Each marquee was akin to a
private party. Guests arrived and spent the entire day in
their private marquee, binging on free food and drinks while
a DJ blasts out music more suitable to a nightclub.
This concept is not conducive to
mingling, and what’s the point of dressing
up to the nines if only a handful of people are
going to see you?
Is the Met not supposed to be the
biggest event on the Cape Town Social calendar?
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I can’t blame the crowd, as apart
from a few students prancing around on stilts
there was absolutely no motivation for walking around.
Not even horse racing.
The location of the picnic site means that at no stage would
guests in this area get to see the horses, let alone the
racing. Or even the fashion.
Come on J&B and Gold Circle.
The whole idea is to have people enjoying and partaking
in a horse racing and fashion extravaganza, in an exciting
and entertaining environment.
The walkways between marquees should have
been abuzz with entertainment and fashion.
And then we have TV projection.
Because the entire event happens during
bright daylight hours, the pathetic, tiny little TVs supplied
by Gold Circle in the marquees were completely useless.
You couldn’t see anything projected on those screens.
Each marquee also had their own sound system,
some of them excessively loud, and each broadcasting different
things at the same time. The result was one big noise. One
such marquee had cricket on their screens and very loud
sound system for the entire day!
At the very least give us giant LED screens
with decent sound and a generic feed. Have roving cameras
projecting live on the screens between races. Let us see
what's actually happening at the Met and let us be seen
at the MET.
And please….please let us see the actual horseracing,
even if it is only on a big screen.
No?
Then you might as well book all the venues
in Long Street and sell them off to corporate clients to
entertain their guests in private from 10am – 7pm
one bright Saturday in January.
For good measure, encourage patrons to dress larger than
life, and have a makeshift inter-active fashion parade on
a little podium in the middle of Long Street at 3pm.
