Martes 4 Ago 2009, 16:21

Sat 1 Aug – Sonisphere
*deep breathing* Take the next left, and prepare to make the jump to hyperspeed….

Firstly, would REALLY recommend Brad's blog of the weekend: http://anotherthoughtprovokingnight.blogspot.com/ REALLY LONG, but so's this one, so buckle up.

This, wonderful event by the way took place in Knebworth Park.

Not a clue where it is, except that it's down south, somewhere. And it's fucking ages away. Want to give props to Brad's dad and stepdad for the lifts there and back, not many would make the effort. Bonus points to his dad for having Muse CDs that didn't work and a Darth Vader satnav.

Anyhoo, Saturday morning. Before I attempted sleep, and while Aaron was still getting/already was wasted from drink, I went on a 'wonder' around the night time activities.

Most mentionably the Monster Camp DJ set, which was INSANE. The likes of Soulfly and Drowning Pool (LET THE BODIES HIT DER FLOOR) and an insane amount of goths and hardcore moshers pushing the shit out of each other. I joined in the chaos, nearly broke my thumb. Nearly got off with a girl I moshed with (pretty fit, pretty drunk lol) but she ran off randomly and I didn't see her again. NEARLY DAMN IT.

I came back to the tent and sure enough Brad and Aaron were there wondering where the fuck I'd been. Tbh, good job I went out, I wouldn't have enjoyed the night life the following nights due to exhaustion. We didn't sleep at all. Well Aaron got a few hours, but our tent was a dump at the time, and was nearly impossible to sleep due to bloody shouting all over (BUTTSCRATCHER??).

So yeah, we felt shit. When we finally got up, we wandered over to catch soil, but found these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ4RJFEHuVs

They played offstage too around the merchandise stall, and was just hilarious. Singing to a polka version of Enter Sandman was classic. Shame they weren't very loud onstage as you seen there, but whatever.

Then, Soil!

Soil - Great openers!
Not knowing much else other than Halo and Breaking Me Down, they got the crowd warmed up nicely as we batted around an inflatable sofa, till two safe guyz in the crowd sat on it. They tried to crowdsurf sitting, but didn't work. + points for effort though! But yeah Soil, pretty chill. 7 out of 11

First band had just finished, and the festival had just begun. We rushed to the Apollo stage for the second act. Sure you know of them…

Alien Ant Farm - Randy frontman!?
Gahh I hope that was the mic! I think he got his dick out on stage, might have missed it. Good performance from an underated band, why don't people to listen to something they've done that's not covering a dead potential child snatcher? Wish we were further forward for it, since we didn't realise we could walk round the barrier. Recommend clicking the link above and listen to them! They have balls. 8 out of 11
We skipped Skindred, though I would've liked to have seen them, heard some awesome things about them live. No matter, we got to see a liek totally better band instead!!!!!!!

Taking Back Sunday - You'd think they'd play on Sunday. Gay.
We only seen these to make Ellie and our other girly girl fwends jealous, but what a load of trollop. That isn't even a proper word but it's what they were.

Frontman had no energy, except for strutting down the stage like a catwalk for people who wear their head in their ass, for ya know, fashion.

I might be bias since I didn't know their songs, and their sound was at least not bad, but with such little energy, and the singer so vain and full of himself, they deserve to be hated. GTFO my metal festival, or just play better, twat. 4 out of 11

Bjorn Again - Conga line of Death to Dancing Queen!
The Abba Tribute band. Mamma mia… they were fucking awesome. They gave Abba songs oomph with some electric guitar, yet stayed Abba. You can't beat a whole crowd of metalheads dancing to Waterloo, moshing to Super Trooper, and, wait, they covered Metallica?? They did a geniunely awesome cover of Enter Sandman, for which they brought on a convincing Kirk Hammett look-a-like to play for them. The girls were pretty hot too :3 Geniune awesomesauce. 8.8 out of 11

Anthrax - Bye bye baldy.
Yeah the lead singer quit recently, but they got some bald guy whose been in the band before so it's ok. Was a tight set, didn't play Madhouse but that's ok, was quality old-school metal. Caught in the Mosh was tight.
7.9 out of 11

Skipped The Used, heard they were bollocks anyway so good call! (sorry Dean or Jodie if you're reading this, Bert is a self-loving tosser isn't he?). Though I do like Pretty Handsome Awkward.

Coheed and Cambria! - Were late! :D
…Spinal Tap-stylie their ferry was slow, and so missed them when they were moved to Bohemia later on. Instead, Fact were upgraded to Apollo stage. Impressive right? Nah, just makes them able to see the thousands of spectators leave the area easier. Literally thousands. Nobody gave them a chance. Including me :P They sounded shite from where I sat but I wasn't looking to try to enjoy them. Should I gave them another chance in the future? Maybe. But they were a failure that day.

We retreated to the tent missing Heaven and Hell (Dio can you hear me? cos we can't frakkin hear you), Coheed, and Airbourne, but we were gearing up for the rest of the night. The big cheeses.

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - rawr.
The sound, unfortunately was terrible, and the singer wasn't doing the best, but everything else was top. The crowd was dense, squashy, insane. You must be doing something right as a band when the whole crowd is screaming the whole lyrics to Tears Don't Fall. Immense. Would've been even more epic if we ween't such shite singers. 8.9 out of 11

I lost Brad for this, and I waited for Aaron missing the first song of Linkin Park, but I peeked in the Bohemia Stage for Rolo Tomassi. I was pissed when I heard they clashed with LP, but I caught Beatrotter so I was pleased. Eva Spence is a shy, cute, crazy SPAWN OF BEELZEBUB HIMSELF. Recommend to anyone who likes cute girls who could rip off your fucking head with her voice box alone. Check them out, it's pretty weird, and I love it.

LINKIN PARK - Gtfo Chester, Mike FTW.

They were damn good and were playing favourites like In The End, Numb, Breaking The Habit, the good shizzle. But then, you know what happened? Chester happened. He wasn't on top form tonight, just, alright form. That's ok, excusable, it was still good, just don't do something stupid that breaks flow and the audiences patience.

OH WAIT.

Dead By Sunrise, Chester's SHITTY uninspired side-project came on replacing Linkin Park for 15 minutes, but felt like for fucking ever. I couldn't like it. You don't get bollocks in my headlining pudding, that's just disgusting. They shouldn't have been there. I only stayed because this bald drunkard was hilarious. Singing Barbie Girl and a slurred rendition of Somebody Told Me to DBS's buggery.

'I just… improvise all this ya know.'
'Better than this gooseberry.'

But then Linkin Park came back to redeem themselves! Mike Shinoda alone made the wait worthwhile with a masterfully done rap on war. Something I hadn't heard before but I think the fans had, but it was still amazing. As a whole set though, it had its moments, its lessened efforts and unbelievably cheap plugs. Good, but Chester's a tosser. 6.9 out of 11 (blame Chester)

They finished, we enjoyed it, and in our unbelievable tired state, we wondered over to the tent to attempt sleep again. Impressive first day.

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