[Part Two] My body was done. It wanted to get rid of the festival food, the festival smell and the festival sleeping facility’s – since my air mattress had died in the first night, as always. My head on the other hand, isn’t fond of quitting and decided we would go on strong and would not surrender. That said, we went to a few acts. We also went to Calvin Harris, who had the honor of closing the main stage. Pretty cool show, but since my body wasn’t having as good as a time as my mind.. it didn’t work out quite as well for me as for the rest of the crowd.
To be honest, I don’t really know which other artists we came across. One name does come up, the closing act for my Dour 2010, The Glitch Mob. Even my body was convinced of this last party and sucked it up. That show made body and mind come together, so to speak.
Dour is a festival with a big variety of people. You have the midday people, who check out a lot of bands and make sure they drink a lot of beer. Then you have the night people, who don’t really care about the bands and just want to party all night long. As a last group, you have the morning people. This group are not the ones who wake up early so they wouldn’t miss anything – the program does not begin before 12am -, this group are those who can’t get enough. Can’t stop the party and move their asses off to camping site B, where the every night after party is.
They numb their body and activate their mind and party as long as their stock will let them.
Off course you can be two kinds of people, or even three, but the important lesson here to learn, is that you can only be awake for so long. You will need to sleep, somewhere during those four days. And if you manage to do that, the rest will be taken care of by itself. Because Dour is one of those festivals where it doesn’t really matter where you are or what you do.. as long as you make sure your body and your mind are willing to party hard, real hard – together.
As for Dour 2011, I don’t know if you have already seen the line up but it’s sick. Where the line up of 2010 was kind of disappointing, the festival still was real good…therefore I can only imagine how incredibly insane this year will be.
