M’era Luna 2007

I was looking forward to it for weeks when finally on Friday, Aug. 10^th, 2007, a few minutes after 10 a.m., Gerald and Sina came to pick me up and take me to Hildesheim for the M’era Luna festival.

After my things were stuffed into the car – hey, I didn’t have that much luggage!!! – we just went to Hechtstraße to deliver the “holiday-hamster” back, did some food&water-shopping at Netto, bought some Turkish bred, get some fuel and went tot the highway.

Although two girls and the navi told Gerald how to drive, he took the highway to Göttingen, which did not exist by now… so we reached Hildesheim a bit late.

Expecting bad weather, we reached the area around 6 p.m., got a good place for the car, met Thomas and Marco who where space keepers for our tents. Also René and Claudi were there already; later “Elch” and his girl-friend arrived – so there we were.

After placing the tents we were all sitting together at the pavilion when a heavy rain started…

But when the rain finished I had a very nice evening as I had a date for a bottle of wine with someone really nice and he found me and … we were drinking much too much of the wine but… that’s nothing to talk about

I went to sleep around 1 a.m. but woke around 4 again – because it was raining into the tent and my sleeping bag was wet L but I was too tired to do something

Well, it was difficult to get up next morning and to have breakfast…the plan was to meet at 11 by the main stage to watch The Lovecrave but I didn’t manage at all. But I could listen to it from the tent. Finally I managed to be there to watch Lola Angst, pretty good music and show. And finally the weather was good…

Afterwards I saw Jesus on Extasy and went back to bed J. As I remember I watched Assemblage 23 next but I’m not sure as they changed the line up, later Covenant, well, I just saw them.

But I met the nice guys from Lübeck again, the ones I was drinking beer with at the WGT in Leipzig! That was a nice surprise.

Dir en Grey was the first band I really liked that day – well, I didn’t really know them before, just heard people talking about them and listened to 1 or 2 songs – but, really, not bad. The show was not that special but I don’t need too much theatre blood…

Afterward I just checked Emily Autumn, well well – nothing to talk about.

Actually I didn’t want to see And One but the show was great, I had so much fun, danced a lot. But he is sooo arrogant…

To see Tool I fought my way to the 5^th row, but only stood there for half of the concert, I needed fresh air and some more space than. Finally the show was much better to see from more away and it was a great show with video projections and laser lights, just a blast!!! I really liked it a lot. They are just the Pink Floyd of today…

After sitting together with friends with beer and wine I crawled into my sleeping bag (dry gain!!!) around 1 again.

The next morning found me waking up pretty confused – because I woke up because Deine Lakaien were playing… “Oh my god – they are playing already?!” – Checking my watch – 8??!! …In the evening??? – Checking the mobile phone – no, thank gods, in the morning!!!

But it was good to get up that early, so we were finished with breakfast in time as Steffen, an e-mail-friend I never met before, visited me before we went to see Implant.

Well, Implant was not bad but not the right in the early morning… Warren Suicide and Kryteria were not bed, either, and we saw Angels & Agony, too – walking in and outside all the time; so we could see all bands. I really liked Diorama.

The Crüxshadows were not bad but not as good as I expected, the music remembered me a lot of the Inchtabokatables.

Next I went to the camping site to have a rest, just leaving the sun for a while – it was too hot – and went back to see Skinny Puppy. Well, I loved the music but the show… lots of theatre blood… No, that’s nothing I really like!

IAMX was next, really cool, good music to dance to!!!

Well, the concert of Deine Lakaien was really nice but – at a festival??? Not really, I’d preferred to listen to it in a church.

But we were sitting beside a really nice Goth family, Granny, her children and grandchildren, all of them so pretty cute… Actually I don’t like kids taken to festivals but I liked this family a lot.

Well – last but not least – The Jesus and Mary Chain – just need to say one word: BRILLIANT!

Later we were sitting together again with beer and wine, walking around the camping site, listening to the percussions performance, watching some fireworks – and so the festival was over.

I enjoyed it a lot; can I have it once again, please???!!!

Just a few words about Monday – the neighbourhood construction area workers were so “kind” to wake us at 6 in the morning by moving the metal fence closer to our tents…

Well, I thought there was a techno party going on… Finally I got up at 7 so we finished in time because it started raining when we left the festival area around 10 a.m.

We reached Dresden few minutes after 2 p.m. – and the usual daily terror had us back