Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

man, have you people ever got yr snoot on.
you guys going to act like this with the same crowd seeing underworld that will have seen sebastian and all them?

"you're probably here for drugs and vapid stuff because you like dumb music while i'm off having religious experiences to R+K's amazingness"

sheesh.

i'd fucking see sebastian.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

that makes two of us :D

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Got my VIP tix!!! Woo Hoo... I don't have time read all the posts right now... any dirts meeting up at the show? I AM SO EXCITED!!! :D:D:D

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

No meet-up details yet, but I'll be in the VIP too, so that's 2 at least. 2 more and we'll have more than the last LA meet-up:p

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Have you been to a HARD party?

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

is it going to make me dismiss a whole subgenre of music as being essentially vapid?

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Yes.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

WELL THAT WOULD BE A DUMB THING TO DO

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Can't wait. :rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqIQaaEwLPk

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Just about two weeks out now...Hard's twitter suggested that set times are coming soon, so we can set a proper meet-up once that's sorted.

Who's coming and who's in the VIP?

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

o the suspense... i'm rollin' in with about 8 close friends which are all GA. i on the other hand maybe photographing the event, but still waiting on the confirmation, so that in turn might grant some vip access. here's to hoping;)

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Set times posted. short u/w set :(

HARD STAGE
(8-9pm BUSY P)
(9-9:45pm CRYSTAL CASTLES)
(9:55-10:40pm CHROMEO)
(11-12:30am UNDERWORLD)
(12:30-1:30am CROOKERS)
(1:30-2:30am THE BLOODY BEETROOTS)
(2:30-3:15am TIGA)
(3:15-4am SEBASTIAN)

UNDERGROUND STAGE
(8-9:10pm 12th Planet)
(9:10-10:30pm JACK BEATS)
(10:30-11:30pm STEVE AOKI)
(11:30-12:30am DJ AM)
(12:30-1:10am AMANDA BLANK)
(1:10-2:20am SINDEN)
(2:20-4:00am DJ-ATRAK)

VIP
MARSHALL BARNES/
SKEET SKEET/
DAN OH/

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

all's quite on the western front...

8ish hours to go...

is there anybody out there...?

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

just saw alice last night damn, should have left with her to party

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Any meet ups scheduled? Anyone have leftover tix - planning to get some down there.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

The website says it is Sold Out, so you might have to buy from scalpers or craigslist.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Have fun tonight all you Hardcore Dirties!
Enjoy the show and avoid the glowstick alien kids.
Here's to hoping you hear Juanita!

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

I shoulda went to Vegas.

So furious right now that I can't even collect my thoughts for a report. More tomorrow...

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

(11-12:30am UNDERWORLD)

posting before its over + furious = very bad things.

uh oh

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

very bad things indeed....I wonder what happened?

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

A Twitter search for "Hard Summer" has lots of tweets out there saying that the festival was shut down by the LAPD/Fire Marshall before midnight... Not sure if Underworld got a chance to play at all...

True bummer for LA SoCal fans...

http://twitter.com/#search?q=HARD%20summer
http://twitpic.com/d9bqn

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

beat me to it
http://twitter.com/#search?q=hardfest (more 'info' on that one. this is why twitter works)

daaaamn.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

photo from inside
http://twitpic.com/d9a1c

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Holy hell... Sounds like a disaster gig...

Here's another pic... http://twitpic.com/d9cov

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Total fucking nightmare, right from the beginning.

- There was no order at all to the entrances, it was anarchy -- people climbing over walls and shit.

- Inside, nobody knew how to get down on the floor level. The staff were wall imbeciles, nobody could even tell you were the second stage was.

- Frustrated with the lack of access, some hooligans started jumping over the wall of the bleacher section and onto the floor.

- Fire marshall came in and caused some trouble, prompting the organizers to BEG people to sit down and back away from railings. Nearly everybody did but even 1.5 hours later the music still had not resumed.

- Riot police called in, rumors of a fatality.

- Finally, everybody noticed the sound guys packing up and Tweets and Texts from the outside said Underworld and Chromeo and the other artists had already left the building.

Total fucking FAIL.

My friends and I did the whole trek: Vegas, Oakland and back home to LA, and it was such a big deal to me to do this. I am crushed and furious. I'm embarrassed for my city.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Can't believe this show was shut down. I'm still sitting in my car in the parking lot, hoping to catch a glimpse of Rick or Karl.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Wow, biggest clusterfuck I've ever seen in my life.

www.hardfest.com

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

apparently there was a shooting?
busy p got hit in the leg by a stray bullet?
gossip going wild right now.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

I've read that on Twitter, also. But then again, it's Twitter. There's a lot of stuff flying around there.

I feel bad for the people here that made the trek.
Jason

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Biggest Effing let down of my freakin' meaningless life. Total Shite! A bunch of Effing Aholes just ruined it. The forum SUCKS!!!

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Don't blame the people attending. As much as I wanted to punch everyone with a pacifier (so basically, everyone) in the face, this clusterfuck rests squarely on the shoulders of the promoter.

Karl tweeting now:

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Clusterfuck is really the only appropriate word. Everything about this event went wrong, from the minute you arrived at the venue. I won't be surprised if this puts HARD out of business, what with refunding all the tickets (i assume), paying the artists and paying the venue. Not to mention the serious damage to HARD's reputation. This is a class A disaster.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

On the face of it, it sounds like the organisers just didn't provide the necessary staff to ensure this event passed off safely. Trying to do it on the cheap and max out their profits, no doubt.

What idiots. :mad:

I often think we are over the top with our Health and Safety legislation in the UK - x number of marshalls for events, x number of security guards, x arrangements for car-parking etc. or the event doesn't happen - but it's at times like this when I realise that actually it serves a good purpose.

I hope you guys sue, frankly.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

http://twitpic.com/d9b5o

Pic from inside the forum, for what it's worth. Looks like way oversold.

Jason

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Who knows the band well enough to get them to do a show tomorrow ;)

All the organizers had to do was to tell the crowd what they needed to do in order to restart the music. Instead, they just berated the ppl who were f*cking it up for everyone else - key info left out though was what were they doing that was wrong? Good communication could have easily solved the problem, as people were there to have a good time & would've done whatever they had to to get the show going.

Speaking of good communication, who knows the band well enough to get them to do a show tomorrow ;) Even a stripped down one without all the gear!

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Posted pictures on my facebook. These are available for anyone to view:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...5&l=aaeb29f676

I'm really sad my Underworld show turned into a freaking warzone, especially considering how much I paid for my tickets and parking!

I'm home, but I'm still buzzed a bit from the beers. Maybe I'll pop in the Everything Everything DVD......

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

I will happily go see Underworld wherever in the city they want to perform. Barring a performance, what about some kind of meet and greet with the boys? It should be pretty easy to organize with the dirty forum. Many of us have identified ourselves as being at the LA show.

I dunno, just thinking out loud, trying to process my disappointment. Not to sound like an idiot but this violence and dickery is really everything a rave is meant to reject, not embrace.

Anyone at the Adventurer hotel? Thinking about congregating by the pool when the cops leave.

P.S. Thanks to everyone who PMed me about meeting up on this trek. I'm afraid I'm too much of a n00b to think of checking my messages. I hope everyone had as rad a time in Vegas and Oakland as me and my friends did (including Stepho, my gf who Underworld said happy birthday to in the last broadcast!) I can more easily be reached on Twitter at username @killkillkill. Would change the sig but internet is rubbish.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Oh right. I'm the white dude in the black Daft Punk t-shirt.

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

Should've realized that something was up when this was the very first thing I saw upon arriving at the venue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwYeF_0pyG8

There was a big crowd rush on one of the entrances (or it might've been the TicketMaster will-call), and a whole bunch of police converged. The "oooooh" you hear on the video was people reacting to the police taking a guy down to the ground (I didn't capture it well on the video).

It just got worse from there. The Groove Tickets will-call had a line that stretched for hundreds of feet. I probably would have been waiting an hour if I hadn't cut the line. And amazingly, they only had 75% of the will call windows open.

Then the ticket entrances to the venues had huge lines also. Fortunately, I found a place where there was no crowd and got it fairly easily. Once I got in at 10 PM, the music had already been stopped for about half an hour. They made a few announcements about people sitting down or clearing certain rows and stuff, but nothing detailed enough for people to understand. After about 10:30 they stopped making announcements.

At just after 11 PM, I had just stepped outside the foyer for a second. Bad timing. Right at that moment, the staff forcibly shut the venue doors, and a line of riot police and staff were immediately on us, escorting us into the parking lot. I walked around the venue a little bit, and found my way back in through another entrance.

I think they already knew at that point that the show was cancelled though. I don't know why they let everyone wait around with no information until the announcement was made at just after midnight.

I made my way to the floor, and spoke to Toby Vogel as he was breaking down his equipment. He didn't even have a copy of the setlist yet, cause the boys hadn't made it yet (although Karl tweeted that the wrote it up away from the venue in the hopes that they would be able to return to play it). He also said that the boys felt gutted because they had put a lot of preparation into it and were looking forward to playing.

Then the riot police formed up and pushed everyone out of the floor:

http://www.aloha.com/~tabanger/under...riotpolice.jpg

And they even brought in a police helicopter. According to the policewoman I spoke to, she said it was shut down by the fire marshall because there were too many people and the venue wasn't big enough. Therefore, IMO, the blame falls squarely on the promoter, HARD, for overselling. I hope all the artists get paid in full, and that everyone gets their refund (which has been promised). HARD deserves to pay through the nose. Or, as the refrain went tonight, "Fuck HARD!"

Re: Underworld @ HardFest Los Angeles Aug 8th
 

sure you weren't teleported back to Paris 1968?