Boom Festival 1998 August 1998
Courtesy of Marita.
Hi fluffy fluoro freaks,
It's taken me a while to get around to sitting down and reviewing this years boom, but after getting back from a beautiful holiday in portugal, it took me a good few weeks to reacclimatise. so i'm going to attempt it. finally. =o)
Ehm... well, might as well start at the beginning i suppose. =) timo and i drove down and got there on tuesday evening around 8:30pm. or at least we thought it was 8:30, but discovered the next day sometime that we'd forgotten to change our clocks, and that in fact we were an hour earlier. =) (you can probably tell already that i'm in a rambling mood, so sit back, put yer feet up, and prepare for a long side-tracked story).
We really watched the whole village building up over 4 days or so, that was really nice. there were something like 20 showers this year, 5 blocks of 4 showers, surrounded by a green gause type thing, that offered little or no protection view wise, and although we were there on tuesday, the generator wasn't really going fulltime until wednesday evening or thursday sometime.... which meant you had to keep a close eye on the water and run in there as soon as you saw it come back on. =) and yeah, like chrissie mentioned in her review, i was quite amused that the majority of people took showers with their swimsuits on. *hihi* =o) one thing though, thursday evening in the shower, i stood on a wasp. the little blighter took great pleasure on shoving his arse, containing sting, as far as he could into the sole of my foot. luckily sylvia had some anticeptic cream, and although it pained me most of thursday, by the time friday night dancing time came around, i was in perfect foot health again. =o)
We kept running into ppl around the campsite that we knew from last year - both list, and non-list members. and probably the best moment of all was when we met monbaza and his beautiful wife, sappho. there was this instant inaudible 'click', and we had such fun for the rest of the festival. =) i don't think we stopped laughing once. *massive* hugs to you both monbaza!
Anyway, on with the story. =)
The 604 meet
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This, i must say, was such a laugh. or at least, i was having a right creac!! (irish for having *great* fun. there's just some words you can't express in english sometimes.) i'd already run into quite a few ppl on the camp site like jason creak, mike, vadim, thew & sylvia, matt 'n' rem, ben & dom, monbaza, sam (chaishop), & amit, but the actual gathering was excellent. 'successful' sounds a a bit clinical for this. this was downright wicked!
Timo and i arrived there a wee bit before 5 on friday as planned, with our poor old sheet with the dots in a 604 kinda shape (photo available from our boom piccies from last year) and set it out on the ground in the chill out. first person to home in on it was avi. =o) after that i can't remember who arrived when, but i know that denis, carsten, mistr (i'm sorry, i've forgotten your actual name! =o/ ), vadim, avi, sam, chrissie, andreas, rene, matt, remko, maarten, thew, sylvia, monbaza, matteo, amit, jason, mike, bob (who arrived late, and unfortunately, i didn't get a photo of), timo and lil' old me were there. (and i've just heard that jean smog was also there - he's even in one of our photo's although he's got his back to the camera. jean - wtf didn't you say hello! i had been wondering where you'd gotten to. turns out you were 5 meters away, and i didn't know!) =o)
It was a wonderful get-together! =o) and then.... about every second person started rolling a joint, and about half an hour later, you couldn't pass a joint without someone handing you another! we were pretty smoked out, but it was *such* good fun. i got photo's of (almost) everyone (with the exception of bob it seems, and the skakti's, cuz they never showed up), and they're for the viewing on timo's homepage
(mitsunori - i kept an eagles eye out for you, but couldn't spot you anywhere. are you sure you wore your rasta headband?? ;o) )
(mandala - sorry you didn't make it either. what happened?!?!)
And for anyone else from the list that was at boom, but didn't make it to the meet, it was a great pity. but, maybe next time. ;o)
Anyway. on to the party report.
Friday night
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I'm going to to through the line-ups very quickly, this mail is long enuff already. friday started off with cheve - a portugese dj, who played pretty okay. he did play a kent friedman (mindwarped) track (available on the new boom records compilation - double dipped) that got the first whoops of the festival. the crowd loved it! =) (congrats on that one kent!!) after that came on our own monbaza, who kept the crowd going strong with some classic tracks! jikkai, from portugal, were the first live act, but i'm afraid they were way too weird for us, so we went up to the chaishop to visit sam for a while. adam from ceiba came on after that, and drew us all back onto the dancefloor. (nice set adam!)
Quirk live were up then, but whether it was me or wot, i wasn't crazy about them at all. they just weren't right for that time of the morning (5-6) and i think i ended up sitting down through most of it. antaro was supposed to play, but he couldn't make it at all because of back problems, so this wee kiddy (don't know his name) played from 6-9. you could barely see his head looking from the dj booth. =) but at this time the gram of hawaiian that i did were kicking me hard, and i was having a very confused, albeit enjoyably confused trip. (one of those where i could've gotten very afraid if i hadn't been more experienced in tripping. but i was able to mentally slap myself and say 'cop on woman, you're tripping your face off - of course your head is all over the place')
I should do a bit on decor here i suppose. the decor was *so* beautiful. fluoro dragons and mosquitos and bits hanging from all the trees, and inga's most *fantastic* backdrops. you might be able to get an idea from the boom photo's on timo's page. we tried to capture it as best we could, but sometime's it difficult to capture such images on camera. it really was another world, a complete fairyland. the dj box was in the design of a ufo, i thought it really added to the whole atmosphere of the party, rather than dj's and live performances being up on a high stage almost above the dance floor. this was cool, the dj's were able to interact more with the dancers.
The photon projections were, as last year, amazing. they had a *huge* screen down the left hand side of the dj ufo (as you're looking at the ufo). the screen must've been 15 or so meters long by about 6 high. it didn't so much 'dominate' the dance floor, but lets say that everyone was *very* aware that it was there, and i for one, along with many others i'd say, used it as a landmark.
And this was what completely threw me that friday night as the hawaiian's thundered through my subconscious and played mad tricks on my mind and eyes - as soon as it got too bright for the projections anymore, they pushed the screen all up together, like you would a curtain. so one minute it's there, and i know where i am, and the next time i look up, i can't find it anywhere. so i'm spinning circles in the middle of the dancefloor not knowing not only who i was or what nationality i was or language i was speaking, but also not knowing *where* the fuck i *was*!! i kept searching for the landmark, but it couldn't be found. at this point i sat down, because i knew i was lost. =) but i didn't have to worry, i was surrounded by friends, whether i'd ever met them before or not. smiling faces everywhere. nothing to worry about.
We retired back to the tent around 7:30 or 8 though, with me simply following timo as i still hadn't worked out where i was, so i missed quite a bit of this wee kids set, and missed adrian completely.
Saturday night
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Saturday night started off with david from sweden, followed by chika from japan, but i didn't find either of them very interesting. they kind of plodded along, didn't play very energetic tracks at all. but then! pleiadians came on, and that was really amazing! i found i.f.o. to be too much of the same thing, but now i realise that it just probably has to be played on a fuckin' loud system!! these guys were really excellent!
But after that came what was for me probably the best set of the whole festival, domino. man, did she *play*!!! this is only my second time hearing her play, but she's up on the top of my favouristististist dj's list after that performance! =oD
After domino came koxbox, and wow, what a performance. they mixed their set so that one track just melted into the next one, but played a huge mixture of their stuff, old and new. they were really something. next up was frank-e himself, and he also played a wonderful set. i stayed as long as i could, but retired back to the tent again around 8:30 or 9, so we missed migas's (portugal) set.
I think i probably enjoyed saturday 'night' best of the 3. there was a very good atmosphere there that night, better than friday i thought. but then, that could also be attributed to my 'mental' state again.
Saturday night was 2cb night, and i must say, i'd swap mushrooms and acid anyday for the experience i have on 2cb. all the visuals, none of the confused headfuck. so yeah, i was running around being an absolute ass, laughing my head off - especially to people's reactions to walter the eyes, wishy the troll, & bob 'you've been bobbed' (cheers jason c =oD ).
Thew & sylvia (neuronautic institute) finally had a decent setup and a screen to themselves. on friday, they'd been sharing the huge screen with photon, and it was very difficult to see the projections especially as the big screen reflected the blacklight. but this time they were much better set up. unfortunately, the equipment they had was minimal.... even one of the buttons fell off the mixer.. (maybe chewing gum'd work thew? ;o)))) but in spite of that, thew and sylvia jammed all night with their video footage mixing at a mad rate, and produced some great stuff! we really had fun with them around their little cage that sylvia had decorated with all the fluoro bits and pieces. =o)
see thew in action here
Sunday night
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Sunday night opened up with gunther. we caught the end of his set, but he had to play to a poor dancefloor in comparison to friday and saturday. well, it's to be expected i guess, as a lot of local people might not come along on sunday night what with work, school whatever the next day. after gunther, our man matt was up. i really enjoyed his set as usual!... but then, i know a lot of the tracks he plays really well, so i'm a bit biassed. =) but he did pull the crowd in and the floor quickly filled up.
And then... the moment i'd been waiting for, psychopod live! and i wasn't disappinted! he played an amazing set! ...and highlite of it all - friagram! horray! ===o=o=o)=o)o)o))) i was hopping about all over the place! /me was in her element!!! =o)
Ollie wisdom was up to dj after psychopod, and was *wonderful*!! what a set the man played. i *really* enjoyed when he stuck on cosmosis - spores from space. the crowd reacted fantastically! (big thumbs up again mark_h!!) talk about pumping energy into a party, he never let up once! later on he also played 'down at the crossroads', and he really knew how to read the crowd. from what i could see though, space tribe never did play live. i think ollie just continued on. but he was enjoying it! he had the biggest grin on his face throughout the whole thing. =o) and i'd love to know what the last track he played was. it had some irish traditional stuff - the chieftains actually, and everyone on the dance floor loved it. =)
The half acid tab we'd taken earlier wasn't kicking in at all, so a while later we took the other half. an hour later, and i wasn't even feeling rubbery, so we said, fuck it, and did another whole tab each. -ahem- well. right. awaaaaaaayyyyyyy weeeeeee goooooo then!! ....eeeeeeeeerk..... 8o)
Max from etnica was next up, and okay, i was tripping, but fuck the man performs on stage! not only was his set totally awesome, but he sang and physically demonstrated every tweak bleep ping and twang that came out of the speakers! what a performance! scary looking dude though, well, i thought anyway. but very entertaining...especially when he's doing his chicken dance.... =o/ =o))
Anyway, he rocked the place until 9 that morning, and then avichay avigal from israel took over the decks. he played very well, but to me, he was nothing in comparison to max or ollie. we took it a bit easy at that time, danced a bit, sat a bit, found everyone we'd lost during the night and caught up on what each other'd been up to. =) ...watching that guy with the sticks dance around - he was amazing... and kept a bit out of the sun. =o)
And at 12, gunther took over again. =o) granted, i didn't think much of his mixing at this point, but he did play very light hearted bouncy music, and he kept the dancefloor full until 5 that evening.... although from about 4ish on, i could be found sitting in the shade stuffing my face with icecream. =o) i forced myself to dance for the last few tracks okay, but to be honest, i was shattered. =o) ...and i'd did my ankle in at some point during the night, but of course didn't notice it 'too' much until i started to come down a bit off the acid.... *man* did it hurt!
Atmosphere on the dancefloor all sunday morning was great - everyone was giving it their all for the final night/morning, lots of smiling faces all over the gaff. and all of us completely smeared and covered with dust. =o)) oh what fun it all was. =) the sprinklers were well appreciated this year as well. =)
But yeah, i think i've finally written enuff on my boom98 experience.
Big thumbs up to diogo, pedro, alf, and all the others that pulled their weight to keep the whole thing ticking over, least of all the dj's and performers of course.
Oh! one other thing, it seems the kindergarten was a massive success! and it was very obvious on sunday morning - kids with multicoloured hair walking around the dance floor handing out boiled sweets and lollypops to dancers! it brought a smile to every single person's face, and the sweets did the tastebuds of a very dusty mouth the world of good as well. =o)
Right, enough already! =o))
Sorry for going on so long, but when i get started, there's no stopping me sometimes.
Last but not least, warm smiles to all the listers that we met there, you made the whole experience extra special!
big smiles,
=o)
marita.
UK : East : Lowestoft burger factory goes kaboom WTF are they putting in the burgers ? :yakk:
100 firefighters and 2 helis, thats a pretty fucking hardcore blaze TBH!
At least I think its nowhere near Titch and Biotech.. (think its a fair few miles away)
A massive fire has erupted at a burger factory in Lowestoft, with reports of chemical canisters exploding.
Residents near the Wessex Food plant in Hadenham Road have been urged to keep windows and doors closed to prevent breathing problems.
BBC News - Fire at Lowestoft burger factory sees chemicals explode12
Boom Festival 2010 I would love to go next year but certainly can't. Booh! Anyone else here going? I see the following announcement was recently posted on their web site about limited ticket numbers...
No more than 26 000 people will attend Boom Festival 2010. No more tickets, as we don’t want to become an overcrowded and mainstream festival. We are already planning better infrastructures for the comfort of all the Boomers, where space and cosiness will be felt.
We’ll upgrade our music and art program, line ups will be released sooner than in previous years, and we’ll emphasize new facilities on the sanitary and ecological level. Ways of dealing with the entrance is another concern we are faced with and which we are now thinking about how to improve so that people don’t have to wait for so long to get in.
Similarly to some of you, we felt some of the magic lost due to overcrowding and we are working towards the revival of the spirit that was always felt at Boom… Keep updated through the Boom website.12
Boom Festival 2008 hi all!!
I've not long got tickets for boom in portugal!!! whoo hoo!!
has anyone here been? if so can you please answer any of my questions?
is it all psy trance?
how much is food there?
is the heat totally unbearable?
what are the drugs like? what with it being so close to morrocco can you get sweet hash?
is it any good?
is anyone off here going this year?
stuff like that really, i would appreciate any help
cheers
charlie12
Boom Festival, Portugal – August 2000 Boom Festival, Portugal
11 - 16 august 2000
Courtesy of marita*
We got there on thursday the 10th, around 2pm, there were quite a few ppl there already, but we met up with andy weisner and we found quite a decent enough shady spot to set up camp. we'd just gotten our gazebo erected, (sounds kinda suggestive that... but however. giggle) when andrei came dancing up. nice timing,there was still a relatively shady spot for his tent too. =)
That night (thursday) the campsite was rudely awoken by a collection of drummers that went on from 1am - 3am, regardless of how much ppl complained or asked them to shut the fuck up. in fact, when ppl did shout at them to cut it out, they'd cry out 'sorry!' and then start banging the drums even louder. and some woman started wailing too. they were close to being throttled by the rest of the campsite. and that wasn't the last we were to hear of drummers as you'll find out later....
We all finally got to sleep after 3am when they'd stopped, when at 5am we suddenly bolted awake again... someone was blasting joe cocker on a very loud system. timo'd had enough, so he got dressed and went to have a look. he came back 10 mins later to report that it was the sound engineers fine tuning the amps for the sound system on the main dance floor. hehe
Matt and darin missed all this of course, cuz they were parked in the campervan area, but they had problems of their own - 3 or 4 different sound systems blasting out hip-hop, reggae and a couple of others constantly. hehe
Innieway, next morning we found ourselves rather surrounded by tents that hadn't been there the day before. =) seemed we had set up camp in a very good place, lots of ppl on their way in were passing this way, so we ran into tons of ppl practically on their arrival to the site. =) jason c strolled past, and then out of the blue thew and jessica arrived and set up tents very close to ours too. =)
Turns out that mike bruton was camped right in front of us too, but we hadn't realised until we were standing around laughing at thew and jessica's attempts to put up the tent. ;) so it was a regular little 604 village without ever intending it to be. =)
We headed on down towards the chillout on friday at 17:00 for the 604/psy/psytrance meetup, but they turned us away and said that it wasn't ready yet, and to come back at 18:00. which we did, but they said that it still wasn't open, at which point we decided that it was a bit pointless and that we'd just go with the 2nd meetup planned for saturday at 17:00
Music started up on friday at 20:00 with the star sounds orchestra. that was quite a nice opening, followed at 23:00 by p-mac. i can't honestly say whether he impressed me too much, i can't remember. next up was domino at 02:00, and even though i've heard better sets from her, i enjoyed her all the same. the electric melon played at 05:00, but i honestly can't remember them at all. i've a feeling that i went back to the tent area at that time. john phantasm was due to play at 06:30, but couldn't make it, so mitch (kuma) was successful in blagging a set in his place. ;) now that was a great stomping morning set. i remember really enjoying that. mitch and mick chaos did a bit of a tag session for a while, which was also great fun, and mick played a bit himself for a while too. we headed back for some sleep then though, and missed amrit and zen. but from what i heard they both played a bit too hard for the time of day, so we didn't miss anything much.
Headed down to the chillout again for 17:00, and indeed there were quite a few heads there. =)
Big waves to all! timo's got photo's of all that attended on his webpage. and for those of you that were at boom but didn't make it to the meetup - matt, remko, amir, denis, carsten, jan, anders, alistair, and mitch - *slap*. silly buggers, you missed a good laugh. =)
Saturday night, we decided to get some sleep in and pace ourselves, so we missed out on jakov and alpha. we got up during texas faggott's set, and heard it from the camp area, but it sounded way to weird hehe. we heard afterwards that they cleared the dance floor in record timing. we were in time for xp's set though at 06:30. this was... ehm... an experience to watch. what can i say. the guy was tripping his bollox off. i enjoyed his set very much, even just for watching his antics in the dj booth. he was *twisted* up there! hehehe he trainwrecked enough tracks to make it worthy of remark, but he played some great music too. we were surprised he managed to get a set together at all considering the state he was in. =o) s-range did a good live set, although i seem to remember it dragging a little at the end, and then aorta took over to finish off the day. he played a really good set, and got a couple of encores. =)
X.P. could also be found wandering around the dancefloor later holding out a bag of acid for anyone that wanted it, and also had a little placard on a stick that read 'DOPEINGS', and had lil' pictures of an ms internet exploder logo, (acid) and a tulip (e). at some point he was also discovered face down with his little sign beside him, after passing out. hehehe
Sunday. we slept through mat mushroom and zoo-b, but got up in time for bonky / fungus of light at 05:00. i *really* enjoyed their live performance. anti took over at 06:30, and i thought his dj set was really good, also one of the better of the festie. atmos's set was very enjoyable although not outstanding. he was to play until 9:30, but stopped at 09:00, meaning that sam@chaishop wasn't quite ready. =) there was a slight delay in sam starting up, but when he did, he really surprised me. he played a much better set than i was expecting from him at all. one or two tracks in the last half hour of his set became a little bit 'anthem'y i found, but other than that, i can't complain about his set at all. in fact, i really really enjoyed it. the rest of the dancefloor seemed to agree with me. =)
Monday, we wanted to make an all-nighter of it, but we were just too shattered to be able to get up, so we missed luke psywalker (whom i heard didn't play brilliantly, but did play a very enjoyable set) and serge from total eclipse, whom i heard played one of the best sets of the festival. i was disappointed i missed that, but my body refused to let me get out of bed, so i didn't have a choice. =) did make it in time for parasense though. i enjoyed most of their set, but they really started to drag out at the end. i found myself getting a bit bored before they were finished. migas played from 6:30 - 09:00, but it was far from a morning set. he played very dark pounding music, that didn't blend with the sun rising at all. i didn't enjoy that. james monro took over from him at 09:00, and i enjoyed his set much more. he was one of the few dj's there spinning from vinyl. but i got my energy back during his set, and did quite a bit of bouncing. =) antaro took over at 11:30, but he was quite disappointing. i've heard much better sets from him in the past.
We were having such a blast though. at one point bug turned to us and said 'what time is it?' 'about 09:30' someone answered. bug started giggling and said 'hehehehe, all the rest of them are in work now' =oD it was such a weird concept though. there we were, sleeping until 04:30 or so each night, then waking up, having a cup of coffee, necking some drugs, and taking off to the dancefloor in a forest in portugal to dance for the rest of the day. =) sheer and utter bliss. =o)
And finally tuesday. christoff started at 23:00, and as far as i'm concerned he played one of the best sets of the whole festie. that was really excellent. joti shidu played at 02:00, but it was total pants. i had expected so much more from him. he played some really naff tracks. we were quite disappointed considering what we've heard from him before. logic bomb were excellent live. they really did the business. but i was really feeling knackered, so i went back to the tent at 6:30 to get a couple of hours sleep. i missed paulo, whom i heard didn't really play a very good set, but considering he's blind, he made a good hand of djing in the first place. i got back there in time for tristan's live set. we weren't sure what to expect cuz we heard it was his first time performing live, but we shouldn't have worried, he rocked the place. and he was really enjoying himself too. i wasn't extreemly impressed with his cd release, i found a lot of it a bit monotonous, but his live set was really wicked. finally nick doof took over for the last set, and he played some really old skool psytrance, and many people consider him to have been the best dj of the whole 5 days. he packed the dance floor, although we took it easy cuz we were saving our energy for the 'surprise'.
What can i say. hehe. if i see another fuckin' drummer within the next 6 months, i'll headbutt him/her regardless. the speculations and rumours that had been flying around had us all excited, and i'd say 99% of the ppl there necked a load of drugs around midday or 13:00 in preparation for another 3 or 4 hours of dancing. miranda silvergreen was there, some claimed that simon p had been spotted, ppl were speculating that medicine drum might do a live gig, there were a million and one dj's that could have taken over, but our surprise turned out to be the star sounds orchestra doing another performance on the main stage, only anyone and their mother that had a drum with them at the festival all climbed up on stage too, and they all slapped away on their drums, completely out of time with each other, for 2 hours. 2 fucking hours. mitch wandered up to the sound engineer to ask him what the story was, and he simply said that the music was over. we were devestated. couldn't believe that such a brilliant 5 day festival could end in such a way. so we're all sitting there with massively dialated pupils, looking at each other saying 'er.... what'll we do now then?' 8o/ and besides a group of us going back to our tent area and sitting around under the gazebo chatting and having fun anyway, there wasn't really anything that we could do.
But besides that rather disappointing end to the music, we had a brilliant time there. the atmosphere was again, so absolutely excellent. so many friendly people, lots of huge smiles, brill weather, the most beautiful sun rises, lots of shady trees, the most perfect location and attitude for a party that i've ever been to. neither timo or i got sick after boom, although it seems that the majority of people i've been speaking to did.
The decor really deserves a big mention. the backdrops and sculptures were really something else. lots of stuff to feast your eyes on. some really fantastic stuff. i couldn't take my eyes off the backdrop that's also the cover art for the moon spirits - lunar civilization compilation. they decorated all the trees in different themes. one of my favourite was the one with the pieces of glass dangling from it. 'the glittery tree' as i called it. and the lazers! wheee! they were excellent!! especially when they were projected through the wall of water. really amazing. =) and of course photon's projections. these guys are talented. =) they had a huge projection screen up on the hill that dominated the dance floor again. only this time i didn't loose my bearings and get lost when they rolled it up when the sun came up like 2 years ago.... hehe. timo took photo's of some of the decor, the link is at the bottom of the review.
The sunrises this year were really beautiful! 2 years ago, sunrise took place in a mist and haze that took a couple of hours to burn off. sometimes it made the dancefloor and camping area look very bleak and unattractive. but this year was like in 97, when there wasn't a mist or haze to be seen, and the moment the sun came above the horizon, it sent rays and shadows across the dance floor. it was really really astoundingly beautiful.
Did anyone notice the screen at the back of the stage where the live acts performed? just as the sun was coming up, it threw shadows of the trees onto the screen. it was one of the most beautiful things to witness. it was almost as if it was focused. kicking myself i didn't get a photo of that.
Couple of things i feel it's necessary to comment on though:
The water : although i've a feeling that this is outside the hands of the promoters. the water was off during some of the hottest times of the day. we gave up trying to have a shower, but managed to wash all the bits that were showing. =) i'm also starting to think the lack of water might also have had something to do with the size of the attendance, which brings me to my next comment.
Population : it was soooooo much bigger than pervious boom festies, which is to be expected i guess. estimated numbers are around 8500, which sounds approx correct if you consider the ppl that came just for the day/night or whatever. i thought it was just that 'little' bit too big. this was the first year that it was almost possible to get lost, and it wasn't always easy to find people on the dance floor either. if it was me, i'd limit the number of tickets for future years. ;) this might also help with the water problem.
Showers : even if the water *had* been working, there was no way that there were enough showers to cater for the amount of people that were there. if i counted correctly, there were even less that 2 years ago, when there were approx 5000 people less attending.
Toilets : same story. not enough, but also, i only saw them being cleaned once, and that was on monday morning if i remember correctly. what happened? 2 years ago they were cleaned every day at around 8 in the morning without fail. it was *not* a pleasant experience. swarms of flies trying to get up yer bum again, that made for some interesting flailing of arms while trying to relieve ones-self. hehehe but that of course led to people pissing and shitting in the eucalyptus forest behind the shower and toilet area. that's not very pleasant either, and is not going to be a nice job to clean up.
Rubbish : it wasn't collected once during the 6 or so days we were there. a big change in comparison to 2 years ago again, when it was collected very regularly. i personally think that if it had been collected on a regular basis, that people would have made more effort to keep the area clean. when we were tidying up to leave, the amount of rubbish that people left behind them was quite upsetting. we collected everything that was around our area into rubbish bags and brought them to one of the main rubbish points. it's such a pity that other ppl didn't take time to do the same.
Sprinklers : as much as they're needed on the dance floor, and well appreciated, the 'type' of sprinkler used makes a big difference. the ones that were there this year were a constant sprinkling of water, which made the dance floor very muddy, and created rivers of gunk. i know i'm always comparing to before... but! ;).... the type used 3 years ago, that sprayed far and wide in a circular motion, rather than one constant stream, seemed to work much better. they distributed the water much further and didn't cause muddy streams. =)
But regardless of my complaints, i trust that our merry band of boom organisers have reasons for the things that went not so smoothly. i've got full confidence in them. =) considering this was a 5/6 day event, and there were *so* many people there, i probably don't have the right to complain at all. on the other hand, this is like my diary of my experiences, so i write about everything that crossed my mind. =)
The *biggest* hugs go out to timo (of course) ;), bug & tom, andrei, matt, darin, andy, jason c, ron, terry, matt & rem, loula, jens, danny, thew & jessica, without whom the whole experience wouldn't have been half as crazy or half as enjoyable as it was. hope i haven't forgotten anyone in there.
Darin did complain about not being able to get a date... and that 'chicks just didn't dig him', but saying that, his reaction on the side of the dance floor when i snuck up behind him and pinched him on the bum would have made any self respecting bum-pinching female run for miles terrified! ;))
(sorry d, i just *couldn't* not include that) hehehe
But what was really cool was that almost everyone you'd ever partied with in your life, was there on the dance floor with you. such a wonderful gathering of people. but i did miss a few people that i had really wanted to be there - laura, chrissie, jeff, mike, and vadim. i was thinking of you though! and i had a bloody good dance in your honour. ;)
that's it! finally!
(horray!)
yoh-hie,
=o)
marita.
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