That's too bad man, hopefully your friend is ok now?  That exact same reason was what prevented my friends and I from going...

i'd like to add the waldorf to the list of venues that get much much much too hot. i think by keeping the  temperature up they are actually losing in sales. if its too hot people don't have fun so whats the point of buying alchahol and wasting money to get drunk if your already not having fun. as well when the temperature is soo hot people don't dance or get into it as much as they would if it was a managable temperature so it limits the excitement of the shows. promoters and venues need to quit ignoring this situation. ive started threads about it before and ive seen threads about it on numerous other sites.

Heard from the promoters that they were going to try to work on this for the BadBoyBill show so I went to check it out and in fact there did seem to be a major difference since they had the side walls open up.  It still got warm, but this time around there was definitely some relief.  Good to hear that the promoters of Vivid Sessions care about their crowd.