So for the next few hours I’m going to be putting up some review-ettes (is that even a word?) of Soundwave, but first let’s judge the logistical issues of Two-Zero-One-Zero, because Soundwave always find a way to stuff things up royally every year.

This year’s list includes:

• Minimal organisation of their security: I say this as a mere observation more than a critique, mostly because the crowd was rather well-behaved and security personnel themselves actually did a lot to help (stopping fuckwits, giving out water, etc.). But I practically flew through the gates without a single person caring that my ticket was a print out with two barcodes to scan and the D Barriers had people jumping fences whist the legit folks who were lining up got abandoned.
• They ran out of water by 2pm and started serving people Mount Franklin bottles.
• They had minimal shade areas
• Considering the two former points, it was scorching hot.
• They closed two of the bars. Cheers of “Bullshit” were heard from the lines outside.
• Someone vomited on my bus. Supposedly driving to the festival was horrid but who actually drives to a festival unless they want to get fucked over and possibly get caught for drunk driving?

There were improvements but in usual internet fashion I won’t mention them and assume KMW Productions are the devil. Onto the bands.