Flow Festival

I’m a Coachella music festival-​aholic so when I missed this year’s Coachella due to being in Finland, I decided to treat myself to some Flow Festival tickets instead.
I went both Saturday and Sunday. Was OK. I’m trying hard not to compare it to Coachella, which is in the sunny desert in Indio, CA and has a whole bunch of loud Americans, but it’s hard not to. The vibe is completely different. Again, this is Finland, so a bit silent during some of the acts. I felt like a crazy person cheering for Feist as everyone else around me were just nodding their heads to the music and clapping politely. Every loud cheer invoked at least one bewildered look from somebody. like «who is this loud obnoxious person?». LOL
It was pretty easy to navigate through the place. The «Black Tent» had a black tent, literally. Nokia blue tent had a blue tent, etc. They also had big balloons with the name of the place above areas like WC so was easy to find them even later at night.
I loved seeing Feist, Bjork, The War on Drugs, St Vincent, Ane Brun and other bands but wasn’t too impressed by the line-​up. It seemed like last year, much bigger bands were touring so that line-​up was kick-​ass and would have been much more bang for my buck.
Also, the crowd control was non-​existent. Seemed like they just sold as many tickets as possible without a thought to how many people can fit and what’s comfortable. Sunday was the worst whereas Saturday was pretty empty comparatively.
As for the food: The Vegemesta stand had AMAZING veggie burgers. By amazing, I mean probably in the top 3 veggie burgers I’ve ever tasted in my entire lifetime. I literally had a mouthgasm eating it. Later, on Sunday (when there seemed to be 3x the people there were on Saturday), the line to get one was ridiculous so I tried the Shanghai Cowboy (Mexican food — go figure. Wouldn’t have guessed by the name. lol) which was alright — I had the cheese party plate. My friends had sushi at Kabuki which they loved.
All in all, it was enjoyable but if you’re like me and love crazy rambunctious music festivals, don’t get your expectations too high. Flow Festival holds true to their name — it’s just a zen experience really.
Wow. Long review. Hats off to you if you read it all ;)