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Post by Tatty on Feb 7, 2012 11:40:27 GMT
Euro festivals are so much better than festivals here it's stupid. Food's a lot better and cheaper. Beer's cheaper, weather's better. Shows start later and go on til 2am and then people actually sleep too.
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Post by jimbonda on Feb 7, 2012 11:58:40 GMT
u been to one tat
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Post by Tatty on Feb 7, 2012 12:03:18 GMT
Done Wacken and Groezrock in the past. Thinking of doing Groezrock again this year, but might give it a miss due to my holidays being cut from 30 to 25. |
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Post by jimbonda on Feb 7, 2012 12:10:32 GMT
cool thought you'd av done wacken. i bet some wierd shit goes on at that fest?
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Post by Tatty on Feb 7, 2012 12:16:54 GMT
cool thought you'd av done wacken. i bet some wierd shit goes on at that fest? Lots of Germans drinking lots of beer. Also, they have 5-a-side tournaments there, they can get pretty funny especially the Norwegian with their ridiculously long hair and leather pants.  |
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Post by jimbonda on Feb 7, 2012 12:20:59 GMT
yeah we are gonna enter the download 5-a-side.
lots of germans drinking lots of beer well i could go to a beer festival for that. don't lie to me tatty, you don't get that many death-metallers and goths in one place without some freaky shit going on.
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Post by Tatty on Feb 7, 2012 12:27:32 GMT
yeah we are gonna enter the download 5-a-side. lots of germans drinking lots of beer well i could go to a beer festival for that. don't lie to me tatty, you don't get that many death-metallers and goths in one place without some freaky shit going on. There's some weird stuff. Mostly witchcraft type stuff, but for the most part there's not a lot of crazy stuff that happens there, or wasn't in my experience. |
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Post by jimbonda on Feb 7, 2012 12:31:49 GMT
fair dos. would u go again or got other stuff you'd rather do first
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Post by Tatty on Feb 7, 2012 12:40:41 GMT
fair dos. would u go again or got other stuff you'd rather do first Totally depends on the line-up. It's gone fairly hair-metally lately which I can't stand. There's other stuff I'd rather do. I'd love to hit up Coachella one year or one of the Hardcore fests in the States, probably TIH in Philly. But mostly I'd rather hit up another Wrestlemania or emigrate. |
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Post by Dan United on Feb 7, 2012 19:50:17 GMT
I went to Sonisphere in Poland and while I didn't get full Euro festival experience because it was just one day, it was refreshing to get beer for about 2 quid. If that.
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Post by Tatty on Feb 8, 2012 8:26:14 GMT
Thinking of going Hevy Festival depending on who they get as a headliner, assuming Converge headline one day.
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Post by Rorschach on Feb 8, 2012 22:06:54 GMT
Just started listening to Pig Destroyer's "Prowler in the Yard" today, haven't listened to it in years. Awesome stuff. Previously I'd had Electric Wizards "Dopethrone" on, another I've not heard in years. Think I'm having some Metal nostalgia.
Festival wise, I went to Wacken in 2004. Great fun, although it was fucking boiling hot, so hot that it spoiled the festival for me. I could barely drink any beer because it was too dehydrating. Satyricon were the best act for me, especially when they teamed up with Nocturno Culto from Darkthrone to play some Darkthrone classics. Mayhem were pretty good, although their set was when it was still daytime, which seemed to spoil the atmosphere. Cathedral were good fun. Overall it wasn't a brilliant line-up to be honest but it was definitely worth it for the general festival experience.
Festivals in this country are a fucking rip-off. If you put on a festival here and a festival in say, Germany, with exactly the same line-up, I can guarantee tickets would be at least £100 more expensive here. My Wacken ticket was £75, plus £15 for flights and not much more for travel when we got there, then some extra cash for beer and merch. Compare that to Download where a ticket alone is what, £120-160? Total joke.
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Post by jimbonda on Feb 9, 2012 9:45:39 GMT
it does seem a rip off when you compare it to something cheaper but of the bands announced so far there is 10 or 11 bands there that i'd pay £40+ to see - how much is that gonna cost me with travel and all the rest each time? so the £200 odd quid download is costing me this year is a relative bargain when u look at it that way
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Post by Tatty on Feb 9, 2012 10:07:08 GMT
On the subject of prices:
I'd never pay more than £15 to see any band. Ever.
So much so, I've asked my mate to see if he can guestlist me to see Korn next month.
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Post by jimbonda on Feb 9, 2012 10:11:12 GMT
On the subject of prices: I'd never pay more than £15 to see any band. Ever. So much so, I've asked my mate to see if he can guestlist me to see Korn next month. so unless you know the right people the only bands you ever see are the obscure or up and comers? |
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