modern hippies fail at hippiedom, exhibit 37
I read the news every day. Any given day in my life you can be sure of two things. I will drink coffee and i will read the news. To be honest, i mostly just glance the headlines because that's enough to give me general overview of what is going on in the world, but there are always a couple of articles a day that warrant a clickthrough
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I'd like to say that Europe just has way more festivals to begin with, so there is more chance for small ones that cater to niche crowds who really care about the event an sich, but that might only be true of the styles of music and subcultures i gravitate toward. One thing i can objectively say is that i never took a private vehicle to a festival or outdoor party in Europe, but in Canada and Australia that was the only way. I think it definitely creates a different vibe when going to a festival means sitting on a bus or a train for a couple hours with a bunch of people who are all heading to the same place, and then you get there and it's just you and what you brought in your backpack. (Of course there are private drivers in Europe too, but they tend to be crew because vehicle camping is strictly limited or at some events outright banned for normal attendees.)
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Or is it something where you can take over somewhere off the beaten path? I think of the Fringe festival or something where the whole city is taken over for... some time.
There are definitely downtown sorta corporate festivals in the U.S. but the wildest ones are generally out in a field somewhere.
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In the context i have been talking about on this thread i am mostly thinking about hippie and rave type festivals, that is... psychedelic rock, folk music, electronic music, world music, poetry recitals, independent film, circus acts, installation art, trippy light shows, playground equipment designed for adults, weird situationist performances, vegan food, cauldrons full of chai, yoga, meditation, cacao, random other appropriated new age rituals... and all that against a backdrop of nature, out in the sticks somewhere.
But of course there are urban versions of the same thing. And there are varying degrees of the same thing, like more musically oriented, or more spiritually oriented, or more capital-A Art oriented. So the broader you try to cast the net, the less you can really generalize.
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But I think most events go through a big sea-change when they become overtly "popular".... where the attendees are less and less involved with the reason the event is taking place, and start showing up simply because there is an Event Taking Place, irrelative of it's meaning/purpose....
... what I mean is....
... fucking tourists.
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