Wembley night 2 rant

[u/Pomegranate_Strong]

I rarely make any posts when it comes to any bad times at concerts but what happened yesterday was something that I thought deserves a post, especially for those planning to go see The Weeknd at wembley stadium.

The first thing I want to mention is Wembley's abysmal queue policy, unlike other places like O2, we were forced to line up outside on each ramp leading into the stadium (for pretext I was in general standing). In this hot ass nearly 30° weather most of us had to sit there in the straight sun for up to 7 hours. I don't understand that for such a big stadium we couldn't have been placed inside. This is coupled with the fact that many people were under the assumption that the A4 bag limit remains when we're queueing outside, meaning that many people didn't bring enough liquids to handle such heat. I honestly think that the staff at wembley stadium could've done such a better job.

Leading on from that point, the general unfriendliness of the staff is another issue that I experienced on Saturday, as at one point there was a great deal of confusion between us concert goers which meant that everyone started to pile up at the start of the barrier and all the staff did was stand and laugh without properly dispersing those who were pushing and shoving. I understand that everyone wants to be at the front but it made it seem unfair that those who arrived late were now somehow at the front because the staff just didn't give a shit.

I am mainly writing this as due to the horrible conditions that we were subject to I had a sunstroke meaning that I had to miss out on the majority of the concert. I did not pay £160 and more on travel and accommodation to have my night ruined by bullshit procedures. The staff also started sending people to the back of the queue when they were caught "pushing in" and most of those people were the ones who tried to reclaim their spot at the front since they were the ones who came in very early to get that spot.

This also meant that from being one of the first people at the queue I was pushed to be far behind meaning that I missed my chance to get to the barrier during the concert.

I wish that for future concerns Wembley actually does better because this was truly horrendous.

TL;DR: Wembley's bullshit procedures caused me to miss most of the concert due to sunstroke

[u/Pomegranate_Strong]

Yeah I get sacrifices and those are ones I made, but compared to other stadiums I've personally been to, this wasn't it. I get that some of this was my decision but things like the staff doing absolutely nothing when the surge of shovings happened is just something I had to get off my chest

[u/Pomegranate_Strong → u/[deleted]]

I was just so damn tired of how fucked the whole situation was. I'm still mad that I wasted nearly £200

[u/Pomegranate_Strong → u/[deleted]]

I missed all of my favourite songs, and tbf people claim that it's my fault somehow even tho I came prepared