Well it was 7.30am when my phone woke me from my sleep, my very short sleep, three hours to be exact. It was my mate Daniel he rang me up to see when I was picking him up to head to Brisbane for Nevereverland, a music festival. This would be my third in as many months, and I was starting to get a 'mini' addiction.
Dreary eyed and nursing a thumping head-ache, I jumped in Mario (my car) to pick up Daniel who lives about five minutes away. We returned home to hear from my mum that when I got home in the early hours of that morning I was strolling up and down the drive-way in my birthday suit. This was quite embarrassing especially that one of mum's work-mates had stayed the night and witnessed it all.
After I grabbed everything I needed, we were off. We picked up two of our mates, Brod and Mitchy and headed south to Brisbane. We met Kyle, Trent, Matiu and Pete at another one of our mates units where they let us stay for the night. After a few drinks and a few 'fireballs' down the hatch, every one in the other car realised that they left there tickets back at home, about an hour trip one way away. So it left four of us at the unit, half an hour later we were in a taxi and on the way too the Brisbane Riverstage.
We arrived right on time and I was quite suprised to see that I could see plenty of grass and not many people. Van She were on stage and played a really good set to start off what shaped to be a real exciting day. Looking at my mates I realised that they were having the time of there lives where I was quite sober. To fix this I went and bought two drinks and downed another 'smurf'.
One of my most anticipated acts of the day Ladyhawke was on next. We squirmed our way to the front and it was even better then I expected, especially that there was about 10-15 of our mates with us. By this time the crowd had grown to almost capacity and the atmosphere was indescribable.
After cooling our heals a bit by sitting on the hill and taking it all in, it was time for one of my favourite bands Cut Copy, by this time I was on another planet as were about 85% of the festival. Cut Copy absolutely blew me away and put me in a good frame of mind for the rest of the day.
After two suprisingly good sets from Hercules & Love Affair and The Whitest Boy Alive, The Klaxons came on and I found myself rolling around by myself. I quite enjoyed this.
I caught up with Daniel towards the end of there set just in time to see the headline act, The Presets. They are his favourite duo so he talked me in to coming right down the front. We got about 7 or 8 metres from the stage it was perfect positioning. We also ran into my mates who were just in front of us. Half way through there set I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket, it was a message from my mate Josh saying 'come to gate at the front of the stage' intrigued I sent back asking why. He replied saying that he could get me backstage to watch the remainder of there set. I quickly weaved through the crowd to meet his friend, she wacked a VIP pass on my shirt and said come with me, she took me up the stairs to where Josh was, I watched about the last five songs from 3 metres away from them. Was probably one of the best experiences I have seen in my short life. She got me backstage because her boyfriends brother-in-law was the tour manger of The Klaxons. Josh also informed me that I was on the list for the after party. So we went our seperate ways and were to meet there.
I met back up with Daniel, Kyle and Mitchy and we then headed back to the unit. After a 45 minute walk and another hour long wait in the taxi line we finally found ourselves back at the unit where the other boys were, all of them barely awake after smoking too many bongs.
I was keen to head out on the town as I was to meet this girl out that I had never met. This ruined my. To be blatantly honest, she was a lot different looking to her photos, not for the better either. So the gentleman I am I decided to hang out with her instead of going out because she ditched her friends to come see me. So after about 3 hours of awkward conversation and a lot of silences I payed $50 for a taxi to get us both home (seperate houses). That money could have been spent on a lot better things let me tell you!
In review, this is the best festival I have been to out of the 10 or so I have attended. The highlights were Ladyhawke, Cut Copy, The Presets, the people I went with. The main lowlight was ditching my friends for a girl with less hair then me.
Dreary eyed and nursing a thumping head-ache, I jumped in Mario (my car) to pick up Daniel who lives about five minutes away. We returned home to hear from my mum that when I got home in the early hours of that morning I was strolling up and down the drive-way in my birthday suit. This was quite embarrassing especially that one of mum's work-mates had stayed the night and witnessed it all.
After I grabbed everything I needed, we were off. We picked up two of our mates, Brod and Mitchy and headed south to Brisbane. We met Kyle, Trent, Matiu and Pete at another one of our mates units where they let us stay for the night. After a few drinks and a few 'fireballs' down the hatch, every one in the other car realised that they left there tickets back at home, about an hour trip one way away. So it left four of us at the unit, half an hour later we were in a taxi and on the way too the Brisbane Riverstage.
We arrived right on time and I was quite suprised to see that I could see plenty of grass and not many people. Van She were on stage and played a really good set to start off what shaped to be a real exciting day. Looking at my mates I realised that they were having the time of there lives where I was quite sober. To fix this I went and bought two drinks and downed another 'smurf'.
One of my most anticipated acts of the day Ladyhawke was on next. We squirmed our way to the front and it was even better then I expected, especially that there was about 10-15 of our mates with us. By this time the crowd had grown to almost capacity and the atmosphere was indescribable.
After cooling our heals a bit by sitting on the hill and taking it all in, it was time for one of my favourite bands Cut Copy, by this time I was on another planet as were about 85% of the festival. Cut Copy absolutely blew me away and put me in a good frame of mind for the rest of the day.
After two suprisingly good sets from Hercules & Love Affair and The Whitest Boy Alive, The Klaxons came on and I found myself rolling around by myself. I quite enjoyed this.
I caught up with Daniel towards the end of there set just in time to see the headline act, The Presets. They are his favourite duo so he talked me in to coming right down the front. We got about 7 or 8 metres from the stage it was perfect positioning. We also ran into my mates who were just in front of us. Half way through there set I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket, it was a message from my mate Josh saying 'come to gate at the front of the stage' intrigued I sent back asking why. He replied saying that he could get me backstage to watch the remainder of there set. I quickly weaved through the crowd to meet his friend, she wacked a VIP pass on my shirt and said come with me, she took me up the stairs to where Josh was, I watched about the last five songs from 3 metres away from them. Was probably one of the best experiences I have seen in my short life. She got me backstage because her boyfriends brother-in-law was the tour manger of The Klaxons. Josh also informed me that I was on the list for the after party. So we went our seperate ways and were to meet there.
I met back up with Daniel, Kyle and Mitchy and we then headed back to the unit. After a 45 minute walk and another hour long wait in the taxi line we finally found ourselves back at the unit where the other boys were, all of them barely awake after smoking too many bongs.
I was keen to head out on the town as I was to meet this girl out that I had never met. This ruined my. To be blatantly honest, she was a lot different looking to her photos, not for the better either. So the gentleman I am I decided to hang out with her instead of going out because she ditched her friends to come see me. So after about 3 hours of awkward conversation and a lot of silences I payed $50 for a taxi to get us both home (seperate houses). That money could have been spent on a lot better things let me tell you!
In review, this is the best festival I have been to out of the 10 or so I have attended. The highlights were Ladyhawke, Cut Copy, The Presets, the people I went with. The main lowlight was ditching my friends for a girl with less hair then me.
you are a really good writer michael :)
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