Don’t worry, people at Hellfest are far more interesting than the average French you can meet in touristic places!
So even if the spoken english is not perfect, a lot of people try to help and make efforts so that everybody could enjoy their festival.
You see, in this section of the forum, there are as many French people as non-French and it doesn’t look so bad, does it?
You know, somme french native live in France since their birth, speaking french everyday, and still don’t have finish to learn it (and cannot correctly speak it)
I have an official answer.
But first you need to know that I have a disbillity, and this question has actually got to do with the fact that my name is on my diabillity card, yet not on my ticket. So I sent a mail to the PMR section (PMR=persons with reduced mobility)
This is what I got as an answer.
In English: Dear Quark,
We’re just going to scan your 3days pass, and if it has not yet been scanned (think about fraude) this will be good for us, as we are not going to make the connection between the name on the pass and your disabiillity card.
Zur Kurzinfo, die Karten die ich für « Into the Void » und « Eindhoven Metal Meeting » gekauft habe, sind ebenfalls nominativ, und keiner interesiert’s. Ich denk eh um zu wissen WER die Karten kauft, als in « Von woher kommt jeder Besucher ».
Aber ich hab wirklich KEINE Ahnung.
Let’s start with the fact that my name is so complicated, the Flemish (Dutch Belgians) can’t even pronounce it properly. Let alone the French speaking.
And last year, the man at the ticket booth at Nantes station couldn’t believe I was Dutch, as the system indicated Belgian. (SNCF help at the station )