Rock im Park 2005 - day 1
The Rock im Park rock festival held in Nürnberg, Germany, every year around this time. For those who have been hiding under a rock for the past 10 years, its a big festival hosted by Mtv which brings together many of the best bands from allover the world in two major locations... Nürnberg being one of them. We were in the Frankenstadion, Zeppelinfield, where uncle Hitler used to stand tall(ish) and address the masses with his cute little moustache.
From the number of skinheads i'd stay times havent changed much, but in the stadium was a much greater variety of people. You had your average rocker dude with iron maiden t-shirt and long hair. You had your skinhead sporting evil tattoos and denim shorts. You had your goth chicks with all the chains and studs and overuse of eyeliner. Plenty of rock sluts to go round too. The occasional reggae bob with marijuana memorabilia and columbian colours. The punks with massive hairstyles and that awful thing they do with an undershave and a long barbetta hanging. And finally there were the neo-goths, my favourite, with a zero-undershave and hitleresque hair to one side, long black PVC overcoat with studs, clips and handles for even the most masochistic of us, and of course the compulsory army-looking badges and boots. So here we are amidst the most colourful people you could ever imagine, with too much beer in our head and 30 degrees of sun to work us into a sweat as we jump around and cheer on our favourite bands.
The festival was spread over 3 main arenas: the Centre Stage which was by far the largest and also had two massive screens on each side; the AlternatStage which was slightly smaller but was even better since the audience stays in a big pit making the stage more visible, and the Talent Forum which was indoors. On the sides were kiosks selling food, drink and festival memorabilia which of course i had to burn some cash on.
Now for the bands... day 1 of the festival was already a great start as we managed to see:
From the number of skinheads i'd stay times havent changed much, but in the stadium was a much greater variety of people. You had your average rocker dude with iron maiden t-shirt and long hair. You had your skinhead sporting evil tattoos and denim shorts. You had your goth chicks with all the chains and studs and overuse of eyeliner. Plenty of rock sluts to go round too. The occasional reggae bob with marijuana memorabilia and columbian colours. The punks with massive hairstyles and that awful thing they do with an undershave and a long barbetta hanging. And finally there were the neo-goths, my favourite, with a zero-undershave and hitleresque hair to one side, long black PVC overcoat with studs, clips and handles for even the most masochistic of us, and of course the compulsory army-looking badges and boots. So here we are amidst the most colourful people you could ever imagine, with too much beer in our head and 30 degrees of sun to work us into a sweat as we jump around and cheer on our favourite bands.
The festival was spread over 3 main arenas: the Centre Stage which was by far the largest and also had two massive screens on each side; the AlternatStage which was slightly smaller but was even better since the audience stays in a big pit making the stage more visible, and the Talent Forum which was indoors. On the sides were kiosks selling food, drink and festival memorabilia which of course i had to burn some cash on.
Now for the bands... day 1 of the festival was already a great start as we managed to see:
- HIM
- the Chemical Brothers
- Fettes Brot
- Wir Sind Helden
- Sohne Mannheims
- Silbermond
- Adam Green
Unfortunately i missed Velvet Revolver (Slash's band, ex guns n roses) and Mastodon/Meshuggah due to timing. Oh well.
Best performance of the day has to be The Chemical Brothers. Maaaan what a show, they started around midnight and the place was packed.. played an awesome set with some really blasting beats and some really cool visual effects to go with them. Awesome.
posted by [mike.bc] at 5:23 pm
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