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The organisation of The Killers at Falkirk Stadium is an absolute shambles.

Read that parking would be available and since no trains were on opted to drive through. Door time was half 5 and we left straight from work arriving around 6. When we arrived, stewards had closed the car parks due to being full, so we had to drive around until we found a space in a random plumbing shop car park on the estate nearby.

No signage on how to get to the stadium, so followed the crowd. 20ish minute walk to the stadium including over an uneven field. Only way to get out was over a piece of barbed wire crudely wrapped in hazard tape.

Got to the gates and there were no signs or stewards telling us where to actually go. Huge clumps of people swarming one entrance only to find out they had to go to another queue. On the stadium grounds, there was no crowd control: huge groups of people were walking into and through each other. No segregation of directions or queues for facilities, just a massive blob of people walking in opposite directions and amorphous queues for facilities. No underfoot coverings, so again the ground was uneven and the dust being kicked up was cloying.

Asked a steward where the water facilities to refill bottles was and he said we could use the fire exit at the other side of the building to get to it. When we arrived and told the steward guarding it what the previous one had said, we had to wait until he got a supervisor to let us through, who then told us we had to go around the entire building to get back inside once we were done. Couldn't find the tap so asked for help and were pointed to a literal nondescript tap tied to a fence. Again no signage to make it stand out.

Before the gig started, there was a dispute with people about seating. Rather than coming to help, the steward stood and watched the two parties involved go back and forward until they resolved the issues themselves. There was a younger woman sitting crying in the standing area and I noticed another steward clock her, look away then continue walking up and down the area. Saw her getting helped by a random woman in the audience.

Afterwards, we walked back to our car and got stuck on the road leading out of the industrial estate for about an hour due to congestion. The roads were moving extremely slowly, not helped by a steward blocking traffic at a green light to let large amounts of cars from one of the car parks to join the main road. Once we actually got out, it was only about 30 minutes to get home. The show finished at half 10, got home about half past midnight.

Such poor organisation for such a massive event. Awful parking facilities, lack of signage, directions and proper queues made the event seem extremely amateurish compared to other ones I've been to.

The Killers were cracking, though.