Festivals

Well, we're doing our usual 1 day at a festival thing (saturday at Download), which im sure will be acompanied by the usual serious sunburn, and the usual sleep outside somewhere because we didnt think ahead.

Anyways.. what are the rest of you doing this year?

[Cat]

I suppose you mean are we going to any festivals this year?

I've been a bit on again, off again with a festival thing (actually, Norway's biggest), the Quart festival, for a while now. I wasn't sure I'd have the money to pay for the whole week or anything, and if I couldn't go the whole week, I didn't want to go at all. Right now it looks as if I'm going as long as I don't have to sleep in a tent. It can rain a lot down there.

I'm pretty happy about the bands this year. Actually, I'm overwhelmed. I want to go there!

Take a look!

[BlackWolf]

Hmmm, I don't know Norwegian, so are they seperated by dates or what?

For example under TIRSDAG - BENDIKSBUKTA, there are:
Tool (US)
Placebo (UK)
Opeth (SE)
Wolfmother (AU)
Torch (NO)

[SilverSpoon]

Opeth is playing at the Quart festival?!

[Cat]

Originally Posted by BlackWolf.

Hmmm, I don't know Norwegian, so are they seperated by dates or what?

For example under TIRSDAG - BENDIKSBUKTA, there are:
Tool (US)
Placebo (UK)
Opeth (SE)
Wolfmother (AU)
Torch (NO)

They're seperated by days and location. "Tirsdag" means Tuesday. Bendiksbukta is one of the places within the "Quart area" where the concerts will be held, so is plenen and hallen. "Onsdag" is Wednesday, "Torsdag" is Thursday, "Fredag" is Friday and "Lørdag" is Saturday. Next to the day it says which of the three areas the list of bands will be playing. So there are three listings for each day of the festival.

Gah, that was a weird explanation. Tool, Placebo, Opeth, Wolfmother and Torch will all be playing on Tuesday at Bendiksbukta.

Originally Posted by SilverSpoon

Opeth is playing at the Quart festival?!

Looks like it.

[SilverSpoon]

You have to go watch them and get into the Opeth craze!

I suppose you mean are we going to any festivals this year?

Yeah.. sorry about that- Id been drinking, and sentence structure kind of fell be the wayside

if I couldn't go the whole week, I didn't want to go at all

Ha. As I said, Ive only ever done a day at a time, and thats normally too much for me. The planning for 1 day has left me sleeping outside Birmingham New Street train station with serious sunburn, and sleeping in East Midlands Airport with serious sunburn, next to a creche that was playing 'the magic roundabout' all freakin' night. Im pretty sure Id need hospital treatment before I managed a week

[BlackWolf]

Originally Posted by Cat

They're seperated by days and location. "Tirsdag" means Tuesday. Bendiksbukta is one of the places within the "Quart area" where the concerts will be held, so is plenen and hallen. "Onsdag" is Wednesday, "Torsdag" is Thursday, "Fredag" is Friday and "Lørdag" is Saturday. Next to the day it says which of the three areas the list of bands will be playing. So there are three listings for each day of the festival.

Gah, that was a weird explanation. Tool, Placebo, Opeth, Wolfmother and Torch will all be playing on Tuesday at Bendiksbukta.



Looks like it.

Works for me, thanks! Lots of stuff I want to see, not much on the same day/stage, oh well, can't make it there anyway.

[Cat]

Originally Posted by He's a mentalist

Ha. As I said, Ive only ever done a day at a time, and thats normally too much for me. The planning for 1 day has left me sleeping outside Birmingham New Street train station with serious sunburn, and sleeping in East Midlands Airport with serious sunburn, next to a creche that was playing 'the magic roundabout' all freakin' night. Im pretty sure Id need hospital treatment before I managed a week

Haha, sounds like fun... At the Quart festival you can bring your own tent and put it up within the festival area. Though I have heard stories of tents being put on fire while people were sleeping in there. So yeah, that's not an option. I figured I'd rent a cabin or sleep in a hotel.

Originally Posted by BlackWolf.

Works for me, thanks! Lots of stuff I want to see, not much on the same day/stage, oh well, can't make it there anyway.

Haha, who knows, maybe in the future?

Muse and We Are Scientists are what I'm looking forward to. Oh, and The Raconteurs. And Death Cab! Haha, I really need to be there the whole week (5 days).

[Kashie]

I wanna go to a festival, next week. It's called Roskilde Festival, but it's sold out :(

[Cat]

I really wanted to go there last year (Roskilde). Muse were headlining one day, and my brother was going. I ended up letting him take my digital camera to take pictures of them, he was like "sure, I'll even sneak back stage for you!" When he comes back the only thing I get are some concert pictures that are so blurry you can't make out anything. He didn't get back stage at all, he even left half-way through the concert. Not even a t-shirt!

Anyway, I think Roskilde is like the "mother" of every Scandinavian (at least) festival. Can't get any better, can't get any wilder. But then again, more violence, drugs, people and even more mud comes with it. My brother had to throw away our tent when he came back, it was literally covered in sh*t (human excrements).

[Kashie]

Oh yeah, I wanted to go too last year. Foo Fighters were there! But there was no way in hell mom would have let me go. There might have been a chance this year, but like I said, I was just too late. H.I.M., Kanye West and Franz Ferdinand are there this year though. Would have loved to see all of them, plus more.

But hey, you get to see Muse this year right? At the Norwegian festival?

Yes, it is. The people there are insane, wild is definitely the right word! Some years back 4 people got killed there, in the front of the orange stage. Really tragic. It went too far that year, so now the safety is better.
But if you don't want to party, and you just wanna be there for the concerts, you can just get day(of course, you can still be there for the night concerts) tickets and go home when the music stops. F.ex. go home, or stay at a campside near the festival. That's probably what I would have done. Or, I'm not sure if there is one at Roskilde, stay in the "quiet area", on the actual festival area.
People who go to these festivals(the ones for young people(or young souls lol.) not the family festivals we also have here in DK), they usually buy a cheap ass tent, and then leaves it when they're done. No point in keeping it afterwards 'cause it's almost always beat up, and like you said, covered in crap and mud.

[Cat]

None of the headliners really interested me this year at Roskilde. It's a bit far to go all the way down there when there's not really anything I _have_ to see. But it's the ultimate festival experience. That and Glastonbury.

I'm not going to see Muse this year. I was too late to buy tickets to Quart! There was some crap with my boss so I didn't get paid in time. I keep hitting myself 'cause I'm going to miss them once again. And We Are Scientists also. My friend keeps rubbing in it 'cause she's going. She doesn't even like them she just likes to make me feel like crap

[Kashie]

Aw, that's too bad. Sorry. You'll probably get another chance. I keep hearing about them on the radio and tv, they're quite popular.
Where are they from?

I'll go to the Sziget Festival in Hungary.
I want to go the Placebo, The Rasmus and Prodigy concert.

[Kashie]

I never heard of that one. I some people who are in Hungary though
Who's playing, other than those? Good ones, btw

[Cat]

Originally Posted by Kashie

Aw, that's too bad. Sorry. You'll probably get another chance. I keep hearing about them on the radio and tv, they're quite popular.
Where are they from?

They're British.

There's another festival I might go to this year. I just got asked if I was going, so I might.

Øyafestivalen.

In Sziget Festival will play: Franz Ferdinand, Iggy & The Stooges, Placebo, Prodigy, Radiohead, Rasmus, Scissor Sisters, and many others. august 9-16.!!! :D

[Kashie]

Wow, Tina Dico's playing. She's real good. I remember a couple of years ago I first heard some of her stuff. Nobody knew her back then, but now she's gotten big. I'm glad.

Hey, that's pretty cool petracinderella. Have fun

A bit late but.. Download, on the saturday:



Who says England doesnt get any sun?