Frequency Festival in Salzburg

We were at a Work happy Hour when the topic of the Frequency Festival came up and we were invited to tag along. Greg was very keen when he found out that Tool were playing, (sadly they cancelled last minute). I was interested simply because I'd never been to anything like this. Basically it's like our "Big Day Out" but it goes for 3 days.
The campgrounds were open from Tuesday until Saturday. We didn't arrive until quite late and then we had what felt like a big long walk(Greg reckons it was only 3km) to get to where our friends were camped. What made it worse was that every time we stopped to ask for directions, they would laugh and then say, Oh, it's a long way." Plus, I knew there was a shorter way to go but we weren't allowed to go that way. The first campground was a crazy place, so I was pleased not to hang around there. Once we met up with our friends I was happy.

Greg the party animal stayed up all night with the boys and didn't come to bed until 5am. Then the sun had us all awake at 8am. It was so hot. Then we got to see the true beauty of our surroundings. It reminded us of home(NZ)-lots of trees, a few small mountains, mist, etc.

We wanted to make the most of this experience so we went to the very first band and the very last. Although a lot of the music wasn't to my taste, I was very impressed with most of the performers energy, and showmanship. Easily the most post popular band was Die Ärzte, who were on at 1am and had about 70-80,000 fans. Our opinion that they weren't so good, did not make us very popular.

I thought it was a good experience and the crowd were very well behaved. Plus it was really nice to see parents and kids attending and both enjoying the music. After all, some of those bands started when they were age, so it stands to reason. we hope to get Jordy to one of these before we leave Europe.