Domain of The Wannabelg - Music Weekend

This weekend was all in the sign of music for me. I found out last week about Rock Zottegem, where Apocalyptica would play at night. So I took a day off (with a bit of nagging) and went together with Tom to the festival. We could only leave rather late since Tom had to work, but it was fine since Apo wasn't performing till 10 pm.

It took us about two hours to get there under normal circumstances and luckily there wasn't all too much traffic. We stopped at road restaurant to eat something, hoping we would be healthier than eating at the festival itself. Short stop and on we went, driving... well, alone actually since there wasn't any traffic around on the smaller roads. We were actually thinking that we were wrong. Large signs told differently!

We didn't even take long to find a parking spot and it wasn't a far walk towards the grounds. At our arrival the first band was already playing but we weren't really interested. Walked around a bit and drank something, we went into the tent for 'A Brand', a Belgian young rock group who were good. Apo was half an hour late due to the band before them... We were in about fourth row for the gig.

Hot and energetic they were! They were in such a good mood as well. Eicca and Perttu talked a lot in between songs and I'm not used to that from them. Perttu was talking about 'another band that made a black album and then a white album, well they made a purple album which had to be brown but the record company didn't want that... and we were crazy people from Belgium as well.' And Eicca told us to 'behave and shut up or they would play some classical shit (Hall of the Mountain King, the encore song). It was over much too soon!

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Yesterday we went to the first ever Madonna concert in Belgium... Well, never again!
We rode by bicycle there from my parent's house to avoid the madness of 65000 people going away at the same time.
It rained for periods, including a heavy shower during Paul Oakenfold's set. Madonna was 45 minutes late in starting because she wanted it to be dark for the lights to have a good effect.
We walked away in a bit over the half of her show, grabbing our bikes and going home.
Way too much money for something like this and we were disappointed.
Good thing we had Friday!!!