Mudkilde, the story
I was stuck in traffic on my way to the airport.
Then I was stuck at the airport.
Then I got stuck in the traffic on our way here.
BUT YOU, YOU ARE STUCK IN THE MUD.
YOU ARE THE TRUE HEROES HERE!
-- Anders Fridén, lead singer of In Flames
And with those sentences and an awesome performance he opened our Roskildefestival. Three warlocks from Holland going there for the first time, but I get ahead of myself. Let's go back a few days.
Tuesday, 03-07
I get up at 10:30 hours. Tonight we drive off to Roskilde. Sad, Smutty and myself (Zhero) will jump in the car and enjoy 4 days of bands. Yiehaaa, I was really looking forward to that and meeting up with Jonez and Daymare. 2 dudes that I have been gaming with for the last 2 years. I pick the other locks up at 21:00 and 22:00 and we're off for an uneventfull, easy ride through empty german roads with rain from time to time and bad looking overaged germans passing us in big, expensive cars.
Wednesday, 04-07
We arrive at 09:00 or so in Roskilde. It is filled with cars, people in red coats (festival service) and zombies walking from left to right and right to left. I am not kidding you. If you ever levelled an undead, you know the Deathknell starting area where you have to kill some wondering zombies. That's exactly the scenery here.
The red coats we ask where we can park send us from north to south to west to east to north, only for us to discover we checked all parkinglots now and are back where we started. Small detail: Almost all of them can see our car has dutch licenseplates, but still they decide to talk to us in Danish. Finally we find a red coat capable of speaking english (do all swedes and norwegian dudes understand Danish? Just a question) and she actually does a little more than send us to the next full spot and finds us a parkingspace a few miles from the east-entrance. We park, unload and start the long walk. All this time rain is pooring down.
We enter the camping area and see mud, mud and mud and no free space. People tell us we should move to S or P spot. We get the map and see it's not even on it so far away is it and we decide to put down our tents near the entrance to have a small walk. Yes, it was outside the lines. Now why the F*ck would they make lines here on this muddy grass? We managed to put down our tents and went off for some well deserved sleep after being awake 24 hours. 90 minutes later we are rudely awoken by redcoats and the head of security.
'You got to move your tent!'
'You got to move your tent!'
-- 'uh....why?'
'You got to move your tent!'
Head of security does not mean got-any-knowledge-of-english, so one of the redcoats explains that it is fire-regulations. HAHAHAHA, I tell him I like the joke and wish him luck starting a fire with this weather and want to go back in the tent.
'You got to move your tent!' (the chief gnome again).
-- 'yeah dude, I got that the first time, but if you don't mind we wait till it's dry'
The chief gnome looks angry. One of the redcoats says we have to move now or we will be removed by force. ("festival service" obviously has a different meaning in Denmark than in Holland). We start moving in the rain, but where the f*ck do we have to go to? All is full. They tell us in there are spots on the most-south part of the camping and ofcourse we do not believe them. We move the other way and put down our tents again outside the lines wellaware of the fact that we will have to move soon again, but we really needed some sleep and did not want to walk through that rain for another hour. In the evening (and more rain) we have to move again and in the middle of the night, Smutty has to move his tent again half a meter. (I am not kidding, festival service to the max).
thursday, 05-07
They created some extra lines we can stand in, so we have spots now. Tired, stuff is wet and it is still raining. We wonder around a little looking around for some food and discover they have a movietheather as well. We decide to go see the movie 'svid neger' due to the description of it being a very sucky movie and that's just what we need. Rest and a place to sit dry for 90 minutes. We went there through the biggest pile of mud i have ever seen only to discover that electricity broke down and there is no movie. It probably was real bad anyway. We go back to the tent and install ourselves on 1 square meter in Smutty;s tent with the chairs we bought. All is wet, my shoes are wet, my socks are wet, my sweater is wet. Damn this place. We pass the day in Smutty's tent, a relatively dry place and drink vieux-cola and smoke weed. We do this for the rest of the day, because going out was not an option. We decide to take a small nap at 20:00 to go see Bjork afterwards, but we all knew we were not going. I went to my tent and found 20 centimers of not wet-space and tried to lay down there. "Why am I here?", "Why would I stay here?", "Why are Daymare and Jonez not answering their phones? maybe they have dry spots! (i read friday they both left already and had it even worse)". I sleep for periods of 10 minutes and then realize i have to get my arm out of the water. I hear Bjork far away.....is she hot?, i wouldn't know....it rains...what time is it? It's 22:00, it's 23:15, it's 00:11, it's 01:50, it's 02:02, it's 04:20!! it's 05:10, it's 05:56, it's 08:07.
friday, 06-07
It is dry! What? IT IS FUCKING DRY!! YIEHAAAAAAAA. I change clothes, saved some dry ones in a plastic bag. put on my wet boots and go to the guys. Yes, i am tired, but no rain is awesome. We buy some boots, pancakes and check the forum on vin99.net for messages from Jonez and Daymare while we sip some coffee there. Oh man....no rain is so awesome. I buy a sweater, change socks, put on the dry boots and all of a sudden i am there again. I can smile again. I feel great again! We go to the festival and see In Flames, which really is one of the best bands ever! We enjoy the day, see great looking girls and drink all day long while checking some bands left and right. At 01:00 we go to sleep, drunk, high and happy we are still there.
saturday, 07-07
Bands all day long. We started with Strike Anywhere (awesome oldschool punk. Really great performance for 300 people) at 11:00 and ended with the Chili Peppers (sucked bigtime for 50k?/60k? people) at 01:00. We left after a few songs. Walking all day on rubber boots which are a bit too small is really killing my feet the hard way. It feels like permenant damage is conflicted. Again we go to sleep relatively early, but then i think we never managed to get fit from the first 2 days.
sunday, 08-07
We decide to pack early, bring the stuff to the car and go back to see Arctic Monkeys. Then we can leave any time we like. We put on the boots of agony again and start the long walk to the car with all our stuff. When we finally arrive there i can no longer take it. The fucking boots are killing me. Another 5-6 hours of walking on them will cause severe damage i am afraid. I suggest to start riding now and Sad and Smutty agree. I throw the boots away and run them over while leaving. 11 hours later i am home and taking my 1st shower in 5 days. I am tired, but log in and do 3 arathi basin's on my warlock. It feels good again.
I remember reading this on a t-shirt while whatching Strike Anywhere.
We burned down your houses
and pissed in your well
we leave you with nothing
but a story to tell
Well, this is my story...
-- Zhero (fully back on his lock owning up the BG's)
Then I was stuck at the airport.
Then I got stuck in the traffic on our way here.
BUT YOU, YOU ARE STUCK IN THE MUD.
YOU ARE THE TRUE HEROES HERE!
-- Anders Fridén, lead singer of In Flames
And with those sentences and an awesome performance he opened our Roskildefestival. Three warlocks from Holland going there for the first time, but I get ahead of myself. Let's go back a few days.
Tuesday, 03-07
I get up at 10:30 hours. Tonight we drive off to Roskilde. Sad, Smutty and myself (Zhero) will jump in the car and enjoy 4 days of bands. Yiehaaa, I was really looking forward to that and meeting up with Jonez and Daymare. 2 dudes that I have been gaming with for the last 2 years. I pick the other locks up at 21:00 and 22:00 and we're off for an uneventfull, easy ride through empty german roads with rain from time to time and bad looking overaged germans passing us in big, expensive cars.
Wednesday, 04-07
We arrive at 09:00 or so in Roskilde. It is filled with cars, people in red coats (festival service) and zombies walking from left to right and right to left. I am not kidding you. If you ever levelled an undead, you know the Deathknell starting area where you have to kill some wondering zombies. That's exactly the scenery here.
The red coats we ask where we can park send us from north to south to west to east to north, only for us to discover we checked all parkinglots now and are back where we started. Small detail: Almost all of them can see our car has dutch licenseplates, but still they decide to talk to us in Danish. Finally we find a red coat capable of speaking english (do all swedes and norwegian dudes understand Danish? Just a question) and she actually does a little more than send us to the next full spot and finds us a parkingspace a few miles from the east-entrance. We park, unload and start the long walk. All this time rain is pooring down.
We enter the camping area and see mud, mud and mud and no free space. People tell us we should move to S or P spot. We get the map and see it's not even on it so far away is it and we decide to put down our tents near the entrance to have a small walk. Yes, it was outside the lines. Now why the F*ck would they make lines here on this muddy grass? We managed to put down our tents and went off for some well deserved sleep after being awake 24 hours. 90 minutes later we are rudely awoken by redcoats and the head of security.
'You got to move your tent!'
'You got to move your tent!'
-- 'uh....why?'
'You got to move your tent!'
Head of security does not mean got-any-knowledge-of-english, so one of the redcoats explains that it is fire-regulations. HAHAHAHA, I tell him I like the joke and wish him luck starting a fire with this weather and want to go back in the tent.
'You got to move your tent!' (the chief gnome again).
-- 'yeah dude, I got that the first time, but if you don't mind we wait till it's dry'
The chief gnome looks angry. One of the redcoats says we have to move now or we will be removed by force. ("festival service" obviously has a different meaning in Denmark than in Holland). We start moving in the rain, but where the f*ck do we have to go to? All is full. They tell us in there are spots on the most-south part of the camping and ofcourse we do not believe them. We move the other way and put down our tents again outside the lines wellaware of the fact that we will have to move soon again, but we really needed some sleep and did not want to walk through that rain for another hour. In the evening (and more rain) we have to move again and in the middle of the night, Smutty has to move his tent again half a meter. (I am not kidding, festival service to the max).
thursday, 05-07
They created some extra lines we can stand in, so we have spots now. Tired, stuff is wet and it is still raining. We wonder around a little looking around for some food and discover they have a movietheather as well. We decide to go see the movie 'svid neger' due to the description of it being a very sucky movie and that's just what we need. Rest and a place to sit dry for 90 minutes. We went there through the biggest pile of mud i have ever seen only to discover that electricity broke down and there is no movie. It probably was real bad anyway. We go back to the tent and install ourselves on 1 square meter in Smutty;s tent with the chairs we bought. All is wet, my shoes are wet, my socks are wet, my sweater is wet. Damn this place. We pass the day in Smutty's tent, a relatively dry place and drink vieux-cola and smoke weed. We do this for the rest of the day, because going out was not an option. We decide to take a small nap at 20:00 to go see Bjork afterwards, but we all knew we were not going. I went to my tent and found 20 centimers of not wet-space and tried to lay down there. "Why am I here?", "Why would I stay here?", "Why are Daymare and Jonez not answering their phones? maybe they have dry spots! (i read friday they both left already and had it even worse)". I sleep for periods of 10 minutes and then realize i have to get my arm out of the water. I hear Bjork far away.....is she hot?, i wouldn't know....it rains...what time is it? It's 22:00, it's 23:15, it's 00:11, it's 01:50, it's 02:02, it's 04:20!! it's 05:10, it's 05:56, it's 08:07.
friday, 06-07
It is dry! What? IT IS FUCKING DRY!! YIEHAAAAAAAA. I change clothes, saved some dry ones in a plastic bag. put on my wet boots and go to the guys. Yes, i am tired, but no rain is awesome. We buy some boots, pancakes and check the forum on vin99.net for messages from Jonez and Daymare while we sip some coffee there. Oh man....no rain is so awesome. I buy a sweater, change socks, put on the dry boots and all of a sudden i am there again. I can smile again. I feel great again! We go to the festival and see In Flames, which really is one of the best bands ever! We enjoy the day, see great looking girls and drink all day long while checking some bands left and right. At 01:00 we go to sleep, drunk, high and happy we are still there.
saturday, 07-07
Bands all day long. We started with Strike Anywhere (awesome oldschool punk. Really great performance for 300 people) at 11:00 and ended with the Chili Peppers (sucked bigtime for 50k?/60k? people) at 01:00. We left after a few songs. Walking all day on rubber boots which are a bit too small is really killing my feet the hard way. It feels like permenant damage is conflicted. Again we go to sleep relatively early, but then i think we never managed to get fit from the first 2 days.
sunday, 08-07
We decide to pack early, bring the stuff to the car and go back to see Arctic Monkeys. Then we can leave any time we like. We put on the boots of agony again and start the long walk to the car with all our stuff. When we finally arrive there i can no longer take it. The fucking boots are killing me. Another 5-6 hours of walking on them will cause severe damage i am afraid. I suggest to start riding now and Sad and Smutty agree. I throw the boots away and run them over while leaving. 11 hours later i am home and taking my 1st shower in 5 days. I am tired, but log in and do 3 arathi basin's on my warlock. It feels good again.
I remember reading this on a t-shirt while whatching Strike Anywhere.
We burned down your houses
and pissed in your well
we leave you with nothing
but a story to tell
Well, this is my story...
-- Zhero (fully back on his lock owning up the BG's)
posted by Zhero at 11:42 AM
4 Comments:
NIce story,... what a waste of time to get wet wet wet,.. we have rain here in holland as wel ;-)
Anyway,... I HATE MUD ... but on the other hand, you indeed have a story to tell.... (it was an adventure i quess)
cheers
BB
Almost felt a little bad for ya guys, felt like we forced ya down to a hellwhole of a festival...
But that feeling is gone now, and im really glad you had such a good time anyway, and that you finally got to see the best band in the world :)
(btw, cheack out the jesters dance)...that song has an amazing melody...
We´ll meet at a sunny (cloudy works even better) place instead sometime!
Nice written stuff, always a pleasure.
Ps: In my dream i told you about, I remember also hives standing by a car somewhere and couldnt get his key to fit in the doorwhole, and he got all mad.
I wonder if you look the same irl as you did in the dream, prolly not :)
If you wonder, swedes and norwegians can understand Danish, though it can be hard sometime, cause it sounds like they use some random guttural sounds.
Funny clip about it. (Norwegian subtitles).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
And day, I know where you can find picture of Zhero.
Really bad roskilde had to be that way, but i just felt no point in staying down there after someone stole my medications and some other guys decided to burn a big hole in my tent. Roskilde really sucked this year we lived in a mix of mud an human fecies (spelling) and i decided i dont want to spend my one week vacation this year down here.
I really hope we can do it some other time, maybe at roskilde or some other festival, whit better weather and cooler stories to tell afterwards :P
Im really glad you guys managed to actually see some bands down there and i hope you had a nice festival when the rain stopped.
Peace /jonez
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