20th August, day 9 - Elbriot 🤘

Today is metal day! No shitty tourist photos, no cycling, just metal! Well ok, I took a few photos on the way on my phone. Cute river boat homes and a dragon overlooking a canal.

Alestorm was as fun on stage as their tracks are. Suited this beer heavy festival well.

Jinjer rocked 🤘 They’re the one I came to see and no disappointment here. Fuck the war!

Fever 333, unknown to me before, did some crazy stage stuff.

Bullet for my Valentine made the crowd pretty crazy. Ended up in the mosh pit which interestingly wasn’t the normal type of round-we-go circle. It was just hundreds of bodies bumping into each other. Is this a German thing or just a local Elbriot specialty? I’ve never touched so many people :D Lost my other earplug and a pin too while being heaved around.

Crowd surfing was an interesting thing I’ve not experienced before. It’s usually forbidden in Finnish festivals, at least the ones I’ve been to. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it. Constantly needing to help someone cross over you at the danger of being crushed if you’re not ready kinda takes some focus out of actually enjoying the music. But hey, riot 🤘

Festival food for me was mozzarella bread and vegetarian noodles. The rest of the stuff would have required a local guide to be able to choose..

Also, people come to talk to you! At least four people talked to me during the festival and none of them was at the urinal which is where drunk Finnish men will make small talk (please, don't do that).

Total kilometres travel approx (still): 1420km

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