A
Suite Ticket holders: Gates 9 & 13
Accessible/Wheelchair Access: Gate 7
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so you have
45K people going through basically the 4,5,6,10,11,12 gates.
For a baseball game, you would have 15 gates open.
gates open at 7:30, otto knows at 8:30, so most these people want to get in in under an hour. Please note this includes frisking and bag check.
Anywhere remotely near the front of the line, everyone was just pushing (pointlessly). It was the first time in my life i thought "wow, if i fall right now, i will probably die. and there is a decent chance I fall right now".
Obviously, people pushing and shoving are *******s, however, I put this on the rogers centre. There was no organization outside the building. it literally was a mad rush to the front. it wasn't a line so much as a random mob outside the building. If you aren't going to have any kind of structure or system, of course people are going to be *******s. They had the huge lines and **** the night before, so there is no excuse for them not to be ready on Saturday. By the time we got in, Otto Knows had already started (keep in mind we were in line before the doors opened). My girlfriend was on the verge of tears after the line nightmare, but she pulled through.
Once inside it wasn't much better. If you look at the map, it shows definite break points of green and red. The red concourse areas simply weren't open and were blocked off. So concessions were way way undermanned. And you had smaller versions of the line cluster**** at concession stands. the concession people didn't give a ****, and people were entering lines from where you exit, therefor pissing people off who were actually waiting, thereby creating a situation where you just did what you could to get to the front. not to mention people just standing there ordering beers and handing them back to their friends repeat repeat repeat.
So eventually we got a beer, and got to the floor. Over the course of the show, we saw probably 8 people passed out and carried off by security, or on there friends shoulders, or various states of couldn't handle whatever drugs alcohol whatever they were on.
the show was ok. I'm definitely not a SHM hater, i'm sure most on here would classify me as a cheesehead. thats fine, i like what i like.
The madison square garden show was amazing. at that show I feel like SHM was actually shocked to be there, and went absolutely all out and really did it up. This felt more like a sell out. After realizing they could sell out these massive arenas, they just did a tour where they did, without any of the specialness of it. That might not be fair to them, but thats just the impression i had. The stage setup was similar to MSG, little bigger, but nothing new/original. At MSG they had people out actually singing (Tinie Tempah for example), none of that here. Just felt very meh. the last half hour or so i was pretty much done with it.
Would my impression change if the rogers centre would not have been such an incredibly awful venue? probably, but i have a hard time imagining a scenario where I saw that particular SHM show and it being great in different venue, better yes, but great no.
All that being said, even though i was very disappointed in the show, the skiing, trevor tasting menu etc was all really good, so successful overall trip.
I really had a great time and thought it was a great show. F the haters. I enjoyed it so much, I got tickets to the One Last Tour show on Saturday at Rogers Centre.
So here is my trip report on that.
The entire experience was a disappointing cluster****.
Background: I'm from just outside Detroit. Went with just myself and girlfriend. I'm ****ing old (33). On Tuesday we drove up to Blue Mountain, skied Wed & Thurs, drove to Toronto Friday. Friday night did the tasting menu at Trevor Bar and Kitchen (fantastic, more deserving of a trip report than SHM).
Saturday, did a little shopping, had a couple drinks at Lucien. headed toward Rogers Centre. Stopped at Jack Astors for a couple drinks and sandwich. All going well so far. I had been keeping a pretty close eye on twitter, and knew a few things.
doors 7:30, otto knows 8:30-9:30, SHM 10-12:30
Every thing Friday indicated the line to get in was really long, and took forever.
We planned on getting there at 7:15 which we did.
Now, a little logistics explanation.
There were three types of tickets: VIP small area to the sides of the stage. GA floor. GA stands. GA floor had no chairs and was what would normally be the field of a baseball stadium (Rogers Centre home of the Blue Jays fyi). Last was GA stands, which was standard baseball stands. So in this area, you would be jumping, fist pumping dancing whatever in a row of seats that were GA.
Now, little more about Rogers. Baseball capacity is listed as 49K. Concert is listed at 10k-55k. Record was for Wrestlemania at 68k. I think if you take the baseball capacity, and cut a third of it, you would probably be pretty close to the stands capacity for SHM which is 33k. Plus how many people you can fit on the field, another 10k or so? not sure. for the purpose of this, lets say 45k total for SHM. I'd totally believe it was at max concert capacity of 55k, but i don't want to exaggerate, so lets say 45k.
This is the email I received before the concert:
Floor Ticket holders: Gate 6 & 10
Level 100 Ticket holders: Gates 5 & 11
Level 200 Ticket holders: Gates 4 & 12
VIP Ticket holders: Gate 9A
Suite Ticket holders: Gates 9 & 13
Accessible/Wheelchair Access: Gate 7
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so you have
45K people going through basically the 4,5,6,10,11,12 gates.
For a baseball game, you would have 15 gates open.
gates open at 7:30, otto knows at 8:30, so most these people want to get in in under an hour. Please note this includes frisking and bag check.
Anywhere remotely near the front of the line, everyone was just pushing (pointlessly). It was the first time in my life i thought "wow, if i fall right now, i will probably die. and there is a decent chance I fall right now".
Obviously, people pushing and shoving are *******s, however, I put this on the rogers centre. There was no organization outside the building. it literally was a mad rush to the front. it wasn't a line so much as a random mob outside the building. If you aren't going to have any kind of structure or system, of course people are going to be *******s. They had the huge lines and **** the night before, so there is no excuse for them not to be ready on Saturday. By the time we got in, Otto Knows had already started (keep in mind we were in line before the doors opened). My girlfriend was on the verge of tears after the line nightmare, but she pulled through.
Once inside it wasn't much better. If you look at the map, it shows definite break points of green and red. The red concourse areas simply weren't open and were blocked off. So concessions were way way undermanned. And you had smaller versions of the line cluster**** at concession stands. the concession people didn't give a ****, and people were entering lines from where you exit, therefor pissing people off who were actually waiting, thereby creating a situation where you just did what you could to get to the front. not to mention people just standing there ordering beers and handing them back to their friends repeat repeat repeat.
So eventually we got a beer, and got to the floor. Over the course of the show, we saw probably 8 people passed out and carried off by security, or on there friends shoulders, or various states of couldn't handle whatever drugs alcohol whatever they were on.
the show was ok. I'm definitely not a SHM hater, i'm sure most on here would classify me as a cheesehead. thats fine, i like what i like.
The madison square garden show was amazing. at that show I feel like SHM was actually shocked to be there, and went absolutely all out and really did it up. This felt more like a sell out. After realizing they could sell out these massive arenas, they just did a tour where they did, without any of the specialness of it. That might not be fair to them, but thats just the impression i had. The stage setup was similar to MSG, little bigger, but nothing new/original. At MSG they had people out actually singing (Tinie Tempah for example), none of that here. Just felt very meh. the last half hour or so i was pretty much done with it.
Would my impression change if the rogers centre would not have been such an incredibly awful venue? probably, but i have a hard time imagining a scenario where I saw that particular SHM show and it being great in different venue, better yes, but great no.
All that being said, even though i was very disappointed in the show, the skiing, trevor tasting menu etc was all really good, so successful overall trip.
Last edited by phillydilly; 02-25-2013 at 12:05 PM.
Reason: have to agree with Vincepcion, Toronto did not represent themselves well. At all.
02-28-2013
, 02:41 AM
everybody make the W with their hands!
Shogun tomorrow night, JOC in 2 weeks (I'm opening yay
), BEB in 4 weeks. after a bit of a lulllll I am full swing back into the house & trance parties.
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