Wall of Mouths

We just arrived save at home… thanks to Mercedes Benz btw.

Oh, yeah,…by the trail of dead burnt their (hired) bass drum… the guy from the company felt not really lucky about that - he had to expalin this to his boss, but a lot of people were fascinated by the burning bass drum.

But anyway, it was so nice to see TPY? again, only the crowd in the front seemed to be tired… or they were just waiting to see ash… was it worth that? I don’t think so.

Thanks to the band for another funfuckingtastic gig.

The gig was fine but way too short due to the delay because of the problems with the bass amp.
Neil was fantastic, haven’t heard them play so aggressively for a long time.

The whole festival was great. The weather was fine except Saturday night(but I was sleeping dryly in my own bed then :)), beer was quite cheap for a festival and it was a good atmosphere at the gigs, although a few more people could have shown up.
The best bands for me were Tomte, The Weakerthans and Samiam (God, how great to see them back on stage, it was a blast) on Saturday , and Aereogramme (absolutely brilliant, as ever), Trail Of Dead and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on Sunday. As I said, T? were fine but it was only an average show concerning T? standard.
and, finally, I think The Cooper Temple Clause, Slut and Blackmail were really boring.

Maybe some of you backstage crawlers can add some more inside information :)

Title: Re: some more inside information

say10 wrote:

the toilets were broken.
:(

Inside wasn’t meant to denote the inside of the bogs :)
Anyway, there were not enough toilets, definitely. I felt sorry for the girls having to queue for a loo.

irishlady wrote:

if it was way too short how long did they play then ?
i guess there must be sth. done about the bass-amp. as michael had the same problems in austria @the forestglade west…

They played only 45 minutes, 10 minutes shorter than they were scheduled to.

Psychotherapy? wrote:

By the way, did anyone else like Caesar’s, with their absolutely mental guitarist??

After Aereogramme’s brilliant show we had to rest for a few beer, so I only listened to the Caesars, but didn’t watch them. But I wasn’t too impressed by them, an average sixties sounding garage band (Sorry, if that sounds too harsh). I definitely prefer The (International) Noise Conspiracy. But it was cool to hear their roadie strum the opening tunes from Hellbelly on guitar.

irishlady wrote:

only 45 mins. ?? that´s indeed waaaaaay too short…
btw, does anyone know if there was anything recorded for tv maybe ?

MTV co-presented the festival, but it was announced in the VISIONS magazine that they would do interviews with Tomte,The Cooper Temple Clause, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Trail Of Dead, I think. No T?, not trendy enough :o. There should be a broadcast from the festival in the show Spin on August, 4 according to the MTV website.

What a grrrreat festival:
My fav´s:
T?
Mclusky (what a brilliant bass player!)
Weakerthans
Aerogramme

and i got sun burnt…

Shra-Mee wrote:

and i got sun burnt…

Me, too. But it was worth it.
The atmosphere was great, except that decent smell of bark mulch, especially in front of the stage. :)

When I first went onto the site, I thought it was gonna stink, but when you got past that bit at the entrance it was okay.

What was disappointing was that they’d chosen to put an information stand (which never seemed to be open anyway) right in front of the football posts, so any kickarounds were sadly ruled out. And what was the “beer token” arrangement all about??? What a struggle to get a beer! :rolleyes:

say10 wrote:

yep, fantastic gig!! also nice to see some guys who traveled from northern ireland to see ash (and also therapy?), hi guys, it was nice to talk to you! had a fantastic time in dortmund, though it was raining on saturday and some idiot tried to steal ash’s alcohol and calles charlotte a stripper…
what a great festival!!!

yeh Steph!! was nice to meet you there too- we decided that you were officially the cutest girl of the weekend! Yum!! ;)

Michael kept just saying “Mikeymoko, wot are you like?!!” backstage, while trying to stop Charlotte from Ash stealing his Therapy? cds outta his cd case!!

T? played an amazing set (no Rust however :() and it was backed up by an even better set by Ash. Me and Tim from ASh stood stage left during BRMCs set with a few beers and it was fan-fuckin-tastic!

Wot a weekend!!!!

Mike
PS Say10 wots your email address?!

Psychotherapy? wrote:

Hey! Less of the rude comments about my aftershave! :D

Hang on! I’ve just had the most worrying thought ever… What if somebody invented “Eau de Düsseldorf”??? Aaaarrrggghh! :D

…guess it would really smell 1. decadent or 2. like the bark mulch in front of the stage!

Does anybody know the song “Ach wärst Du doch in Düsseldorf geblieben” ?

Psychotherapy? wrote:

What if somebody invented “Eau de Düsseldorf”???

It would definitely smell like Altbier. I use it almost every weekend :)

allroy wrote:

The “beer token” didn’t cost that much time to get the much needed and deserved refreshing, but it was messy after the T? show to get the scrambled token out of my pockets.
I don’t see any reason for these token as food had to be paid cash.

This ridiculous arrangement did actually lead to a new English phrase being coined during the course of the weekend: Beerocracy!

Mind you, I guess it would work in German, too: Bierokratie! :D