Festival app review: Evolution Festival 2011
We try out the iPhone application
Dane Cobain - 18 May 2011
Boy, that’s a fancy opening screen. It looks like they’ve managed to squeeze in every performer - you could
play a good game of spot-the-celebrity if it didn’t load so quickly. Graphics were clearly important in the making of
the Evolution Festival iPhone app: the map looks like a Banksy and it’s linked up to the listings.
Luckily street names are for lesser mortals, serious festival fans enjoy getting lost between venues. Plus there’ll
be signposts all over the Quayside anyway. Downloading the app is a small price to pay for a map that you’d be happy
to print out and frame.
The
listings are extensive, too. You can ‘Like’ the artists and tweet about them too and all the artist pages come
with stage times and a photograph as well. Fully searchable, you can browse by date and venue and save acts to a personalised
schedule so you don’t miss Iggy Pop, Plan B
or Jamie Woon, (who’ll be counting calories and
checking out the app himself if his recent
interview with VF is anything to go by).
The news feed comes as standard, interesting reading, but not as exciting
as the pictures, videos or the user-created twitter feed that you can add to from your mobile. For the more safety-conscious,
the help screen and information pages are full of handy hints like reminding you not to flag down a taxi because it’s
against the law. Instead, they give you a list of taxi rank numbers and advice on how to make your journey as safe as possible,
as well as information on travel and transport.
The app doesn’t need a signal to work, just to update the
information – they promise that “there is a good level of signal on all parts of the Festival Site”
though, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Still, they advise you to “download and look through the app before
you get to the Festival” so that all of the content is already on your mobile.
But the best bits are the vouchers, well worth the £2.99
that the app sets you back. They have everything: from 15% off at the Healing Lotus Yurt and a fiver off
at Cake to free upgrades, cheaper merchandise and free friendship bracelets too. Ears are full after too much music? Enjoy
25% off an ostrich burger (or save 50p if you’d prefer a veggie burger) and fill your stomach as well.
At just a fraction of the festival’s ticket price and complete with everything you’ll need to have a memorable
weekender, the app is enough to enhance the experience of any Evolution-goer – just don’t forget to tweet!
Evolution Festival 2011
will take place from 28-29 May at multiple venues on the Gateshead Quayside in Newcastle.
Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Brother,
Jamie Woon, Plan B, Example and Tinie Tempah are all due to play at the weekender.
Click here to view the Evolution Festival line-up.
Weekend tickets are priced at
£35, with day tickets available for £25.
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