It’s been a busy month of November so far, celebrating one year in London, starting new campaigns, moving out of my flat, having friends over… One thing I had time for though (but which did make the month a bit busier) was concerts. I used to go to a lot of them and it had been a few quiet months on that front. But old habits came back with a bang with the colossal Resistance Tour by Muse which I attended twice (both in London at the O2 arena and in Paris at the POPB). We discussed this for hours with friends (beforehand and afterwards) dreaming of our favourite setlist (our favourite Muse setlist would probably involve a 5 hours set! not very do-able). On my way back to London it got me thinking and I started extending the concept, dreaming of my perfect festival.

And I remembered that a friend of mine, Mr Omneo recommended me the Sony Fantasy Festival a few days before.

The whole point of the Festival is to create your perfect festival line-up with virtual money. You then have to create buzz around it in order to win prizes. To be fair I don’t really care about the prizes and the buzz part of it. I did spent an interesting time creating the line-up though: loved choosing the artists, creating my stages with like-minded artists, customising the colours, getting frustrated that some artists/bands I like don’t really fit with my line-up or simply are just dead, discovering friends’ line-up etc…

I wish Sony Fantasy Festival had pushed the experience even further: why not give us the opportunity to choose our dream festival venue? or time? I don’t know about you but I’d love a festival which would see Muse playing on the first level of the Eiffel Tower one month and then Arcade Fire on a beach in Scotland 3 weeks later and the XX playing Tokyo at night two weeks later. If it’s fantasy let’s make it complete!

Anyway… go check it out for yourself and maybe you’ll have as much fun as me.

Dot Dot Dash