Great writeup, sad there's so little change since I stopped doing festivals in the mid 00s.
Re the rail option, Roskilde Music Festival -an out of town site - has its own train station on a single track branch line out of the main Roskilde station, trains run direct to site from Copenhagen Central during festival dates so festival goers from Denmark, southern Sweden and northern Germany could make it there using public transport only in under 3.5 hours...
I was thinking, "Could they start a new festival that's basically just placed next to a little-used train station?" which presumably could be done if the right land was leased, and then the train company could make the timetabling work!
I'm pretty sure the Roskilde site was selected using exactly that criteria
And festivals are primarily brands right? So plenty of established ones could probably shift site to a location not that far if they could reach that kind of agreement with rail operators
Great writeup, sad there's so little change since I stopped doing festivals in the mid 00s.
Re the rail option, Roskilde Music Festival -an out of town site - has its own train station on a single track branch line out of the main Roskilde station, trains run direct to site from Copenhagen Central during festival dates so festival goers from Denmark, southern Sweden and northern Germany could make it there using public transport only in under 3.5 hours...
I was thinking, "Could they start a new festival that's basically just placed next to a little-used train station?" which presumably could be done if the right land was leased, and then the train company could make the timetabling work!
I'm pretty sure the Roskilde site was selected using exactly that criteria
And festivals are primarily brands right? So plenty of established ones could probably shift site to a location not that far if they could reach that kind of agreement with rail operators