In July of 2010 in the pages of the cow was published online "a letter to a festival Unborn" that began by placing a precise question "because the festivals are only elsewhere opined once that" in Italy there is a black hole too big, most from starvation for contingencies. "
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One day, finally gained the idea of \u200b\u200bvisiting one of the many festivals held elsewhere, the most important one would say, Glastonboury, but the decision was not so simple because it involves two sets of diligence: to register online immediately followed the purchase of subscription, all this in advance, almost a year, and without any idea of \u200b\u200bthe line up. The resolutions, however, remained
such as tickets sold out in eight hours the day that they were offered for sale, even before we had heard and decided anything.
was not long before then greeted the proposal to fall back on the Hard Rock Calling Festival, this time in London, although it would be more correct to say that we chose to only see Pearl Jam and here is a strong suspicion of conspiracy to sabotage the internal GLAST.
course, the Hard Rock Calling is not really a festival, like all the rest of the metropolitan, the public Hyde Park vitiated by fear for the headliner of the moment such as Pearl Jam, or Stevie Wonder and Sir Paul McCartney, but you think everything on the same days of GLAST, both for understanding the richness of the offer British confirm the conspiracy thesis.
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243 Music, extinct supplement of La Repubblica, was dedicated to the Italian festival in 2000 with a strict division north center south.
To the north were the major: Monza Rock (a track full of stars), Independent Days Festival (triumph rock), Rockaforte (a castle full of sound), Rototom (the paradise of reggae), Beach Bum (the sounds that change).
To the center: Arezzo Wave (the new one goes on), Pistoia (the gods of rock).
To the south: Neapolis (Mediterranean routes) and here, should dwell, "Misterbianco, Sonic, and rock ' which provided" the only date in the south of Skunk Anansie, Cold Play, the British and the Americans Brassy. And then 99 Posse, Afterhours, Verdena and Creeper Lagoon ".
In the same year, still in Sicily, not far from Misterbianco, another review with pretensions to be waved in the festival poster art and Venus Virginiana Miller, obviously, would be useless to look for any trace of the special music.
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A wholesaler of beer crossroads at me had just finished his eulogy for its brand when, before saying goodbye, he began another on Jammin 'Festival.
We are the most important I said, returning the salute with a smile.
was obvious I was not joking, but he did not understand and like many of the rest.
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scrolling letter Bunch it was discovered that the author had seen more than thirty festivals in Europe, worked for four years for one of these - Roskilde - so, from these experiences, he drew the conclusions that "even the smaller festivals, although carried out with great effort and very large risks, such as the many Independent Days Interference frequency, Ypsigrock and countless others even smaller, can be considered the festival's name, weight, shortness of Europeans, although sometimes the efforts of the promoter have been in our small italic, big, and more than good intentions. "
Among the many festivals mentioned in the 2000 letter was the only reported then that the Independent Days in the past ten years, had indeed survived, but in the meantime had become Festival because - according to the author - " the only thing that could have been, in terms of resources, hype, and potential portfolio all, a festival worthy of capital, it was the Jammin 'Festival. "
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I wonder from where the fashions, trends and similar things. Certainly not from Sicily.
According to the famous Jonathan Swift "men are never so serious, thoughtful and careful as they are when on the commode" that is sitting in the toilet without much circumlocution.
Maybe that's why I guess the designer of the moment, while he is shitting, churning the great idea of \u200b\u200bplush jeans, a clothing fashion in the eighties.
So above all, the fashions arrived in Sicily with the rapidity of a gig at a time of high speed trains, so the instant you buy your jeans fleece is deposited elsewhere the flannel shirts.
excluded the use of weapons, Sicily was not a trend, you had to settle for the fiction and make a virtue of necessity.
Michel Platini watched on television and in the drawer I had an autograph, received through an intermediary, Peppe Vaccaro, the glory of AC Castelbuono promoted to the first category, next to which was added after the photo taken with Gianni Pietrosanti, backbone the sports editor of RAI Sicilia.
The terror of being the generation Doppler us terribly terrified after a few appearances of alien who came from afar, with the proof in boxes, convinced us of the existence of life forms more than the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Once discovered the deception began to establish secret societies whose informants were Planet Rock and rare copies of Rockstar or noise, making circular discs can be ordered from the catalog Nannucci prohibited.
are lucky to catch the train, destination, concert life, plagued with travel between the vomiting and fart in camps along the narrow corridors.
We were just taken out, everyone knew it, too, and there was no need for him to explain to anyone, ourselves and our precious t-shirt U2 aesthetically powerful and the interlopers parents of children at a party hormonal .
We were out of round but to resent, we would attend the environments just do not fucking train with its stink, we stink, and please no pictures at concerts or record, but who cares I thought, I love the concerts to see them as closely as possible, but not at the stage , near where I grew up, land of martyrs and musical clichés.
Now you understand how it feels after a phone call, one of those who proclaim a disk at home, but not what they expect from the catalog Nannucci.
E 'in the hard flesh.
+ + + The first, availability and confirmations began circulating as early as late spring, but what was clear for all to see was the turning point that some of them were given to the festival, so as never would have served a good chat schedule.
So, if something momentous happened, then it was decided at a stormy meeting in April between the staffs, but nothing that was said, thought out and planned and then there was not even mentioned the fact that you are all more comfortable in jail .
At stake was the idea of \u200b\u200ba festival of four days and six leading artists, but to be reckoned, and this time with nature, because it was in the heart of one of the 1700 Italian municipalities in which the landslide risk turned into certainty, precisely at the 5.8 km of road connection to the campsite.
In the debate differed from one part of the accounting side, which was appealing to concepts such as wisdom, prudence, caution and risk sustainable, the other answered with the artistic impressions scientifically reasoned, unbiased, and then the second one too poetically adverse Finally there was a mixed group of logistics, across the two sides, which gathered followers here and there, because even now gave her big logistical problems can be overcome only with confidence, hopes and prayers.
were unanimous on one point, it was clear to everyone that without that road, no supply or camper could have achieved the target, with severe loss of revenue vital to the livelihoods of the festival.
This meant to change seats or camping artistic strategy, one of the two.
With great difficulty we found a compromise and, with the largest number of artists, the highest expenditure, increasing ticket and the reduction of the campers, all was left equal to previous years.
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We grew up on bread and Pearl Jam, I saw for the first time in 1993, others like Nirvana I would have never seen, because of the rush to Sicily and Kurt Cobain, for others I should make a jump in Benicassim, as for example in 2005, when historians gathered Dinosaur Jr.
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The formula provided for a consolidated so start with the closing crescendo, then start on Thursday with the band on the map of points causing the severe risk of having the remaining three days as empty as the fantastic nights of the nineties.
To complicate the situation there was an unexpected and proved of great importance.
Sunday was to have the usual closing rock but things went differently, were in fact provided for These New Puritans and Caribou, while the Gang of Four were moved on Friday along with Grace and with the Second Saturday Telepathe and The Field, we began the Thursday with the Dinousaur Jr.
When in June will put an end to the first part of Next the program had just a neighbor, a final total of thirteen band split in four days, some still few, compared to fourteen editions before infinity.
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