Minty14 wrote:Mafro wrote:My sister got me a weekend ticket for my birthday. Looking forward to seeing:
Friday:
Rammstein (one of my favourite bands)
Korn
Killswitch Engage
Saturday:
Black Sabbath
Deaftones
Skindred
Not really arsed about anyone other than Iron Maiden on the Sunday. Will be going to the WWE NXT shows every day as well depending on who they clash with.
I went for the Friday. Missed Killswitch because we just had to get out of the rain for a bit. A workmate stayed in the yurts just behind the main arena and even their beds and all their belongings got totally soaked.
Babymetal, Korn and Rammstein were definitely the highlights despite the crazy weather.
Saw Rammstein (best live performance I've ever seen), Korn (not bad), Baby Metal (never seen or heard anything from them before but they were genuinely great) and Killswitch (excellent).
Forgot Deftones clashed with Skindred so just went to see the latter. Got the times mixed up and got there early and saw Against The Current just starting their show. Never heard of them before and apparently they were filling in for another band on two days notice and hadn't performed live in a few months but they were really, really good, I'll definitely be checking their album out. Skindred were fantastic, Benji Webbe is such a good frontman for live shows. Loved the little remixes and stuff they did in-between songs, especially that dubstep one that really got the crowd going. Black Sabbath were alright, felt a bit sorry for NOFX who were on the other stage at the same time, the crowd for them was tiny because everyone went straight for the main stage after Skindred.
strawberry floated off on Sunday morning because we couldn't be arsed with any more rain, the campsites we saw were fine but the arena looked like it was becoming potentially dangerous last night. The mud was really deep and thick at some points and it would have been easy to get your foot stuck and fall, we left just after 12 this morning and it started pissing down again so god knows what state it was in for the rest of the day. We were in the Quiet Camping bit which was literally the furthest site away from the arena, probably took a good 30-40 minutes to walk there depending on how busy it was. There also weren't any toilets in our section so we had to go to the next bit, and strawberry float knows whose idea it was to make the Quiet Camping the closest site to the airport runway
Our tents were fine after the rain, just a bit damp due to the condensation and humidity and it probably helped that we were uphill. If I go again I'll definitely be going for the R.I.P. camping or one of the Travelodge package deals or whatever. The car park closest to our camp site was full and closed when we got their at half 9 on Friday morning and it was easily more than an hours walk from the other car park to where we pitched our tents.