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Review of Sheffield Festival Of Reggae
No seating inside.Having a balance disability, walking with sticks,I brought a fold-up camp chair but was not allowed to take it in.i was told 'there is lots of seating in there'. Lots in courtyard, yes, but none where folk can hear/see the bands. So I paid for a day of bands I couldn't see or hear, and my family also missed stuff so that I wasn't sat outside on my own.
Also, disabled toilet neglected: no paper, and handle fell off during early evening so we had to leave door ( on main corridor from yard to bands ) open while we used it.
For an event about love, diversity and inclusion, this made me feel like s**t . I left early.
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Would you recommended: No |
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Review of Sheffield Festival Of Reggae
This was our 2nd visit to the festival and this year saw two former chart headliners, which is brilliant!
We arrived a little later this year and immediately picked up the aroma of the food it smelled awesome but it ran out during the evening as we were ready to replenish some energy.
The outside area had a good atmosphere and some creative DJ's and live acts. The queueing is a bit chaotic for the bar and food stalls out there.
The staff appeared friendly and the security staff were visible and things seemed to be kept under control.
Generally, we like the venue but feel the location is very poor for vehicular accessibilty and parking.
Onto the main stage: not surprisingly, the room is a bit of a crush when the headliners are on but there seems to be some respectful etiquette with people passing back and forth.
It's a high stage and the performers can usually be seen ok.
However, the sound is awful!
Being in the music industry, we know that Reggae is bass driven but man, this was way too much. So much so that even Janet Kay made a subtle reference to it and Johnny Clarke's band couldn't get their sound balanced, with two the members telling the bass man to drop his volume, as if it would help.
Janet Kay's set was further marred by the random placement of the sirens and the samples, whoever did that has no sense of timing whatsoever. It threw Ms Kay off because it overawed the music. She was extremely professional, not showing that there were problems. There clearly were. She stopped and rewound one song to make it appear as part of the show, then she had to pause in another song due to the stupid samples over-riding her cues.
During her set, the top and bottom frequencies in the hall, had way too much volume.
Janet Kay was brilliant and her voice was on point.
We couldn't hear Johnny Clarke's vocals, the bass was even rattling the line array system. At the beginning of the set, there was loads of feedback and Johnny left the stage until he thought the issues had been resolved, unfotunately, they hadn't. Too much emphasis on the bass and not enough on the vocals. Fortunately, these guys were also pro's and continued to work with the mess caused by the 'sound men' in the box.
We didn't see another act in the hall until the mighty Aswad.
Now their sound was more balanced but the snare sounded like a plastic drum with cardboard over it. Setting up for them took an age.
In terms of the acts brought in, as with last year too, great job!
In terms of the 'sound men', you could and should, do way better for the performers and for the paying fans!
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Would you recommended: Yes |
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