Very very true. It’s amazing how comfortable I feel in that setting, I become a lot more extroverted and had some conversations (sober and not) that have stayed with me.
Oh man, this gave me goosebumps, just thinking about some of the people I've met at festivals.
Including a dude from Reno one year at WEMF who, three years later, as I was driving through Reno on the way to Colorado from San Francisco let me stay at his place for a week. Just rang him up because he had given me his number and told me to ring him up if I was ever in town (in fucking Reno! hahaha) Chilled with him when he wasn't at work. Met his mates. All because I love giving out pints at festivals! :D
It was so good seeing him again, we partied up together the rest of the night and maybe I’ll never see him again but it’s moments like that which you don’t get often in normal life.
Fucking right!! That's beautiful.
My best friends are all met through the festival scene.
I can say the same, though through raves in general....and at this age, we've weeded out the real degens/bad apples long ago.
I’m also all about the mini fest scene anyways, I guess because the reasons you stated. A sense of community that really gets lost as a festival gets bigger. Small festivals can much better weed out bad drugs, bad oeople, etc..
-GC
I've found that it depends on the festival. All festivals I've been to have the community vibe. There have been various levels of sketchiness though, and those are indeed more common at larger festivals, but I don't think there's a correlation between size and level of sketch. At least not here in Canada.
I love making rando friends....even if it's just for a day or five. I've met some people at festivals that I've connected with so well it's like we've been friends for years after an hour of yapping. It's amazing. Don't quite get the same effects at the pub.
