So, did anyone go to the RadioBDC concert in Union Square ?

[ron_newman]

After all the fuss here, and in the Somerville Patch and Journal, and in the Board of Aldermen, I'm curious what the concert and crowd were actually like. (I was at HONKtoberfest instead)

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[eclectician.livejournal.com]

There were probably never more than 500 attendees there at any time. There were times when the police detail outnumbered the crowd. As for the music... well, it was loud...

[tober.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much, though 500 (if it was even that) is pretty crowded when squeezed into that relatively small space. It was pretty loud - someone was beat-boxing perhaps around 5:15 and that could be readily heard all the way back to where I live (corner of Bow and Summer)

[ron_newman]

But doesn't the Fluff festival attract an order of magnitude more people, using the same space (plaza, parking lot, closed part of Union Square)?

[tober.livejournal.com]

The fluff festival uses the entire area including the closed portion of the street. Although the street was closed today, it was entirely empty. The plaza, though, was crowded - I'd say somewhat more crowded than the farmer's market on a particularly nice mid-summer Saturday.

[ron_newman]

Sounds like the street closure was totally unneeded.

[tober.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, it was indeed not needed - but I would guess that even if the promoter didn't want a street closure (I have no idea whether they did or didn't), the city would have insisted upon it for "security reasons." Really, holding this concert at all against the relatively numerous other well-established events on the same day was kind of dumb... and I'm not so sure that Union Square Plaza is a good venue for concerts as such anyhow.