Yep.. You heard it & it's true. I know you're probably shocked, I'm sorry. I indeed went to the Pinkpop Festival last weekend. Me, on a festival. It happened, it just fucking happened. One of my very good friends, Sanne, won 2 tickets a week before the officiale sale of tickets started so then I knew I was going. The line-up was a little shit but hey, Queens of the Stone Age & Kings of Leon for free? That's fine with me.
Sanne, Tessa & I had been looking forward to this weekend for MONTHS so when it was almost time we got a little over-excited sometimes. About three weeks before Pinkpop we heard that this band Grouplove wasn't coming. I did not give a flying fuck. But then we heard Bastille was the replacement! FUCKING AWESOMESAUCE!!!!!! So you know, I hopped on train, overly excited and a little frustrated because of carrying my suitcase up and down the fucking stairs in every fucking train(station.. four of 'em). But then I arrived in Venray, where Sanne lives. We'd be staying there for a night and then we'd leave to her dad's house (our 'hotel') the next morning. Tessa arrived about half an hour after me and we went to Sanne's place to meet up with her crazy awesome cats who kept me awake pretty much all night (which I didn't mind bc they are awesome and funny).
Sooooooooooo the next morning we woke up quite early and packed eveything aaaaaaand got in the car. I'm going to skip everything and start with the festival; when we arrived I know Queens of the Stone Age were going to do a container session so we asked the guy there if we could get in too. He told us that we could only get in if there were spots left since it was for price winners & guestlist only. We waited til three pm and nothing happened because mr. Homme was still fucking sleeping. We were told to wait until 5 but nothing happened again 'cause mr. Homme was enjoying the Masters Of Reality performance on the other field. But then at 6 it finally happened, we got let in and saw QotSA up close. Well, only Josh Homme, Troy van Leeuwen & Dean Fertita. Which was good enough for me 'cause I got to look at Dean. Here's a pic;
It was so damn awesome to experience something so exclusive and awesome from up close. They played I Sat By The Ocean, My God Is The Sun & Go With The Flow. Then I ran outside and to the other field where they were going to perform. I stood 2nd row, which was good enough since I had perfect view (dean). Some assholes behind me thought it was necessary to high five each other in the face with a fist. I almost joined them because I was sick of those fucktards but I didn't 'cause I wanted to enjoy the show AND I DID. With some awesome friends of course. Couldn't have asked for better company!
After QotSA I met up with Sanne & Tessa again and we went home pretty quickly. Then we slept and had breakfast and blahblahblah and went to the festival again. I don't really remember anything from saturday so I have to look up which bands played.. I danced a lot that day. Oh yes, I didn't expect much from Passenger since he's all alone and acoustic and shit but he seriously entertained the entire fucking field. He was quite good, although I'd be pretty depessed if I listened to an entire album. We then went to see FUN. which was terrible. Only two or three songs were fun and the rest just didn't sound good. It didn't come together at all, it just sounded like a couple of individuals trying to play an instrument but they didn't really know how to make it sound good together. So that sucked. We stood front row at Thirty Seconds to Mars which was fun. But then Kings Of Leon came on and I fucking loved their music. They didn't interact much with the audience, which was a bit of a let down, but Caleb said he didn't have anything to say so that's alright with me.
Theeeeen we went home. Sanne has this thing in her car called a Parrot. Tessa didn't know what it was so she asked Sanne "what's that thing?" Sanne replied "A Parrot". And then Tessa said "parrot hilton" and we basically died and that was the beginning of a long and noisy drive. Sleep eat blabla SUNDAY TAHDAHHHHHHHH......
Tessa & I went into the tent (where Bastille was going to play) and found Puggy playing. They were so awesome, a pleasure to listen to. But of course we came for Bastille so when they came on I went a little apeshit and stuff. They were so damn good and perfect and I think Dan Smith has a really nice butt so he should pull up his pants a little more 'cause then I can confirm.
After that we decided to hang out on the grass for a little while (eventually we sat there for four hours). The Vaccines sounded shit, well the singer did. And Ben Howard was a little boring. I almost fell asleep four times. Forgive me, don't fucking judge me. We had a little eye-contact with the singer of the Stereophonics who was quite hot so we enjoyed that. Aaaaand then we got up to see Green Dayyyyy. The show was really awesome although I still don't like their music.
Pinkpop was amazing & i fucking loved it thanks to the presence of loads of awesome friends.
1. Queens of the Stone Age
2. Bastille3. Puggy
Sanne, Tessa & I had been looking forward to this weekend for MONTHS so when it was almost time we got a little over-excited sometimes. About three weeks before Pinkpop we heard that this band Grouplove wasn't coming. I did not give a flying fuck. But then we heard Bastille was the replacement! FUCKING AWESOMESAUCE!!!!!! So you know, I hopped on train, overly excited and a little frustrated because of carrying my suitcase up and down the fucking stairs in every fucking train(station.. four of 'em). But then I arrived in Venray, where Sanne lives. We'd be staying there for a night and then we'd leave to her dad's house (our 'hotel') the next morning. Tessa arrived about half an hour after me and we went to Sanne's place to meet up with her crazy awesome cats who kept me awake pretty much all night (which I didn't mind bc they are awesome and funny).
Sooooooooooo the next morning we woke up quite early and packed eveything aaaaaaand got in the car. I'm going to skip everything and start with the festival; when we arrived I know Queens of the Stone Age were going to do a container session so we asked the guy there if we could get in too. He told us that we could only get in if there were spots left since it was for price winners & guestlist only. We waited til three pm and nothing happened because mr. Homme was still fucking sleeping. We were told to wait until 5 but nothing happened again 'cause mr. Homme was enjoying the Masters Of Reality performance on the other field. But then at 6 it finally happened, we got let in and saw QotSA up close. Well, only Josh Homme, Troy van Leeuwen & Dean Fertita. Which was good enough for me 'cause I got to look at Dean. Here's a pic;
It was so damn awesome to experience something so exclusive and awesome from up close. They played I Sat By The Ocean, My God Is The Sun & Go With The Flow. Then I ran outside and to the other field where they were going to perform. I stood 2nd row, which was good enough since I had perfect view (dean). Some assholes behind me thought it was necessary to high five each other in the face with a fist. I almost joined them because I was sick of those fucktards but I didn't 'cause I wanted to enjoy the show AND I DID. With some awesome friends of course. Couldn't have asked for better company!
After QotSA I met up with Sanne & Tessa again and we went home pretty quickly. Then we slept and had breakfast and blahblahblah and went to the festival again. I don't really remember anything from saturday so I have to look up which bands played.. I danced a lot that day. Oh yes, I didn't expect much from Passenger since he's all alone and acoustic and shit but he seriously entertained the entire fucking field. He was quite good, although I'd be pretty depessed if I listened to an entire album. We then went to see FUN. which was terrible. Only two or three songs were fun and the rest just didn't sound good. It didn't come together at all, it just sounded like a couple of individuals trying to play an instrument but they didn't really know how to make it sound good together. So that sucked. We stood front row at Thirty Seconds to Mars which was fun. But then Kings Of Leon came on and I fucking loved their music. They didn't interact much with the audience, which was a bit of a let down, but Caleb said he didn't have anything to say so that's alright with me.
Theeeeen we went home. Sanne has this thing in her car called a Parrot. Tessa didn't know what it was so she asked Sanne "what's that thing?" Sanne replied "A Parrot". And then Tessa said "parrot hilton" and we basically died and that was the beginning of a long and noisy drive. Sleep eat blabla SUNDAY TAHDAHHHHHHHH......
Tessa & I went into the tent (where Bastille was going to play) and found Puggy playing. They were so awesome, a pleasure to listen to. But of course we came for Bastille so when they came on I went a little apeshit and stuff. They were so damn good and perfect and I think Dan Smith has a really nice butt so he should pull up his pants a little more 'cause then I can confirm.
After that we decided to hang out on the grass for a little while (eventually we sat there for four hours). The Vaccines sounded shit, well the singer did. And Ben Howard was a little boring. I almost fell asleep four times. Forgive me, don't fucking judge me. We had a little eye-contact with the singer of the Stereophonics who was quite hot so we enjoyed that. Aaaaand then we got up to see Green Dayyyyy. The show was really awesome although I still don't like their music.
Pinkpop was amazing & i fucking loved it thanks to the presence of loads of awesome friends.
1. Queens of the Stone Age
2. Bastille3. Puggy
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