Everyone loves a good music festival, but no one likes the toll that festivals take on their wallet. What if you could get into the biggest musical events of the year (Bonnaroo, Coachella, the Grammys, Glastonbury, etc.) without paying for a ticket and without unmentionable things to members of the band? Photographer Marcus Haney is a pro when it comes to gaining access to places that he doesn't belong, but what he does isn't exactly legal.
In an interview with Noisey, Haney spoke about his upcoming documentary film No Cameras Allowed, which chronicles some of his adventures at nearly 50 music festivals and events around the world over the past four years. In the leaked trailer (above), Haney and his friends show themselves creating fake wristbands, crawling under stages, and doing whatever other sneaky shit they have to do to get to where the action is.
Eventually, Haney's hardwork landed him a photography gig on tour with Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe. "It was after Coachella," he tells Noisey of meeting the musicians. "I had snuck in, shot a lot of bands I liked, and I made a short film called Connaroo about breaking into Coachella and Bonnaroo. I handed the film to a roadie at one of their shows - because the band was in it... I never even thought he’d watch it but he did. He gave it to the band. The band gave it to the manager. The manager gave it to Edward Sharpe. Edward Sharpe watched it and, collectively, they invited me on the tour."
We're not saying that just because this guy has been extremely lucky with breaking into festivals, that you should try it. It is still illegal, and even Haney can't claim a 100% success rate. "You get kicked out loads," he confessed to Noisey. "The gnarliest one was Bonnaroo 2010. I got kicked out on the Sunday, they put me in a farm equipment, hay-bail carrier thing, and drove me out the site. They ended up dropping me about four miles away, in the middle of nowhere, and took off."
Check out some of Haney's photography on his website here, and read more of the interesting interview over on Noisey.
[via Noisey]
