We'd been planning for Day 4 for a while, working out breakfast, lunch and arrival times, how to time our last drinks run and then finally our run into the D zone at the front.
This was the final day, so all remaining pre-bought vodka, energy drinks and drink tokens had to be used, which was the plan. So during lunch, we started with the warm up drinks, so we were well involved by the time we got inside.
We planned to be in the D zone during Social Distortion's set, some fairly old school looking American rockers, to be sure we were in there for the real deal. We knew that once in the D zone, it may be hard to get out and restock with drinks, so we headed in with as many drinks as we could carry in, and prepared ourselves, while downing some Belgian beers.
Main Stage - Kasabian
Again, Megan decided she needed to leave for the toilet before Kasabian came on, so we told her to go,but be quick, as she may not get back into the D zone, as the crowd was growing quickly in anticipation for the rockers from Leicestershire.
Once again, she defied the odds, by not just making it back to us JUST in time, but even managed to strengthen her case for wife of the year by bringing back drinks for everyone!!
The only other time I have seen Kasabian live was at the Big Day Out in Adelaide, 2010, and even though they played fairly early that day, they were my highlight.
We were within 3-4 people from the fence and we were all well pumped, and for me, that feeling was well warranted when they opened with my favourite, Club Foot.
Tom, crowd favourite Serge, and the boys smashed out a rock solid set, which I would've enjoyed no matter the circumstances, but probably a whole heap more thanks to the beers and being up the front going nuts with the Belgians.
We had made a 'GET LOOSE GET LOOSE' sign inspired, of course by the hard hitting Vlad the Impaler, but unfortunately our banner didnt survive the set and was never seen again. Nor was the Australian beach ball that I brought over from home with the intention of donating it to a worthy festival crowd. Which they were.
9/10
Main Stage - Kaiser Chiefs
We love you!!
I was yet to see the Kaisers live, and couldn't believe how much I was looking forward to it.
Recipe for having the time of your life is quite simple, just follow these instructions.
Lots of Belgian Beers,
Be a metre from the front fence at one of the biggest and best rock festivals in Europe,
then add a generous dash of Ricky, his Chiefs, thousands of Belgiums and at least one Dutch guy!
WHAMMY! Just try to not have a good time. Good luck!
To really ram it home, Ricky was more than happy to blow our minds by opening with Everyday I Love You Less and Less, and at that moment, I thought just then, that I could've died a happy man.
Much to the delight of the 90 000 adoring fans, I was then, during that opening song, displayed for all to see on the big screen...
Ricky is a master of working the crowd, and ran around like an idiot, climbed over stuff, jumped off stage, ran through the security aisles parting the crowd, and then climbed all over the audio/technical/drinks tent in the middle of the crowd.
The Kaiser Chiefs rock my world, and really know how to throw a party like no one else. Wish they could've played for at least an hour longer.
9.5/10 (would've been a 10 Ricky if you had've played Na Na Na Na Na!)
After the Chiefs, I was floating on a cloud, as we walked around the festival grounds. We were on our way over to have a sneaky peek at the Fleet Foxes, but our drunkenness caused us to be distracted fairly easily by the Coca Cola slip'n'slide, where the Main Event was a huge race on Coca Cola body boards along the soapy plastic between myself and Miss Jess Turnbull. Turns out Jess wasn't quite as good at slippin and slidin as she thought, even though she had had a practice run while I was probably distracted by something else. Maybe something shiny, don't know. Anyway, I beat her, and we got awarded an amazing pair of Coca Cola sunglasses. I'm all about pleasing the crowd, so on my walk across the plastic to collect my prize, I thought it would be good fun for all if I slipped over 3-4 times while trying to get my footing. It's all about the fans for me.....
Megan wasn't feeling very well, so she retired to the campsite to have a nap, while Jess and I ripped up Belgium.....all of our time was taken up by me waiting in line to take the Red Bull rope challenge.
We then went back to campsite ourselves, and all fell asleep for an hour longer than we wanted, but it was ok, we just missed Iron Maiden, who it seemed 80% of the crowd were there to see for some reason.
Main Stage - Black Eyed Peas
Well, after thinking during the Kaiser Chiefs set that I could have achieved no more in my life, and if I had died there and then, I would've been happy and content, I suppose the Black Eyed Peas had tough gig to back that up.
Well, maybe they tried, but they weren't up to it.
I will say this though, Will-I-Am is one cool mo-fo. Anyone rockin' a key-tar is an A-class dude in my mind.
We felt they played a lot of songs that no one knew, and even at one stage, they just played someone else's song and its filmclip while they had a wardrobe change.
There were two notable highlights, Will-I-Am's solo rap, which went for at least 5 mins, just about without a breath.......was a lot better than it sounds. Pity the rhymes and lyrics contained in said rap were amateur.
The other, was Will-I-Am's solo dj set, when the platform he was standing on, at the end of the catwalk, lifted out of the stage, and elevated him 6 or so metres above the crowd and stage. And that was only because of the list of songs he played, which included, Blur's Song 2, House of Pain's Jump Around, Guns N Roses' Sweet Chid O' Mine, and a ton more kickass songs.
Oh, and Fergie's face looked fat.
6/10
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