Hurricane festival!....the rain and the wind

 

 As Aussies we are used to festivals being very hot and summery.  Last weekend our German festival experience proved otherwise. We spent a few rainy and cold days at the Hurricane festival.We were extremely ill prepared. No Gum boots, no poncho and little cold/wet weather gear. How silly!!! It is incredibly hilarious how fashion goes out the window when your survival instincts kick in. The rubbish bag was my number 1 garment for the weekend. I made my rubbish bag into a very unfashionable raincoat with a hoodie. 
Upon arriving at 10 in the morning, we witnessed MANY drunken people walking through the camp site with beer cans in their hands. 'It's a bit early, isn't it?' we thought, well apparently it is never too early for a beer. Throughout the entire festival there were people at all hours of the day drinking. By the end of the festival many of the men seemed to regress to a Neanderthal like state. Smashing and hitting anything they could get their grubby hands on. Tents, pavilions, sleeping bags, food. We even found some burnt out gas bottles. I am surprised nothing exploded! So it all progressed into something quite grotty.

BUT to the most important thing, THE MUSIC! 
Some great performances worth a mention were Arcade Fire, Suede, the Klaxons, Elbow, Portishead.

My 2 favourites were Warpaint and The Kills! Have a listen!


WARPAINT
Warpaint play psychodelic like rock with sweet sweet! voices.

The Kills certainly put on a good show and are incredible performers. You can't your eyes off them and there are only 2 of them!

THE KILLS 

We have 2 more festivals to go to this summer. So stay tuned for those adventures!