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| Elton John Photo by Steve Stubbs |
West End Stage for musicals (think West End Live but on a bigger stage) Million Dollar Quartet, Jersey Boys, Wicked, We Will Rock You and Mamma Mia.
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| Neil Fox Presenter Magic 105.4 and Kian from Westflife Photo by Steve Stubbs |
You think they would put on more than 12 food and drink stalls to cater for the thousands of people who were attending.
Some people were queuing for 2 hours for a burger or chips, which were incredibly over priced for what you got.
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| Wonderland Photo by Steve Stubbs |
With grandstand seating, you think this would be covered as you pay extra, but no, you get just as wet as everybody else, along with queuing for food and drinks, toilets etc etc. You don't feel like a VIP at all!
Even getting to the venue by car was a shambles, some reports of waiting for 3 hours to get in the car park, therefore missing acts that had been on stage.
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| The Overtones Photo by Steve Stubbs |
For such a large area as this, you need more speakers, don't just plonk them at the stage end and hope for the best, because if you stand more than 150 meters away, you cant hear anything. Delay stacks are essential in this kind of set up, but were sadly missing, so due to the air pressure, levels were going loud and quiet, and you really couldn't hear anything unless you were down the front.
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| We Will Rock You Photo by Steve Stubbs |
Main stage acts were brilliant, with Elton John headlining with his band and doing all the usual hits you come to expect, Elton is one of the best showmen out there, and never fails to disappoint.
Final thoughts? - Great music, but awful sound and organisation. Needs to re-planned if doing this event in the future.
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This was truely the worst gig I've ever been to. The Event Organisers need to be sacked and quite frankly I want a refund.
Arriving from the A1M I saw signs for the event and initially I thought "Hey, this is great, they've really thought about the traffic management". However, as soon as I got to the first mini roundabout there were 3 streams of traffic trying to go o nto a single carriageway and then on to a single track lane. It took almost 2 hours to get on to the site. The marshalls were clearly not briefed and allowed drivers to park on the first stretch of the lane, only to find that by doing so meant a 20 min walk to the stage and then to discover that there was adequate parking much closer.
Whilst we had known that the door open at 12pm, we had not been so lucky to find out when it all started, so when we finally got to sit down the Lighthouse Family started - so effectively we'd missed most of the day. The sound was dreadful - occasionally we got to a couple of lyrics if the wind was in the right direction.
Starving, as we could not bring our own food (although I saw a man in his late 60s/early 70s munching away on cocktail sausages and sandwiches), we decided to get a burger. After an hour of queuing we finally got some food.
We were damp from the rain, had heard a few Elton John songs and at 9:15 we decided to go home early - extremely disappointing for the money spent.
I will never go to Hatfield House again, nor will I ever go to a Magic concert again. Never.
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