https://vo.rs/tags/festivals/Recent content in Festivals on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Fri, 30 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/festival-toilets/Fri, 30 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/festival-toilets/https://vo.rs/encore/why-every-festival-now-feels-the-same/Thu, 22 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/why-every-festival-now-feels-the-same/https://vo.rs/encore/why-the-crowd-sings-the-guitar-solo/Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/why-the-crowd-sings-the-guitar-solo/https://vo.rs/encore/festival-wristbands-and-the-cashless-economy/Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/festival-wristbands-and-the-cashless-economy/<p>The little plastic band gets fastened on at the gate and stays there for the whole weekend, through the rain and the beer and the sleep, until you cut it off days later at home. Somewhere inside it is a chip the size of a grain of rice, and by the time you leave the field that chip has recorded a surprising amount about who you are and how you spend. The cashless festival is now the default across most of Europe, and it is one of those changes that arrived dressed as pure convenience while quietly rewriting the whole economics of the event.</p>