Positivus Festival 09'

BIG UP FOR POSITIVUS!

On thursday night( day before Positivus) I ended up clubbin'(or something like that) with my good ol' chaps. We had a good time, met some fins and I overlooked at some locals and some celebreties pulling off a "biceps championship". Maybe the fact that I'm not that muscled doesn't attract me to that kind of "sports" or its the issue of not being macho enough. But all in all, its nothing that I see everynight, so I enjoyed.

I ended up pretty wasted and I only had a few hours to sleep till trippin' of to our gig at Positivus. We had set our mood for ultimate festivalling just before, so GOD DAMN how I and the other guys had waited for Positivus. We drove off like before every other gig, being EXACTLY late, so we had to step on it...or maybe I'm just paranoid. Like I said, we were so excited about the fest itself and we were supposed to be the first band of the fest, so we didn't expect a big show. But seeing the whole area for the first time and all the people..("Imagine all the people":D) FUCK! That made the festival experiance start with a huge boost.

We ran to our stage, which was pretty big and we had like 15 minutes to start with the soundcheck. I recognized some of our true fans, some other faces, but all in all, there weren't that many people. Everything taken care of, we slammed our hands together and went on stage...Song by song people gathered to see us- by the center of the show, there were so many people, that we went crazy. We did the best that we could and people enjoyed it a lot- Jumping, clapping, screaming....EMOTIONS that only an eyewitness could moreorless describe. And we got called back, so FUCK YEAH LATVIA!!!( It still pisses me off, that our backtrack system sometimes fails, but, cmon...

We got a whole lot of props for it and we really put a "WOW" on peoples faces- something that happens almost everytime, they just never see it comin'...;).

So after the show, we hit some hardcore smokes and the trippin' started. Beer- BEER- beer-...At some moment I found myself hangin' in a club tent(redbull something) and I just raved alone to somekind of jazz thingie. I bought a icecalled super special Mohijto and the raving began:D. At some point Karla saw me and we put up quite a show for the people who wouldn't dare to come along. Wohoooh, what dancers we are..hahaa. Yeah, so by the end of my drink, the woofers in that tent had killed my ears and we went off, to see what our gang was up to.

We found 'em near our cars, all rollin' and shit. Heck, we just had like fuckloads of beer and we had to get rid of it somehow- I don't think throwing away was a possibility...

At somepoint me and Mihkel(I think it was M) Went to see the beach-what a view. Before you get to the beach, they have a narrow pine forest. The road goes straight through this place where all these PEOPLE were just sleeping in the dangling beds: some couples were making out, kids chillin' JEESH, I wanted to do that, but not yet. So we carried on, being all amazed and so, till we came to the beach. The beach had 4-6 bars and a few clubs. I was totally amazed...there were hundreds of people, all dancing and trippin' so I was INSTANTLY dancing:D. It was soooo cool. Everyone smiles and is just havin' the POSITIVEST time in their life:D.(Yeah I've created some words). Mihkel knows how to juggle, so we picked up some pinecones and I insisted him to teach it to me...nothing came out of it, so we just enjoyed everything THE PARADISE PARTY BEACH :Dhad to offer us.

We partied a lot in our backstage, meeting all these people: The HAPPY ENDINGS guys were the best familiarization:D- an australian band, I didn't see their performance, but according to the other guys, they rocked. We drank all the beers in backstage and the next day, we got the whole blame...ROCKSTAR thing. Fuck the rules:D. But they can't do anything, but to make some publicity out of it...OH NO! We joined our forces with the australians and bought some spice from the spice tent(YEAH A SPICE TENT) and headed back to the beach to roll some joints.

Some minutes later Brainstorm started their gig...I forgot to mention that we squeezed ourselves into the schedule of Brainstorm, to say a few words to them and make a picture. I got a RESPECT from REinars!:D But oh man how wasted we were by that time. As they were singing in Latvian, we were like, fuck that shit...So we took our tents and went to organize that thing, before putting a HUGE exclamation mark down for the day. I just can't describe how we do it, but every second we are somewhere(very abstract what I'm trying to say) everything ends up a massive trip. My stomache muscles are still fucked up...

The night ended with me and Ilvz trippin' our own way to the car, 'cause we planned on sleeping in the car. We got even more wasted, just the two of us and I never got to sleep. I had to struggle with not puking anywhere. I didn't, and that felt really good, but by the time I was done struggling, Hannes and Joosep Showed up, so FUCK SLEEPING. We found this estonian Dj- DJ QUEST and we just pulled off some shit, to kill the time. Its not a good idea to sleep at a fest..cmon.:D. We took the guitar, played songs from some time to time- I can't remember anything about the time, it was never a thing to worry about. People woke up and who walked by and had nothing to do, ended up chillin' with us. So we met a lot of different folk. I'd like to say hello to the guy I jammed with...some latvian/american singer...DUDE YOU ROCK!

But when estonian police showed their face, we got scared...dunno why, but we didn't feel comfortable anymore and we went to the beach again- it was just before noon and the sun was fucking HOT! We swam a few times and just checked out the beach and the people- fucking awesome!!! At the beach I really got tired,  and when I got sunburned for the tenth time, I was too wasted to stay awake anymore. So when the guys left to fetch some food, I took a powersleep in the car. I remember people walking by and saying some gibberish in latvian, but I really didn't give a F. Just this one time, when some guy came up to me, being all pissed and shit, So I made really angry face FUZZED at him, and he left...

When the guys got back, they got me 4 winers and half a bottle of ketchup. IT WAS SOO GOOD! I got some energy and the trippin' began again...actually we just sat in the shadows of the trees, till Tom called. Me and Jos had to go to an interview with some huge radio. We both were totally wasted and when we got to the press area, we were pretty amazed- it was a pretty huge thing. We managed great, met a DJ ate some ice cream...GOT back...

OK since I can't remember the rest I'll cut the crap for you. Since I was too tired to stick around I jumped on Heikki's car and got back to Estonia. We had HUGE HESBURGER meal just before the border and WHOOOH...I guess I was already asleep...Again I can't remember everything so well.

POSITIVUS FESTIVAL ROCKS! The best festival experiance I've ever had. So many people to meet and so much to do. The vibe is sooooo sweet. I can't remember that I enjoyed any artist besides the DJ's in the clubs. Love it!!! I wanna say hello to all the people I met and special thanks for the staff- we really made a mess everywhere:D! SORRY!

Next year, I'm DEF THERE.

PS! The weather was FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!!! I'm sunburnt everywhere, even my ass is, by now.

I'll add some pics, if I get some.