The gates went at Green for Gates and it was like the start of the marathon.

Running in, they all just sat there all basically went to the prime areas, mainly the lake,

and queued up to get their weekend sorted.

And then within about an hour, we had queues, like three main cues of about three hours long.

And then this narrative that everything was fully booked.

Everything wasn't fully booked.

People got really, really, really cross.

And at this point, I'm thinking, right,

I've read or black my life on this gig,

we've got it open against all the odds.

We've planned through COVID.

We've launched during lockdown.

Here we are.

And now we've got a problem.

It was crazy. You know, and mothers, and mothers like screaming at me.

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