The crowd counts before 2005 were clearly based on conjecture. I've run a lot of events, organized rallies, done crowd counts, worked with venue managements, etc. Think about it. How big is a typical basketball/hockey arena? 20,000 or so. Baseball and football range from 30,000 to 75,000. Could you imagine really putting 20,000 people in Hart Plaza at once? Not me.
Look, the numbers are of passing interest but not what's historically and currently important about the festival. What's important is that enough people show up to overflow Hart Plaza every year. And while I think the musical quality has been on a slow decline the last several years, there are always enough great moments and even sets to make it all worthwhile. I'm still grinning about Little Louie playing Stevie Wonder at just exactly the right moment on that blistering hot afternoon last year :) fh ----------------- >DEMF 2000: 1.1 to 1.5 million (over-estimated) >DEMF 2001: 1.7 million >DEMF 2002: 1.7 million >Movement 2003: 630,000 >Movement 2004: 150,000 >Fuse-In 2005: 44,920 > > >On 02/02/07, Aidan O'Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for 'enhancements' read increased admission fee. if an event attracted >> over a people first time around, surely sponsors would be throwing >> money at it? how could something so good go so horribly wrong? >> >> aidan >> >> On 02/02/07, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > "enhancements", eh? is this new coke?!??!?! >> > >> > tom >> > >> > On 2/1/07, /0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070131/ENT04/70131052/0/ENT04 >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > To: <313@hyperreal.org> >> > > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:49 PM >> > > Subject: (313) what's up with the festival?!?!?! >> > > >> > > >> > > > so whats going on? they supposedly did alright last year and have had >> > > > since june to get it together. its now february, the festival is under >> > > > 5 months away and nothing yet. WHY???????????????? >> > > > >> > > > tom >> > > >> > > >> > >> >
