Sunday and what the?

People surprise me. Tickets were 125 euros. Many like us would have had to fork out another 100 or more euros to fly to Germany, or drive, or train etc...For the sole express purpose of spending 3 days listening to, dancing to, some of the top heavy rock/metal bands in the world and you know what people started lining up for from early in the day? The soccer.

A couple of hours were set aside to air the soccer. Unbelievable.

What smell is missing?

For anyone who has attended several concerts in NZ, and it doesn't seem to matter which music genre, you too would've wondered why the concert and campgrounds smelt .....unexpected. It took us a little while to realise that a smell was missing. Which is a sad comment on NZ I think. Yes, the odiferous Mary Jane was missing.

We witnessed the "drug" police in action and were very impressed. A group of very ordinary "participants" descended on a young gent and started going through his belongings-bag, shoes, empty out pockets, sniff all the cigarettes in the ciggie packet etc...A fine was written up, and then the group just melted back into the crowd. Smooth.

I want to know how much the young man was fined.

Rock am Ring-the music.

Again I have forgotten who all performed. I was surprised which bands were a great and enjoyable performance and which ones sucked. Sadly, whoever did the sound for the main stage did a poor job. I couldn't sing along with Tank Serjian cos I couldn't hear him. The Nightwish group ended up leaving the stage for a short time until the sound could be fixed....or rather patched up.

Simple Plan were on the main stage for the first time and they were so pleased about this, it was embarrassing. They also lost quite a few brownie points for making the moshpit do the stupid "Rings of Fire". The numbers are kept so low, that 2 of these rings were able to be done. Of course, we ended up with our own ring of fire in front of us, beside us, behind us.....sigh.

Kid Rock gave a stellar performance and finished it with a ballad. lol.Offspring, Jimmy Eat World, Disturbed, Aler Bridge, Seether, all performed well and professionally.

Metallica were their usual. We didn't even stay for the whole set. We impressed that despite the sound difficulties, the unbelievable number of people present, and how much alcohol was being consumed, that everyone was still very well-behaved.

Rock am Ring- the food

We didn't take much food with us. The food at Rock-am-Ring was the only thing that was better than that at the Frequency. Plus, they sold crepes, so that's pretty much what we lived on for the next 4 or 5 days.

They were also food stalls on the road home. I have no idea when or if they got any sleep. The same people were serving no matter what time of the day or night we went past, 4am, 8am, 2pm, 11pm etc...

Quarter of a chicken and fries was going for 4/5 euros. It was a while ago so I forget. Jordan and Sarah pretty much did their own thing which made it cheaper for us, but hungrier for them.