{"id":1268,"date":"2009-06-22T23:41:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2009-06-23T00:20:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T22:20:54","slug":"bands-ive-seen-this-weekend-hellfest-2009-my-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/bands-ive-seen-this-weekend-hellfest-2009-my-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands I&#8217;ve Seen This Weekend: Hellfest 2009, My Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One week after <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ozh\/status\/2167585992\">AC\/DC&#39;s Black Ice Tour in Paris<\/a>, I&#39;ve had yet another musical <em>rendez-vous<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellfest.fr\/\">Hellfest Open Air 2009<\/a> (momentarily closed as of writing), a music festival held about 30 kms from where I currently live. I&#39;ve seen live on stage:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nashville Pussy<\/li>\n<li>Buckcherry<\/li>\n<li>Voivod<\/li>\n<li>WASP<\/li>\n<li>Down<\/li>\n<li>Anthrax<\/li>\n<li>Heaven &#038; Hell<\/li>\n<li>Motley Crue<\/li>\n<li>Pain<\/li>\n<li>The Misfits<\/li>\n<li>Machine Head<\/li>\n<li>Dragonforce<\/li>\n<li>Queensryche<\/li>\n<li>Napalm Death<\/li>\n<li>Europe<\/li>\n<li>Suicidal Tendencies<\/li>\n<li>Dream Theater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; from a grand total of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellfest_Summer_Open_Air#2009_.28June_19.E2.80.9321.29\">more than 100 bands<\/a> playing during this 3 day festival.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some memorable moments. WASP&#39;s performance was unexpectedly awesome (best show of the first day I&#39;d say), Dragonforce was really great and pretty hilarious. The funniest moment has to be when Europe finally started their Final Countdown which launched a real riot (people where <strike>singing<\/strike>yelling this tune intro between every song, obviously waiting for it and not caring about other songs).<\/p>\n<p>The (my) highlight of this festival and the real reason for my being there was, obviously, <strong>Suicidal Tendencies<\/strong>, as hysterical as expected, with hordes of fan invading the stage at the end of Pledge Your Allegiance. I was at the very first fucking row kids, what a show it&#39;s been!<\/p>\n<p>All in all, my first festival has been one of the most entertaining week-end of my life. The overall organization was flawless and the atmosphere was surprisingly friendly and peaceful (I mean, when you run into a <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/gallery\/2009\/hellfest\/090621-1170.jpg.php\">pierced hairy scary metal dude<\/a>, the first time you have to get a little sweat:)<\/p>\n<p>Definitely looking forward to attending 2010 edition. HELL YEAH!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> my <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/gallery\/2009\/hellfest\/\">Hellfest photos<\/a> \\m\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week after AC\/DC&#39;s Black Ice Tour in Paris, I&#39;ve had yet another musical rendez-vous: Hellfest Open Air 2009 (momentarily closed as of writing), a music festival held about 30 kms from where I currently live. I&#39;ve seen live on stage:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[357,356,26,358],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-festival","tag-hellfest","tag-music","tag-suicidal-tendencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}