BLOODSTOCK FESTIVAL - SAT 31.08.2002

By Tim Medway

ummm lets see... quick breakdown of my experience of bloodstock...

• sleeping on the way there despite jimmers loud grindy metal comin out of the speakers 3 inches from me head... ["Heartwork" by the mighty Carcass, no less... - Jimmer]
• KFC! whooo! cheap and nasty. 2 for the price of one...
• first bands weren't anything really special... maybe part from biomech.. who at least got the crowd going...
• ran in to an ex-girlfriend just before Primordials set... i had to go buy a ring in fright...
• Basically, pretty much all the bands on the second stage were great.
• Bal Sagoth were excellent. well worth the £20 i paid to some bloke outside the gig for the tickets... and the main reason i can't really rotate my head at all today...
• the bands on the main stage were not exactly my cup of tea, shall we say.. was it Freedom call that had a song that started out like 'the final countdown'? i don't know, i didn't stay long enough after i heard that keyboard intro... that said i did like a bit of blind guardians set; lord of the rings and some of that cheesy acoustic they stuck in...
• Bonzo berating jim on the way out... shes a scaaaary lady...

so, yay -

• for the second stage.
• my ring.
• Bal Sagoth, Elvenking, Primordial and Return to the Sabbat

and nay -

• to the ex-gf.
• to the main stage.
• to Freedomcall and Gammaray.

there you go... i'm sure you don't need another crappy review seeing as most of ya were there anyway... but hey my two cents are only £1.50 at 6p/min... so there..

toodles..