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11th Fluff Fest -> 23.-25. Juli 2010 -> Rokycany -> Plzeň -> Česká Republika
Next day a lazy Monday, I show her my town. We take the full tour, a lot of walking, but nice. Included are some shopping, an italian smurf ice cream and a pizza in the best pizzeria in town. It tooks the full day :)
Tuesday we are invited by Pet to visit his home. We go there by autostop and it works quite well. We need ~3 hrs and having nice weather all the time. Before I made some noodle-salad. I don't want to come with empty hands. He is showing us the whole house, we were talking a lot and later going to the only pub in that village. As it closes we sit outside for a while. After that Marca prepares excellent smažený sýr for us and just in time we catch the last train back home. Arriving there at midnight.
The wednesday-plan is Prag. But we get up a bit too late, so after doing autostop, and visiting the biggest shopping center in CZ, it is nearly a bit late for sightseeing. But we don't care. We have a look at most important tourist spots, e.g. Václavské Naměstí with the National Museum. The only problem: We don't get a ride back. We tried even after nightfall, but no chance. So we are forced to stay in Prag and try it tomorrow in the early morning again. And this is working perfectly again. At around 8.00 we are back home again and fall asleep.
Of course we get up late, sometime in the afternoon. Doing nothing special at this day. Just preparing for next day, that means: next festival. Yes, friday noon time we are starting to fluff fest - by own car this time. Everything works perfectly, but in Rokycany, just a few meters before the festival area, there is a police control. And it seems, that they checking german cars only. And of course this is only because of the fest. But we were really such lucky and they let us go without making any more problems.
Now, happy, to be on fest, we just parking car somewhere not far from fest entrance (although it was already full and nearly no free space to find for a tent, we're lucky;) ) and go inside coz the next band we want to see for sure: Punch. Great Screamo. After the show we find out for ourselves that we are too lazy to put up our tent today, easier to sleep in the car instead :) Also we find Vila's friend together with some Lithuanians and staying there for a while. The next band we are watching from on(!) the stage is Comadre. Yes, nice band, I like, but Punch was better ;) Anyway good show and we had fun incl. stage dive :)
On Fluff there is always not really much to do after last band. There is some afterparty in the tent, but not really interesting to us, so better going to bed and wake up next day, saturday, 24-07-2010, a bit earlier. After the morning rituals we go to town, looking for supermarket. There are enough, but they neither have tortas nor the good jogurtas. We buy some replacements and walk back to festival.
Watching first band, Mother, na jo, good but the music is not really ideal for festivals. Next band Adorno, also not bad. But now: Meleeh! Before, we bought a T-Shirt of them, or more precisely, we bought the shirt three times: First try was a nice shirt, but when walking to their stand we saw another shirt they didn't have there hanging first time. And this was much more beautiful. So changing them. Then after the show, we found out that the shirts we have are from a different printing, resulting in a slightly different colour. One print was white the other more yellow. Me I like the white more, but got the yellow, and Vila the other way round.... So we tried to change them, Vila was lucky, but me not, they had no more in white in my size :( But beside the shirts, the show is really great, I enjoy very much. But only very less people are watching. I dont know why, maybe its because it is the third band, too early.... Also the bands before not more people watching.
After a pause it would theoretically time to watch Dead Swans, but cancelled. So next band we watch is Vitamin X - old punk from NL. Great. Especially the really very very huge wall of death, they managed to took place. Sometimes there are more people on stage than in front of, so many, that u can't see anything of the band anymore. I ask myself where and how they can play? Really great gig.
Next bands now Ampere and Another Breath. Both good, but not really my thing. Then as headliner: Amen Ra. Wow! This bass! Although they are playing very, very slow music they are great. It was such powerful, u really get banned by their music. The singer never turned round, never looking to the crowd, we can not see his face, I don't know why, but a bit strange fact to me.
Sunday, 25-07-2010, same thing as yesterday: Early to sleep, early awake, then shopping. Only that we are not shopping only, but also having breakfast in traditional czech pub and wash our hairs at the hypermarket :) We are a bit late now, going back and think that we miss the first band, what would be very sad, but as we arrive at festival area, there is nothing playing. Taking a look at the running order, we find that they have changed a lot. Every band is playing one spot later and - the last band, Municipal Waste, is not playing. They had a car crash.
So enough time to wait in front of the stage for Resurrectionists. Also great band. Two singers (male & female) with giving the band some different screaming voices. Nice to watch and dance. All the next bands today are more or less not really interesting to us, so we do this and that. Looking at the market, buying a shirt, a bag, looking for CDs, Cassettes, also take a look at some of the bands, buying some food, or going to friend's tents, and so on. We also decide to go to town once more and have some real tortas at a bakery and ice-cream. It is really warm today.
In the evening we go to watch Kingdom - our first and only band we watched in the tent - and after the last band of the festival: Cruel Hand. During the show, we meet the 2 people again, we met also day before yesterday here, who coming only to this fest to see Municipal Waste. And they are telling us: They will play now. They had an accident, and they are late, but will play now after last band. Oké, maybe not go back to tent, let's wait. But we not really believe in that, and we are going to ask someone of the organizers, and they tell us: No. Noone is playing anymore. This was the last band. So, conclusion: This 2 guys are still living in their own dreams - Hope dies last….
Festival is over, so: time to sleep. Next day morning we want to leave at 900 h. Of course it is nearly 10 o'clock when we leave. We going to Prag. We, is Vila, me and a friend also going back to Lithuania by autostop. So I bring them to the highway, east of Prag. Later they told me, that they had to wait ~1 hour for a car to stop, and continued autostop until 2.00 h at night. But they not reached Warsaw at that day and arrived at home the next day in the evening and just went to shower, eat and sleep.
I try to go round Prag to the south parts of the city, to park somewhere there. Not at easy, I don't have a good map of Prag and always be not sure if it is allowed to drive on the highway without the vignetta. The problem is, that all signs showing you the way via the highway, and you only know, if it is free from vignetta, just before you enter it, there is - if so - a sign, showing that. But after some time, driving a few circles, lot of stop and go, I find a good place to park my car, not far from a metro station.
It's late in the meantime and I have to hurry up to go to the Afterfluff Hardcore Matinee. But first I need smth to eat and drink, so buying tortas and water in a supermarket nearby.
After that I go to the 007 Club in Praha-Strahov. Unfortunately I am lazy and take the bus. And the bus is very late and more standing than driving. In the timetable was written 11 mins, but in fact the bus needs ca. 30 mins. for the distance. Because of the traffic jams, I missed the first band (Ruined Family). Second band is Regret, not bad, and third is The River Card, much better.
After them a band is playing, which I absolutely don't like. So I go outside and to the nearby shop to buy a beer :) Again better now is Rearranged.
Next band is really great: Nine Eleven. Absolutely best band of the evening. After that band, Right Idea is playing and as last band Unrestrained, but I decide not to watch them completely, but walk a short distance to tram station, and go back to my car. I decided to sleep inside, coz I don't want to drive when it is dark.
Just after sunrise, I get up now, Tuesday, and drive back home. Arriving there at around 7 o'clock. And that's the point were this story of 3 weeks of fests and fun ends.
Čau, Servus, Adios, į sveikatą, Salute & Prost!