This weekend we finally had our music festival in Santa Barbara. There were carnival rides, music, dancing, people in costumes, flags, feather headdresses, face paint, sober people, drunk people, people on drugs, people on shoulders, people hopping the rail to back stage, people laying on the grass. It was definitely a day I will never forget.
We made EDM history when the concert was shut down at 11:00pm for numerous noise violations. There were a few companies that put together this event, and the poor communication between the two companies was the reason it was shut down early. One of the contracts said the event would be over at 11:00 and the other said it would be over at 11:30. Porter Robinson was having an amazing time and even went on the mic.. which he seldom does. He announced the cops were shutting the show down in 5 mins…he announced his last song and started to play. The cops cut the power during Porter Robinson’s favorite and last song “Language” right before the drop. The crowd went silent… left confused and wanting more. After a long discussion with the cops, he explained to the crowd that the festival was being shut down a half an hour early. The crowd went crazy yelling “F*** THE POLICE!” The cops were then trying to arrest Porter for inciting a riot. The cops tried to arrest him and seize all of his equipment as “evidence”. He was already having a bad day when his flight to sb landed an hour before he went on (because of delays) I’m just glad he wasn’t arrested.
People were sad and angry screaming “one more song, f*** the police, porter!porter!, and I.V!” In 2011 he made a surprise visit to the college town Isla Vista by UCSB. It was crazy, and the crowd went hard! He said how much he loved our town and loved I.V. which was probably why he didn’t hesitate to play again. I just hope he doesn’t avoid our town in the future. To be honest I think we go the hardest out of all the places on the west coast. There is no place like Santa Barbara and even though the festival was cut a little over half an hour short… it was definitely worth it to be shut down knowing it was because we were having too much fun and being to loud and crazy.
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