Big Adventures, Little World

Another early morning, this time to see a Japanese punk band called Mongol800, which was an interesting experience, and proved to me that Japanese people aren’t as civil as they seem to be. We were fairly close to the front and there was enough room around everyone. That was until they came out, which then had everyone storm the front of the stage and cram about 3 times as many people into the same amount of space! With everyone pushing, screaming, bouncing around and crowd surfing it was truly a fun experience. Even though I couldn’t understand the music, I still really enjoyed it!

Hard-Fi was next up in the afternoon, followed by Asian Dub Foundation, before a break in time for another long night. That began with Underworld at the Green Stage, which had an amazing light show and graphics, but unfortunately didn’t play Born Slippy, well at least not that we saw, as we left a bit before the end to go to the White Stage and see Simple Plan. While neither me nor Belinda are big fans, Belinda in fact saying she “would rather slit her wrists than listen to Simple Plan”, they put on an awesome show, speaking in Japanese, interacting with the crowd, and even doing a cover of T-Pain’s, Get Low, which they should actually release because it was that good.

After Simple Plan me and Bel went back to the Red Marquee and saw the end of Princess Superstar, who as usual was a lot of fun and worked the crowd, before we went to try and see Rodrigo Y Gabriela again. But after waiting for nearly an hour, it turned out that they had been canceled, so we trudged back to the campsite pissed off, and walking up the mountain seemed so much harder than ever before.