Sziget again!
so, yesterday was the second day of Sziget. There actually isn't much I could say about it, because while I did have plans for it, they sort of got thrown out halfway through. Still, it was fun.
So, I arrived at 7:45 PM, just at the start of the Kaiser Chiefs concert on the Main Stage. It was all kinds of awesome, even though the only song I could sing along to was I Predict A Riot. The head on a stick was also there, am I fated to run into it through all of the festival? A somewhat drunk American guy told me that I looked just like his friend and then hugged me. Huh. He actually didn't look drunk enough that he would indiscriminately hug people, so I guess he is either a physically uninhibited kind of person or he played some kind of joke on me that I'm not aware of. Most likely the first, because there was nothing stuck to my back afterwards.
After Kaiser Chiefs, I planned to either go to the HammerWorld stage to see Iced Earth or stay at the Main Stage for Jamiroquai, but my sister called and asked me to bring her some stuff that I brought from home. She was at the Zúzda (Grinder) stage, which is so called because it hosts hardcore punk, grindcore and metalcore shows. And at times, some not-so-hardcore punk too, I guess. I started towards her, but I did get stuck for a while because I planned on buying some wine to drink because I was parched, but the winery was so damn crowded that I had to wait for half an hour before I could get through. Anyway, she was at the Zúzda stage, listening to Hatóságilag Tilos, a very good Hungarian punk band that we both listened a lot to when we were younger. Its name means Forbidden by Authority. Anyway, I brought her her stuff and then stayed for the band. It was as good as I remembered. After that, we decided to stick together and go to the remainder of the Jamiroquai performance, but there was such a crowd at the Main Stage that we couldn't get through to the stage and listening to the music next to a fence while not seeing the performer wasn't really all that enjoyable.
So we decided to head for the HammerWorld stage, but just as we reached it, my father called me that he would be heading home and I decided that I should go with him, because if I stayed with my sister and her friends, we'd still be there at dawn and I didn't want that. So we went home. Later he told me that he came from the HammerWorld stage as well and the Iced Earth concert was terrible, because the sound technicians just decided to crank the volume on everything up to the maximum, which resulted in a garbled mess of sound and the song couldn't even be heard. Sadly, Sziget has a history of neglecting sound design at the HammerWorld stage, so I fear for the Apocalyptica concert today.
So, I arrived at 7:45 PM, just at the start of the Kaiser Chiefs concert on the Main Stage. It was all kinds of awesome, even though the only song I could sing along to was I Predict A Riot. The head on a stick was also there, am I fated to run into it through all of the festival? A somewhat drunk American guy told me that I looked just like his friend and then hugged me. Huh. He actually didn't look drunk enough that he would indiscriminately hug people, so I guess he is either a physically uninhibited kind of person or he played some kind of joke on me that I'm not aware of. Most likely the first, because there was nothing stuck to my back afterwards.
After Kaiser Chiefs, I planned to either go to the HammerWorld stage to see Iced Earth or stay at the Main Stage for Jamiroquai, but my sister called and asked me to bring her some stuff that I brought from home. She was at the Zúzda (Grinder) stage, which is so called because it hosts hardcore punk, grindcore and metalcore shows. And at times, some not-so-hardcore punk too, I guess. I started towards her, but I did get stuck for a while because I planned on buying some wine to drink because I was parched, but the winery was so damn crowded that I had to wait for half an hour before I could get through. Anyway, she was at the Zúzda stage, listening to Hatóságilag Tilos, a very good Hungarian punk band that we both listened a lot to when we were younger. Its name means Forbidden by Authority. Anyway, I brought her her stuff and then stayed for the band. It was as good as I remembered. After that, we decided to stick together and go to the remainder of the Jamiroquai performance, but there was such a crowd at the Main Stage that we couldn't get through to the stage and listening to the music next to a fence while not seeing the performer wasn't really all that enjoyable.
So we decided to head for the HammerWorld stage, but just as we reached it, my father called me that he would be heading home and I decided that I should go with him, because if I stayed with my sister and her friends, we'd still be there at dawn and I didn't want that. So we went home. Later he told me that he came from the HammerWorld stage as well and the Iced Earth concert was terrible, because the sound technicians just decided to crank the volume on everything up to the maximum, which resulted in a garbled mess of sound and the song couldn't even be heard. Sadly, Sziget has a history of neglecting sound design at the HammerWorld stage, so I fear for the Apocalyptica concert today.