#Outside lands 2021 tickets free#
None of the relevant oversight bodies said they were aware of any free tickets or other gifts exchanged between promoters and city officials, either directly or through legal workarounds. To assess whether this is a uniquely San Franciscan arrangement, the SF Standard queried oversight agencies for six cities and counties that host music festivals on a similar scale, like the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience in New Orleans or the Life Is Beautiful fest in Las Vegas (the latter also an Another Planet endeavor). Rec & Park so normalized this practice that it was actually spelled out in the contract with Another Planet that they “donate a customary and reasonable number of complimentary tickets” for eventual city employee use. Crowds of about 70,000 people packed into the annual Outside Lands music festival in 2021.
San Francisco Recreation & Parks, the office that oversees permitting for Outside Lands, for years accepted hundreds of free passes to the blockbuster musical event from SF-based promoter Another Planet Entertainment, despite the apparent conflict of interests this poses. Tickets to Outside Lands were handed out like candy over the years–and the SF Standard’s reporting shows the practice is anything but typical around the country. That’s what the San Francisco Ethics Commission discovered in September when, as part of SF’s ongoing dark-night-of-the-soul moment over a culture of corruption exposed by a sweeping FBI investigation, they released a withering report on the habit of gift-giving between private bodies and city employees.
When Outside Lands returned to Golden Gate Park in October, ticket prices ran up to nearly $1,200–unless you happen to have a job at City Hall, in which case there might have been a discount in the neighborhood of 100 percent.
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