GLOWfest canceled, deadmau5 still plays

By the time Nashville, Tenn., native Leonard Davidson reached the Bluebird Nightclub at 8:40 p.m., he was at the end of a line that extended four blocks from the venue on North Walnut Avenue.

This was the line that hopeful fans waited in, checking their Facebook and Twitter feeds for the latest news on a botched GLOWfest concert.

Three hours earlier, the GLOWfest Twitter page announced that the show headlining deadmau5 had been cancelled due to “inclement weather.”

Davidson’s attitude, though, remained positive.

“We’re waiting it out until the end,” he said. “We didn’t drive seven hours for nothing.”
After GLOWfest broke the news of its cancellation, ticket holders took to Twitter and Facebook with criticisms of the music festival and deadmau5.

“I think this was deadmau5’s fault,” sophomore Carlos Hernandez said. “He shouldn’t have refused to perform.”

deadmau5 fired back with tweets about an alternate venue in the works.

By 7:30 p.m., deadmau5 announced that the show had moved to the Bluebird, doors opening at 9 p.m. and he would perform at about midnight.

He also made the mistake of saying the venue would be for all ages.

As fans started to line up in front of the venue, deadmau5 sent out another tweet that said he had been misinformed about the concert — the Bluebird couldn’t accommodate the younger-than-21 crowd.

“I feel like they screwed up a little bit when they said it was all ages,” a bartender at the Bluebird said.

By 9 p.m., the crowd started to chant, “Let us in! Let us in!”

However, the Bluebird, which holds roughly 800, could not fit everyone.

“I feel like it probably wasn’t the smartest decision (to use the Bluebird),” GLOWfest co-founder Deuce Thevenow said. “They could’ve picked a bigger venue and made it fair for the 3,000 to 5,000 who had tickets.”

GLOWfest has yet to officially announce if there will be compensation for ticket holders that were unable to enter the Bluebird.