To name a few from 2012...
Summer Camp
Electric Forest
Bonnaroo
Wakarusa
Summerset
North Coast Music Festival
...
Each year it seems more and more festivals are popping up of all sizes and sorts. Every year there are the veterens who return for the (insert time, aprox. 5-15 years, depending on the fest), the new-veterens (this isn't your first time at a festival but it's no more than your second or third), and the newbies (congrats! welcome to the music festival scene! =)
*note: this is completely my opinion ... if you differ in your defining of categories of attendees please don't hesitate to comment on this post!!
While I understand that the growth of the scene seems inevitable (along with the commercialization that goes with it ... (see the latest cover of Rolling Stone )
does this also have to mean that there are more arrests every year at festivals and shows? Particularly for drug crimes and now, sadly more and more, for violent and victim crimes including fighting and harrassment (battery and assault), theft (stealing from tents being the most prevalent here but not the only way it takes place), and even the saddest of all - sexual assault (such as will forever now be assciated in the minds of so many people with New Year's Eve this past year in Chicago)
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