Favourite Festival Experiences

[Requiem]

I thought it would be cool to have a thread where people can post their favourite experiences of festivals large and small. 

One of my personally most enjoyable weekends was Hellfest 2008. 

Hellfest has since become a larger than life event with Guns n Roses, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Korn and Slipknot headlining to name but too many. I'm really lucky that I got in before it went in that direction, holy hell. 

Anyway, my favourite memories about Hellfest 2008 are nearly all of it. I stayed in a hotel in Nantes so had to travel in a communal car out to Clisson each day and home again. The home again proved crazily difficult because none of us were from France and it was before the GPS days, so of course none of us could find our way through the streets of Nantes in the dark. Highlights of the festival included In Flames' fireworks show, Katatonia, Anathema, Mayhem, Watain, Shining, Apocalyptica, Satyricon, and Anaal Nathrakh. But the whole thing was great. Venom also played (not listed on the poster yet) and Carcass had just reunited I think, so that was fun too. 

 

[BlutAusNerd]

MDF 2014, no question. I shared a bunch about it on another thread here somewhere.

 

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[Requiem]

7 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

MDF 2014, no question. I shared a bunch about it on another thread here somewhere.

 

 

I just googled the line-up. Looks amazing. Crazy that Ulver played - they definitely seem like the odd ones out. 

[BlutAusNerd]

7 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said: MDF 2014, no question. I shared a bunch about it on another thread here somewhere.

 

 

I just googled the line-up. Looks amazing. Crazy that Ulver played - they definitely seem like the odd ones out. 

 

I believe that they cancelled, or at least I didn't see them there. Top 5 for me was probably Dark Angel, Bölzer, My Dying Bride, The Ruins if Beverast, and Inquisition, but the only band I saw that was less than amazing was Nocturnus. That was the fault of the sound guy butchering their mix though, it was really a shame.

 

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[Skull_Kollektor]

My favorite are these two:

Gods Of Metal 2006 (Milan, Italy): Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Motorhead, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, Angra, Edguy, Sonata Arctica, Crucified Barbara.

I wasn't (and still am not) too keen on most of the power metal bands, but the top three headliners in a row were a real nice treat! I was 18!

 

Frontiers Fest 2014 (Milan, Italy): Night Ranger, Winger, Danger Danger, John Waite, Jeff Scott Soto, some other AOR band whose name I do not know.

This was crazy! I drank ridiculous amounts of beer (which I barely ever do) the whole day, but managed to make it straightish through the whole set. What a night. Brad Gillis, the Night Ranger fella who played with Ozzy and is also featured on the "Stars" single by Hear n Aid, ROCKED the hell out of that theater. He and his whammy tremolo bar are a single entity.

[LaughsInHidden]

Last year at Download when I went drunk driving on the dodgems till the sun came up.

[adomanim1]

On 4/12/2017 at 2:51 AM, Requiem said:

I thought it would be cool to have a thread where people can post their favourite experiences of festivals large and small. 

One of my personally most enjoyable weekends was Hellfest 2008. 

Hellfest has since become a larger than life event with Guns n Roses, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Korn and Slipknot headlining to name but too many. I'm really lucky that I got in before it went in that direction, holy hell. 

Anyway, my favourite memories about Hellfest 2008 are nearly all of it. I stayed in a hotel in Nantes so had to travel in a communal car out to Clisson each day and home again. The home again proved crazily difficult because none of us were from France and it was before the GPS days, so of course none of us could find our way through the streets of Nantes in the dark. Highlights of the festival included In Flames' fireworks show, Katatonia, Anathema, Mayhem, Watain,  Shining, snaptube telegram web Apocalyptica, Satyricon, and Anaal Nathrakh. But the whole thing was great. Venom also played (not listed on the poster yet) and Carcass had just reunited I think, so that was fun too. 

 

I get all the way back to my hotel room and empty the backpack I had been carrying all day and out of one of the inner pockets falls out my hackey sack I hadn't seen since 10th grade.... HOW DID HE KNOW?!?!