SpiritualJunkie wrote:I've never been to a music festival so I have no idea how this works. I assume you stand but seven and a half hours of standing (especially in such a big crowd and in such a weather) sounds painful! Are people allowed to bring chairs and stuff like that?
Also, do we get to know ahead of time what order the bands are playing?
You just sit on the floor between the bands usually.
By the way, I'm not coming, no press tickets and no money to buy regular ones. Would have been great to be there, but still lots of other great things to do while I'm in Canada.
SpiritualJunkie wrote:I've never been to a music festival so I have no idea how this works. I assume you stand but seven and a half hours of standing (especially in such a big crowd and in such a weather) sounds painful! Are people allowed to bring chairs and stuff like that?
Also, do we get to know ahead of time what order the bands are playing?
That's pretty much how it works. I doubt you'll be able to get anywhere close the stage with chairs....
I haven't been to the Camrose grounds, but a lot of other festivals have stands and what not to sit down in if you get tired.
As for the bands order, www.stage13.net has the order posted, unfortunatley no timings. From what i've heard though Seether starts at 3
Okay, you don't have to stay in the mosh pit so you won't have to stand for a long time. You can leave, go eat etc...
Chairs are okay for the earlier bands because they don't bring big crowds, but once the bigger bands get on, you won't be able to see anything if you put a chair anywhere behind the mosh pit area.
Between bands, everyone clears out of the pit area making it easy to get good and close.
Seether does in fact start at 3 pm and they are the first band. BTW they played awesome at Craven tonight.
Thanks for your help, guys! Just hope the mosh pits aren't as bad as they were in the Sum 41 concert here in Edmonton. It's really hard to pay attention to the music when you're being pushed, hit, and having your hair pulled all at the same time.
So Seether's going first? Alright...well, I'm not really into them but I'm gonna have to make sure I come early to watch because I saw them open up for OLP in January and they're pretty good. The guitarist (bassist?) is totally insane!
And if I don't make it known that
I've loved you all along
Just like sunny days that
We ignore because
We're all dumb and jaded
And I hope to God I figure out
What's wrong
I was too wiped out to make it down there, which was good in a way because I here there was a nasty storm down there. From my house I could see LOTS AND LOTS of lighting. Some lite up the sky for 5 seconds!! Scary!
i got in line at the gates @ 1:30, they opened at 2 and i was the first one on the railing... front row, left of centre, right in front of Jenkins and Arion. It was so fucking cool.. but then it started to rain and i was worried they would call the show, or that some part of the stage would fall off and hit me or something.
i was so relieved when they finally came out. SJ is so fawking cool.
olp was great, raine seemed pissed off at all the really crazy mosh-pit people, and he didn't seem to realize that he was at a show that involved both edmonton and calgary fans (in superman's dead in the sing along part he stopped us and said something like "c'mon edmonton, that's sounded like how calgary would sing that, fuck calgary) otherwise it was great, would have been nice if they had done an encore but i think they ran out of time.
Dabekk wrote:olp was great, raine seemed pissed off at all the really crazy mosh-pit people, and he didn't seem to realize that he was at a show that involved both edmonton and calgary fans (in superman's dead in the sing along part he stopped us and said something like "c'mon edmonton, that's sounded like how calgary would sing that, fuck calgary) otherwise it was great, would have been nice if they had done an encore but i think they ran out of time.
That pit was one of the roughest i've ever seen... and definitley the roughest i can remember at an OLP show. And that Calgary-Edmonton crack was interesting.... I could have sworn the Calgary fans were louder (but then again.. i'm a biased Calgarian )
Great show though. Much better than back in January. The new songs sounded great.... Great to hear Acoustic Thief. Wish they had played OMA though.
Also was impressed by 3DD, Seether, Swollen Members, Theory of a Deadman and 3EB.
Matt Good's set was one of the worst i've seen out of him. Treble Charger was dissapointing too. IMO, Everclear was by far the worst. Art couldn't sing to save his life.
The storms were great, the lightning looked really nice.
Dabekk wrote:olp was great, raine seemed pissed off at all the really crazy mosh-pit people, and he didn't seem to realize that he was at a show that involved both edmonton and calgary fans (in superman's dead in the sing along part he stopped us and said something like "c'mon edmonton, that's sounded like how calgary would sing that, fuck calgary) otherwise it was great, would have been nice if they had done an encore but i think they ran out of time.
hey, good to see you again
seems me and joel here were the only ones that actually met up.
Sam Roberts was fuckin' awesome. It rained the hardest during his set, so they had to call it, but they wanted to keep playing, he even came back out and tried to apologize, but the mics didnt work.
The other bands were awesome as well. I've seen Seether 4 times and the guys are already getting to know me lol.
I can't comment on every band it would take too long. So I'll go right to OLP.
The mosh pit wasn't too bad, not half as bad as 3EB, but there was a lot of surfing...
As for the set, the Craven one was a bit better because they actually came back out for an encore (because of the rain at s13 they didn't, but they still played the same amount of songs, or close to it.)
Also, it was better because at Craven they played Not Afraid, but at S13 it was replaced with Do You Like It. Raine has a really cool echo-y intro to starseed as I'm sure many of you know, and it was WAAAAAAAAY Longer at Craven, as well as the ending to starseed, where they all hit their instruments, over and over, that was really long at craven, but pretty short at S13.
Also another thing was at Craven, Raine sang Thief really weird. Nothing like the album version, as far as I remember it wasn't acoustic like at S13, but S13's was just like the album. Well, really similar. He also didn't do the little speech about the Anniversary of Mina Kim, at Craven.
All in all, both shows were good, I don't remember if they played OMA at S13, but for some reason I think they did at Craven... I could be wrong though... If so, the only set differences were the Not Afraid/DYLI
It's too bad they didn't play No Warning. I yelled for it!!
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*runs away*