Insane queues for everything, overcrowding, hard to get to some stages and actually see bands, atrocious access to water. I’ve been going to Primavera almost yearly for over a decade and last night was the worst I’ve ever seen it in terms of organisation.
“Normally you’d be immersed in the music, and the communal talking point might be: ‘What have you seen tonight?’ But instead it was: ‘What a fucking nightmare it is to do anything.'” “It was all anyone was talking about,” says Daniel Dylan Wray, a freelance music journalist who has been attending Primavera since 2009 and tweeted that this was the worst organization he had ever seen. It was extremely apparent on day one that something was not right.” “The fact that nobody died was really down to the goodwill and moderation of the people who were there. “When I say grueling crush, I mean spending easily half an hour not really moving, and you’re very densely packed in with people,” Kinney says. He describes one particularly grueling crowd crush coming out of Gorillaz’s set, during which he worried that fans might literally get pushed into the Mediterranean Sea. I’ve never witnessed overcrowding as worrying as that,” Kinney says. “I’ve been going to festivals for 12, 13 years. And when one of Kinney’s friends felt unwell, the friend informed the bar staff, who simply told him to get in line for bottled water. Lines for the bar tents were absurdly long - 45 minutes to an hour. Water points were few and far between, with music fans struggling to stay hydrated. The festival grounds were dangerously overcrowded bottlenecks and cramming rendered it difficult to move from one stage to another. Kinney sensed that something was off soon after arriving at Primavera, which has long been renowned for its stellar lineups and beautiful setting. But when Kinney, a 29-year-old British music journalist, attended Primavera Sound in Barcelona this past June, it was the first time he had ever feared for his safety in a festival setting. Fergal Kinney has been going to music festivals since he was a teenager.
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