You might have this dream, meeting your favourite musicians and getting their autograph or taking pictures with them. While you are building this dream, this question comes to your head “But how do I get to make it real? I have no idea about how to!”. Well, since you have been dedicating most of your time for your favourite musicians, we are going to give some tips and share the secrets on how to meet your favorite musicians! Here’s your guide to be the Super Fan!

Following their accounts on social media

It’s the easiest way to get to know more about your favourite musician. Go follow their twitter, instagram, vine, facebook, anything that related to them and accounts run by them not just by some social media team. You’ll be the first one to know everything about them. If you’re planning to stalk them stick your eyes and fingers on your phone, they probably share some ‘clue’ about where they are staying or where they are heading at the moment.

Flooding or not flooding

After following their accounts, you can ask them about where they are staying. WELL, They won’t answer it directly or in short you will have them not answering any of your messages! Here’s the thing, it’s pretty much like  ’all or nothing’, what you have to do is flood their account with your messages! It may sound lunatic, but if you’re lucky enough, your favourite artist will reply your message or even drop an impromptu meet & greet session with them! But, keep in mind, doing this step is very risky. It will give you either two things : 1. Getting blocked by them and it’s very disturbing. Or 2.You get your wish granted. Ps : according to some fans who have met their favourite musicians, they got invited by sending a flood of messages to the bands

Befriend other fans

Seriously, making friends will help you a lot. By being a friend with another fans, it’ll help you get more information from A to Z about how to meet your favourite musicians.

Checking Their Flight Schedule

Greeting your favourite musicians when they have arrived in your hometown, will be a one hell of a welcome for them, what you have to do is find the best sources to know their flight schedule. How? Do the previous step : Be friends with other fans!. We recommend you to contact with a fan from another country/city where your favourite musicians just visited. They will help you in giving informations about “Hey! The bands just left my country at XX.XX PM! They might arrive in your country in the next couple of hours!”. However, we don’t really recommend you to this step, because you don’t know what kind of mood that your favourite bands are capable of, if it took hours for them to arrive in your city, you better not greeting them at the airport. Just give them some space first.

Checking Out Their Hotel

The promoter will probaly put the bands near the concert venue. But sometimes, it is the other way around. You need to make sure where the bands are staying. After figuring it out, wait for them in the lobby. It doesn’t matter if you have to wait for hours because once you have met your favourite musicians, it’ll be worth it!

Meet and Greet!

After following the steps above, now get your camera and ask them nicely whether they mind for a photo op or not. You need to behave and dont scream! Slow, steady, and be polite. The nicer you are, the bigger chance you will get their photograph. However, don’t put all of your efforts just for the sake of taking a photo with your favourite musicians! Sometimes they are not in the mood for photos, and they will say “signing only, please.”, so make sure you bring along your CD or anything you want signed.

It may seem like a total freak that you have to do these steps just to meet your favourite bands, but let us bring up the point of this, when your favourite musicians who live million miles away from you and they finally visit your city, which has made you a bit closer to them, it’s safe to say that you have to meet them. Last words from us : Good luck, Super Fan!

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Ps : Please make sure you only share this super helpful guide to the die-hard fans! You don’t want to compete with some random kids who only want to take photos with famous musicians,right?

1. The Line-up’s
Do you know who are those bands and singers? who you wanna see this year? are they playing at the fest? Check all about the bands here.

*Please note WU LYF are no longer coming and replaced by Chairlift

2. Band schedules
Do you know who’s performing when? Which band you want to see? Since you can’t be in both stages at the same time, its good to learn about their time tables.

Singapore’s Laneway Festival 2012 time tables: (link)

Australia & New Zealand’s Laneway Festival 2012 time tables: (more)

 

3. Festival survival tips

We have given you some tips how to survive your first gigs, but do you know how to survive in a music festival, especially if this is your first time? Here some tips you may reconsider to follow:

Expect the unexpected. You never know what will happened tomorrow, is it going to be muddy or is it going to be super hot? but we know its outdoor and it’s rainy and quite muddy last year, so its better if you bring a light raincoat.

Be as comfortable as possible. You’re not going to a fashion week, well.. you may want to look nice and catchy but make sure its comfortable enough in any condition. You don’t wanna watch your favourite band in misery right?

NO umbrellas. Well we wrote to prepare for any weather but exception for this umbrella, as this blocks the view of the stage so its better to come with ponchos, as far more considerate and party going anyway right?

Bring Cash. You might want to buy food or merchandise from the festival, but since there are no ATM’s close by, is better to bring your own cash but remember to keep it save.

Learn about the venue. Make sure you know how to get there, you don’t want to missed your band because you were lost. Learn what’s inside the venue, do they have ATM? food stool? Clinic? How about the transportation? Do you know the procedure there? You can get some tips from our twitter timeline and you can also head to their Website or Facebook and Twitter to get all info and updates about the festival.

Have fun. Last but not the least, try to have fun. dont bring your burden and missery to the festival, cause the festival is only about fun and partying!