gatecrasher summer sound system festival

May 27th, 2008

Well… I am now sitting back in my seat at work, with the weekend of craziness all over.

3 days of dance/electro music in Banbury, camping with no showers, trooping through the mud in wellingtons (gumboots) and dancing up a storm in the different music tents!

The first day’s weather was great but the second was a downpour. Lots of people reluctantly packed up their flooded flattened tents and left for home. This was our first proper UK festival and we were going to experience the festival in the wet and rainy weather, a stark contrast to festivals at home in blaring sunshine.

One thing I don’t understand about these types of festivals is why everyone needs to get so wasted out of their heads on drugs to enjoy themselves at a music event. Is the music that shit, that you can only listen to it whilst so whacked you can’t even remember your name? We’re indulgent beings I know. But one guy (who we later found out had two children) died in the same music tent as us this weekend. Anyone can take a dodgy pill and drop dead.

So now the drugs are in the media. The BBC are having a field day. So tragic for the family.

The French boy got invited into the tent next to us and went in to chat with them. There was every drug imaginable in their tent. One of the guys got them shipped in from Morocco and did the full on “lock stock and two smoking barrels” business. I heard a chick at 6am in the morning (in the same tent) speaking desperately and slowly… ”oh come on, just one more pill. no coke. nothing else i promise. just one more pill…”