Word: megaconcerts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After my shopping trip, I once again turn my attention to preparations for the megaconcert, which starts on Friday. I'm already getting a bit worried about it. Festivals are almost always confused, weirdly organized affairs in which you spend as much time looking for your car afterward as you do listening to music. Festivals are usually dirty, muddy, nasty events with horrifying portable toilets that cannot be used by human beings, poorly cooked diarrhea-inducing refreshments that force concertgoers to renounce their humanity and use those horrifying portable toilets, frustratingly short sets, frustratingly long set breaks, public drunkenness, lewd...
...press passes and three T-shirts. They tell me that I'm required to wear one of the T-shirts each day of the concert. The T-shirt is a female-sized medium. I'm a six-foot, five-inch, 220-pound guy. You would think that a megapromoted megaconcert could at least spring for an XL T-shirt...
...Spears) as well as Brazilian acts (Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, Carlinhos Brown, Tom Ze, Nacao Zumbi). The organizers have billed it as one of the largest concerts in history, with five stages, more than 150 acts scheduled and more than one million attendees expected. One report boasted that the megaconcert would be "roughly the equivalent of five Woodstocks." I just hoped that meant they weren't going to charge five times as much as they did at Woodstock '99 for bottled water...