Hi , I have been a late bloomer into the whole Festival scene and my first ever festival was in 2014 when I was 24 . However ever since I have been omnipresent in the music festival scene and a few things I have noticed and picked up along the way .
I have only done medium to small music festivals 10-40k crowd and not massive commercial ones like Tomorrowland or Ultra .
GET FREE TICKETS + VIP PASSES
Unless you are going to Tomorrowland or Ultra or Sziget it's very easy and feasible to get free Press/VIP Passes . Contact a bunch of Online magazines and mail the guy running it or "Editor" and tell them you will go to a certain Festival or do a Festival run at your own cost and that you can provide his medium with Free photos + Band interviews or music reviews if required . Most small online publications would swoop this with both hands as they desperately seek contents . Target music review magazines or similar depending on the Festival you are going to . Choices are plenty and location independent so feel free to hit up metal.de (Germany ) or some house music magazine in Sweden or UK or USA .
I am a professional photographer and ever since I cracked the code none of my friends or acquaintances never buy festival tickets anymore. You can PM me if you want further info or need suggestions of magazines to help sort out the accreditations .
Even if you can afford to or don't mind paying for the Festival ticket it is very important to go via the Free Press Accrediations process . You get a different colour wrist band which gives you access in the press Vip area , backstage and a special pass hanging over your neck which makes all the girls curious and within 30 seconds of opening any random girl they would ask you how you got the pass. They often think you are part of the artists entourage or a DJ or similar .
Also at most Festivals the Press/VIP Pass would give you access to real showers with hot water and mirrors and better toilets . You also get access to a VIP camping area.
You would spend way less money on alcohol as you can carry a backpack with a bottle of Malibu or Bacardi along with a bottle of orange juice and no one would frisk you at the gates . The security would never check your bags and would just assume you are carrying camera equipments no matter how big or heavy your bags is .
Take a real prosumer camera / Reflex with you . If you carry a camera and a backpack with Malibu to share with the Festival goers you would be hitting the scene like a Boss ! From personal experience it's insanely easy to open a group of girls or to pick up conversations with literally anyone with a camera in hand . Your DHV goes through the roof . If you want to feel how ridiculously easy it is for a Brad Pitt type to get laid .. try this at a festival to get a glimpse of it .
Although I almost never go to enjoy a concert or listen to a live act I have a friend who has picked up numerous girls with the following scheme . He goes to the front row where you find most of the devoted fans . He then approaches girls 10 mins before concert and tells them he can take them backstage and introduce the artist to her and get her autographs/pics if she fancied . He enjoys the show and takes the girls backstage by giving her the neck press chain pass . You get one wrist band + one neck chain hanging .. both are the same thing and either gets you past security so you can get the girls to the VIP area , backstage etc . You just have to be careful if she is really hot sometimes the band members might fancy her and over trump you . However in this case always tell her that with your pass your neck is on the line and you must take her out of backstage asap to be discreet .
Also having the VIP Pass makes the girls trust you straightaway and makes them feel safe and comfortable so it's much easier to ask them to come back to your camping for a drink .
You can buy a used camera for anything between 100-200 euros on gumtree for UK or Petiteannonces or leboncoin for the francophone world . Because you would use it just to pose as a photographer and not do any real professional work you can just buy something that looks pro (could be a older model etc) and buy a lens which looks as big as possible while being cheap as muck .
METALDAYS, SLOVENIA .
Hands down the best music festival I have ever been to !! Surrounded by the julien Alps of slovenia and on the banks of one of the most beautiful rivers Soca . This festival has everything .
At every bar they give you free beers for girls who would Flash their tits . Every morning by the beach there is topless badminton for girls and then the men play volleyball in thongs ! The winners get free beer and meal vouchers .
You can walk up to the gorges nearby and then canoe your way down .
The beach bar here makes some of the best cocktails . I was on a strict cocktail diet for 5 days and at the end of it couldn't eat any food as my teeth had all gone sweet ! Luckily there were some great tasty noodles stalls !
They do something here called the Hammer Slammer where they put a Helmet on you and then pour you a shot of double vodka with Monster (energy drink) and you have to down it in one go and the immediately after the bar tender hits your head with a baseball bat and then throws a bucket of cold water on your face ! The whole process gives you quite a quick buzz and worth trying once just for the experience .
The beach bar is also hands down one of the best ever places to get laid at a festival . They play all kinds of music from rap to rock to nu metal and while some hardcore metal fans are headbanging at the concerts there will always be a handful of slutty hotties at the beach bar dancing to electro beats and looking to hook up !
This is one of the most international Festivals and great for Flag collection . About 30 % of the crowd is German or French . About 25 percent scandinivians . The rest are made up of English , Austrians , Belgians , local Slovenians , Balkans, Swiss and some Australians and Americans . This festival gets one of the most loyal group of returning crowd and most people you would meet are in their 5th , 6th or 7th year running . The insane location , charm and ambience means most people use this as their family vacation . I have met some people from Portsmouth who spent their honeymoon here .. the guy was a viking looking red haired English metalhead , the wife was a ex Stripper .
I have been there 2014 , 2015 . Each year I got laid at least once every night bar one night when I was physically not feeling well . Two Austrians (8 , 8.5 ) , A Australian stripper who lived and worked in Nevada (9) , One French (7) ,Two local Slovenians ( 7 , 6.5 ) both a bit chubby , One Swedish (9) , one Finnish(6) 38 yr old , One Norweigian (8.5) maybe a 7 for others but she was just my type .
There are plenty more "nearly" cases which are all very intersting stories and the insights could be helpful I am sure . I will add to this thread all those stories and information in due Course and also add the Datasheets of all the other Festivals I have covered and the demographics and success ratios.
One Tip is amongst all the crazyness going on at the festivals do not cater to a type in your looks and appearance . For example dressed smart at a Metal Festival sets you apart . Dressed in viking or some weird unicorn outfit or as a pirate or a well built guy showing off your abs just makes you fall into a type . If you have a clean look with a good dress sense which is just edgy enough .. you can clean sweep at any Fetsival .
The downside to Festival sex however is it is uncomfortable in tents and girls are sweaty . You can't go down on a girl because of hygene reasons . However you can get laid with 8s and 9s with minimum effort . That's a trade I am prepared to make every summer .
Below are some pictures of Metaldays .. As you will see the there is plenty of hot girls to select from whereas the competition is non existent as the place is full of obese , bearded , shy , beer guzzling white guys .
I have only done medium to small music festivals 10-40k crowd and not massive commercial ones like Tomorrowland or Ultra .
GET FREE TICKETS + VIP PASSES
Unless you are going to Tomorrowland or Ultra or Sziget it's very easy and feasible to get free Press/VIP Passes . Contact a bunch of Online magazines and mail the guy running it or "Editor" and tell them you will go to a certain Festival or do a Festival run at your own cost and that you can provide his medium with Free photos + Band interviews or music reviews if required . Most small online publications would swoop this with both hands as they desperately seek contents . Target music review magazines or similar depending on the Festival you are going to . Choices are plenty and location independent so feel free to hit up metal.de (Germany ) or some house music magazine in Sweden or UK or USA .
I am a professional photographer and ever since I cracked the code none of my friends or acquaintances never buy festival tickets anymore. You can PM me if you want further info or need suggestions of magazines to help sort out the accreditations .
Even if you can afford to or don't mind paying for the Festival ticket it is very important to go via the Free Press Accrediations process . You get a different colour wrist band which gives you access in the press Vip area , backstage and a special pass hanging over your neck which makes all the girls curious and within 30 seconds of opening any random girl they would ask you how you got the pass. They often think you are part of the artists entourage or a DJ or similar .
Also at most Festivals the Press/VIP Pass would give you access to real showers with hot water and mirrors and better toilets . You also get access to a VIP camping area.
You would spend way less money on alcohol as you can carry a backpack with a bottle of Malibu or Bacardi along with a bottle of orange juice and no one would frisk you at the gates . The security would never check your bags and would just assume you are carrying camera equipments no matter how big or heavy your bags is .
Take a real prosumer camera / Reflex with you . If you carry a camera and a backpack with Malibu to share with the Festival goers you would be hitting the scene like a Boss ! From personal experience it's insanely easy to open a group of girls or to pick up conversations with literally anyone with a camera in hand . Your DHV goes through the roof . If you want to feel how ridiculously easy it is for a Brad Pitt type to get laid .. try this at a festival to get a glimpse of it .
Although I almost never go to enjoy a concert or listen to a live act I have a friend who has picked up numerous girls with the following scheme . He goes to the front row where you find most of the devoted fans . He then approaches girls 10 mins before concert and tells them he can take them backstage and introduce the artist to her and get her autographs/pics if she fancied . He enjoys the show and takes the girls backstage by giving her the neck press chain pass . You get one wrist band + one neck chain hanging .. both are the same thing and either gets you past security so you can get the girls to the VIP area , backstage etc . You just have to be careful if she is really hot sometimes the band members might fancy her and over trump you . However in this case always tell her that with your pass your neck is on the line and you must take her out of backstage asap to be discreet .
Also having the VIP Pass makes the girls trust you straightaway and makes them feel safe and comfortable so it's much easier to ask them to come back to your camping for a drink .
You can buy a used camera for anything between 100-200 euros on gumtree for UK or Petiteannonces or leboncoin for the francophone world . Because you would use it just to pose as a photographer and not do any real professional work you can just buy something that looks pro (could be a older model etc) and buy a lens which looks as big as possible while being cheap as muck .
METALDAYS, SLOVENIA .
Hands down the best music festival I have ever been to !! Surrounded by the julien Alps of slovenia and on the banks of one of the most beautiful rivers Soca . This festival has everything .
At every bar they give you free beers for girls who would Flash their tits . Every morning by the beach there is topless badminton for girls and then the men play volleyball in thongs ! The winners get free beer and meal vouchers .
You can walk up to the gorges nearby and then canoe your way down .
The beach bar here makes some of the best cocktails . I was on a strict cocktail diet for 5 days and at the end of it couldn't eat any food as my teeth had all gone sweet ! Luckily there were some great tasty noodles stalls !
They do something here called the Hammer Slammer where they put a Helmet on you and then pour you a shot of double vodka with Monster (energy drink) and you have to down it in one go and the immediately after the bar tender hits your head with a baseball bat and then throws a bucket of cold water on your face ! The whole process gives you quite a quick buzz and worth trying once just for the experience .
The beach bar is also hands down one of the best ever places to get laid at a festival . They play all kinds of music from rap to rock to nu metal and while some hardcore metal fans are headbanging at the concerts there will always be a handful of slutty hotties at the beach bar dancing to electro beats and looking to hook up !
This is one of the most international Festivals and great for Flag collection . About 30 % of the crowd is German or French . About 25 percent scandinivians . The rest are made up of English , Austrians , Belgians , local Slovenians , Balkans, Swiss and some Australians and Americans . This festival gets one of the most loyal group of returning crowd and most people you would meet are in their 5th , 6th or 7th year running . The insane location , charm and ambience means most people use this as their family vacation . I have met some people from Portsmouth who spent their honeymoon here .. the guy was a viking looking red haired English metalhead , the wife was a ex Stripper .
I have been there 2014 , 2015 . Each year I got laid at least once every night bar one night when I was physically not feeling well . Two Austrians (8 , 8.5 ) , A Australian stripper who lived and worked in Nevada (9) , One French (7) ,Two local Slovenians ( 7 , 6.5 ) both a bit chubby , One Swedish (9) , one Finnish(6) 38 yr old , One Norweigian (8.5) maybe a 7 for others but she was just my type .
There are plenty more "nearly" cases which are all very intersting stories and the insights could be helpful I am sure . I will add to this thread all those stories and information in due Course and also add the Datasheets of all the other Festivals I have covered and the demographics and success ratios.
One Tip is amongst all the crazyness going on at the festivals do not cater to a type in your looks and appearance . For example dressed smart at a Metal Festival sets you apart . Dressed in viking or some weird unicorn outfit or as a pirate or a well built guy showing off your abs just makes you fall into a type . If you have a clean look with a good dress sense which is just edgy enough .. you can clean sweep at any Fetsival .
The downside to Festival sex however is it is uncomfortable in tents and girls are sweaty . You can't go down on a girl because of hygene reasons . However you can get laid with 8s and 9s with minimum effort . That's a trade I am prepared to make every summer .
Below are some pictures of Metaldays .. As you will see the there is plenty of hot girls to select from whereas the competition is non existent as the place is full of obese , bearded , shy , beer guzzling white guys .
