Veld Music Festival

The festival itself has great vibes through out and the lineup was awesome. That being said the water refill stations were ridiculous and the actual production was minimal. Not to mention that buying tickets this year gave me alot of issues as well. If you’re in the toronto area you wont regret coming. I just wish it was more organized

I’ve been here both years and had an amazing time!
For 2012 they made some idiot decisions like having 2 main stages with the headliner on the stage further from VIPs, and not giving said VIP’s any value for the additional ticket price. 2013 seemed to fix both those issues and was generally a hell of a lot more organized. 2012 was a first-​year event and it showed; i’m really glad to see they improved. Also the barcardi tent was better placed and not full of mud this year (they put some sort of gravel down).
VIP is now actually worth the extra $ 40 (if you buy your tickets in advance) because:
1. There’s 2 ways to get into the vip area now, with 1 being right next to the side of the stage.
2. Free water filling station (was shocked at not being able to find one outside of VIP)
3. «Real» washrooms and a bunch of port-​a-​potties with no line up.
4. Bars with no line up.
5. Lots of seats in a giant tent to relax.
6. «Express» entry to the event (2012 had this in theory but at the event they were letting anyone in through it). They also had separate lines for wrist-​band pickup for VIP’s.
7. Free parking (they claimed this in 2012 as well, but made me pay for parking).
If you don’t get VIP it’s no big deal as all the action and fun is outside of that area anyways. I think it’s worth it just to have a pace to get a break from the crowd and relax with a drink, before heading back into the thick of it.
For food there’s a lot of the usual festival food and overpriced $ 4 bottles of water. I had the pulled pork sandwich (i think $ 8) and a blooming onion ($ 12), which were both better than i was expecting. Drinks were $ 12 for a red bull /​vodka (they were out of red bull so this became a $ 12 coke and vodka).
The DJ’s all depend on your personal preference. I thought Avicii last year was incredible and thought the 2013 lineup was a bit disappointing (i’m not a big fan of deadmau5). Steve Aoiki always throws an entertaining show.

Went to this last year and this year and had a blast! Great music, great vibe, hot girls, what else do you need to live? maybe some food and water, otherwise you are good.
If you are going here are some tips:
1) Free parking — it’s an industrial area so there are a lot of free street parking if you go a little bit east.
2) View from the centre of the stage is a lot better even if you are moving to the back
3) Bring earplugs, (more for myself as I was shooting photos and videos from the front of the stage)
4) Night time is a lot better than day time, I schedule to be there in the afternoon for a couple of hours, go for dinner, rest up and come back in the evening for a full party again.
5) Tailgate party bring food and water, games etc…, if you pay for parking you can go there during downtime.
6) Bring extra clothing, it gets chilly at night
7) Last year there was a water filling station in the public area, didn’t check this year but there was one in the VIP which had no line up. The water filling station last year in the general area had a long ass line up.
That’s all I can think off for now. Check out my photos and videos from Veld here:

I stepped it up a notch by going VIP this year since it was only $ 40 more. Once again, best decision I’ve ever made.
This time there was only one stage. YES! No more of the stupid two stage system which pretty much shafted all the VIP people when deadmau5 came on stage last year. Everything I mentioned in the previous review, otherwise, pretty much applied to this year in terms of the general vibe and experience.
One thing I loved about this year in which I didn’t notice last year was that the cops were also grooving along to the music! I’ve never seen TPS so chill in an event like this. Of course they had to deal with a couple of issues I saw such as overdosing, but in terms of violence I saw absolutely zero. We’re all Canadian, we all say sorry.
Sharky L. covered the tips perfectly for anyone who wants to go to Veld in the future. I hope they keep with this system cause this was a well organized music festival, and Ink Entertainment should be proud of themselves.
The star that I took out was because the food variety lacked this year compared to last year. I was hoping for Buster’s, but alas I didn’t see them anywhere this year.

Day 1 started off a little rough with the parking attendants not knowing if there was VIP priority parking or not. The security was plentiful & friendly but did not know the rules at times. They went against a few things that the Veld organizers had announced. The venue was set up in a logical manner but there was no customer service tent to be found. The music line up was excellent & they stayed on time. It was almost like clockwork. The food & merchandise was varied, plus reasonably priced. The free water refills was a great option until the lines got out of control. Exiting from the parking lot was a nightmare. After paying $ 20 CAD to park, there was no staff or police to be seen to get people out of a field that had no markers set up. I hope day 2 will be a little more organized.