2010-06-04 – 06 Nürburg
This weekend I rock again like last year at the festival rock-am-ring.com . this year the weather is really great. Amazing sunshine and warm temperatures up to 29°C.
Friday 2010-06-04
This time I do not Camp on the Campgrounds. I found a nice group of people who drive from Koblenz to Nürburg each day and return each night. So we can sleep in our own beds and enjoy a clean shower in the morning. We leave Koblenz at around half past three and arrived an hour later at the Festival. The first act I watched was “Ellie Goulding”. At the same Stage played “one republic”. I quite like the music, but I was really looking forward to listen to Kate Nash. Oliver and Me had unsuccessfully tried to get Tickets for a concert of her in Cologne. When she came on Stage a girl next to me said “wow she is ugly”. That sounded quite mean but the makeup and the cloth were perfect for a “bad taste party”. The music didn’t sound good live either so we left before the end of the performance to go to “Jay-Z” – Not my music taste at all but I like to stick with the group. They didn’t enjoy “Jay-Z” to much either so we went to get some drinks and food before going back to the First stage to listen to “Sportfreunde Stiller”. They definitely rocked the house. Was a really great performance and the crowd loved it.
The next and last act for today was “Jan Delay & disco no. 1”. He definitely knows how to animate a crowd. Was a amazing atmosphere. After that we took the way out of the Festival and drove home.
Saturday 2010-06-05
Today we had a bit of a confusion who is driving with who to get to the Ring. We arrived between 6 and 7pm. So the first Band we watched was “Gossip”. The vocalist “Beth Ditto” was dressing in her black bathing suite on stage. Quite an attitude cause she is “vollschlank” as we say in German. Next act was “30 seconds to mars”. The singer looked quite familiar to me. A quick look at IMDB showed me that I knew Jared Leto from the movies Fight Club, Lord of War, Requiem for a Dream and Alexander. He was a quite talkative Singer that really tried several different things to make the crowed go “crazy – fucking nuts crazy”. When he stage dived and told the security that the crow surfing people are allowed to get on stage he really connected to the people and they went crazy. Was a great show. Last act for today was “Muse”. In terms of the show it was quite different. They hardly said any word to the crowed and just performed their Music. With quite a big effort. They had a laser show, some live mixed visuals on the screen and for one of the last songs a hot air balloon in shape of a UFO where one artist was performing some twists and turns hanging on the balloon over the crowd. How spectacular is that.
Sunday 2010-06-06
A hard rain welcomed us as we arrived at “Rock am Ring” today. To watch the Acts we like to see we had to jump between the Alternastage and the Centerstage back and forth. Starting at the Alternastage with “Donots” followd by “Bullet for my Valentine” on the Centerstage of course and back to the Alternastage to see “Bad Religion” back again to the Centerstage to see “Rise Against” and one more time to the Alternastage to see “Him” and finally the Clubstage to watch “Die Sterne”. What a day.
