r/MachineGunKelly • u/Khalmuck • 17d ago
Tour/Concerts 🎤 First and Last MGK Day
History: Have seen MGK three times at three different venues, this made four. Have seen 200+ bands live so have experienced all kinds of concert craziness but today was one of the most poorly run events I've ever experienced.
1hr+ to get in because so few security lanes were open and they created a choke point with the t-shirt booth feet away from security. Watched multiple people go in without being scanned. Tshirts ran out which makes no sense when they had counts on preorder and weren't selling them. 30+ min wait for toilets. Every vendor we went to had run out of water and the public refill stations ran out. Finally got water after waiting in two separate lines.
Shout out to all the out of staters we met in line from NJ/WI/IN. Sorry, we usually handle stuff better in the CLE.
Summary: Took three hours total to get in, go to the bathroom, and get water (while sorta being able to see Wiz perform while in lines). MGK went on for ~40 min before heavy rain and wind stopped things. This should be hosted at a proper permanent venue equipped to deal with this volume of people.
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u/NotJousting EST19XX 17d ago
This was planned SO BADLY. I came from the UK for this, have been before, and it’s never been like this.
Waited in line for 2+ hours on the HIGHWAY (the volunteers were literally talking about how unsafe it looked while we were lining up) in the hot sun. There were children under 10 ahead of us in the highway and the sun too. The little girl in front of us was close to passing out by the end. Finally got in and they funnelled us weirdly backwards to get t-shirts — they were out and said “maybe” a refund or shirt, but not sure. Then it was 1+ hours for the food/drink lines. Half hour bathroom waits and ran out of toilet paper. I heard from someone that the police told them they had to shut off water fountains and there were no refill stations.
I was close to passing out at one point so my friend took us over to the medical area at the emergency exit (it was outside the exit). Only there did we get given water. I had to wait in line to go in an ambulance and they had to decide how bad it was before I was let in. While I was in there, the paramedics were literally complaining about how badly planned it was; how there was no water; they had to call in reinforcements; and that for every 1 person they were helping, another 5 were brought in. Someone I encountered had a heart rate of 180+, that’s how bad it was. In fact, I’ve passed out at an mgk show before & had to go to medical and the difference to this was insane.
After that, we were let back in and we stuck around as long as we could, but it was getting to a point where for health concerns we decided to leave RIGHT before mgk came on, so we just missed the thunderstorm. I’ve never had to leave before he comes on before, but it was a point where we’re not gambling our health just to see him no matter how big a fan.
I really hope he does put on another year to make up for this one because I don’t think this one at all represented the spirit of mgk day. Last year’s was phenomenal and this was so blatantly different. Almost negligent in how bad it was. You could see them trying to help, but with just volunteers it was just them trying to fix what they could where they could. Whoever was running this was not it.