A Wacken Diary by Kankra-contains explicit language -contains bad english, sorry! Hello! I would like to present my experiences with the Wacken Festival 2001 to you. I met some of you forum members, so I'll have some stories to tell. Perhaps you'll find something interesting here. Enjoy! Thursday, the 02.08. 2001 00:35 I visit my bed last time before Wacken. *see you, bed!* 07:25 getting up. it's pretty cold *shivering* 08:45 picking up Hagen at the train station I almost didnt recognize him, cause he wore a light green cowboy hat and a red leather suit Hagen is smaller than expected; forget the picture, on it he poses a little bit 09:00 stop at a fuel station, coordinating the convoy and finally: heading for Wacken! YEAH! Hagen looks like my math professor *asking Hagen if he's related to my math prof* 11:10 stop at a resting place, we see some other Wackeners, saying hello to them: *hello* damn, am I the only one with a white T-Shirt!?!? *glad, that Monster Magnet is over* 12:07 through the infamous elbe-tunnel (big style traffic jam-causer) 13:00 stopped at Burger King...Yummie ;) getting first beer - Staropramen (czech beer). Yeah! Hagen is very nice and sympathetic. we're talking some stupid stuff (you know) mood is ecstatic 13:45 reaching the village of Wacken (2,000 inhabitants) just in the moment Metallica's MoP begins to play perfect timing! Battery! 14:15 arriving camping area putting up tent on a harvested acre - wheat-stubbles everywhere - very soft, as you can imagine! 15:30 exploring area: looking for stages, toilets and showers showers: 5 DM toilets: 1 DM 16:35 going to see Finntroll with Hagen, but Knight Errant played: good power metal with a violin - I like it, great show Knight Errant is a band from the turkey... but when they began, the singer talked to the audience in perfect german :confused: 16:45 Hagen looks for the toilets 16:55 seeing Narrot, but only from far away and that honk doesnt look in my direction *gnar* where's Hagen, when you need him? 17:00 Lord Leshrac meets me I wouldnt have recognized him if he hadnt had the name tag... we say hello, then he leaves to roam around forget his picture, he looks completely different 17:05 an english-speaking forumer meets me and tells me his nickname, but I can't remember...sorry, man! blame canada and staropramen... Finntroll plays...they dont impress me...but they give a solid show 17:15 Hagen comes back...good timing! :rolleyes: 17:20 Narrot finds us, and we talk... short after that Gimli arrives Gimli is taller than expected... he participated in the soccer game at the festival area as the goalkeeper, he gave all he could (BTW he was pretty drunk) then Texas, Daijin and Flame arrived (Daijin, you lucky one ;)) forget Tex' picture, he looks completely different Daijin is smaller than expected almost everybody but me wears Tex' name tags Gimli recognizes early that Tex has the master name tag: "One Tag to rule them all, One Tag to find them, One Tag to bring them all and in the darkness bind them" ha! Tex, you cant fool the dwarf! BTW: Tex was drunk, too Tonarel meets us we talk and talk there for 45 minutes about stuff and especially about other forummembers (especially YOU!) speaking english is much harder than writing english *sigh* Gimli took a photo of us (Gimli, scan it and present it ASAP!) and he almost chokes me and Tex, because we want to go to Lacuna Coil it is the only photo of us together because Narrot forgot his camera *sighing again* 19:00 Crematory doesnt play good for us, so it isnt that loud here... 19:10 Jedifart meets us... he is totally drunk first he wrestles with another guy then he spilles his mead and licks it up from the meadow then he shows us a great trick: slobber and ... I dont want to tell you, ask Hagen instead then Jedifart pisses at the Mixer's tower and annoys the security guys then he follows innocent passengers and insults them, just to hug them when they get angry yeah, that was action! 19:30 we negiotate about a new meeting point tomorrow at 15:00 and then we go our ways 22:30 started the grill. Grilla! now I am full (of beer and meat and mead (thx hagen)) and happy good weather, mood is fantastic Friday, the 03.08. 2001 01:00 sleep 02:00 it begins to rain *Yummie-Yum* lightning, thunder and so on tent gets wet :mad: 06:00 got up with the sunrise everything quiet *nice* washed and cleaned teeth breakfast *grilla!* 11:15 we go to Nightfall (greek band) good performance, getting in the mood for action 13:00 I manage it to the first row for Lacuna Coil taking some photos I will post them here in time damn, Cristina was soooooooo hot! great show, very good music 14:00 lunch *grilla!* 15:00 meeting of the forumers as promised yesterday but only Hagen, Narrot and me are there! damn you, bastards! where are you? I will tell stinking lies about you from now on! Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? ;) 15:30 10 minutes of Cage: seem to be ok 16:15 Kamelot: I like their performance (:) autumn) 18:50 Overkill plays "War Pigs", Yeah! (:) ledmag) 19:15 Therion with Choir: the steel-blue dusk looks upon the highlight of Wacken: Siren's voices shine upon and through me and fill my heart with happiness all songs seem to be one they fit perfectly together to one great composition that charmes me under the spell of this wizardry I gaze upon the fogs of sapphire, ruby and emerald my mind soars to the sky when they play the furious "To Megatherion", tremendous amounts of energy get free the audience screams in ecstasy a light breeze kisses our faces completely delighted I fall into hypnosis and forget everything around me I cant imagine a more beautiful event I experienced related to music Saturday, the 04.08. 2001 01:00 it's fucking cold one hour to Dimmu to lazy to see them sleep 03:30 Metallica's "Blackened" awakes me full of energy I opon my eyes happy and in a good mood I get up to have breakfast a look at my watch tells me what's wrong here so I sleep again 06:45 awake going to have a shower (for 2$) Hagen is now proud owner of a Wacken-towel 08:00 breakfast *grilla!* 12:30 going to Vintersorg, good performance *till fjälls, till fjälls, till fjä-hä-hä-hälls* 14:15 grilla! drinking some of Hagen's mead and Staropramen in preparation for Nightwish pretty drunk making silly jokes, much fun (you know) 17:10 going to festival area to make it to the first row for Nightwish (begin: 21:30) 17:30 second row just before Cage ends, Cage seems to be ok 18:45 suddenly Grave Digger (veeeeeeery old german metal-band) pops up and the frontman tells the audience, that Grave Digger will record their first live album here absolute terror: I never imagined that Grave Digger has fans at all in the second row: it stinks, everyone pushes me around the show begins: hell on earth cheesy opening (a man dressed as reaper enters stage) then: they begin to play, the songs arent very good i dont know any lyrics stage divers everywhere, only me has to suffer 15 of them over my head I pretend to be Grave Digger-Fan, otherwise the guys from the 3rd row would kill me after 60 minutes of torture I am free again and I make it to the first row for Nightwish *happy* 21:30 Nightwish: I dont make many words, just: Tarja fantastic, very good performance, godly mood, audience in rage I am very impressed and amazed Sacrament of Wilderness is the highlight of the day soooooooooooooooooo great!!!!!! Hey, and I got sexually harassed during the concert! 3 spanish girls behind me pressed themselves against me during the whole concert and even the whole hour before the concert they had enough space not to do this, but they acted as if they hadnt enough space they even changed positions and one of them laid their arm around me not that is would be bad, but it's very strange feeling now I understand how girls must feel and autumn: no pissbottles! ;) 22:30 went to Opeth, but I couldnt understand them cause Hammerfall played on the near main stage and they were too loud :mad: though Opeth was great 23:00 *grilla!* drunk, veeeeery nightwished Sunday, the 05.08. 2001 00:00 very cold, so I go to bed 06:00 Hagen leaves to meet Guardian and Little Witch in Hamburg (?) I didn't see him the evening before, so I couldn't say farewell Farewell, Hagen! (I still have your pot and your corkscrew) 08:00 breakfast preparing to leave 12:00 leaving farewell, Wacken! 13:00 still in Wacken because all other visitors leave now too heavy traffic jam jamming through the jam towards home 19:30 arriving home from home to Wacken: 4:45 hours from Wacken to home: 7:30 hours 20:00 beginning to write diary 21:45 ending diary what the fuck happened to the forum? and what is internal server error 500!?!?!?!?!? 22:22 still trying to enter the forum to sum it up: Wacken was fucking great! I am very impressed,, very cool bands, normal people (40,000 of them), good friends to meet....only the weather wasnt that good..... next year, same place! |