Download & System (yes I know it's 2 months late!)
Ok it’s been 2 fecking months since Download and I still havn’t updated with it so here it is!
Thursday 9th June 2005
Wake up 5 minutes after I had gone to sleep at Grahams at 5am (!) and head off as quietly as I can (did I wake anyone?) to the bus station!
Caught the 6am bus to Edinburgh and then hopped in a taxi to the airport!
Just as I joined the queue I realised Anna and Leslie were only a few people in front of me. We get checked in blah blah blah flew to EMA blah blah arrived!
We got a taxi to the festival site for £8 and it was just round the corner! (or so we thought)
We arrive around 11am and there was virtually no queue! Result!
We got in and picked our spot and started to pitch up.
Well packed:
The “tent”:
Well it started off as “tent” but got changed to a manner of things throughout the weekend.
After we had pitched and settled in a bit we had a wander round the shops and stoof. Then Leslie’s friend who happened to live not but 5 minutes away cam and picked us up, took us out for pub grub and took us shopping in Tescos. This was the fucking life! So we stocked up on the necessities, booze and more booze!
We went back to the campsite and some of Anna’s mates camped with us and my friend Chris arrived who also camped with us.
The girls were al tired and wanted to go to bed but I didn’t and neither did Chris so we stayed up for a while boozing and then it got boring so we crashed.
Friday 10th June 2005
Got up around 10am, cracked open some ciders for brekkie!
Wanted to get into the arena for Wednesday 13 so trotted on in. There were people in a massive queue for the arena right down into the campsite and I dunno why coz I just strolled right in the other entrance, no queue. Some people eh? Twits.
I managed to get pretty far down the front, maybe about 3 rows back for W13. They were fooking ace! Played with a lot of energy and enthusiasm considering it was 11am on the ‘indie’ day. Rock ‘n’ fucking roll!!!
Kid on stage:
Wednesday & Pig:
Wednesday & Pig soloing their asses off!:
Wednesday:
Then I headed off to the signing tent to meet the mighty Biffy Clyro!!!
There was absolutely no-one there! *shock, gasp HORROR!* No-one knew who they were! How can this be? Even the person announcing they were on was pronouncing it ‘biffy cleero’ stupid bint!
Aaaanyway, I toddled off on in and got star struck buy the almighty Biff!
Ben:
James:
Simon:
As you can see my hand was a lil shaky. And yes ladies and gents that is Simon Neil SMILING! Hehe!
I spoke briefly with the guys. I asked them if they were ever gonna play Houses of Roofs live. They chuckled and said “well not today”. I told them it was my favorite song and Simon seemed really appreciative. He told me I was the first person to ever ask for that song. Although I don’t know why coz it’s *magical* hehe. I got autographs and Simon thanked me a couple of times for my kind words, he seemed very gratified. I was chuffed! Hehe
Next at the signing tent was Wednesday 13 so f course I was gonna stick around for that! The queue was fooking massive but I managed somehow to be about 10th in line.
And in I went…
Ghastly:
Kid:
Pig:
Wednesday:
They guys were all really cool and seemed to be enjoying themselves. I was behind their biggest fans ever so it was cool for them seeing how happy meeting the guys made them. They even had Pig’s tattoos! Wednesday invited them backstage which was ace for them too.
I was slagging Pig off for wearing white socks again, he was not impressed, hence the tongue stickage.
Wednesday is a hell of a lot taller than I remember. He seemed quite talkative and not so shy as he usually is which was great.
Oooh and I also finally got my pic I have been wanting forever:
And it’s a spiderweb star - not glitter!
After that I wandered over to the Snickers stage to get a good stance for Biffy. I waited for fucking ages and the stageset up did not look like Biffy’s. Oh well, never mind. Then Apocalyptica came on…… FUUUUUCK!!!!!
I fucking ran my ass all the way to the main stage!! They had already started. Bollocks. I had a shit place to stand and on the wrong side of the stage. (I like the hill side) Fuck it, who cares? I danced and sang my heart out anyway! They guys were ace, no-one knew who they were…. they rocked like fuck anyway!!
Is it coincidence that when I took the pic of Si, “In luv” was written underneath it?
I think not!!
I caught a lil bit of megadeth, not really my kind of beats.
Went to watch My Chemical Romance who were pretty good. The singer is a tosser though, who talks a lot of bollocks.
The Used were ace! I had only downloaded 2 of their songs the week before but now I’m loving them!
Billy Idol was fucking crammed right out the tent. They had to stop letting people in. I stayed for a good 6 songs then decided to leave as it was too cramped. They guy can fucking rock for his age though!
And then I went back to the campsite. Boozed some. I hate going with boring people!!
Crashed… not by choice.
Saturday 11th June 2005
Got up, boozed a lot for brekkie!! Was pissed by 11am *w00t!*
Got into the arena by Bowling for Soup time. Such an underrated and amazing band.
I love em!
They were fucking ace and kept playing jaunty lil tunes in between songs and singing “in-between song surfing, in-between song surfing” it was fucking class!
This was the only band I wanted to see today so then I just sorta hung around catching glimpses of everything.
I watched Black Sabbath, they were ok. Ozzy runs like a girl.
Back to camp for some fun! (at last)
We got pissed and joined some random “walk for Scotland” which was just a bunch of drunken Scot’s following a guy carrying a Scottish flag. Met a really cool guy called Jamie. (Hey if your reading this, sorry we lost you, sorry I never seen you at System, message me!)
It was fun though. Then we turned it into a quest for rave. Which we found. End quest. New quest: Started a camp chant of “kill all the emo kids”. Heeeeheeee. Muchos fun. Then they all rushed the football pitch and security had to split everyone up. Much fun and giggles, went to bed around 6am.
Sunday 12th June 2005
I'll do the rest tomorrow!!