Ahhhh, Download
Download 06, The really, really hot one
Apart from the already mentioned riots (slept through them too), and the abject twattish-ness of Axl Rose and his guitarist who spanged an innocent camera man in the head with his instrument, Download 06 passed without mention, except for Spiderman and Superman. Yep, those two loveable comic superheroes made an appearance.
On our arrival they were already running around in the sun mildly amusing/frightening the young pretty emo girls. On the second night we were sitting around our burgeoning fire drinking beer and talking crap, when a slightly drunken and sheepish voice asked us where camp site B was. We all turned around to gesture the general direction, only to find we were directing his Spideyness. Only Spidey was a bit worse for wear, he was lacking one boot & one glove and sporting some nice cuts and bruises. We sent him on his way and bellowed "Everyone get's a free one", seemed lost on him.
And from one of the previous posts, I too spotted the angry rock dwarf, amazing how he could be so noticeable amongst thousands of people.

Download 07, The Evanescence before Maiden one
Amidst some of the frankly shite metal on offer, there was one real standout moment, the bottle fight that occurred, it was so epic that the act trying to perform eludes me even now.
We've all seen festival bottle fights, all been hit by bottles filled with something that might be piss and all inadvertently cobbed a bottle into the melee and instead hit an innocent girl in the face (ahem). This year was different, there seemed to be sides, a division of the crowd, hell, there was even a no mans land. There were pitched battles, quiet periods, more battles, injured people being dragged back to their allies.
It lasted what seemed like hours, and the culminating point was a massive surge of forces up a hill, along with their own make shift flag. The raising on Iwo Jima it wasn't, but it did have a certain curious air of victory about it.

All of the other stuff is par for the course in any festival, expensive & dodgy food, too much drinking, progressively worsening toilet facilities and general cuntishness from people.
(ShiftyBastard won the World Cup on World Soccer Champs 2010!, Fri 5 Jun 2009, 11:48, 2 replies)

2007 bottle fight was impressive...
But it still holds nothing on the 2005 one, on the Sunday, while waiting for SOAD.

Started off when someone got up to flash, and people would chuck a bottle for a laugh.

It then turned into full fledged warfare, never seen anything like it!

Was fucking ace!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 5 Jun 2009, 12:04, closed)

That bottle fight
was fucking ace. Need to get another one going this year :)
(Buftoon posted this on, Sat 6 Jun 2009, 5:33, closed)