Enganged to rock

Novarock Festival 2008

I got home this afternoon after a nearly 10 hours long trip through the whole country. We left the Festival at 1:30am and reached the bus to the station at Nickelsdorf at 2:50am. My bagback was nearly as heavy as myself. I was tired and I felt every bone in my body.

I Slept about 20 minutes on the way to Vienna. There I slept on the ground in the station for 2 hours. At 6:57am our train startet rolling. I was sleeping a bit on my way to carinthia. At 11:15am our train reached St.Veit. Now I just had to get to the car and drive home.

And that's were I am now, but let's start a bit earlier...

During the last 4 days I wrote some kind of a festival-diary and that's what you will read now.

Novarock 2008 from my perspective.

It all started on my birthday – June the 12^th - at 9:00am in St.Veit.

My girlfriend martina, a friend called hansi and another buddy called puggi and me set in the train to Vienna.

At 9:45am we had our first beer and some more followed until we reached Vienna. There we a had a very short time to wait (another beer and a cigarette) for our train to Nickelsdorf.

A bus drove us as close as possible to the festival area. There we had to walk for about 2 hours to find a place to place our tents.

After some more beer and bread with „Jagdwurst“ we decided to go to the Soccer area to watch the match Germany vs Croatia and the match Austria vs Poland.

When Austria shot the goal in minute 93 the people went crazy. Beer cans were flying like fireworks, red torches burned everywhere and everybody started singing and screaming.

I really didn't expect that.

13.6.2008

Brushing my teeth the next morning was really great. Washing my hands was even greater. (Mobile toilets are so horrible!)

This afernoon the wind was extremly strong. http://www.zamg.ac.at/ said that the wind will be „lebhaft“ - active.

In fact it was a freakin Hurricane – we called the wind "Ula" – that made our tents shake and the pavilions fly. We were searching for extra hooks for our tents. Everywhere everything was flying arround.

Even the blue stage stopped playing for some time, because of the wind.

The Storm - ULA

The night was not good, I didn't sleep a lot.

Hansi seems to get mad, everytime he opens his mouth he tells us very strange things. All the time! The wind damaged his tent a bit.

All the people arround us are working to make their tents more wind-resistent, while the wind – Ula - gets even stronger.

Now hansi tells us that he is sexy. I am disgusted.

Later that afternoon the wind really started to get on my nerves. We have now twice as much hooks in the earth as we had in the beginning.

And again I am eating Jagdwurst.

14.6.2008

I was having a shower today. It was so great to get all the dirt off.

Jonathan Davis – frontman of Korn – was really great today. He played a lot of Korn songs and interpreted them in a really cool new way.

Jonathan Davis Live - one of the cool slow interpretations

He was defenetly one of my highlights at this festival.

I hope the beatsteaks will rock.

The wind is gone and the sun is shinning. (later that day I noticed that I have a sunburn on my hands and my face!)

The sex pistols weren't really good. They were boring.

Hansi says: „Montag ist Schlagsahne!“ - I do not know why he tells us things like these.

15.6.2008

The beatsteaks really made my day – last evening. If somebody asks me „What was the biggest party, you've ever been at?“ I would say „It was the evening of the 14^th of june when thousands of people were celebrating with the beatsteaks. Jumping, screaming, PARTY!!! It was perfect."

The Godfathers really rocked this afternoon. 4 old guys with 3 guitares and a drumkit. Classic Rock at its best!

„BIRTH-SCHOOL-ROCK-DEATH“ - The Godfathers

Yesterday also Bad Religion showed us that they are still alive. Allthough they did not play „I love my Computer“.

It was reaning tonight.

The pathes of the camping area are morasses, but the sun is so hot now that they will be dry soon. It is soooo hot, I wish Ula comes back.

Today we saw Disturbed. They were defenetly my favourits. The show was great and my voice was gone after it.

DISTURBED - DOWN WITH THE SOCKNESS - LIVE!!!

This night we left after Rage against the machine. (They weren't really as good as I expected, but now I can tell everybody that I have seen them live!)

and then this long trip home began.

It was a great – one of the greatest – weekends. I think I have to go there again – for the 3^rd time – next year...