18 reasons why you shouldn’t bother going to Helsinki’s Flow Festival
The international press often describes Helsinki’s Flow as one of Europe’s best music festivals. You might think it belongs on your bucket list. However, before you rush to get a ticket for the partially sold out event, consider these 18 reasons to think again.
[TOC_PLACE_HOLDER]1. The lineup’s not up to much for music nerds
2. And the venue sucks too
3. Plus, there’s no mud to wallow in
4. Which makes the atmosphere terrible
5. Mainly because nobody goes
6. Still, the traffic chaos is unimaginable
7. If you get hungry, there is hardly any food to choose from
8. And there are only a few places to chill
9. It’s basically a concrete jungle
10. With some crappy disco lights
11. And unknown DJs
12. The cool headliners are just lip syncing ripoffs
13. Groovy live music is extinct in this year’s lineup
14. The household names are old people with no energy
15. The acts you haven’t heard on top 40 radio are obviously useless
16. As if that’s not bad enough, they force feed you art too
17. Then there are boring free talks
Lol!! See what you did there. Anyone now not able to go for all these reasons can give me their tickets :) :)
Couldn’t skip it even if i wanted to i live 500 metres away. Free music all weekend long!
Because Iggy pop has always sucked at live performances. Just look at this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A97Vn_V4ApM
So true. This was typically terrible too :) https://inktank.fi/pictory-the-stories-behind-musics-most-iconic-photos-no-1/
Nothing like that is happening in Finland in a million years. Way too many rules :) :) :)
I think people should really skip the festival these days.
They have not respected local citizens at all and closed local biking routes to build the festival for 3 weeks. This is totally opposite than the values they mention in their communication. So I’d recommend strongly to consider if you want to support this kind of event. So if you care about the values and people. Skip the festival. Sometimes festivals grow just too big and forget to respect people. Like Flow festival.