Around The World: July 2008

Hóigh Dudie,

How are thingies ?

After weeks of working day and night, at last found some time to post a (small) report on this years Werchter party.
As the Werchter line-up was a bit disappointing for us, we decided to put the stress on beer this year ....

OK, here we go !
An early assembly was sounded on Thurs (7am) at Frans's place (yearly tradition).
Although my little girl was joining for one day, did not stop us from another tradition ... stop at the first petrol station to knock down our first booze

(Peter is lacking on this pic as he joined on Fri eve).

Traffic jams and slurping beer was effective ....

After we pitched our tent (for the first time since human rememberance, we managed to rope this thing together in less than half an hour), it was more than time to have our first Werchter beers. The place2b is our Werchter local : 'bij Valère'. Man, man, man, was this guy glad to see us ! Hist first and famous words 'den iesten is van maai hé' (English translation : the first one is on the house). Not so very surprising as the half of his turnover in the morning depends on 'de mannen van Kortrijk' :)

After levelling up the alcohol in our blood (or what's left of it), we headed for the holy ground to see 'Air Traffic'. My little girl was overwelmed by the atmosphere.

Apart from having beers and gorge ourselves with the gastronomical delicacies (aka burges and fries with mayo), we watched (as far as I can remember) :
- Air Traffic : disappointed this time ... but I was happy with my 'pintje'
- Mika : I do not know if alcohol had to do with it, but the pasture (including me :s) went crazy on the tones of 'Big Girl' ... sorry for that !
After this ordeal the next couple of hours were devoted on reinforcing ourselves (read : we had a couple one's ;).
- Lenny Kravitz : been there done that
- REM : same applies
- Chemical Bros : No thank ya, last year was enough .... BEEEEEEEEEEEER !

For some guys the drinking pace was too fast .... poor Mario

Day 2 :
Major hangover ... SOMEONE must have put something in my beer last night ! :@
Oh well, after our traditional 'Bacon and eggs' spiced with coffee and a 'pintje', I reached the status 'NORMAL' again.
Will not bother ya with a report on all bands I've seen and how may beers we 'chopped' ... only 2 things
- Duffy : surprise, surprise, I rub my eyes ... Barbie lives and really can sing
- Slayer : Man oh man, they ROCK !!!!

Unfortunately Frans had some problems with his foot, and after mistreatment ... hehe.. of the Red Cross (thanks B. ), he had to leave us :(
In the meantime Peter had joined us, so the real 'swinery' started, beer fights included.

Day 3 :
Did not sleep ... too much noise : Who started shouting 'OERE' ?!? :@
Anyways : a shower, breaky and a fruit juice .... fruit juice .... NO, to healthy man : beer and nothing but ...

Saw 'Gossip' : Cruella Deville in XXXXXXXXXL version

Apart from the fact that the Hives think they are God and the 'Editors' and 'Kings of Leon' were TOP (!), we met some old skool Kortrijk guys at Valère's in the eve. Major bender ... and despite this we managed to attend the Radiohead act (headliner on Sat).
Only one word for this exciting band : BOOOOOOOORING !

Peter emphasizes this on the next pics