Currently listening to the newest Kaiser Chiefs CD: Your Truly, Angry Mob
Oh yes, Lowlands 2007 has come and gone already and it was fucking great!! We decided to go on Friday morning, because one of the girls I was going with (we went with three girls) didn’t feel very well, because she just had a wisdom tooth removed. Thursday night when I lay in bed I was SO glad we didn’t go on Thursday, because it was pouring with rain!! Thunder, lightning, the whole jizz. Not a whole lot of fun to have to put up your tent in that weather 
So we took the train from 9:00 on Friday morning and we arrived at the festival ground at around 10:30 I think, so it all went rather quick! The putting up of our tents (we had two tents) went pretty well too, we were impressed with us. Last year we let some neighbour guys put up our tent haha. And we were very lucky, because not long after our tents stood, it started to rain again. The festival hadn’t begun yet, so we stayed in our tents for a little while.
We had English neighbours all over the place!! There were quite some Brits last year as well, but this year I practically only heard English!! Or so it seemed.
I’ll never understand that a lot of these festival people already start drinking beer or stronger stuff so early in the morning, and then the whole day through. I just don’t see the fun in that, but it’s probably just me (and my friends haha).
Oh, this is what my wrists looks like now, with 3 bracelets (the ones from 2001 and 2003 have been long gone):
Anyway.. at some point we went to the actual festival ground and the sun was shining! So we showed our friend who hadn’t been to Lowlands before, around and I think we then installed ourselves on the “Aplha-hill”. With Alpha being the biggest concert tent (there are like 10 concert tents I think) and the hill meaning the Aplha has two sort of grass hills next to it, where I love to lay around for hours haha. That’s the true festival spirit, laying around in the grass, listening to music. That way we listened to the Editors and Kasabian. Both pretty good, although the Editors songs sounded all a bit alike. I absolutely love “Munich” and “Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors” from them though, go listen!
Then my friends wanted to see Damien Rice from up close in Alpha (I didn’t really know him yet.. although later it appeared that I actually did know him haha), so we went all the way to the front. It was a very nice concert! Apparently he did more rock-y songs than my friends knew from his albums, but I guess it fitted the Lowlands crowd better. It was so cute when the string of his guitar collapsed though. He had to re-tune it and after that he forgot the lines to the song he was singing. Just last week I saw the movie Closer (with Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman) and Damien Rice’s song “The Blower’s Daughter” was at the beginning and ending of the movie! I loved it then and now that I’ve seen it perfom live I’m in love with it!
After Damien Rice we decided to stay in the tent, because The Killers would come next!!!! We had such an awesome spot at the very front!! Just not completely in the middle, but we could see everything perfectly! I’d never been so close before! Their set looked so cool, with a sort of Christmas lights lighting the band name and the instruments were ornamented with flowers and such. So cool. And the show was amazing!!! Brandon Flowers is very awesome (and sexy, I must add!) and the performance was great. I didn’t know all the songs, because I only have their second CD, but I’m buying the first one soon (yes, I still buy those things). I took some pics and made some videos, but of course they all sucked.
After that we went to some comedian that was absolutely not funny, Doug Stanhope is his name I think. Apparently very controversial in the States, but we have seen it all over here. Abortion, rugs, alcohol, sex, we’re not shocked easily anymore I guess. It’s all normal for us. After that we were really really tired, so we decided to go to sleep. It was freezing in the tent though and our Scottish neighbours stayed talking and drinking outside for hours, so I barely slept. But hey, sleeping is not what I come to Lowlands for, so it was ok.
On Saturday we spent the morning in front of our tents, then we walked around the festival ground for a while. Sat at the Alpha hill again and then we ‘had’ to go wait in line very long for “De Lama’s” (based on the British “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) . I’m going to see them in the theatre somewhere this season, but I’m glad I also went here. It isn’t great comedy or anything, but the Lowlands crowd is just.. I don’t know, you have to laugh. And at the end the guys did a dance routine on Backstreet Boys’ song “Backstreet’s Back”. Oh man, that really was hilarious. I just have to remember when in the theatre, I can’t go screaming and putting my hands in the air and everything haha.
I can’t really remember what we did there and I don’t have the program here, but at night we went to the Kaiser Chiefs!!!! Once again we managed to get in the front space, but we weren’t as close as we were to The Killers. The show was great though, everyone was jumping and singing along. I know almost all their songs, so it was really great. And Ricky Wilson sure’s got some energy, as he was jumping a lot as well. And he went into the audience, although I’m not quite how haha. So after that show my voice really went downhill. I think at night we went to some other comedians, “The Unbookables” or something, since they’re also ‘not done’ in the States. Has anyone heard of them? Thought it was rather boring, see my comments about the other American comedian.
When that was finished it was quite late already and we went back to our tents.
On Sunday we just chilled a lot in the sun (I’ve got such a tan!! my mum didn’t know what she saw when I got home on Monday, she said I didn’t nearly get as much as a tan in Hungary haha) and in the afternoon my friend who got a wisdom tooth removed, decided to go home. Her boyfriend picked her up (I met him for the first time, nice guy!) and we moved my other friends stuff to my tent, because she slept in the other tent.
When we went back to the festival ground (oh, I frogot to mention, after some wine drinking by the tent..) we decided to get something to eat and there we met two Aussies. From Adelaide, so I mentioned I knew someone from there hehe. We actually wanted to see Sonic Youth (not really from my time, but my brother’s 8 years older so yeah..), but we were (or I was..) having such a nice conversation that we missed them. After a while the girlfriend of one of the Aussies (they were working in London) kept calling where they were, so they had to go. Was a lot of fun and I could practice my English a bit 
Then we met a friend of my friend, I’d already seen her once when we went to a Dalí exhibition, so we talked to her for a while. Then we chilled on the hill again, listened to some of the Tool concert and then went to see some Dutch comedians. They were more enjoyable than the Americans, that’s for sure.
After that we felt like dancing!! (you might remember that, Mark ) So we went to the Grolsch tent where the dance night was called “Doesn’t Smell Like 90’s Now”, so you can imagine what kind of music they played there. My music, or at least the music they always played at the place I used to go out at in Zoetermeer. Good memories, good music, good atmosphere. So we danced (um.. jumped) for a couple of hours and then decided to go back to the tent to catch some sleep, before we had to get up early on Monday morning to pack our stuff and go home.
The packing went quite fast and even the waiting in line to get off the festival and waiting for the bus to bring us to the train station went faster than last year. It was dramatic last year! So we installed ourselves in the first class of the train (it’s not like they were checking cards and otherwise we just would’ve gone to the hall again haha), because the train was absolutely packed!! We thought the train would go straight to Utrecht, but in Amersfoort we had to get out… For once I was lucky, because in Amersfoort came a train that would go directly to Gouda, where I have to take the train to Zoetermeer. So I got home around 12:30 I think.
That was Lowlands!!
Yesterday (Tuesday), we had to pick a new housemate, because one of our hosuemates got a new place somewhere in the middle of the centre. We’ll miss him, because he was home a lot and we had lots of fun, but oh well. We had to find a guy though, because it already isn’t equal now. We have 5 girls and 3 guys, so a guy really had to be found. So we invited 6 guys to come over and tell something about themselves and we told how things work in our house, etc. After that the big deciding started. We all said which 3 guys we liked best and from there we could always write 2 guys off, aww. Then we said our top 2 and it appeared we were quite unanimous, because there were only 2 guys left with the most votes. So then we all picked our favourite from the two and we decided for an 18 year old guy who starts studying this September. quite young, but that wasn’t noticeable. I’m curious what he will be like, but we’ll see!
So that’s my update really. Now I’m gonna go back home again, I should call my dad and my brother.
I think I’m gonna visit my grandma this week, yeah I should really do that.
Aww, we’re really going to miss him!
I love watching men at work haha. I decided I’d give them their macho time and didn’t bother offering help. The dust and wood chips were flying around, but they all cleaned it. I think.. hope.