On Nordic Faux-Rock and Better Times
Nothing brings down a mood like waiting an hour in traffic, 40 minutes in line to get into a venue, another hour for drinks (non-alcoholic because the beer line was 3 hours long) and watching third-rate MC's talking up a mediocre musical event with average performers as though it were 1969 and we were in Woodstock.
Coca-cola really fucked-up the Colab on Saturday. Expecting 45 000 people and catering to maybe 20 000. I heard rumours that Green Day and The Foo Fighters won the bid to headline the "festival" but the organisers looked at the figures for CD sales and A Simple Plan, The Rasmus and Metallica outsold GD & The Foo's.
I would be far more angry about paying R400 for a ticket if I had only bought it this month. It turns out that I bought it a month ago and I'm over it already.
Highlights are as follows:
Coca-cola really fucked-up the Colab on Saturday. Expecting 45 000 people and catering to maybe 20 000. I heard rumours that Green Day and The Foo Fighters won the bid to headline the "festival" but the organisers looked at the figures for CD sales and A Simple Plan, The Rasmus and Metallica outsold GD & The Foo's.
I would be far more angry about paying R400 for a ticket if I had only bought it this month. It turns out that I bought it a month ago and I'm over it already.
Highlights are as follows:
- Understanding why I hate H.I.M. after watching The Rasmus - both are pop posing as metal.
- The presence of Tuks FM at a 5FM event including a Tuks FM blimp and a banner that reads" 5FM reasons to listen to Tuks FM:
- Kevin not so Fine
- Nicole not so Foxy
- Zuraida Sardine
- Ian F*@#
- Gareth go-jump-off-a-Cliff
- The only good performances of the event: Seether and Collective Soul
- Collective Soul frontman Ed Roland screaming "Sing it Johannesburg" to People in Centurion... Pretoria
- Being approached by a guy at the Electronica stage who wanted to know if I knew "where to organise pills"
- Driving home to Zero 7
Disclaimer: Metallica probably do have talent when it comes to playing music but I just don't see the merit in how they do it. It's just not how I would classify "creativityoh". I did enjoy myself and I would have kicked myself if I had missed it but I would still have Pukkel-Pop 2003 to fall back on. Granted, I would have gone to see Zero 7 had I known they were there (listed as Lucky 7 on the programme).
At 10:30 Debaser mumbled incoherently.
10 Comments:
My sister was at the concert. She smsed me at about five, and said that it was fucking hot (it must have been, for her to use language like that) and that they had sold out of all drinks except for coffee.
She also said Seether was the best.
It got to a point where everyone in line for drinks made the same stupid joke that "There's no Coke at the Coca-Cola Colab". HA...HA...HA...
Funny, I could have called it before it happened.
I'm over the whole concert thing.
TuksFM managed to put me off for life after attending their New Years party. It's the queing that kills me. I just don't cope with that sort of shit.
I wish all you people were HERE. There is so much I want to go to but I don't really have people to go with me. (Beverley is not really into music (!!!)) Like, for example, in June, Zero7; Belle & Sebastian and the Strokes. And so many festivals! But no friends!
:`o(
I can't wait to go to festivals when I'm in the UK.
I'm going to Splashy Fen, though!
Damn you Colab bastards. I really, really wanted to see Collective Soul. I'd have paid the money for the sole purpose of watching them perform "Needs" live
You'll be glad to hear that they didn't play Needs.
Still...
They were very good. I'm glad that I saw them. I missed them the last time they came out.
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