27 November 2011

Foreshore...ForeNot!

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Mr Padoof and I looked forward to Foreshore, the lineup offered some great acts, but I was so disappointed by the antics of the crowd and would never do it again.

I really hope that the youth of today is not represented by the majority who attended; they were mostly obnoxious and rude and seemed intent on getting as drunk as they possibly could. There was no respect for the venue with litter being thrown down without a care for the surroundings – we were right in front of Old Parliament House and other cultural institutions Canberra is proud to have on offer, it was really upsetting to see the little regard that was displayed to being in such a lovely location. Perhaps the ACT Government should consider EPIC as a more suitable location in future?

I don’t know…maybe I’m just out of touch (don’t tell my teenage children!) and should stick to buying cd’s.

[Ed – It should be noted the Foreshore organisers go to considerable effort to clean up after their patrons]

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Galactaphonic10:56 am 11 Dec 11

dpm said :

1) Regardless of what the promoters say, these events are really for younger people. If a festival seems totally outrageous, it’s probably a sign you’re getting old! 😉
2) Festivals only happen once or twice a year in Canberra, so as long as no one gets seriously hurt (incl alcohol poisoning!) what’s the harm? It only lasts 12 hours, so coming on RA complaining over ‘small stuff’ just makes Canberrans look like elitest whingers. Canberra will be back to it’s staid self by this morning so you can relax.
3) Everyone is different (that’s the beauty of nature) so if it’s not your scene, do something else you do like and enjoy life!

I should be able to go to a festival & enjoy the music. Wether it be Foreshore, Big Day Out, Bluesfest @ Byron Bay, Corrinbank etc. I don’t pay my money to be treated like s*** by teenagers

OpenYourMind10:11 pm 29 Nov 11

And Henry82, that’s the great thing about this, you don’t have to go.
It’s a music festival. They all have their share of idiots, drunks, drug takers and show ponies. While even I’m not old enough to have attended Woodstock, I’m sure you could have cut and pasted some of the whinging from this site and apply it to that landmark festival. If you go to a festival with a mind to have fun and let others be, then generally all will be well. Same goes for bars and nightclubs.

Funky1 said :

Okwhatever said :

OMG seriously! They dare to wear tank tops? Funny thing that women can wear any singlet top they want but a guy is suppose to part of some bogan stereotype if they do the same.

Snob much?

For the record, a wife beater refers to the blue tank tops.

Actually a ‘wife beater’ is a white tank top, not the blue ‘truckie’ top you’re refering to.

Jeez, I hope this isn’t right. If correct, I’ve spent the best part of four decades looking at blokes in blue singlets and thinking that they beat their wives. I’ll have so many apologies to offer.

These comments clearly explain why i would not attend such an event.

OpenYourMind5:15 pm 29 Nov 11

People clutching water bottles, people urinating behind bushes, people in fluoro and tank tops and people muscling to the front. Sounds like the start of the Canberra Times Family Fun Run to me!!!!

ahappychappy7:58 am 29 Nov 11

“actually no that doesn’t explain how it’s an effective recycle deposit scheme at all – but you have explained well how it encourages people to drink more. it’s either a deposit system (whereby you get back your deposit in the form you gave it ie cash) or it’s a recycle fee system (but it’s not called that because then punters would legitimately be pissed off when the ticket for entry actually includes – or should damn well include – such overhead costs!). it’s neither – it’s a thinly guised way, under the pretend feel-good banner of ‘we care about stopping littering to improve your festival experience!’, of gouging punters an extra $1 on the already hideously overpriced drinks. it not only fails as an anti-litter policy in my experience as i have been to numerous festivals which have this policy and still people chuck their crap all over the ground – but encourages people to drink more so they get enough tokens to ‘recoup’ their deposit (fee – whatever you want to call it).”

You’re quite the grumpy one eh?

How hard is it to understand? If you keep your can (or pick up someone elses) you can take it to the token station and get a $1 token (hence getting the refunded ‘deposit’ you paid when you bought it) to use with your next drink so it’s effectively costing $10. Or, if you buy 11 drinks over the course of the day and have recycled all of your cans you now get a free drink as you’ve got 11 $1 tokens to cash in for a drink.

How does this encourage more drinking?

As for the price of drinks – I think you’ll find nearly any event (festival or not) sells premixed cans like the ones sold at Foreshore at around the same cost (even with the $1 recycling deposit/charge incase you want to trade in a can/whatever you want to call it). I really don’t see the issue?

buz1986 said :

toriness said :

buz1986 said :

oh and just on another note, with the recycling policy – my understanding ws that the extra $1 is charged when you use your ‘trade in tokens’… basically if you return 10 empty cans, you get $10 in tokens. when you go to the bar with cash, its $10 to buy a drink, or $11 if you use tokens (11 tokens). you can only trade 20 cans in at once befor eyou have to get back in the line to trade more… am i missing something regarding people paying more for a different recycling fee??

oh i see what you’re saying. so either it’s 1. not actually a true deposit because you don’t get 100% back on returning the cans (you pay $10 in deposits but that’s not enough to get a $10 drink back because you need 11 tokens and 2. you only get ‘something’ back once you’ve downed 10 drinks ie not even facilitating responsible drinking. awesome – not 🙂 recycle policy fail.

no.
the way that it works:

you walk your drunken cashless self around and pick up 10 empty cans from the ground.
you stumble towards the ‘trade in’ point and trade your empty treasures for tokens.
1 can = 1 token.
the cans you trade in are put into the recycling hopper in the back of the trade in tent.
you then got o any bar at foreshore and either spend $10 in cash on 1 drink or 11 tokens (which you were given for recycling 11 cans)…
so its not actually a deposit that you make… its just that if you use tokens, you need more….
Capiche?

actually no that doesn’t explain how it’s an effective recycle deposit scheme at all – but you have explained well how it encourages people to drink more. it’s either a deposit system (whereby you get back your deposit in the form you gave it ie cash) or it’s a recycle fee system (but it’s not called that because then punters would legitimately be pissed off when the ticket for entry actually includes – or should damn well include – such overhead costs!). it’s neither – it’s a thinly guised way, under the pretend feel-good banner of ‘we care about stopping littering to improve your festival experience!’, of gouging punters an extra $1 on the already hideously overpriced drinks. it not only fails as an anti-litter policy in my experience as i have been to numerous festivals which have this policy and still people chuck their crap all over the ground – but encourages people to drink more so they get enough tokens to ‘recoup’ their deposit (fee – whatever you want to call it).

I’m part of the ‘older’ crowd and this was my second Foreshore Festival. Just a few observations:

Agreed there were lots of intoxicated people and when you’re standing there enjoying the music and not jumping around, people looked at you strange or thought you weren’t having a good time. I do enjoy my music but no at the expense of my sobriety.

One of the reasons so many people were ‘boozing up’ before entering the event was probably the price of drinks inside. $10 (plus $1 recycle fee, not really a deposit) for a premix can that would have cost the organisers $2 or $3 at most! Even bottles of water were $5 (including the recycle fee).

With reference to the recycle fee (deposit). I was fully intending on cashing in my deposits and kept a few of my empty cans, but because you had to queue at one counter only and the queue was long and slow-moving, why would you wait here for 20 minutes for 2 or 3 tokens so you would only pay $8 dollars for your next drink and miss half of someone’s music set?

I didn’t see one police officer once I entered the venue, only the private security personnel of which some were actually quite friendly. But even if they weren’t, could you blame them given the amount of idiots they must have had to deal with. Maybe the police were on the perimeter keeping an eye out for fence-jumpers like a previous post mentioned.

It seem for the younger crowd that this is as much as the annual social event as it is a music festival. So many spray tans (on a day you KNEW it was going to rain – logic evades me), girls with way too much make-up and guys showing off their tattoos as if part of a mating ritual.

I’m fairly tall and solid and can look after myself so I didn’t experience anything too intimidating but if I were smaller or with others of smaller stature, I could imagine the event not be as pleasant for them. Guys (and girls) who only cared about themselves and no one else in their vicinity in the crowd when you’re trying to watch the act and enjoy the music.
Objects (manly empty cans, plastic water bottles or thongs) be thrown up in the air and coming down in the crowd.

I will probably go again next year, depending on the line in, but I go knowing what to expect (ie the growing lack of consideration or manners by the younger crowd) and it takes a lot to shock me.

trevmanmisser2:02 pm 28 Nov 11

at least im not like them

Lazy I said :

No.
Everyone I know that was purchasing drinks at the event were paying $11.00 per drink. They were purchasing with cash. The explanation from the bar staff was that the drink cost $10.00 cash and the additional $1.00 was a ‘recycling deposit’. I have confirmed that this was the standard line with other people that were at the event.

So it was most definitely was a ‘deposit’ that you made when purchasing.

Yes but you could also pay with tokens instead of cash.
1 Can = 1 token
100 Cans = Party time

http://www.foreshorefestival.com.au/foreshore-2011/environment

Okwhatever said :

OMG seriously! They dare to wear tank tops? Funny thing that women can wear any singlet top they want but a guy is suppose to part of some bogan stereotype if they do the same.

Snob much?

For the record, a wife beater refers to the blue tank tops.

Haven’t met any women that think they’re Dwayne Johnson when they put a singlet on.

Okwhatever said :

OMG seriously! They dare to wear tank tops? Funny thing that women can wear any singlet top they want but a guy is suppose to part of some bogan stereotype if they do the same.

Snob much?

For the record, a wife beater refers to the blue tank tops.

Actually a ‘wife beater’ is a white tank top, not the blue ‘truckie’ top you’re refering to.

buz1986 said :

toriness said :

buz1986 said :

oh and just on another note, with the recycling policy – my understanding ws that the extra $1 is charged when you use your ‘trade in tokens’… basically if you return 10 empty cans, you get $10 in tokens. when you go to the bar with cash, its $10 to buy a drink, or $11 if you use tokens (11 tokens). you can only trade 20 cans in at once befor eyou have to get back in the line to trade more… am i missing something regarding people paying more for a different recycling fee??

oh i see what you’re saying. so either it’s 1. not actually a true deposit because you don’t get 100% back on returning the cans (you pay $10 in deposits but that’s not enough to get a $10 drink back because you need 11 tokens and 2. you only get ‘something’ back once you’ve downed 10 drinks ie not even facilitating responsible drinking. awesome – not 🙂 recycle policy fail.

no.
the way that it works:

you walk your drunken cashless self around and pick up 10 empty cans from the ground.
you stumble towards the ‘trade in’ point and trade your empty treasures for tokens.
1 can = 1 token.
the cans you trade in are put into the recycling hopper in the back of the trade in tent.
you then got o any bar at foreshore and either spend $10 in cash on 1 drink or 11 tokens (which you were given for recycling 11 cans)…
so its not actually a deposit that you make… its just that if you use tokens, you need more….
Capiche?

No.

Everyone I know that was purchasing drinks at the event were paying $11.00 per drink. They were purchasing with cash. The explanation from the bar staff was that the drink cost $10.00 cash and the additional $1.00 was a ‘recycling deposit’. I have confirmed that this was the standard line with other people that were at the event.

So it was most definitely was a ‘deposit’ that you made when purchasing.

OMG seriously! They dare to wear tank tops? Funny thing that women can wear any singlet top they want but a guy is suppose to part of some bogan stereotype if they do the same.

Snob much?

For the record, a wife beater refers to the blue tank tops.

Judging by the pics that flooded my Facebook feed on Sunday the nickname “whoreshore” is not only appropriate, but well-deserved.

That being said, I haven’t seen reports of riots, assaults or murder so what’s the big deal? Kids have been making arses of themselves at public events for decades.

toriness said :

buz1986 said :

oh and just on another note, with the recycling policy – my understanding ws that the extra $1 is charged when you use your ‘trade in tokens’… basically if you return 10 empty cans, you get $10 in tokens. when you go to the bar with cash, its $10 to buy a drink, or $11 if you use tokens (11 tokens). you can only trade 20 cans in at once befor eyou have to get back in the line to trade more… am i missing something regarding people paying more for a different recycling fee??

oh i see what you’re saying. so either it’s 1. not actually a true deposit because you don’t get 100% back on returning the cans (you pay $10 in deposits but that’s not enough to get a $10 drink back because you need 11 tokens and 2. you only get ‘something’ back once you’ve downed 10 drinks ie not even facilitating responsible drinking. awesome – not 🙂 recycle policy fail.

no.
the way that it works:

you walk your drunken cashless self around and pick up 10 empty cans from the ground.
you stumble towards the ‘trade in’ point and trade your empty treasures for tokens.
1 can = 1 token.
the cans you trade in are put into the recycling hopper in the back of the trade in tent.
you then got o any bar at foreshore and either spend $10 in cash on 1 drink or 11 tokens (which you were given for recycling 11 cans)…
so its not actually a deposit that you make… its just that if you use tokens, you need more….
Capiche?

Stevian said :

grundy said :

I had set my expectations of the crowd pretty low before going, but even I was disappointed at the level of douch and douchette behaviour!
Wife and I waited early to get a decent spot for the acts we wanted to see, but were ‘muscled’ out by the hoards of shirtless, drunk douchebags throwing beer on everyone, groping the women and shoving everyone out of their way.

We did not see many people there who just went for the music, most appeared to be more interested in getting as drunk as possible and showing as much fugly skin as possible…

We’re 27 and disgusted by the latest generation of 18-25 year olds… I wonder if previous generations thought the same of us? 🙂

A generation is 40 years grand-dad. You’re part of the douche crowd

I think a generation is more commonly stated as 25 years (varies in different countries). How many people do you think wait until 40 to have kids. It’s most definitely not the majority.

buz1986 said :

oh and just on another note, with the recycling policy – my understanding ws that the extra $1 is charged when you use your ‘trade in tokens’… basically if you return 10 empty cans, you get $10 in tokens. when you go to the bar with cash, its $10 to buy a drink, or $11 if you use tokens (11 tokens). you can only trade 20 cans in at once befor eyou have to get back in the line to trade more… am i missing something regarding people paying more for a different recycling fee??

oh i see what you’re saying. so either it’s 1. not actually a true deposit because you don’t get 100% back on returning the cans (you pay $10 in deposits but that’s not enough to get a $10 drink back because you need 11 tokens and 2. you only get ‘something’ back once you’ve downed 10 drinks ie not even facilitating responsible drinking. awesome – not 🙂 recycle policy fail.

Stevian said :

grundy said :

We’re 27 and disgusted by the latest generation of 18-25 year olds… I wonder if previous generations thought the same of us? 🙂

A generation is 40 years grand-dad. You’re part of the douche crowd

I was hoping I might scrape out of being part of this Foreshore generation… hence the embarrassment. :S

grundy said :

I had set my expectations of the crowd pretty low before going, but even I was disappointed at the level of douch and douchette behaviour!
Wife and I waited early to get a decent spot for the acts we wanted to see, but were ‘muscled’ out by the hoards of shirtless, drunk douchebags throwing beer on everyone, groping the women and shoving everyone out of their way.

We did not see many people there who just went for the music, most appeared to be more interested in getting as drunk as possible and showing as much fugly skin as possible…

We’re 27 and disgusted by the latest generation of 18-25 year olds… I wonder if previous generations thought the same of us? 🙂

A generation is 40 years grand-dad. You’re part of the douche crowd

dpm said :

1) Regardless of what the promoters say, these events are really for younger people. If a festival seems totally outrageous, it’s probably a sign you’re getting old! 😉
2) Festivals only happen once or twice a year in Canberra, so as long as no one gets seriously hurt (incl alcohol poisoning!) what’s the harm? It only lasts 12 hours, so coming on RA complaining over ‘small stuff’ just makes Canberrans look like elitest whingers. Canberra will be back to it’s staid self by this morning so you can relax.
3) Everyone is different (that’s the beauty of nature) so if it’s not your scene, do something else you do like and enjoy life!

nicely said 😉

john87_no1 said :

Were no police at the event? Or is it only private security?

My Friend worked for the company that organised that festival. She said there was a real problem with fence jumpers. Apparently the security guards refused to forcibly detain or remove these people because they were worried about assault charges being placed against them,

john87_no1 said :

Were no police at the event? Or is it only private security?

hundreds of police….

I do photography for lots of events in Canberra…. including the last few years of Foreshore, Warehouse, Stonefest, Groovin the Moo, All Our Friends, and lots of bands… One part of my job is ‘social’ photos… I am used to dealing with hords of wankers and people that think its funny to stick their finger up in photos or ruin shots however they can…

Strangely… yesterday was amazing.. maybe 1 in 20 shots had some idiot trying to ruin it… people werent jumping infront of photos like normal… yes there was lots of shirtless douchbags there… but compared to previous years and other events, the crowd was friendly and nice… sure you get lots of fake tanned, fake boobed, duck face pulling girls and roided up guys… but they were friendly…

oh and just on another note, with the recycling policy – my understanding ws that the extra $1 is charged when you use your ‘trade in tokens’… basically if you return 10 empty cans, you get $10 in tokens. when you go to the bar with cash, its $10 to buy a drink, or $11 if you use tokens (11 tokens). you can only trade 20 cans in at once befor eyou have to get back in the line to trade more… am i missing something regarding people paying more for a different recycling fee??

Thoroughly Smashed10:41 am 28 Nov 11

You missed a trick with the pun in the title. It should have been something like ForeGeddaboudit.

What does “ForeNot” even mean?

bitzermaloney10:36 am 28 Nov 11

grundy said :

I had set my expectations of the crowd pretty low before going, but even I was disappointed at the level of douch and douchette behaviour!
Wife and I waited early to get a decent spot for the acts we wanted to see, but were ‘muscled’ out by the hoards of shirtless, drunk douchebags throwing beer on everyone, groping the women and shoving everyone out of their way.

We did not see many people there who just went for the music, most appeared to be more interested in getting as drunk as possible and showing as much fugly skin as possible…

We’re 27 and disgusted by the latest generation of 18-25 year olds… I wonder if previous generations thought the same of us? 🙂

Yes.

Were no police at the event? Or is it only private security?

1) Regardless of what the promoters say, these events are really for younger people. If a festival seems totally outrageous, it’s probably a sign you’re getting old! 😉
2) Festivals only happen once or twice a year in Canberra, so as long as no one gets seriously hurt (incl alcohol poisoning!) what’s the harm? It only lasts 12 hours, so coming on RA complaining over ‘small stuff’ just makes Canberrans look like elitest whingers. Canberra will be back to it’s staid self by this morning so you can relax.
3) Everyone is different (that’s the beauty of nature) so if it’s not your scene, do something else you do like and enjoy life!

chewy14 said :

fnaah said :

So much for the days when the worst thing that would happen to you at a rave was being hugged by randoms. Yay for alcohol. 0_o

I think you’ll find that alcohol probably wasn’t the only ingredient for the shirtless bogans mentioned above.

You’re right, most of them had also overdosed on spray tan.

dph said :

. Lady Hawke no showed, without any explanation of course.

http://twitter.com/#!/ladyhawkeforyou/status/140353297851756544

fnaah said :

So much for the days when the worst thing that would happen to you at a rave was being hugged by randoms. Yay for alcohol. 0_o

I think you’ll find that alcohol probably wasn’t the only ingredient for the shirtless bogans mentioned above.

So much for the days when the worst thing that would happen to you at a rave was being hugged by randoms. Yay for alcohol. 0_o

JonahBologna9:26 am 28 Nov 11

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/good-behaviour-comes-to-fore/2372297.aspx

The cops think that the festival went really well.

“police have praised the ”generally good behaviour” of revellers”.

Mumbucks said :

chewy14 said :

In my day kids were well behaved and respectful.

They never got drunk or took drugs.

I bet you’re part of this same generation.in fact you were probably at the Foreshore.

I never said when my day was. And Foreshore isn’t actually at the foreshore anymore anyway.

The OP pretty much could have summed up this thread in one sentence:

“I don’t know…maybe I’m just out of touch (don’t tell my teenage children!) and should stick to buying cd’s.”

CHW said :

Having escorted my youngest around Questacon on Saturday morning, on my way back to the carpark, I was absolutely gobsmacked to realise that there was a young woman squatting in the ornamental grasses outside Questacan – URINATING.

At 11.45 am.

On a Saturday morning.

OUTSIDE Questacon.

… and this was at 11.45, before it had even started.

So it came as no surprise to pass multitudes of young people – and I recognised some as high school students of the area (I live in Griffith) – swigging from stubbies and mixers as they migrated to the Foreshore.

Class act, kids…I am quite sure your older selves will wish you weren’t quite so brainwashed into thinking getting blind at Foreshore was soooooo cool.

It’s ages since I’ve been to Questacon, but from memory there are public toilets located just inside, and just inside the National Library, and just a little further along at the Portrait Gallery, and the National Gallery …

There’s a big difference between enjoying an event and acting likea total d***head. Unfortunately many people don’t get it.

mareva said :

With due respect to the OP, Foreshore is not really a mums and dads event.

http://www.foreshorefestival.com.au/foreshore-2011/event-info

It was promoted as an 18+ event where you could ‘chill out in one of the most unique festival sites in the country’. I enjoy the music on offer and believed I would enjoy the day as such.

grunge_hippy said :

I’m thinking many of you haven’t been to a festival lately…. that’s what it is now, a giant pissfest of drunken, drugged morons trying to out-drink one another so they can post it on facebook/twitter etc. Groovin the moo was my last ever festival after this years debacle.

As sgt murtaugh says: I’m too old for this s***.

and this is why I didnt go. doesnt matter what the lineup is like, there is no way I want to do that anymore. Time to hang up your festival boots people. Leave it to the young folk.

You’re absolutely right, it seems if that’s what a festival experience is about, no thank you!

wildturkeycanoe6:09 am 28 Nov 11

This sounds just like the Skyfire event this year, just on the opposite side of the lake. I had similar experiences [with the toilet queue, public urinating, drunken teens etc.] but resolved myself to the fact that this is what society is degrading into. Pity.

creative_canberran2:07 am 28 Nov 11

Nice little comment about Foreshore aftermath:

“Lost my Samsung Galaxy S at Foreshore along with some of my head, if found, accidentally stolen or picked up to ‘keep safe’, it would be really good if I could have it back.”

(Comment by Jessica Tran, http://www.facebook.com/pages/ANU-Stalkerspace/192078840839006)

I think my highlight from foreshore this year was narrowly missing the goon-sack-missile thrown into my lane on Commonwealth Ave.

chewy14 said :

In my day kids were well behaved and respectful.

They never got drunk or took drugs.

I bet you’re part of this same generation.in fact you were probably at the Foreshore.

Lazy – I didn’t even bother trying to get my recycling $ back – not worth the effort (plus I love watching drunk people low on cash scramble around the grounds). Usually there’s a second station where you have to go first to get a coupon.

Everyone else…a lot of prudism ITT. I hate shirtless clowns as much as the next guy, but you can avoid them pretty well if you redefine what a ‘good’ position is. We spent most of our day on the main stage just beyond the plastic ‘floor’. We also found the Tiki Terrace to be a douchebag free zone.

My only douchebag altercation was a random who tripped over our bag, flipped out his cock and tried to piss on it (yes WTF I know) but as a whole, it really wasn’t that bad – and an overall lower dickhead presence than previous years.

Plus, it could have been a lot worse – look what happened to the ‘sister festival’ Stereosonic in Sydney…. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/dozens-arrested-at-sydneys-stereosonic-music-festival/story-fn7y9brv-1226207215763

In my day kids were well behaved and respectful.

They never got drunk or took drugs.

I’ve been to a lot of music festivals before & I don’t think the general crowd was that badly behaved at all. I always enjoy the comments bashing todays youth though. Guess who moulded that youth?

I was very frustrated with organisers (Kicks) of the event though. It took 40 minutes to get inside the venue because of the very small entrance setup/check stations. Most of the bars seem to run out of full strength beer by 7pm-8pm. Lady Hawke no showed, without any explanation of course. Security were about as useful & helpful as bunch of wild apes.

These are all examples of the typical issues with Australian music festivals. I’m sick of hearing the excuses from event organisers. If you’re going to charge $100+ for a tick, not to mention the cost of food & drink once inside, than lift your game. It’s not good enough.

With due respect to the OP, Foreshore is not really a mums and dads event.

Lazy I said :

It’s not the first year this festival has run, so if shirtless bogans came as a surprise to you..perhaps reviewing the photos/footage from previous years would have been a good first step.

The questions I still can’t figure out are:
1. Why were lip gloss / chap sticks taken from people on entry? I was told it was because they were a liquid (???), and no liquids were allowed (apparently to stop bogans bringing in their own grog).. that sounds pretty weak to me. Were they selling $75 lip gloss somewhere inside the grounds?

2. How did the ‘recycling deposit’ actually work? Was it just a technique to squeeze another 10% out of the beer prices ($10 + $1 deposit) or did some recycling actually happen?. As far as I could tell, no one managed to get the ‘deposit’ back???

1. i suspect the lip gloss ban is more than drugs come in more forms than weed and pills.

2. i have ranted about this ‘policy’ in other festival posts – my conclusion is that at the end of the day it’s a method of rorting more money out of the punter (because of the difficulty and limits imposed on returns to get your deposit back) although it does go some way towards a user-pays system on clean-up costs i guess.

It’s not the first year this festival has run, so if shirtless bogans came as a surprise to you..perhaps reviewing the photos/footage from previous years would have been a good first step.

The questions I still can’t figure out are:
1. Why were lip gloss / chap sticks taken from people on entry? I was told it was because they were a liquid (???), and no liquids were allowed (apparently to stop bogans bringing in their own grog).. that sounds pretty weak to me. Were they selling $75 lip gloss somewhere inside the grounds?

2. How did the ‘recycling deposit’ actually work? Was it just a technique to squeeze another 10% out of the beer prices ($10 + $1 deposit) or did some recycling actually happen?. As far as I could tell, no one managed to get the ‘deposit’ back???

grunge_hippy7:32 pm 27 Nov 11

I’m thinking many of you haven’t been to a festival lately…. that’s what it is now, a giant pissfest of drunken, drugged morons trying to out-drink one another so they can post it on facebook/twitter etc. Groovin the moo was my last ever festival after this years debacle.

As sgt murtaugh says: I’m too old for this s***.

and this is why I didnt go. doesnt matter what the lineup is like, there is no way I want to do that anymore. Time to hang up your festival boots people. Leave it to the young folk.

Wow, sounds like a really excellent event. Really disappointed I missed that one.

Padoof said :

I agree with Grundy, it did seem that the majority were more interested in getting as drunk as they could, with little interest in enjoying the atmosphere and music.

Also felt really embarrassed to be a Canberran yesterday when the crowd were throwing full bottles at each act… among other items.

Agreed, security seemed to not give a stuff about most of the behaviour even in plain sight.

The music was still really good (though the bass killed off a lot of the other sound at the kicks stage – like the clarinet piece during Gotye), though if any of the acts were paying attention to the crowd, they probably wont be back…

Canberrans are rude, kids get drunk…more news at 7!

Yesterday I was having birthday breakfast with my family in a city cafe when a bunch of Foreshore bogues came in with the mandatory singlets & Wayfarers drinking tinnies of Woodstock. This is at 9am. Made me embarrassed to be Australian as I couldn’t imagine this happening in any other country.

Human trash is nothing new – it’s just that there seems to be so much more of it around these days.

buzz819 said :

Well… The festival is called Foreshore – the foreshore of Burley Griffin – wouldn’t really be much of a foreshore at Epic now is it?

As stated by the editors, the organisers of Foreshore are responsible for returfing the grass if needed and cleaning it up.

Were you happy with the mucis the atmosphere and the general behaivour, because all you have really written is that people littered, what else happened??

I loved Architecture in Helsinki, the other acts I wanted to see were: Ladyhawk (who was a no-show, no explanation) Gotye (brilliant, but totally the wrong environment for him) and PNAU (who we didn’t see because we left halfway through Gotye because of how bad the crowd was by 9.15pm).

There was a general feeling of total disrespect; of the venue and the other attendees. I was queued for the toilets for over 20 minutes, I lost count of the number of people who just walked up, pushing in front of those of us doing the right thing. I gave up trying to tell the drunk, shirtless guy in front of me to not smoke (this is under the big top, a non-smoking area) – and this was at 2pm.

The participants really ruined it for me. I’ve dealt with drunk yobbos at other venues (Paramore with my daughter at the Entertainment Centre), but yesterday it really felt out of control, my partner witnessed a punch up with a female being set upon and said that security were hopeless, there was no attempt to put rubbish in the bin and a total disregard for others.

I agree with Grundy, it did seem that the majority were more interested in getting as drunk as they could, with little interest in enjoying the atmosphere and music.

I happened to be in Kingston and the city around midday on Saturday and the amount of sluttily dressed males and females was appalling. Quite a few acting like douche/douchettes, too. Pretty disappointing.

Having escorted my youngest around Questacon on Saturday morning, on my way back to the carpark, I was absolutely gobsmacked to realise that there was a young woman squatting in the ornamental grasses outside Questacan – URINATING.

At 11.45 am.

On a Saturday morning.

OUTSIDE Questacon.

… and this was at 11.45, before it had even started.

So it came as no surprise to pass multitudes of young people – and I recognised some as high school students of the area (I live in Griffith) – swigging from stubbies and mixers as they migrated to the Foreshore.

Class act, kids…I am quite sure your older selves will wish you weren’t quite so brainwashed into thinking getting blind at Foreshore was soooooo cool.

I went into the city yesterday morning. Never seen so many slip on shoes, demin cutoffs, wife beater singlets, florescent colours etc etc. I was so glad I didn’t go.

I had set my expectations of the crowd pretty low before going, but even I was disappointed at the level of douch and douchette behaviour!
Wife and I waited early to get a decent spot for the acts we wanted to see, but were ‘muscled’ out by the hoards of shirtless, drunk douchebags throwing beer on everyone, groping the women and shoving everyone out of their way.

We did not see many people there who just went for the music, most appeared to be more interested in getting as drunk as possible and showing as much fugly skin as possible…

We’re 27 and disgusted by the latest generation of 18-25 year olds… I wonder if previous generations thought the same of us? 🙂

Well… The festival is called Foreshore – the foreshore of Burley Griffin – wouldn’t really be much of a foreshore at Epic now is it?

As stated by the editors, the organisers of Foreshore are responsible for returfing the grass if needed and cleaning it up.

Were you happy with the mucis the atmosphere and the general behaivour, because all you have really written is that people littered, what else happened??

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