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( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:40, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

highlights of the weekend were Airbourne, who are jsut AC/DC but younger. right down to the marshall stacks on stage, Satyricon, who fucking blew me away, Queens of the Stone Age were really on form, Alice in Chains were fantastic, and a new band called Krokodil who don't even seem to have anything on youtube, let alone a record.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:55, Reply)

I wish I'd gone to a couple of festivals when I was younger. I'm sure I'd still dig it now, but I'm slightly less comfortable sleeping in mud than I used to be.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:58, Reply)

we had a decent air bed and quilted double sleeping bag, and apart from a bit of mud on day one, wellies kept us pretty safe from it all.
It depends where you camp i reckon. In the campsites close to the action shit gets raucous, but we were down in one of the further back ones and it was pretty sedate. met some nice folks, smoked a metric fuck ton of weed with strangers, got a bit pissed.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:13, Reply)

I'll be honest I'm dreading it.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:00, Reply)

You need to cross water to get there, but still! That is the one on the island, right?
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:04, Reply)

It's in Dorset, but google maps said I had to go near your house to get there from here.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:06, Reply)

Yeah, Dorset's further away than IOW. Still, I'll keep an eye out for you. We notice when new people pass through the town, you see.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:08, Reply)

Still, might be worth making a detour if there's any of that chilli sauce left.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:13, Reply)

I will never take my kid to a festival. They can go on their own when they're old enough.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:01, Reply)

I don't want to be seeing my offspring doing that. What I don't know can't hurt me.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:05, Reply)

There's only realty two bands I want to see, I will probably spend the rest of the time arsing about with the kids.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:09, Reply)

the amount of breasts on the big screen was bad enough for the younger ones, let alone all the drugged up crazies and other goings on. There was a kid no older than about 12 down the front for Down that i thought was gonna get killed when the mosh pit kicked in
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:11, Reply)

it really is shit.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:13, Reply)

Even with the cracking lineup this year, I was never considering it, due to how shit the layout is.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:17, Reply)

they never even try and make the car parks accessible despite knowing it's going to get muddy.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:19, Reply)

but that was mostly because it wasn't marshalled properly in any sort of fashion.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:21, Reply)

last time we were in the disabled site, which means we had a bus up, and year before we got a good spot in black camp, so it wasn't too far, but outside of black or top of Gold, it's a hell of a trek.
30 min walk this year from our tent to the venue.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:17, Reply)

but i guess if you've got a huge race track in the middle there is little you can do.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:21, Reply)

it was really good.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:27, Reply)

We all know the tits out on the big screen is all a bit of a laugh, and i imagine most of the girls do too, but there are those who feel women HAVE to get their breasts out, and exposing children to it that young is adding to modern rape culture in young men, or something. My feminist friend got very angry about it. I just like to look at boobs, is that a crime?
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:19, Reply)

My youngest gets exposed to breasts several times a day.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:23, Reply)

Edit: Breastfeeding or you really are on some sort of commune.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:24, Reply)

the power rangers or whatever knocking lumps off stuff, but boobs are verboten. Especially since kids spend the first few months of their lives sucking the damn things.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:26, Reply)

Then the hippy bitch should have the decency to go and hide in the bogs or summat.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:28, Reply)

Satyricon are astonishing, caught them at Download 2006, was in shock at how good they were. Trying to work out if I've seen them again since.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:16, Reply)

the crowd were fairly small as they clashed with the first half of Rammsteins set, but they blew me away. They said that they have just finished a new record, and are touring end of this year.
I am getting tickets as soon as they come up.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:23, Reply)

Either way, if they come near me, think I'll be getting tickets for that.
The other gig I'm off to later this year is 30 Seconds to Mars.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:28, Reply)

Alice in Chains are touring, go and see them, even the new stuff is good.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:34, Reply)

though I did really enjoy them when I saw them a few years back at teh Forum.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:35, Reply)

I'm not a big fan of 30STM, but I hear they're excellent live, as I know the support are, so going to see them on the strength of their performances, over the 'strength' of their music.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:35, Reply)

( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:38, Reply)

www.factmag.com/2013/05/30/nazoranai-stephen-omalley-keiji-haino-and-oren-ambarchi-and-nicholas-bullen-to-descend-on-birmingham/
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:41, Reply)

There isn't anything even musically interesting about that, it could literally be performed by three people who had never seen their instruments before.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:44, Reply)

Then again, they also say that when I'm not even talking.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:47, Reply)

then it would help if a) your music was actually noisy, and that wasn't and b) if something interesting happened, even once.
I can't really get into Meshuggah, but they are both noisy and musically very talented.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:52, Reply)

Same with Opeth
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:52, Reply)

I have an Oren Ambarchi album which, on first listen, I thought nothing happens on it.
Further listens have proven it to be brilliant.*
*If you like that sort of thing.*
**Which I do.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:55, Reply)

Friend of mine loves them, dragged me to see them at Sonisphere, where they were superb. Have seen them since, it wasn't a one off performance, they actually are pretty damn good.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:39, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLqHDhF-O28
You really shouldn't support this kind of behaviour.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:38, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUUSz54G6jc
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:41, Reply)

( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:43, Reply)

I was reminded yesterday that HIM actually exist, something I'd quite happily forgotten for several years.
Here's another spectacularly emo video
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:44, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1994272
I'd also like to point out I made a gold comment at the bottom of this thread, and I don't think it's even been noticed.
( , Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:46, Reply)
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