Extravaganza

Once a year the student association at UCSB organizes a festival, a mini-Coachella in the soccer arena. It's free for everybody. So last Saturday, everybody was going to the festival, everybody meaning thousands of people (approx 12 000). At the same time. There are two entrances to the arena and the lines were huge, five meters wide, hundred meters long, not moving significantly. We cut most of the line and stood packed in a crowd of people. Some jumped over the fence into the bushes on the other side. The line didn't go forward. Suddenly someone pulled the plug and everyone pushed forward. The fence was down and the flood of people carried us in past the cops in the entrance. No one could stop us.

The band were not that big, last year they had famous bands and then people from LA came and made trouble, someone told me. A Candian band, Chromeo was the best, you can find their low-budget music vidoes Night by Night and Fancy Footwork on Youtube.