Novi Sad, Serbia - Exit Festival - 9 to 12 July 2009

Exit Festival
Insane, Insane, Insane

I’m gonna keep this brief, I’m not going to give run down of all day’s events, rather just review the best artists I saw and the insane events I encounted. Mainly Sonja and Suzie coming home at 7am covered from head to toe in mud and losing their minds. ;) haha

I didn’t take many photos as my camera doesn’t take very good night shots and the event basically kicked off every day at 8-9pm, BUT, I did take a shit load of videos of some of the best songs from my favorite artists, so I’m gonna post them up instead! BONER!

Check the end of my blog for Allison's top 10 random quotes from the 4 days of Exit to, its quite the hillarity! :D

Ok, quickly, ill just show you a photo of the apartment we stayed in and our little crew!

Our Apartment! 2 single beds down stairs and a kitchen to my right, then upstairs a double bed, and not enough height to stand haha

From left to right

Suzie, Sonja, Alison & Myself

Also, as a little travelling tip, if your with 2 of more people, dont be suckered into the mentality that Hostels are cheaper, because most the time they arent (unless your in a 10 person dorm or something, which sucks ass cos you have to tip toe around at night and cant fart to much because it annoys people). Just look for apartments and split it between how many people you have, its worked out sweet for us on 3 occasions now, once with a crew of 4 people (Exit Fest) and twice with just me and Suze'dawg It might not be cheaper, but you get the benefits of a bathroom to yourselves, free wi-fi internet sometimes, kitchen facilities n shit. You can also look into 4 person dorms if you have 4 people, that worked pretty sweet in Belgrade!

Lilly Allen
Unexpectedly Awsome

Ok, this I mother flippin wasn’t expecting. I rocked up to Lilly Allen wanting to see what she had to offer the minions waiting to get crunk to Roots Manuva who was after her set and little did I know, she was a dub step head. She was blabbering on about something at one point and mentioned that she wishes she didn’t have to fly straight out because she wanted to see Caspa and Rusko (dub step DJ's) .... And then this happened (watch video, Lilly Allen - Smile, below)

See what i mean! Drum and bass then closes out the track with a dub step outro... and this was only the begining of the evening... (11pm)

Roots Manuva
Witness, the fuckin, fitness!

This is who i was here for! FINALLY some live hip hop, well, more grime / hip hop, but still, i have been itching for some live hip hop since i left home and it was about to be unleashed on me. I should have brought another change of underwear, because mine got messy really quickly...(watch video, Roots Manuva - Its me oh lord, below)

Ahhh yessss! And then this happened..... (watch video Roots Manuva - Buff Nuff & Join The Dots, below)


Yes there was some mari-juana being passed around, but I assure you I do not partake in those insolent mind altering substances! *coughs* ... By this stage it might as well have been raining inside my underwear, because I was in desperate need of a change of pants. This was way to stimulating and we were only like 2-4 tracks into the set... AND THEN HE DROPPED THE FUCKIN BOMB! NOT JUST A BOMB... AN ATOMIC BOMB, A BOMB THAT WOULD BLOW UP A FRICKIN CITY! (Watch, Roots Manuva - Witness the Fitness, below)


Rookie mistake. I DIDNT CHARGE MY CAMERA, THE BATTERY DIED JUST AS THE SONG WAS PEAKING!!! WHAT THE SHITTTTT!!! .... Oh well, I still brocked out for the rest of the song, but, unfortunately, the end of the set was a bit shit. He finished down tempo and even did a down tempo song for the encore... which kinda sucked, he should have saved Witness or Let the Spirit move you for the last track... Oh well, AWSOME SET! BONERRRSSS ALL ROUND!!!

Korn
Once I was a metal head, my shirt was as black as my heart *end riddle*

I pushed my way to a couple of rows from the front for this one. I had been smashing heads in the Arctic Monkeys mosh pit the night before (lame) and was dance battling anyone in my zone during Sub Focus when he was dropping crazy dubstep, so I was prepped and ready for whatever the diehard European Korn fans had to throw at me.... and it was pretty tame really.. (watch, Korn - Intro & ... whatever there first tune is, below)

Ok, good start, but i wasnt sure what kinda set they were gonna drop. Then this happened! (watch, Korn - Blind, below)


Man, fuckin awesome. Definitely one of my favorite Korn tunes of all time. By this stage they had also played a cover of Pink Floyds, Another brick in the wall, which was unexpected, but pretty sweet cos they dropped straight into some turbo heavy tune which brought the house down (unfortunately I don’t have that on film) ... next up was a bagpipe solo hahaha. CHECK IT! (watch, Korn - Bagpipe solo & Some other tune, below)


Sorry about the camera work, I got a little excited. A little later on they covered Queen We Will Rock You and some Metallica song, which were all pretty dope boy fresh... but thats as far as the set went. TOP STUFF KORN! 2 GOLD STARS! LOLZ! <@;)

Moby
Glowstick madness

Moby easily, had the biggest crowd so far, it was SO packed when we got there that we couldn’t even be fucked pushing our way to the front. So the zoom function got a work out! The set was pretty awesome, but because we weren’t in the thick of things in the middle of the crowd or near the front, it was hard to get into it was much as the dude next to us chewing off his face, or the guy to the left that was swaying back and forth with his head facing the sky for the whole set, but none the less, I still raised my lighters up for a few down tempo tunes I really liked. (Watch, Moby - Porcelain, below)

Continuing with the "raise up your lighters" theme, the only other video i recorded of the Moby set was "Why does my heart feel so bad?", which was fuckin awsome! (watch, Moby - Why does my heart feel so bad?, below)

Madness
Old school party tunes!

Madness have made a come back this year releasing another album and a massive worldwide tour, playing big festivals around the world (including Perth) and i was HELLA looking forward to this set! I ended up missing some big tunes because i needed to piss hell bad and the crowd was SO big it took me ages to get out and back in, BUT, i did get some bangers! (watch, Madness - Madness Intro, below)



Sooooo good! After that, they just got better and better slamming down a few more tunes then House of Fun! (watch, Madness - House of fun, below)



After that i made a B-line for the toilets (or the fence, whatever) and then back again, only to be greated by the intro to Baggy Trousers (watch, Madness - Baggy Trousers, below)



I didnt really get much recording after that, mainly from lazyness, but i wanted to save some memory space for Prodigy, only to not get ANY footage because the crowd was SO packed that I just called it quits and bailed to the dance arena to check out what was going on there. LAME! *punches himself in the face*

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Anyways, we were travelling around Focha in Bosnia with Sonja and Alison, Suzies friends, and we all came to partayyyyyyy at Exit Festival together (as I said earlier on), which was hippidy hoppin! Alison though had a tendancy to drop mean farts and just blurt out random shit all day long at random intervals which was hella funny, but alot of the time super strange haha. SO prepare yourself forrrrr *drum roll on Suzies skull*

Alison's Top 10 Quotes!!!

10 - talking about brushing teeth before and after going to sleep "my boyfriend wont kiss me in the morning because i have death breath"
09 - on the subject of farting "oh my god Leon, that was gross, now theres pootons in the air"
08 - randomly "come here and give me a kiss Sonja"
07 - talking about porn stars in different countries "she would get shat on like icing on a cake!"
06 - talking about who was showering next "i just got my rocks off in the shower"
05 - talking about porn stars "ive had so many dicks in my mouth"
04 - talking about kitchen towels "they really clean my crack!"
03 - asking if everyones ok with chilli in there dinner "i've got a red hot chilli vagina"
02 - discussion about picking up "i attract more guys when i dont wear deoderant"
01!- randomly "oh my god, i have the itchiest c*nt"

Next stop, Italy! (Well actually, we are already here, it just took me a while to get this up... haha)

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