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I try to avoid festivals too now. It's either stiflingly hot, pishing down with rain or stiflingly hot
and pishing down with rain. Not to mention that, if you're a first row nutcase like me, you have to get there super early, try not to drink much because if you go to the loo you'll lose your spot, and put up with a ton of crap bands while waiting. Then there's the fact that the festival site's usually in the middle of nowhere. Which means by the time it's done the last train/bus/whatever has already gone so you have to wait at the station for hours for the first one in the morning. Because the festival site's usually in the middle of nowhere the station's probably closed so you have to wait outside. Not fun when all you have on is a t-shirt and a hoodie and it's cold.
I'm not even going to get started on the camping, the toilet queues (assuming you have the courage to actually use them) or having to run from one stage to the other because the acts you want to see are playing on different stages.
Nope, no more festivals for me. Been there done that. Roadburn's different though. First, it's indoors, so the weather's a non-issue. The camping site and the venues pretty far away so you don't have to jump over 78 drunk/stoned/comatose people when you're trying to go from point A to B. The lineup's usually good, if not great. And, best of all, there's no queue for the women's loos because Roadburn's mostly full of blokes. There's the compulsory beer shower because some people find it hilarious to toss them in the air half-full. And the bruises because some idiots doesn't know moshing etiquette (i.e., stay in the feckin moshpit!!!). But that's standard rock festival fare.
Yeah, Roadburn's ace if you're like your doomy, sludgy stuff
I'm pretending QOTSA aren't playing at Pinkpop this year. La la la... *sticks fingers in ears*
