Sunday - the day of the hangover
Inevitably on Sunday we
felt like arse.
I really wanted to see Shinedown but
we missed them :( I have loved them since 2003 when hardly anyone here
had heard of them, and seeing them being successful enough now to be playing on
the main stage at Download made me feel really proud. They're my babies and I
love them.
We got to the arena just in time to hear
The Diary of Jane by Breaking
Benjamin. We had wanted to
see their whole set but we dilly dallied too much with the taking stuff to the
car.
I forgot how much I like Billy Talent, so I'm really
glad we saw them, despite not really having the energy to move very much.
Disturbed covered The Sound of Silence, which gave me feels and was by far my favourite song of the whole festival. I'm always super impressed when a singer of a metal band is actually a really good singer in general. That probably sounds silly because singing is literally their job and they get paid a lot of money to do it, but it is a whole other style of singing so it surprises me nonetheless. Turns out their version of the song has been around for a while and you should definitely listen to it. I don't know much of their stuff past the Ten Thousand Fists album, but I still really enjoyed them.
Disturbed covered The Sound of Silence, which gave me feels and was by far my favourite song of the whole festival. I'm always super impressed when a singer of a metal band is actually a really good singer in general. That probably sounds silly because singing is literally their job and they get paid a lot of money to do it, but it is a whole other style of singing so it surprises me nonetheless. Turns out their version of the song has been around for a while and you should definitely listen to it. I don't know much of their stuff past the Ten Thousand Fists album, but I still really enjoyed them.
To be honest, and I am ready to be hated
for this, I didn't think much of Iron
Maiden. I had a brief Iron Maiden phase when I was a teenager, but I think
I actually like the really cool artwork associated with them more than I like
their music. I'm not one for insane guitar solos really. I mean, I can
appreciate the technical ability and stuff, but I don't think I want to spend
time actually listening to it. Also their lead singer (I feel like I should
know his name, but I do not) reminded me of a dad when he first came on stage.
It was weird watching this strange dad man rocking out to thousands of people.
He did de-dad a little bit as time went on, but I still found the whole thing a
bit cringey. Sorry.
It was quite evident that on the last
night everyone had given up, The toilets were mega gross. I know portaloos at
festivals are rarely nice, but this was something else. There were PILES coming
over the top of many of them, so we gave up on that idea and went back to
nature's ways instead. Lots of the lights weren't on, so everywhere was even
darker than usual, which made everything even more difficult in the terrible
mud.
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| Goodbye, tentland |
I had a most excellent time, but I am very
glad to be back in civilisation where there is minimal mud and maximum bed
comfort.