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Boom Festival

Once I wrote stories about Dour (on July 19th, 2007) and Sziget (on July 5th, 2009), summarized below, but I never actually wrote a story about Boom. This really has been the most impressive festival I've been to, which is why I went for a second, third and fourth time. It's much less about the music and more about the ambiance, artwork and workshops. So the line-up is mostly unknown.

We spent the first night alongside the road in France, just before Bordeaux. The second day we crossed the border with Spain and spent the night at the coast of the Atlantic, in Getaria. On the third day we already arrived in Portugal, but decided to spend the night on a camping, next to a mountain spring. The next day we arrived at the entrance of the festival, but we had to spend two more nights outside of the gates, at a pre-parking. Then there was the festival! An amazing eight days and nights.

Boom 2012

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Boom 2014

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Boom 2016

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Boom 2018

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Boom Festival

After Boom 2018, we had a little roadtrip, we went for a citytrip in Porto, where we spent 2 nights in the Garden House hostel and another hostel. Then we went to a nature reserve in Guimaraes, just north of Porto.\nThe 17th night we also spent alongside the road, we were trying to get to Switzerland as fast as possible. As we almost managed to do that, we went for a burger and a beer in Chamonix, at the foot of the Mont Blanc. But the mission was to camp somewhere high in the mountains, so we drove some more, spent a night on a parking space in Locarno and the next day we were on our destination, at an altitude of 2.5 km, nearby Fusio and the Italian border.

After this we went more or less straight to home, with a citytrip in Luzern and a night in Jugendhostel am Rotsee.

Dour

Finally the time is come, I'm going to Dour festival. It's no Lowlands, but rumours have it that it's even bigger, namely Dour festival in Belgium. I've ordered the ticket and the festival will be between 12th and 15th of july. We can sleep in a tent on the terrain.

Dour is behind us. Four exhausting, but very exciting days. The biggest act we've seen was of course Wutang Clan and KRS One. It mostly were Reggae and Dub bands, like High Tone, and some Drum & Bass, like Venetian Snares. I'll put a list below with the bands we saw, I don't know all of them anymore, because I didn't know any of them before, but all worth it to listen to again. We needed energy drinks to keep us standing in the mud, but of course beer and wodka were also very important.

Dour Festival

There was an hidden lake between the mountains, which you couldn't have seen from a distance of 10 metres, so we discovered it only the third time:

Sziget

After some speculations I've decided to order a ticket for Sziget festivalin Budapest. I've had a couple of doubts about the price tag, but there are so many artists, this will be worth while. The Prodigy is the most important, but I have also seen Fatboy Slim; Pendulum; Crystal Method; Squarepusher; Paul Oakenfold; Dillinja and The Offspring. Unfortunately I had to miss Snow Patrol, Placebo, Faith No More, Bloc Party, Ska-P, Lilly Allen, Armin van Buuren and Manic Street Preachers. There were 12 stages, so our schedule was packed. I sort of discovered techno music on this festival, in an ambient tent where you had to take your shoes off, they played a set of Paul Kalkbrenner. We chilled out a lot in this area.

Unfortunately the festival is over again, I've published some photos of my own and from 3FM, a Dutch radio channel that was present. On the Hungarian website there will be even more photos. There was a lot to do in the seven days of the festival, way too much to capture. The festival took place on a small island in the Danube river in the center of Budapest. Before the festival started you could hear the crickets here while at the other side of the river there were loads of residential buildings. Sziget actually means island in Hungarian.

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