9/14/09- I was just looking through my blog posts and realized that I never published this post. It was completed and saved but never posted! Brain fart! Anyway, the Rock Festival was awesome and it would be a crime to not finally press "publish" on this post. Enjoy!
This weekend we went to Incheon for the Pentaport Rock Festival. It was a three-day festival with mostly Korean and Japanese bands, but a few British Bands performed. It was more about the atmosphere than the music anyway...We left around noon on Saturday and took the bus into Seoul, then another bus into Incheon. (Stopped for Quizno's in Seoul. How long has it been since I had a proper sandwich! It was heavenly.)
We finally got to the festival around 4:30 and were fitted with three orange wristbands, each allowing us a different privelige. Found a spot in the grass (very long grass...trust us to find the only spot that hadn't been mowed) and set up our tent.It looks huge, I know. But the actual tent part is only a third of what you see. The rest is a waterproof tarp that you strap up to keep the rain off...and it provides you with a nice rest area outside the tent. Or if you're Shaun, a place to sleep where you can stretch out your long legs.
The first night there was only one band that we knew, Ocean Colour Scene.The headliner that night was a band called L'arc en Ciel from Japan. We didn't really watch them for very long, but they did have a dancing polar bear projected onto the large screens on stage. Not sure what that was about. Since the bands that night were generally X we chose to hang out at the beach party section instead where's Hannah got into in a dance-off with a random guy. He was "very bouncy."
After the beach party we went to the Groove Station tent where they had a DJ. I don't usually like that type of music, but I was really getting into it. We squeezed our way right into the middle of the crowd and at one point they played a re-mix of a Nirvana song and everyone started moshing. I felt like I was in grade 9 again.
We finally got to the festival around 4:30 and were fitted with three orange wristbands, each allowing us a different privelige. Found a spot in the grass (very long grass...trust us to find the only spot that hadn't been mowed) and set up our tent.It looks huge, I know. But the actual tent part is only a third of what you see. The rest is a waterproof tarp that you strap up to keep the rain off...and it provides you with a nice rest area outside the tent. Or if you're Shaun, a place to sleep where you can stretch out your long legs.
The first night there was only one band that we knew, Ocean Colour Scene.The headliner that night was a band called L'arc en Ciel from Japan. We didn't really watch them for very long, but they did have a dancing polar bear projected onto the large screens on stage. Not sure what that was about. Since the bands that night were generally X we chose to hang out at the beach party section instead where's Hannah got into in a dance-off with a random guy. He was "very bouncy."
After the beach party we went to the Groove Station tent where they had a DJ. I don't usually like that type of music, but I was really getting into it. We squeezed our way right into the middle of the crowd and at one point they played a re-mix of a Nirvana song and everyone started moshing. I felt like I was in grade 9 again.
It was about 2 when we went back to the tent, and after some antics involving ditches and raw bacon sandwiches we all crashed. Next day was really hot and humid and we mostly layed around the tent area listening to the mainstage. It was unbearable to watch it close up- mostly death metal. Not our cup of tea. In the afternoon we were also able to meet up with Christa and Ryan from SEV. Sunday evening we saw Ash, a band from Northern Ireland, and Muse, who Shaun really likes. They put on an amazing show. Lots of special effects and though I wouldn't normally have loved their music, the atmosphere was contagious. I thought some of the Korean girls were going to faint they were screaming so much.
By the time Muse was finished the buses home had stopped running so we had to get a taxi back to Suwon. Thank god it didn't take us 4 hours to get home like it did to get there in the first place. It was a great weekend. The food was really good and the drink was cheap, the company without flaw.
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