Sunday, August 1, 2010

Jisan Music Festival... sweat, beer, and music

It was a full weekend of music, camping, drinking, and swimming.

Music:
The lineup for Friday night was: Belle and Sebastian, Vampire Weekend with Massive Attack headlining.

Belle and Sebastian were really great - played a few classics, a song from their new lp, and few really old songs. Best moments of the show include: "annyonghaseo" and "kamsahamnida" in a weird Scottish accents, dancing Korean fans, and "Step into my office" and "Stars of Track and Field"!!!! Really great show, and kind of the only band I was looking forward to.

Vampire Weekend was cute and entertaining. They were a real crowd pleaser with lots of dancing (the hopping around kind) and oooooooooh oooohing.

Massive Attack - boring with a weird number screen on stage that kept coming up with random numbers that has no significance to anyone....drank lots of beer to pass the time.

Camping:
I got to the festival a few hours before V, so I was the designated tent assembler. I sweat like I’ve never sweat before but accomplished setting up the tent on a semi-inclined spot right over a root that I had to sleep on… The camping really dirty, almost no bathrooms or running water within a 400m radius, tons of bugs, hot as f @%$, and tons of fun.

Drinking:
Drinks at a Korean music festival are aplenty and relatively cheap, so naturally we drank a lot. Beer was limited to Miller beer, but cocktails ranged from rum and cokes to special buckets of alcohol (like the ones you can buy in Thailand).

Swimming:
The swimming pool at the Jisan Resort was like the best thing ever!!! But first let me tell you a little bit about the weather at the festival: hot, hotter, the hottest and humid, humider, the most humid ever with NO BREEZE at all. So, the pool was a resource for cooling down in between shows, sobering up between shows, and the only form of shower we took all weekend. We had to pay something like 12,000won (10USD) for the day, but I can safely say I would’ve paid twice that much to swim in that pool. It was that awesome. (aaaaaaand the swimming pool had the best bathrooms at the festival)

Extra facts:
-Buying a shuttle ticket to and from Gwangju was the way to go (unless you’re V and the bus to the festival leaves early without you L). It shuttles you directly from the middle of Gwangju to the festival entrance for only 41,000won round trip, and can be purchase online at the festival website.

- The festival had "coupons" that we exchanged real money for. The coupons looked like monopoly money - we used the paper money for beer, food, and more beer (all the vendors only accepted coupon money)
- Really clean festival. The ratio of garbage picker-uppers to the actual festival goers was like 1:5.

So much fun!!!!

The sweaty aftermath of setting up the tent.

Belle and Sebastian

Crazy for Crash, Apollo18. Loud, Korean, punk band.

All four wristbands - entrance, camping, above 19, water park

*see here for a pool picture : https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVN9rONKbvVaP2VOKp8cC_4oC9w5j0QO4Lta2KjsFHMFi1tiYHXsld1HVnNutywRWv-JKKsRH583F2l4aZFhLOGHhO0CriFAEXeGkFIQM-rL6JUoW-Tm3hmyNzvlLczLoEY6a9PMqLxw/s1600/DSC05967.JPG

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