rippon
rippon was wicked. it just was. here's what happened. about 11am, headed over to my friends place, got a 6pack on the way. drank half each, then we were just about to leave when i realised i had forgotten my fucking ticket. luckiy my parents were nice to me and came 'round to my friends place with my ticket. anyway, then we headed into town, stopping on the way to get some water bottles and a few more beers. then we walked out on this lakeside track out to the venue, which took around 45 minutes. on the way, we exchanged hi's with the 2 singer/guitarists of the band the d4, who were walking the opposite way on the track to us, and i managed to open a bottle of beer on a rock (i forgot to bring a bottle opener). then we had to wait in line to get into said venue, for like over an hour. which was pretty lame. considering the big day out, which i went to, had 8 times the amount of people going, and the line only took half an hour. it was all good when we got in though (at like 3pm!). we wandered around for awhile, there weren't many stalls or anything, and none of them were selling bands t shirts or the like, so no new clothing for me. got some food, and then while we were in line to get some ice creams, met up with these people we knew who had a good spot set up in the ampitheater (no seating, just a grassy slope) so we went and sat down there, and just chilled in the sun and listened to music. i started getting a little bored, because most of the music wasn't really to my tastes. got some more food and a bottle of wine around 6. the concert finally started being...well...good when the d4 (as mentioned earlier) started their set around 6.20pm. it went off, as it was the first act of the day you could actually mosh to. the d4 are one of those retro rock type bands, not the pussy kind, but loud and hard type. i got quite a few good pictures of them, from right up at the fence. after the d4 finished, my friend and i went back into town for some beer and money. got another 6pack and drank that while we were walking back out to the concert. got there just in time to see the other good band of the day, blindspott. which was the band that a lot of people had been hanging out for all day. as they didn't start playing until sometime after 10, things went pretty crazy in the mosh pit. unfortunately, it was dark by that time, and the backlighting meant none of my photos turned out. anyway. there was and hour of moshing and getting kicked in the head by the occasional crowd surfer (one of the main disadvantages of being tall) it was all over. time for the afterparty! (or so i thought). we got out to the afterparty....and it sucked. the afterparties for the school formals and things that i have been to were better than that. last rippon, there was the massive dance tent in front of the dj area, multiple food and drink tents, and multiple chill out tents. and bonfires. this rippon, only the dj area had a tent, there was no drink tents, only one food tent, which to make it worse, only sold vegan food, and there were no chill out tents. it was so incredibly shit, it needs a new word to be invented to describe how shit it actually was. on top of that, i was cold, i had a headache, and i felt sick. so me and my friend headed home. got home between 1 and 2am, passed out on my bed, woke up around 7am, went back to sleep and then woke up again at 12. got up, had some bacon and eggs, then a bowl of cornflakes, then a fruit mince pie. then i wrote this.
so yeah.
the end.
so yeah.
the end.