Summer Salt Victor Harbor: Sounded good, pity you couldn't see the stage

We just got back from a weekend at Victor Harbour. We and a bunch of our friends decided to go to Summer Salt, because the lineup really smashed that late-millenial nostagia button.

While the music sounded great we were all disappointed by one thing: General Admission ticket holders couldn't see the stage!

At ticket sale time, the event shared this image of how punters would be segregated:

Oh yeah cool; map not to scale. I remember thinking "doesn't bother me if I'm not right up the front".

The reality was that the first, maybe 50m from the stage back were reserved for Premium GA. The performers looked like ants, and due to the lay of the land of the venue, for most of the GA area you couldn't see the stage at all! It was blocked by trees, the sound/light tent, bins, giant water tanks, and just the slope of the terrain.

And the area right behind premium was reserved for a wide walkway between the left and right of the venue. Security was moving people along and so you couldn't even stand in the best part of the GA area.

Nothing makes me want to overthrow capitalism like premium tickets to music gigs! What really annoyed me though was that, because everyone brought in big fold up chairs, half of the premium area was taken up by empty chairs! All the people had stood up and moved closer to the stage, and so there was just this giant empty space that could have been taken up by people.

It's not like the GA tickets were cheap either - $150 for adults and $100 for children. For a live show you couldn't see.

I hope Summer Salt comes back to Victor. But I also hope people complain about the unreasonable segregation and that the event comes back in a way that makes it worth the admission price.

Because $150 is a lot to pay to have the privelege to drink $12 Great Northern cans and sit in a park, listening to music that, like, could be live, if only you could see that far.