Goa :
The first two days of the VH1 Supersonic festival witnessed a positive response in terms of number of attendees, sponsors and the artistes. The price of the tickets was as low as Rs. 1000 per day and the people, who attended the event on the first day, were automatically invited for the second day. According to local newspaper the event had close to 7000 people attending the event.

Nikhil Chinappa the curator is extremely happy with the response that the festival has received so far. Talking to Radioandmusic.com’s Dhairya Ingle, Chinappa said, “Honestly I came with no expectations to Goa, for the festival. But the people out here supported the new event whole heartedly, for which I am thankful to them.”

When asked the reason behind inviting the first day’s attendees to the second day free of cost he said, “There was an emotional reason for it. This festival is very dear and since it was put up in 21 days, we wanted to tell people if they took the trouble to attend the first day of the just created baby, we wanted them to be our guests for the second day. Looking at the crowd the second day, we decided to invite them for the third day too.”

However, Chinappa does feel that he could have done a lot more had he had three months to organise the event. “There is always a scope for improvement. I think everything out here at the festival needs to be improved; be it the parking facilities, to the ticket selling process. I do not say that I am happy.”

According to him the ticket that has been priced by the organisers is not low as they are still at the testing phase and everything is an experiment and of course ticketing is one of them. “I feel money has a great value whether it is 100 or 1000,” he added.

He sincerely wishes the EDM community to grow in India. “I want people to learn the nuances of EDM from me and start their own things,” concluded Chinappa.

source: http://www.radioandmusic.com / RadioandMusic.com / Home> Review / by RnM Team / December 30th, 2013