Absolutely wild. Went to a big metal festiwal this year in Czechia (Brutal Assault), and everybody cleaned afterwards. I haven’t seen a single abandoned tent. This is insanity.
I feel like healthy festival culture is only something I see in rock/metal communities. The festivals I've been to that look like landfills afterward were always the non-metal ones.
All of the smaller electronic music festivals in the UK I've been to have a very healthy culture, and everyone takes all their stuff home afterwards. But then I'd also say that while the music can be wildly different, the metal and underground electronic scenes have a lot in common, and attract fundamentally the same kinds of people.
Loads of shit left at download when I worked there a few years ago - Even the eco camping field had plenty of tents abandoned. Not as bad as Reading, but unless you are the last person out out you can't really say "everyone takes all their stuff".
I would almost guarantee that the difference actually has to do with the size of the festival and not really anything about the demographics of the attendees.
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u/PanJawel 8h ago
Absolutely wild. Went to a big metal festiwal this year in Czechia (Brutal Assault), and everybody cleaned afterwards. I haven’t seen a single abandoned tent. This is insanity.