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TendringLOEB
Guest
Just got back, first off apologies to Portox who I promised to meet and promptly had my phone die. We came up to look for you in the trade village but couldn't see you 
Absolutely knackered, coughing up god knows what from all the dust and burning tents but overall a great festival.
The concrete Tuborg stage was interesting, saw some nice asphalt burns in the pits, had a bit of a slam myself but luckily didn't fall over or break my nose this time.
To the music, Kiss were brilliant, I know practically none of their songs but just for sheer entertainment majorly worth it. Rival Schools were awesome, finishing with a truly epic rendition of Used For Glue. The sound was actually much better on the Tuborg Stage throughout I felt. The Offspring played really really well, but didn't have any stage presence whatsoever, but they're supposedly punk and don't need it. Lostprophets were great - lost my voice singing away to their old stuff... Everybody knows Liberation Transmission was a big pile of poo, so I'm glad they played mostly from FSOP and Start Something. They had great stage presence too, their banter was very amusing.
In Flames came on did their stuff and left, vocals were too low but otherwise they played tight, I enjoyed eating ice cream on the hill and watching them.
Pendulum were entertaining, I much rather prefer their proper drum and bass from 'Hold Your Colour' though, as opposed to the weedy rock they're trying to muscle into 'In Silico'... But did have a bit of a jiggle.
As for wearing paintball kit I fully admit rocking out in my WELT T-Shirt for 3 full days, and thus now it isn't quite the same dazz white it was before, but you have to represent of course But seriously, if you were wearing paintball pants, weren't you baking hot?
APOCALYPTICA - **** yes. Four piece Cello death metal band rocking out on the main stage! They even flew in Christina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil for a special guest vocal on S.O.S. Brilliant.
I was looking forward to seeing Jimmy Eat World, and yes they played well but they didn't impress me at all, it was more like a Karaoke than anything else. Black Stone Cherry were pretty good though, and were in the same vein as Alterbridge. A big suprise were the unsigned band Vera Cruz who absolutely nailed a stonking set after winning a competition to play the slot, and play the slot they certainly did. Unsurprisingly Throwdown also played aggro-core / thrash metal by numbers and happily blew my face off with their riffs.
What was with all the walking? I heard about the Moto GP screwing up the layout but seriously they need to do something about that for next time. Absolutely massive market trade village thing though, which was nice. I even found the toilets were good too!
What else happened? Oh yeah, Kid Rock pulled out, which I'm embarrassed to say I found a little disappointing - there's lots of rumours as to why he did, but personally I think he was just being a great big baby.
Lethal Bizzle got bottled, but stayed standing resolute, and played a great set, not my kind of music but earned my respect right there by playing no matter what and pleasing everyone who came to watch. Not to mention simultaneously rappiung and dropkicking a fully laden incoming bottle of water out of the air.
Zebrahead kicked off the festival and rocked out well, though I had to physically close my girlfriends jaw when the lead singer took his shirt off. So what if he's all ripped, muscley and toned, that's not what a real man looks like! *grabs beer belly and wiggles a little*
Agree with the comment about Biffy Clyro, although I do think they played very well if only to be let down by a drunken (though looked like he was on smack) frontman. I also thought Seether's frontman was equally as plastered, although the music was pretty good. Disturbed had an amazing set, the sound went a little dodgy but you couldn't fault them otherwise.
So yeah, that's all I can think of up to now, I'm off to apply some aftersun to my boiled face, but adding all the above to a few crates of Strongbow, many bottles of Jaeger, and seeing a whole 7 sets of boobies, I think I had a proper result of a festival.
Absolutely knackered, coughing up god knows what from all the dust and burning tents but overall a great festival.
The concrete Tuborg stage was interesting, saw some nice asphalt burns in the pits, had a bit of a slam myself but luckily didn't fall over or break my nose this time.
To the music, Kiss were brilliant, I know practically none of their songs but just for sheer entertainment majorly worth it. Rival Schools were awesome, finishing with a truly epic rendition of Used For Glue. The sound was actually much better on the Tuborg Stage throughout I felt. The Offspring played really really well, but didn't have any stage presence whatsoever, but they're supposedly punk and don't need it. Lostprophets were great - lost my voice singing away to their old stuff... Everybody knows Liberation Transmission was a big pile of poo, so I'm glad they played mostly from FSOP and Start Something. They had great stage presence too, their banter was very amusing.
In Flames came on did their stuff and left, vocals were too low but otherwise they played tight, I enjoyed eating ice cream on the hill and watching them.
Pendulum were entertaining, I much rather prefer their proper drum and bass from 'Hold Your Colour' though, as opposed to the weedy rock they're trying to muscle into 'In Silico'... But did have a bit of a jiggle.
As for wearing paintball kit I fully admit rocking out in my WELT T-Shirt for 3 full days, and thus now it isn't quite the same dazz white it was before, but you have to represent of course
But seriously, if you were wearing paintball pants, weren't you baking hot?APOCALYPTICA - **** yes. Four piece Cello death metal band rocking out on the main stage! They even flew in Christina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil for a special guest vocal on S.O.S. Brilliant.
I was looking forward to seeing Jimmy Eat World, and yes they played well but they didn't impress me at all, it was more like a Karaoke than anything else. Black Stone Cherry were pretty good though, and were in the same vein as Alterbridge. A big suprise were the unsigned band Vera Cruz who absolutely nailed a stonking set after winning a competition to play the slot, and play the slot they certainly did. Unsurprisingly Throwdown also played aggro-core / thrash metal by numbers and happily blew my face off with their riffs.
What was with all the walking? I heard about the Moto GP screwing up the layout but seriously they need to do something about that for next time. Absolutely massive market trade village thing though, which was nice. I even found the toilets were good too!
What else happened? Oh yeah, Kid Rock pulled out, which I'm embarrassed to say I found a little disappointing - there's lots of rumours as to why he did, but personally I think he was just being a great big baby.
Lethal Bizzle got bottled, but stayed standing resolute, and played a great set, not my kind of music but earned my respect right there by playing no matter what and pleasing everyone who came to watch. Not to mention simultaneously rappiung and dropkicking a fully laden incoming bottle of water out of the air.
Zebrahead kicked off the festival and rocked out well, though I had to physically close my girlfriends jaw when the lead singer took his shirt off. So what if he's all ripped, muscley and toned, that's not what a real man looks like! *grabs beer belly and wiggles a little*
Agree with the comment about Biffy Clyro, although I do think they played very well if only to be let down by a drunken (though looked like he was on smack) frontman. I also thought Seether's frontman was equally as plastered, although the music was pretty good. Disturbed had an amazing set, the sound went a little dodgy but you couldn't fault them otherwise.
So yeah, that's all I can think of up to now, I'm off to apply some aftersun to my boiled face, but adding all the above to a few crates of Strongbow, many bottles of Jaeger, and seeing a whole 7 sets of boobies, I think I had a proper result of a festival.
