Sonisphere 2010 - A Fucking EPIC Adventure!

Due to extreme good fortune, I ended up getting some guestlist passes for Sonisphere this year and the blog post that follows relates the tale of our adventures in Knebworth!

The first part of the adventure can be condensed into the following:

Myself and John get train to London - Meet Phil at St Pancras - Get train to Stevenage - Get shuttle bus to Sonisphere - Get stuck outside for 13 hours due to our friends being late and the wankers at the box-office not letting us have our passes without them - Spend night outside under the SONISPHERE sign in the freezing cold.

HOWEVER, once all the bullshit had been sorted out, we made our way into the campsite which was rapidly filling up on Friday morning, and very, very luckily for us, were directed to the top on the hill where we found a most excellent campsite and saved space for friends. Let the epicness commence!

Once again, I think it's easier to bullet point the best bits, because to write out the whole account would be very time-consuming and not make for the best read ever ;)

• Camping right near the Arena entrance was in fact fabulous. We were 5 mins from the stages, right next to the posh loos and the best food places. It also meant we could laugh at all the people who spent several hours queuing for the showers IN THE RAIN!
• Gary Numan is still a Rock God.
• Goths in hot weather are reasonably hilarious. Especially when their white face paint starts to run ;)
• The keyboardist from Rammstein may in fact be the doctor from The Human Centipede.
• Watching Lacuna Coil with a nice drink and a Tunnocks Tea-Cake? Actually pretty awesome.
• Zebras on stilts - the highlight of Friday. Having an 10 foot tall Zebra run towards you through the crowd shouting "CHLOE!!" to give you a massive hug is pretty special! Our friends performing for Bizarre were totally brilliant and if you didn't catch their shows in the Bohemia tent, you missed out!
• Dancing your socks off to Pendulum while wearing your pyjamas is an experience you will never, ever forget. Say what you like about them, they FUCKING RULE and they more than deserved their space on the main stage on Sunday. So loud I could feel it in my chest!
• Papa Roach were rather daft fun, and no mistake. I still can't take them very seriously but their live performance was good and had has dancing away like teenagers. "Last Resort" was by far the best though and the right one to close with!
• Camping with the nicest people ever. Honestly couldn't have asked for a better bunch - Phil and I were with John and later in the day my friend Mackie showed up with his two friends Carys and Rob and finally we were joined by little Stef. I honestly haven't had so much fun and laughed so hard in such a long time.
• Generally, the festival itself was incredible. Really great staff, great line-up, great site. Plenty of Police but not intrusively so, plenty of Security but not arsey ones, free shuttle buses to and from the town, good toilets! I'd happily go again if the line-up tempted me!
• Going backstage with borrowed Artist passes was just A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. I have so few words to describe it. PENDULUM and BACKSTAGE TOILETS are all I can really say! I stole a loo-roll from one of them. Yes, I am that mischievous.