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3 – Downfall (film)
Jun 25 2008
In the wake of Hellfest and the build-up to house-moving, I’ll take this moment to review all the bands and my general festival experience. Tom was saying how unorganised previous years were, but I kept an open mind. Thankfully, on 99% of fronts, the festival was excellently organised. Toilets were cleaned every day which was more than most festivals. The weather was spectacularly hot (and sometimes too hot for Hannah who gets sunstroke very easily!), and it was ace. Not enough shade I think, I think the benches should’ve had umbrellas for shade as well. Managed to pick up a few new T-Shirts (Venom, Dimmu Borgir, Hellfest), as did Han. Read on for my review of most of the bands I saw…
Jun 25 2008
Thanks to a link found by Newboy, it looks like the new rage is Open Source Phone operating systems. Apparently I missed Google’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance which looks pretty interesting! Nokia seem to be luke-warm on their heals by buying up the Symbian Foundation. Symbian is OK, but I’d be interested in what Google can do. Integration with the rest of my other Google services? Yes please!
And as for the latter part of that article, who cares if the iPhone will be 3G soon? It should’ve been 3G in the first place, and who the hell will pay $200 for an iPhone? iPhones are a bane on this earth, just like any other Apple product is.
Bring on Google’s world domination I say!
Jun 25 2008
I’ll post the same review as I wrote on Pompey Music forum as I’m lazy and can’t be bothered to type another review. My review of Hellfest is going to be pretty in-depth, so I shall work on that tonight.
Frosthold – Not a bad set by all accounts (apart from one of the bouncers who thought we were appalling…), think we generally played a lot better than usual aside from some minor mess-ups including me totally losing my place in The Aethelings due to Phil’s guitar suddenly being drowned out of my monitors…otherwise good.
Akakios – I was recovering from sweat for most of it, but I heard good metally sounds coming from over there.
Mayz – I had a disagreement with the door staff at this point, so missed most of Mayz calming down from wanting to rip their faces off. Sounded nice and proggy, but I’d have to listen to it properly to get it I expect. The only other thing I remember of Mayz was them turning up very late, I don’t know the full story, there could be a really valid reason, but turning up so late is just not cool…
Enochian Theory – Just excellent as always. Every time I see them, they get so much better, tighter, and more touching. Aside from the orchestra being a bunch of lazy bastards and seemingly not playing what the conductor was telling them to play, it was absolutely flawless. I’ll definitely be picking up a copy of the new CD when it’s done as I really loved the songs. Very tight, very pro, very WIN, very MANLY. In the bedroom.
