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An eleven hour drive, with five hours of sleep in a hotel parking lot, and a three granola bar meal plan. Talk about a kick off! Richie, Hil, and myself trapsed across the nation to go to the HFStival in Baltimore, Maryland!
We found ourselves in the stadium of the Baltimore Orioles surrounded by several thousand people. Here was the line-up: The Bravery, Louis XIV, They Might Be Giants, Interpol, Echo and the Bunnymen, Garbage, New York Dolls, Social Distortion, Good Charlotte, Billy Idol, Coldplay, and Foo Fighters. (Psssssssst...in case you didn't notice, the bolds were the bests!) With over 12 hours spent in the stadium we saw many a band, a drug, and some of the oddest people that grace our planet. All for the sake of the music! After eight of the bands played the weather took a turn for the worse. It went from 86 and sunny to 58 and rainy in the course of about twelve minutes. So it poured. It poured quite a bit. yes sir, it did. But we waited, for Coldplay and Foo Fighters were only a few hours away. At the expected time of Coldplay's performance a small man came out on the stage. He announced that all spectators were expected to 'make their way to the concords'. So everybody piled into the concrete confines known as 'concords'. There were angry fans, hairy fans, expectant fans, but mostly just cold fans. We sat, drenched and hungry, and waited with hope for a positive sign. After about twenty minutes the cops removed the gates and let us back into the stadium. Even though we were chilled to the bone, the wait made the shows that much better. Expectancy can do funny things to you. Coldplay was master impressive, a lot of emotion there. Chris played the piano with such energy that you wanted to fly. Seriously fly. All throughout their show the lightening prevailed, which made for a pretty light show. The Foo was hype, yo. A long day, yes.
Baltimore Buddies!
Lots of people
Baltimore Buddies!
Lots of people