By: Lehwego

Lehwego — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:58:05 +0000

I actually wrote YUMA and Tribe about this…Pretty sure Tribe ignored me. Yuma showed interest and I told them about some things Bachannal jamaica does that could fix at least one of the issues. They say they will look into it. Basically, once the sites launch for 2012 if no mention of the changes are made I will make another post with the suggestions laid out in detail and see what happens from there. Man went to the moon in the 1960 and all now, in 2011, we still cant figure out how to make a 500m stretch of road less unpleasant…nah man…dem naa try.

By: eloquenceinc

eloquenceinc — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:59:18 +0000

I completely agree with the wait to go on stage! I wanted the experience and once I had to deal with the SUFFERATION as you said waiting to go over it, I was over it! (Despite going on that stage 3, count ’em, 3 times…lols!).I would have thought they would have a handle on the carnival parade route thing where they stagger the bands to arrive way after each other so you wait 5 minutes max to go across the stage! My band was behind YUMA (which was the original band i was going for) and omg waiting on 2,500 people to cross the stage and no drinks trucks in sight was…harsh!I broke out in a heat rash the likes of which I had never seen in my life from Carnival monday…I don’t know if it was the sunscreen i had sprayed on all over but it ended up looking like hives or something on my back by the end of the monday. The wait to go across each stage was killing me, standing there dripping in the heat. I saw one guy who was smart about it: he waits up by the front in the nearest shade and lets his section (also mine) meet him there, he doesn’t inch up step by step in the burning sun. And I realized that the waits will never bother me again because that is the perfect time to run around with my camera and catch some misbehaving and the costumes of other bands… the wait once we were told to get in our sections was also annoying, but the savannah stage wait only killed me once I devised my roaming photographer plans because the drinks truck was gone and i had to spend actual money to keep myself hydrated…which kind of defeats the purpose of being ALL INCLUSIVE. But it gave me plenty of time to snap pics of YUMA’s individual costumes and sections, and even roam to the back as far as Legacy (which was huge and I couldn’t get through that crowd to see what bands were behind them). Also gave me a chance to keep dishing out 1,000 wines! :)They need to time it though. No reason to have everybody crammed in a line at the same time at EVERY stage…I do kind of like costume collection though, it’s a nice vibes seeing who is going to be on the road with you and what they chose to wear. What they need is to have some NICE music playing while you’re waiting, and DRINKS! Ice cold DRINKS!

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By: Lehwego

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