Here we go again, sitting in the heat and writing about our favorite festival…Guess every press person feels the struggle not feeling like Bill Murray in „Groundhog Day“ when writing down a recent review. Simply because you don´t wanna sound similar every year…that´s why I start with something negative today: food+soft drink prices. As I´ve already been to festivals in Sweden and Denmark I know high prices. But the difference is the quality. If you order a „pricy“ vegetarian dish there, you get good food instead of a poor looking pizza and some mushy fries…Talking about food, my weirdest conversation this year included „easy cheese“. If you don´t know what I´m talking about, please ask the world wide web. Thanks to Visigoth for expanding my knowledge in fast food. Also I know this service from other countries, it would be brilliant to have at least one free water tap. Guess some people are worried about lost sales, but if some die-hard beer drinkers might have a water in between, they surely last longer and buy more alcoholic drinks? I´m pleased that the Rock Hard Festival allows up to 1.5l soft drinks, but how many men bring along a handbag, huh? Lizzy Borden for example could perfectly wear a studded handbag matching his jockstrap. Sorry not sorry. This band surprised me not only visual, also musically. Back to the food, Miss Psychorizon and I had a good Magnum while Magnum played on Sunday. My personal favorite headliner Anthrax also played on Sunday, as I mentioned it before, I was caught in a mosh. Finally it was time for my traditional crowd surfing moment. This includes one of the most important people of the weekend, the security! If they can´t catch you, you´re doing it wrong!
Overall a solid festival again, I will not even complain about the weather this time. Good company is priceless, not as fake likes by fake people.
More individual uploads of Tygers Of Pan Tang, Lizzy Borden, Watain, Tyler Leads, The Vintage Caravan, Skid Row, Cannibal Corpse, Visigoth, Fifth Angel, Magnum and Anthrax soon!
Susanne
