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May 30, 2008
Dear LAist; Can I Bring Alcohol to the Hollywood Bowl?
A reader commented in today's Tonight in Rock asked about bringing booze to the Hollywood Bowl to this weekend's The Cure show. "Please enlighten me about the Hollywood Bowl's BYOB policy... I've read that is only allowed at LA Philharmonic events and not 'leased' events. BUT I saw plenty of people with booze when I was there for the Jay-Z show. Trying to decide whether to bring stuff tomorrow for the cure... thoughts?"
The reader is correct: you can bring your own alcohol (glass is fine) to events put on by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which is most all concerts once the official Hollywood Bowl season begins on June 20. For leased events, you cannot bring alcohol, but you can bring food (just no glass). Hollywood Bowl has a webpage for leased event rules and another that lists those concerts. In this case, The Cure is a leased event. Have a good picnic and get there early to avoid the very long beer lines.
Photo by Omar Omar via Flickr
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My first time at the Bowl, at Flaming Lips, I read the website carefully and told my friends we couldn't bring alcohol. But EVERYBODY brought alcohol, and I mean everybody--wine bottles, beer bottles, even a cooler.
This may be the web policy, but everybody ignores it. Just make an effort to hide your stuff somewhat. They'll look at an open bag, but won't dig underneath at all. I've been to 10-15 events since then, and every event (leased or not) is very BYOB.
Of course, I'm totally in the cheap seats. Maybe they crack down closer.
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That's my experience too. I was close up for last years Arcade Fire show and I had some beer/wine (maybe a 6 pack and 2 bottles of wine) in my backpack easily visible when they searched it and they let me in. Same for the Sigur Ros show the year before.
I'm not sure if that is good or bad, because I don't remember a thing from either show :(.