Post by Nik on Jul 19, 2004 10:47:47 GMT -5
Somebodys shouting... Damn does my head hurt, and whos tent is this anyway? Somebodys opening this tent i've been dumped in... Whats that you say it's 1PM and the bands have already started, better get up then.
Wait a second if its 1PM why is it still dark? Isn't that the sun just starting to rise over there? Oh for fucks sake its about 5/6AM. Just because some drunken peson told you it was 1PM it doesn't mean their telling the truth and it definatly doesn't mean you should wake up the entire campsite telling them this. So back to sleep, in my own tent this time.
Almost got up to go see InMe but then remember that InMe are a pile of shite and so got an extra half hours sleep. This turned out to be a very good move as at the start of the half hour i was feeling like somebody was continuously wacking me in the head with a baseball bat and by the end i felt absolutly fine.
Eventualy wandered over to the main arena, got searched on the way in. Spot a large stage and assume it's the main one. Damn it's really fucking hot. Bowling for soup are on, not usually my sort of thing at all, indeed usually avoided like the plague but the entire crowd was chanting 'fat bastard' and i felt compelled to join in.
Then i magically found simon, he was sorta draging himself back towards the front, he'd just crowdsurfed you see. BFS ended with a cover of the begining of 'paranoid' which went into a version of 'i wanna be sedated' with changed lyrics, can't remeber what to now though.Was actaully rather cool.
Finch came on and were so rubbish that me and simon retreated to the campsite. Don't know why we did cause we pretty much turned around once we got there and went abck to see less than jake. On the way in i got searched.
Less than jake kicked serious ass. Idiotically i had a phone and camera on me and so wasn't able to go foward for fear of breakage. Simon gave me his phone and went foward though. I thought i was pretty safe from moshing leaning on the barrior to this tower.
Yeah then LTJ suggested a circle pit around the tower. My choise was to leg it or stay in the circle pit. I think i made the right choise and by a small miracle none of the electrical crap in my pocket got damaged in the pit.
Once more i returned to the campsite, rang home (on simons phone - don't tell him) and found out my GSCE results... i didn't fuck up! In a rather good mood i left all the breakable stuff and went back to the arena. On the way in i was searched.
Found the carling stage and saw a kick ass band called rocket science, then yet another brilliant band called Bell XI. Thanks to these brillaint bands i missed half of the equally brilliant datsuns, the last few songs of their set were cool though.
Then it was time for staind. Dear god. Thats all i have to say.
It would have took a truly brillaint band to restore the mood after staind and thankfully the darkness were more than up to the challenge. Having only a 45 minute album i didn't know how they were gonna fill an hour but somehow they did.
Tryed to see electric six but the enitre tent was full of people singing the chorus to gay bar over and over no matter what the band were playing so i left.
Saw a couple of reallt good comedians in the ,surprise surprise, comedy tent. I tryed to leave during the headliner but as i left he went off on massive rant at me for leaving so i gave in and stayed.
Saw Sparta and then a truly superb Evan dando on the carling stage. Hadn't heard of dando before but wasn't disapointed. To be honest compared to the alternative of linkin park silense would have been an up.
Met up with the masses in the dnace tent to watch donnie darko. After some really weird dance videos the film came on, for about the first 5 minutes the sound levels were all fucked up causing all the impatient people to leave, they sorted it out after that. Was as ever a good film improved by crowd interation and a generally high atmosphere.
Me and mr see were the only people who stayed and by the time we got back to the campsite all our clan were asleep! bloody lightweights.
I tryed to wake up kirk by kicking his shoes. Unfortunatly i later found out these were JUST his shoes and not him. No wonder they didn't get up... i was kicking 'em for a good 10 minutes too.
Wandered over to our neighbours campsite and foudn a couple of our troop were actaully awake, although mr see was no longer. Drank heavily of gin, made a really crap fire and then...
Wait a second if its 1PM why is it still dark? Isn't that the sun just starting to rise over there? Oh for fucks sake its about 5/6AM. Just because some drunken peson told you it was 1PM it doesn't mean their telling the truth and it definatly doesn't mean you should wake up the entire campsite telling them this. So back to sleep, in my own tent this time.
Almost got up to go see InMe but then remember that InMe are a pile of shite and so got an extra half hours sleep. This turned out to be a very good move as at the start of the half hour i was feeling like somebody was continuously wacking me in the head with a baseball bat and by the end i felt absolutly fine.
Eventualy wandered over to the main arena, got searched on the way in. Spot a large stage and assume it's the main one. Damn it's really fucking hot. Bowling for soup are on, not usually my sort of thing at all, indeed usually avoided like the plague but the entire crowd was chanting 'fat bastard' and i felt compelled to join in.
Then i magically found simon, he was sorta draging himself back towards the front, he'd just crowdsurfed you see. BFS ended with a cover of the begining of 'paranoid' which went into a version of 'i wanna be sedated' with changed lyrics, can't remeber what to now though.Was actaully rather cool.
Finch came on and were so rubbish that me and simon retreated to the campsite. Don't know why we did cause we pretty much turned around once we got there and went abck to see less than jake. On the way in i got searched.
Less than jake kicked serious ass. Idiotically i had a phone and camera on me and so wasn't able to go foward for fear of breakage. Simon gave me his phone and went foward though. I thought i was pretty safe from moshing leaning on the barrior to this tower.
Yeah then LTJ suggested a circle pit around the tower. My choise was to leg it or stay in the circle pit. I think i made the right choise and by a small miracle none of the electrical crap in my pocket got damaged in the pit.
Once more i returned to the campsite, rang home (on simons phone - don't tell him) and found out my GSCE results... i didn't fuck up! In a rather good mood i left all the breakable stuff and went back to the arena. On the way in i was searched.
Found the carling stage and saw a kick ass band called rocket science, then yet another brilliant band called Bell XI. Thanks to these brillaint bands i missed half of the equally brilliant datsuns, the last few songs of their set were cool though.
Then it was time for staind. Dear god. Thats all i have to say.
It would have took a truly brillaint band to restore the mood after staind and thankfully the darkness were more than up to the challenge. Having only a 45 minute album i didn't know how they were gonna fill an hour but somehow they did.
Tryed to see electric six but the enitre tent was full of people singing the chorus to gay bar over and over no matter what the band were playing so i left.
Saw a couple of reallt good comedians in the ,surprise surprise, comedy tent. I tryed to leave during the headliner but as i left he went off on massive rant at me for leaving so i gave in and stayed.
Saw Sparta and then a truly superb Evan dando on the carling stage. Hadn't heard of dando before but wasn't disapointed. To be honest compared to the alternative of linkin park silense would have been an up.
Met up with the masses in the dnace tent to watch donnie darko. After some really weird dance videos the film came on, for about the first 5 minutes the sound levels were all fucked up causing all the impatient people to leave, they sorted it out after that. Was as ever a good film improved by crowd interation and a generally high atmosphere.
Me and mr see were the only people who stayed and by the time we got back to the campsite all our clan were asleep! bloody lightweights.
I tryed to wake up kirk by kicking his shoes. Unfortunatly i later found out these were JUST his shoes and not him. No wonder they didn't get up... i was kicking 'em for a good 10 minutes too.
Wandered over to our neighbours campsite and foudn a couple of our troop were actaully awake, although mr see was no longer. Drank heavily of gin, made a really crap fire and then...
Would have liked to have seen Evan Dando, but the Polyphonic Spree were headlining the R1 tent, and there was no way I was missing that. Moshing and singing my heart out to It's the Sun and Soldier Girl with huge fat bloke was one of the class moments of the fest ;D