Hangout Music Fest - Forum: Feedback & Suggestions

sleababy on Lineup Suggestions

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:46:33 +0000

Ronald Jenkees is pretty sweet.

ejlangan on Lineup Suggestions

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:56:06 +0000

Phish! 311,furthur would be awesome, rebelution, bring widespread panic back, Corey smith, umphries McGee, the radiators, Derek trucks, CCR, foo fighters, the offspring, sts9, rage against the machine, pearl jam, sublime, Eric church, Clapton, don't forget PHISH! Bring them to the hangout!!!!

mickey on Lineup Suggestions

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:55:41 +0000

beirut <3

crochesh on Lineup Suggestions

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:08:12 +0000

radical face
radical something
postal service
rebelution
black keys
mountain goats
311
avicii

crochesh on Lineup Suggestions

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:03:12 +0000

Modern Skirts

Blind Pilot

Pearl Jam

Bassnectar

Band of Horses

Beirut

Of Montreal

Coldplay

Dirty Heads

Ghost Town Observatory

The Shins

The Avett Brothers

NestaMarley on Suggestions for improvements...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:12:53 +0000

AB2490 – great suggestions about showing the other stages on the Hangout and Chevy video screens when there are no bands performing. I think it is not so much about having entertainment but that it would be great to see the other bands perform (who we did pay to see as you put it). I missed a lot of the bands I wanted to see, either part of their show or its entirety, due to traveling from one stage to the next, traveling to kingdom come to go potty, traveling to get food / water / beer.

Misters with fans would also be fantastic!

Glenn – designated walkways to the bathrooms would be GREAT, especially if they installed boards to walk on. Unfortunately, I see people abusing this. How would you "police" it? You get a bathroom key Not sure how to handle it, but it is a good suggestion.

*Please install zip lines you can pay for to hurl you from the bathrooms near the beach-side by the Hangout and Chevy stages to the front gate / boardwalk area!! Ski lifts of some sort would work too. That is a miserable walk after the last show after dredging in the sand all day. I would easily pay 10-20 bucks to zip up to the front gate!

***More than anything – PLEASE continue to improve the transportation out of the festival at night.

PLEASE have fleets of cabs waiting for us to skip the 2 hour shuttle line if we choose to pay for a cab and not take our already paid for shuttle. Make it more Disney-like – they have great transportation services to move people to and from QUICKLY. We missed a paid for after hours show due to the wait!

PLEASE do not allow empty buses to go through without filling if their "line" does not have any travelers. FILL ALL BUSES and REROUTE them to the busy lines.

Overall, our group enjoyed the festival beyond belief. Thanks for all of the improvements you all made from the previous years. I hope to see some of our suggestions incorporated into next year's festival!!

Glenn on Port-o-Potty Plazas

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:30:47 +0000

I have to give 'em props for putting a cover over the toilets this year. They were still hot during the day, but an unshaded port-a-john in the Gulf Shores heat is miserable and twice as smelly...

I also saw a crew cleaning the bathrooms by the ferris wheel. The pump truck created a terrible smell, but it's a necessary evil. I was just thankful to be attending the festival rather than working their job. Appreciate it though!

MaakoShaark on Suggestions for improvements...

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:01:17 +0000

Agree completely with sound. The further back in the crowd you got you couldn't hear anything but people talking which is really annoying. Who goes to a music festival to talk through all the shows? So more speakers further out for sure. Also the speakers at the chevrolet stage were to small. I felt like the hangout stage was much louder for big crowds. It was almost impossible to hear the flaming lips from deep in the crowd in 2012. It was also that same way with the black keys and flaming lips in 2011. Please address that. One last thing, I am sure yall got killer footage and stuff, but is their anyway to not have helicopters flying over during the headliners. Maybe if you the speaker issue was addressed it wouldn't matter but that was a huge buzz kill for me.

sarahjane on Port-o-Potty Plazas

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:32:37 +0000

port-o-potties were in seriously bad shape. i got to about 12 festivals a year and have to say the situation at hangout was fairly poor. there were lots of overflowing ones that were completely unusable--what i deem to be "dudes only" toilets.

ended up using the toilets with actual plumbing at the hangout restaurant but the lines for those were really long.

port-o-potties say only 10 persons per day, so they need to be cleaned by the staff a little more frequently. I know festivals have uncomfortable bathroom situations in general but i rate these to be pretty poor only because for the small size of the crowd the toilets could have been a lot cleaner.

I seriously tried my best not to eat or drink to avoid the toilets. ultra music festival had crowds way bigger than hangout and managed to keep the toilets a lot cleaner.

this might deter me from attending next year.

sarahjane on Suggestions for improvements...

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:24:23 +0000

def need more shade installations. there were some shade installations along the beach near the skybar and the hammocks but too far away from the stages to hear the music. also, until 5pm the sun was scorching hot, keeping me far from the main stages. if there were more shade installations close to the main stages, and more centered it would provide comfort and safety.

AB2490 on Suggestions for improvements...

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:51:03 +0000

#3 and #5, definitely.

I think it would be cool while if there was no one playing at a stage the video feed from other stages played and possibly some audio. So, the people waiting for the next band to come on have some entertainment. Similar to the live feed on the website, but on the screens (maybe on a loop).

After all, we're paying for the whole weekend's worth of bands, right? It's hard to pick who you want to see with scheduling, etc.

Also, it would be really neat if sprinklers were somehow set up around the audience area. Maybe just a timed, light sprinkle, but it would feel really nice when the sun gets so hot! That way people won't have to waste their drinking water or lose their spot in line to go cool off in the shade somewhere. :)

Sparkysarah on My VIP Experience - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:21:04 +0000

Kate, can you expand on the golf cart thing? Lowly VIPs like me had to walk, so I don't know what the problems were.

Sparkysarah on Suggestions for improvements...

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:18:14 +0000

I believe flags were indeed banned, but people found ways to bring them in pieces through security and assemble them once they were inside the gates.

Brent on Suggestions for improvements...

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:09:48 +0000

Wow, the crowd was as far back as the skybar? Thats crazy. I was pretty close up for all 3 headliners and couldn't really tell how far the crowds went back. But i agree, more screens and sound for those that far back would be a great idea.

A small suggestion of mine... can we ban flags please? And random things mounted on polls? Almost every show there were people with a flag waving around obstructing the view.

katemw on My VIP Experience - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:13:14 +0000

The Chevy VIP area was the ugly of the weekend for me. Well, getting there after being told SVIP had cabana access and we didn't sucked as well.

The confusion with the golf cart ride drop off at the Main stage was an issue only because the worker was really really rude to us when it obviously wasn't our fault that we were brought there by the cart.