“It is very busy and currently the site is full,” the organization writes via Instagram Stories. “Try to postpone your visit.”
Postponing the visit means for the people who want them to wait behind the fence. “This is the third entrance we try,” says one of them. “We are from Amsterdam, so it’s a shame to go home.” A second waiting tells: “I came especially for Rowwen Hèze. On the other hand, I stood in line for an hour, but then they will send us to this place and then you get this,” he says as he points to the crowd. “
Some liberation doll enthusiasts do not care about the closed entrances and climb over the fence. Others leave the site because of the enormous crowds.
‘Stuck as a sardientje’
On social media, visitors respond that they cannot go anywhere. One of them tells NH that he was stuck ‘like a sardientje’. He says: “How it went there was not good. I at least brought someone from the first aid four times because a visitor did not get air.”
Roxy Dekker, Rowwen Hèze, SEF and shifts are performing at Liberation Pop, among others. The program concludes with Son Mieux. It is about the 45th edition of the festival.
Financial need
For a moment it was exciting whether the Liberation Festival could continue when it became clear that the empire decided to end the structural financial support. The province and the municipality then decided to pull the wallet.