Ok, so after two years I went to another festival (in 2008, sadly, I missed the Hurricane with Foo Fighters, argh!). My sister and I decided to go to Rock im Park, which is in Nuremberg (close to where she lives, Wuerzburg). It was perfect, close to her and we actually have relatives living there, my grandma’s cousin, a 70 something lady, charming but can only speak german, so with my poor german and her husband’s poor english we managed to comunicate.
We arrived on friday morning to Nuremberg and had brunch with our new grandparents (Nuremberger sausages and sauer Kraut, breakfast of champions!), then had a small tour of this beautiful city and then left for the concert.
Day 1-
First of all we got very lost when we arrived at the venue, got out really far from where the stages were, and then got really lost inside again. We finally arrived and we had missed New Found Glory, sadly. The bands we managed to see were:
-All American Rejects: I had a great time, is actually a pretty good band, the biggest problem for me was the sound! I couldn’t hear anything from where I was!
- The subways and Guano Apes: why do I put them together? Because these 2 great bands had a very band sound! I couldn’t hear anything, just the drums, basically… so sadly, I cannot say I heard them.
- Chris Cornell: we moved to the other stage and had much better luck, Chris Cornell is amazing, this man can sing! He sang some his new stuff, some of his old solo stuff, and some songs by Soundgarden and even Audioslave. It was a lot of fun and I was really close to the stage.
- MIA: aus berlin… this berliner has actually a lot of fans… I was surounded by gay men and it was fun… too long for my taste though, and I actually thought that I would see M.I.A!
- The Kooks: After being smashed for a very long time and almost falling 100 times or more, this amazing band came out on stage… it was a great show, I was really happy to have waited.
After this we left and missed all the buses we could miss, and ended up going home by taxi. Our welcome home was hot tea and homemade butterkuche! We were lucky enough to sleep on a warm bed and have a shower available.
Day 2-
After a big brunch (again) we left to the concert. It was eassier to arrive at the venue this time, it was raining so we took our raincoats and some sandwiches again. The bands I saw.
- Dragonforce: Alot of fun, this metal band is as good live as they sound on CD. It was great fun.They coud only play like 4 songs hahah.
- Papa Roach: a band I saw in 2002 back home, and had a blast. This time around it was a lot of fun as well, too bad I wasn´t able to see them close by.
- Enter Shikari: this band was very strange, we were´t paying much attention but what we heard was very interesting, I must say.
- Placebo: even though it started to rain (anoying, but not that bad) me and my sister enjoyed the show a lot…Placebo is great live, and the new drummer, yum… it was a blast.
- The Killers: I think one of my favorites of the whole festival, had an awesome time…my sister actually tried to go see Manson after this, but there was so many people trying to go to the small stage (to see Manson and then Korn) that she had to come back, but to have a great time with me (she had seen them live before in Munich in March)… the only bad thing, they didn´t play “Bones” which is my favorite song, but they played “When you were young” so it´s all forgiven.
We played guitar hero in front of a lot of people outside the stages, it was great fun. We played “Everlong” by The Foo Fighters, I played bass and my sister sang…other people played the other instruments, it was amazing! hahaha
That night we also had to take a cab, but we got home better, without getting lost. We also had Tea and cake for us, a warm dry bed and a shower. Priceless.
Day 3- Bye Bye Nuremberg :(
After leaving our bags at the station we managed to arrive via S-bahn better than ever before.
- Machinehead: great show really,it was raining but sunny and we had two rainbows for part of the entertainment. The sound was good,so I have no idea what happened on this stage on the first day!
- The Prodigy: Ok, one of my favorite 90´s band, they rock! we had a blast even though it was raining a lot, very worth it!
Going to see Bloc paty in the other stage it started to rain really heavily, tropical rain sort of type, even though we had raincoats, we got pretty wet… they played “It´s raining men” and we started dancing around… afterwords, when it got better, they played “Walking on sunshine” and we kept on dancing not to feel more wet and unconfortable than what we were. I was OK, but my sister got really really wet.
-Bloc party: this is a band that I would so recommend to see live if you have the chance. Its a great show and they sound just like they do on recordings…wonderful… it was my second time seeing them and so worth the rain and everything.
- Slipknot: to finish with a cherry on top, this amazing band. I didn´t know I knew all the old songs, hahaha… they are great, an incredible show with a lot of lights, effects and fire!
After that we left Nuremberg to go back to Wuerzburg. We actually changed in the hauptbahnhof and I threw away my shoes, which were completely ruined and wet.
Conclusions: Amazing experience, a lot of great food, great city, great times, guitar hero and great bands…but, I´m not quite sure I would go back to Rock im Park, it was hard to move from one stage to another and the location was too small for so many people, I couldn´t even see Korn. Next year, I´ll try the Reading or Leeds Festival, maybe the one in Budapest, we will see…
If you want to see pics of this experience go to:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2029963&id=210100424&l=9a2d131627
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