The highs and lows of a music festival

The absolute best moments at a festival:

-          The rush you get when you finally getting through the gates

-          Being on the barrier and feeling far superior to all the punters behind you

-          Seeing your favourite band side stage making whatever rubbish your watching worth it

-          When your band finally sets foot on the stage and you almost explode from excitement

-          When your band plays your favourite song and your singing so much you can barely breathe

-          Leaving the mosh pit and actually being able to breathe again

-          Getting to the front of the impossibly long food line

-          Finding a vacant toilet that has toilet paper and no vomit in it

-          Buying a tshirt before they sell out

-          Seeing random friends that you didn't know were coming

-          Filming really good bands so you can re-live it while watching rubbish bands

-          Realising that you actually know heaps of songs that a random band is playing

-          Meeting people who love your favourite band too and instantly becoming friends

-          Discovering new music

-          Seeing people in awesome costumes

-          Seeing people in incredibly strange costumes and trying to guess what they are

-          Taking your shoes off at the end of the day

-          Finally getting to your bed

And the worst bits:

-          Sitting through rubbish bands that are on before yours

-          When your favourite band ends :(

-          When your separated from your friends and there’s a tiny moment of panic when you wonder if you will ever see them again

-          People passing out on you

-          Getting bashed around in the mosh pit

-          When there are two really good bands on at the same time and you have to choose

-          Drunk/drugged up people

-          Dying a little on the inside when you see the toilet and food lines

-          When the tshirt you want has sold out of your size and your only choices are one that doesn’t fit, one with a rubbish design or bands that you hardly like

-          Standing on the train when your feet are dead and you all want to do is lie down

-          Losing your little map/timetable and having no idea where or when bands are starting.

-          When your favourite band doesn’t sing the song you want them to sing

-          When your fav band cancels and there’s no-one else worth watching at that time so you end up sitting down sadly hating your favourite band for not being there

-          The bruises and other battle wounds that you discover the next day

(if you can think of anymore feel free to comment!)

Not right now, I'm listening to Skip Hop

It actually blows my mind when I think about how many different types of music there are. I mean there's so many types that I almost need a map when I walk into large music shops. I think it just makes everything so much more confusing when I'm trying to buy music. I can never remember if Green Day is punk or heavy rock or pop/rock and I end up having to check every section which takes ages and then the shop people think I have no life.

The other day I was in a cd shop and I noticed a section I hadn't seen before. It was only a small section labelled as 'Skip hop'. Intrigued I began running through possible classifications in my head of what on earth skip hop could possibly be. Finally a shop assistant made his way over to me and asked if I needed any help. I pointed to the Cd and asked "actually I was just wondering what skip hop is." Well he gave me a look. I'm sure you can all appreciate what I mean by 'a look'. It was the kind of look that screamed "OMG YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SKIP HOP IS?" I instantly felt ashamed while I waited for his answer. "It's Aussie Hip Hop' he said disgustedly before walking off to probably go laugh about me behind my back.  I actually do a like a bit of Aussie hip hop (skip hop) I'm quite into Bliss en Eso and Drapht. I don't know if this makes me a 'fake fan' because I don’t even know what it's classed as or a 'true fan' because I don't care about the labels. Personally I think it just means that I’m still clueless about music genres.

So anyway the next time I walked into the shop with my dad I felt so superior because I knew what skip hop was. I walked in and said loudly 'meet you back here dad I’m just going to check out the skip hop'. He looked at me like I was crazy but if anybody else heard I’m pretty sure they would have been like "dayyyum that girl knows about music!'

Because the thing about skip hop is that it’s a lot of fun to say because most people have no idea what you’re talking about and then you can give them 'the look' when they ask you about it. Now if someone asks me something and I'm listening to Drapht I just yell out "Not right now, I'm listening to Skip Hop!"