Skankfest X opens, then Gomez says use the alternate entrance

Skankfest X is underway. The festival's account posted that Skankfest X has officially begun in New Orleans, with the usual party framing and a stack of hashtags. Then came the part nobody puts on the poster.

SKANKFEST

@SkankfestNYC

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Lets start the party! Skankfest X has officially begun!

Hours later, Luis J. Gomez was posting traffic directions. He told people the festival is not evacuated, that there is an alternate entrance, and that getting to that entrance means taking a car or an Uber. He said he hoped the main entrance would open soon.

The entrance situation

Gomez did not say what was wrong with the main entrance, only that it was not the way in right now. The instruction to grab a car or an Uber is the detail that tells you how far the alternate entrance is from wherever everyone was already standing. You do not tell a crowd to call rides for a two minute walk.

The first line of the post is the one doing the real work. Saying a festival is not evacuated means somebody out there thought it was.

What it follows

This is the New Orleans edition of the festival that landed on the calendar for November 13 to 15. Saturday had already sold out before the doors opened, with Friday and Sunday still available at the time, and the pre festival advice from the account was to hydrate. Hydration was not the logistical problem anyone needed to solve on day one.

For anyone still heading down, the practical read is simple. Do not assume the front door is the door. Check Gomez's feed before you pick a drop off point, because as of his post the alternate entrance was the entrance, and the main one was a maybe.

Nothing in either post suggests the shows are off. The festival account was still in party mode, Gomez was still telling people how to get in rather than telling them to go home, and the only thing being rerouted was the crowd.

Luis J. Gomez

@luisjgomez

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Skankfest is not evacuated.