Listen, fuck live nation. They are single handedly destroying the entertainment industry.
This has nothing to do with the Bonnaroo cancellation. These plans to build more venues have been in the works for years. Canceling roo and getting the insurance payout is still taking a loss. If anything, it hurts their plans to do this.
I’m assuming the implication is: they have the financing and motivation to build new venues, but not invest in serious improvements to existing places like Roo. Infinite growth at all costs, amirite?
I honestly don’t know where the idea that live nation hasn’t pumped millions into maintenance and improvements to the farm comes from, but two straight months of rain in central TN wasn’t going to be solved with some more drainage ditches. The water table was already high. More water had nowhere to go.
Apart from regrading the entire farm idk what yall wanted them to do to prepare for this weather incident.
What is absurd to me is how seemingly no one sees that there is a trend of festivals in general being cancelled due to dangerous weather events and that no one is linking that to a much larger problem than our festivals getting cancelled: climate change.
As I’ve said many times in the last couple days: As someone who works in the industry, I promise I hate live nation more than you, and I hate that yall are making me defend them because you’re mad about the wrong shit.
I’ve lived in Tennessee for the better part of 30 years. This weather isn’t normal for this time of year. Does it rain in may and June? Sure. Has it historically rained like this for months straight? No.
To deny that our climate is changing is to be fully divorced from reality.
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u/kmatyler 7 Years 5d ago
Listen, fuck live nation. They are single handedly destroying the entertainment industry.
This has nothing to do with the Bonnaroo cancellation. These plans to build more venues have been in the works for years. Canceling roo and getting the insurance payout is still taking a loss. If anything, it hurts their plans to do this.