As some of the very few people that read this blog may know, last Sunday I attended the last day of the Heineken Open'er Festival. Even though I came back home on a Monday afternoon, the state of exhaustion that I was in kept me from updating this blog for a good few days. It would probably keep me away from it now as well, but since I'm feeling a little bit under the weather, I decided it would be better to remind myself of the great memories from that night than just go back to bed, close my eyes and daydream while listening to City and Colour. But, as I think about it, the ending part of my super-long sentence sounds more attractive...whatever. I'll just get my stuff together and keep on writing. Yeah.

So, let's start from the very beginning. I woke up at 5:25 am, in a suprisingly good mood concerning the super-early hour. Enthusiastingly, I took a quick shower, dressed, dryed my hair, woke up my mum who was going to drive me and Alice to the train station, and packed while eating a sandwich. With a 5 minute delay, we left at 6:30. Soon after getting into our car, my mum realised she's not sure where my friend lives. With the power of texting, Al directed us straight into her neighbourhood, where she's been waiting. She got into the car and we drove away to the train station.
That's when our problems started. Right when we arrived to the station, Alice realised she...left her Open'er ticket at home! With our train ready to leave, my mum lent her the ammount of money she needed for a new one and we got on the train, hoping it would be possible to buy a new one in Gdynia. We also contacted our friend Dorian, who has been attending the festival for all four days. He, being a great friend as he is, got on a bus to the centre of Gdynia and bought the ticket so that Al would be sure that she can in fact attend the whole thing.
We thought that thing would end our trouble with getting there, but actually, it was just the beginning. Around 10:30 the train suddenly...stopped. It turned out that something was wrong with it and we had to wait for some guys to come and fix it O_O. At that moment we were like "Alright...but it won't take long, right? It can't take that long.", but in fact, it did. It took FIVE HOURS. People were getting crazy, some even started drinking. Which led to even more complications.
After all that time sitting in a middle of nowhere, the train started going again. Soon after one of the very drunk passenger started running around the train, shouting and disturbing people. People couldn't get him to stop and we ended up taking another one hour stop, waiting for the police to come and take him. At this point we were about to give up the festival, get out at the nearest station and catch a train home...but thankfully, we didn't.
Even though we were supposed to arrive in Gdynia around 1pm, we arrived at 7:30 pm. Our moods weren't the best at this point, but they got better as we saw our friend Dorian, who came to the station to get us ^_^. After getting on a bus for 30 minutes we arrived to the airport where the festival was taking place. I just gotta say that I don't think I've ever seen so many people in one place, ahahah. From what I've read on the official website, there were about 60 THOUSAND attendants. I'm not even kidding :3.


So, by the time we exchanged our tickets for passes (as in blue wristbands), left our backpacks in Dorian's tent and walked all the way to the main stage, it was around 8 pm and Lily Allen just started preforming. To be honest...we were pretty dissapointed by her. It seemed like she had no contact with the crowd and didn't even care about us. She kept on mentioning Kings Of Leon and how she really wants to see their show. And she smoked a cigarette on stage, which seemed odd to me. I don't know, the way she sung her songs was okay, I guess, but we expected something more. The only song that really caught our attention was "Fuck You" but that's more because of the crowd's reaction - everyone started waving their middle fingers in the air. Imagine such a huge crowd doing that...hahah. Nice view.
Anyway, after Lily's show, Kings Of Leon were meant to come on and as me and Dorian desperately wanted to be in front row (Alice said she'd be saving up energy for her favorite band - Placebo - and she stayed, laying down on the grass and watching KoL on the big screens ^ ^), we ran into the crowd. At first we were pretty much at the front, but on the right site on the stage, but as KoL came on stage, we got separated by the crowd. I don't know where he ended up at, but I got to the second row in the middle of the stage! It was so amazing. Kings Of Leon were. They played for about 1,5 h, which is a lot longer that they were supposed to - it seemed like they were really suprised by the way the crowd welcomed them - Caleb said he thought no one would know who they were, but the crowd was so huge! He also said that it's been one of the best shows of the tour and that they'll come back whenever we want them to. At some point he even joked that they don't feel like leaving and that they'll be playing here tomorrow for the whole day! I wouldn't mind. They're really amazing live and even though I wasn't really obsessed with their music before (I just liked it, I guess), now I definitely am.
When Caleb announced they were going to play the last song, I decided to get away from the crowd and look for Alice, so that we could get in the front together again by the time Placebo was about to come. And so we tried to, but we ended up basically in the middle of the crowd. When the band came on, people literally got crazy and I thought we were about to die! Even though we were surrounded by some huge guys, by the time Placebo started playing the second song, we decided to just..go with the flow basically. I haven't listened to the new album yet and I'm not exactly a die-hard fan of them, but by the time they played "Every You and Every Me" (my favorite song by them!) & "Special K" I felt it couldn't get better. But then they played "Meds" and the whole crowd screaming "Babyyyyyyy, did you forget to take your medsssssssss" felt mind-blowing. I loved the fact that majority of the songs they played were older, so that I could enjoy some of my favorite tracks by them. Oh, and also - I couldn't stop staring at their new drummer - Stevie Forest - WHOA! That guy is just incredible. Overall, it was such a great show, probably just as good as the Kings Of Leon one.

By the time they got down from the stage, after the last encore, we decided to look for Dorian. It was already about 1:30 am and since our train was leaving at 5, we wanted to have our backpacks with us in case we'd get separated again. But as you can imagine, in a crowd of 60 thousand people, it's not the easiest thing to find a 17 year guy in a black t-shirt and glasses. Not to mention both of our cellphones' batteries died. So, we waited for him at the entrance to the campsite (it was so cold!) and around a hour later, we met. It turned out that he's been looking for us to and even went to load his phone a bit, so he could call us (he thought our cellphones were working XD). Anyway, we didn't have much energy to stay and catch the end of The Prodigy show, so we just went for the bus to the train station.

And you know what? Even THAT wasn't the end of our trouble. It turned out that the train tickets we bought in Warsaw were for a train that...didn't exist. I have no idea how that happenned, but we had to buy new tickets. I wonder what would've happenned if we didn't have any money left...total disaster. But, we managed to catch a train at 6 am. Except it was full and we had to sit on its floor for 6,5 hours. Yeah.

So basically, that's how it ended. You'd think that with all these problems I'd regret going there...but in fact, even if I knew that it'd happen, I'd go anyway. Just because Kings Of Leon and Placebo made up for it. I wonder who's going to play there next year! 'Cause I'm definitely going. And I'm not taking my armband off, no way ^_^.


Oh wow, that's probably been the LONGEST post in the history of this blog...it took me a lot of time too, maybe 'cause I feel myself getting more and more sick with each minute, I even lost my voice today for around 20 minutes...scary stuff. So I'm sorry for any grammar/spelling/whatever mistakes I might've made - I know the whole thing is pretty chaotic. I am going to add pictures to the post tomorrow, right now I'm just too tired/sleepy/sick to do it. G'night!

ps: how do you like the new layout? ^_^