Next to this stage you will find a strange, sky experience a bizarre minute of dangling from a steel structure around 10 metres above the ground. Thankfully we had a few music journalists on hand to educate us music heathens! An exciting aspect of the festival for me was the introduction to new bands and a chance to fall in love with different music. Some of my favourite acts during the festival could be found here, such as Primal Scream, Halsey and the Charlatans.
The second main stage – Corona Lightĭo Corona do a light beer? Who knows but this stage is most definitely not light. Not what I am used to when I am doing road races! If this is how civilised a music festival is in the 21st Century, I could definitely become a regular.
Toilets are never far away and always well stocked with loo paper. The stage is home to headline acts and is surrounded by a climbing wall, VIP bars and eateries. Stands remain to remind you it was but a few weeks since those cars were whizzing around the track at incredible speed. This is possibly the coolest stage I’ve ever seen given that it sits on the bend of the racetrack. The festival takes place around four stages which aren’t too far apart, although sensible shoes are definitely recommended (the norm perhaps at a festival?). The festival ground is very close to the airport too, so if you do decide to tag a visit onto other plans in Mexico, you won’t have far to go for your onward journey. Had I realised this fact beforehand, I would most definitely have paid a little more attention to the race other than simply observing to my husband, ‘ ooh look where I’m going in a few weeks.’Ĭorona Light stage, F1 stands and an octopus shaped climbing wall! Walking on the rumble strips, and perusing the festival map with stages arranged around the racecourse was a somewhat surreal experience. Having only recently watched Nico Rosberg beat Lewis to the finish line here, I was bizarrely excited by this discovery. Thankfully, after rivers of mud at the Corona Capital 2014 festival, the gods of mud laid down their battle arms and allowed the sun gods safe passage thus denying me the Glastonbury mud bath experience (hoorah!).ĭay one was sunny and warm, and day two overcast and cool but thankfully no rain, no need for wellies, and no permanent re-engineering of my trainers into some smelly, poo-infested contraptions.Ĭorona Capital 2015 takes place at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, the Formula One track. I agreed to come because frankly I love travel, but am I about to become a festival convert? Corona Capital 2015 So here I am in Mexico City about to attend Corona Capital 2015, a music festival designed to showcase global talent old and new. I’m mildly claustrophobic and the thought of 70,000 people crammed into a field is a somewhat disturbing prospect. Since then, I’ve never felt the urge to camp at Glastonbury, get dirty in the mud at Reading or fight through crowds at Leeds. The last time I went to anything remotely resembling a festival, it was 1995 and miraculously it was free.
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