Well, I survived the Jisan Valley Rock Festival by the skin of my teeth.
Dan and I left Seoul on Friday afternoon as soon as I finished work. On the subway, before we had even left Seoul, Dan whipped out the soju and fruit juice cocktails and we took our first steps along the path of complete debauchery. We would not stray from that path for the entire weekend.
The Friday night headliner act was Weezer and the 14 year old Nicole emerged and was swooning all over Rivers Cuomo, even though he's balding and looking a bit rough around the edges. They played a lot of their old stuff, which was amazing, and some new stuff, which was less amazing. Dan and I reached a point of drunkenness that lead us to sing racist England chants ("There were 10 German bombers in the air....but the RAF from England shot one down!...") and to pee in random places along the way back to our tents. Ah, camping!
On Saturday, we were joined by Ben and Aaron, who brought the soju. Saturday was more about our crazy drunken antics than the music but that was ok. We had a lot of fun. I was covered in neon pink paint and at some point in the afternoon, the boys decided the giant inflated Jaegermeister bottle was their enemy and had to be taken down. I nearly wet my pants laughing when two of them ran at it and rugby tackled it, only to bounce off. When Basement Jaxx came on on Saturday, Dan and I climbed up the towers where the cameras were and saw the whole crowd from a bird's eye view. It was pretty incredible.
Sunday was a bit horrible. We were all deathly hungover and couldn't do anything but lie in the grass and sip at beers. No one really woke up until about 8 pm and then we all realized we were drunk from sipping at beer all day. Jet was pretty good plus they were really good lookin'.
The main event, of course, was Oasis and they were pretty fucking awesome. We had to battle to get good spots and then continued fighting to keep them but it was totally worth is. I absolutely love the song Don't Look Back in Anger and they played it, which made me extremely happy. They were just brilliant. Liam Gallagher said "I don't know where we are or what festival we're at but you're all the bullocks" and really, I feel like that summed up the weekend.
Getting back was a horrific experience that does not need to be described but suffice it to say I was an absolute mess today. I am so happy to be back in my own bed with my fan and the cats. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll start feeling human again....but totally worth it!
