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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you likely knew that Mumford & Sons were playing the LC Pavilion festival stage Tuesday night. Actually, it’s more likely that you were there – quite a few people were.
The British folk rock band are currently touring the US and riding the huge success brought on from the “Sigh no More” album while gearing up to release their second studio album, “Babel,” due to be released next month.
If you were unfortunately not one of the 11,000 people on hand to witness one of the most hyped concerts of the year, then perhaps these photographs from the show will help to ease the pain of missing one of those shows that people will likely be talking about for years to come.
Matt Ellis is a freelance photographer who cover bands that visit the city and the Columbus Crew MLS team. More about Matt can be found at Matt Ellis Photography.
11,000!?? At the LC?? I heard they opened up the back gate and had a stage in the rear parking lot to accomodate the crowd.
Matt says the “LC Pavilion festival stage” in the writeup above, which is what the outdoor parking lot stage was called. Some of the crowd photos also clearly show fans with the skyline in the background, as the stage was at the west end of the parking lot, facing east.
They did move the concert to the parking lot of the LC and it was horrible. The stage was higher than a good portion of the crowd and the screen next to the stage was the same height as the stage so a large portion of the crowd was able to stare at the back of the heads of the people in front of them. The show was good but I am sure I wasn’t alone in buying tickets to see them IN the LC and was very disappointed at the move. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at the greed from the venue, promoters or whoever decided to make the change.
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It was not horrible. Far from it. I had my doubts about the move, but honestly it was better than I thought it would be. Your statement about the stage being higher makes no sense? Of course the stage is higher than the crowd… so you want a stage at ground level were no one could see?
The lot is actually kind of sloped toward the back the people back there could see above the crowd in front of them with ease.
If you were in the few that got presale tickets, then you can express disappointment if you want, but the move announcement was made with the public onsale. I still dont understand all the butt hurt though. Mumford has moved way past the 2000-5000 seat venues now (let alone the 500 Wexner capacity they played to in 2010), you’ll either see them with the masses in your city, or you won’t. Simple as that. BUT If you were that upset by the switch you could’ve easily made a tidy profit selling your tickets as they were selling for healthy sums leading up to last night.
The “few” that got presale is around 3500-4000 people. That’s a good portion of the crowd.
I’ve found the only folks who were inside the gates who defend the parking lot location either had some kind of press/VIP pass, or were involved in promoting the show/promowest in some fashion (judging by what I’ve seen on Twitter & my FB feed). A huge number of people who paid for their tickets, who anticipated it being inside the LC didn’t have that great a time. Yes, the band was awesome, and the sound quality was good – but standing on your tippy toes for 5 hours isn’t a fun time.
If it makes you feel any better I had stand on tippy toes to get these pictures. And I’m 6’4″ ;)
While it was pretty cool to see that many people at a show in a area I’ve never been before it really wasn’t that much fun to shoot.
It’s the price of popularity I suppose. If you caught them at the Wex you can consider yourselves very lucky peoples
“what you missed” you mean being able to see the stage? The set up was awful! We group got there when doors opened so we were pretty close to the stage but still couldn’t see a thing but the occasional top of a band players head. Everyone I’ve talked to about it agrees it was! Did I have a blast dancing to the fantastic music, yes, but I could have done that in my own bedroom. When I pay $40 for a ticket, I expect to be able to enjoy the visual aspect of the show too. If Mumford and Sons are such a big band that they can sell 11,000 tickets in 24 hours and still have so many people wishing they could have bought tickets, they should have played a large venue like Nationwide or the Schott (but then LC wouldn’t have made the $$). LC needs to destroy their “festival stage” and if promowest wants bigger bands to come to their venues then they need to build a bigger stage and seating area. This was very frustrating.