europe summer festivals 2007

scream for me europe - part 1: donington

my journey in europe in june: Donington - i flight from israel to london, it can get better then start my journey with plina! one of the best peaple i know when we get back from macdonald to our hostel plina stop me: "where are we goin?"

me- "i dont know i follow you" plina- "never follow a blond girl!" :) next day we meet kristian and damir (from croatia) in our bus to donington, they start to drink beers on the bus till the bus driver find out! we reallly have great time in the bus and when we arrive we go to some

pub and meet tp, spooks, dazy, andy, phil and his brother (forget the name) and spend a little time there and after haviing some beers we take a taxi to the club where was the pre donington party and meet all the rest of the guys from imoc forum. it was great night, maiden scotland tibute band was great! thenx for andy for shering the room with me, i was afraid he wont sleep because i'm snore but he snore worst then me!!! next

day me and andy go to the 3rd day festival in time to see the first band opening After Forever and later that day meet phil and his brother but short after andy get us lost when we go to see paradise lost :( it was my second time in donington, i was there in donington 96 when i was 17. in

iron maiden i stend far away from the stage and the first 5 songs the sound was bad, it was not one of the best but still was good to see them in the middle of 70,000 peaple. when we get on the bus on the way out from donnington to derby we found

andy who got lcuky to be in the berrier and kristian and damir! the other day i get buck with kristian and damir to london spend the first day with damir see the city and second day also kristian enjoy us. so the first days even that i spend allready half of my money it was perfect!!! i love it and enjoy it so much!!! it could not be better!!!

scream for me europe - part 2: fields of rock festival from london i took a bus to amsterdam and what a big mistake it was!!! what happend is that when to stop at dover you go up to the fery and then you must back to the buss when the ferry arive in france but i falling a sleep with my ipod on so when i wake up i found out the buss allready live!!! fuck so i call to national express company and tell them what happend so tehy tell me i can use the next bus on 3am!!! i was need to wait 11 hours!!! so i get out from there, take a buss to the city center of calais and it's a beautiful city! then i go back and wait till my coach came and arrive in amsterdam in the morning and then to my hostel. i love amsterdam, i love the people! they all so nice! every time i'm in europe i try to come also to my second "home". most of the first day i stay in my hostel cause i was a litlle sick. second day i did some shoping, buy alot of stuf from the metal "frame" srtore and then buy a tent for the festivals then go to smoke in the coffe shop. later when i was in the loundery i hear somebody call me and i tourn around and see mat! what a small world :) he tell me he get look inside cause he see a sign of internet, dont know why they put it cause it was'nt internet in this loundery. i go to meet ami, my israel friend in the train station and after buy all the food and the beers we take our train to the festival, sleep the first night in our tent and wake up for the first day of the festival in time to see lauren harris. after forever and then i saw group of people with finland flag and i go to them and found out i know most of them! dante, vb and jaako and some more great guys from finland. saw heaven & hell then slayer and right after get in the front for iron maiden, was in the second row in janick side and all the show it was a big mush pit that get me out of focus from the show try to survive all the pushing. also meet jon and mat (again). afer the show disapoint from the masive crowd around me who was so drunk or "smoke" to much with the help of the from the energy of slayr. second day again go earlly to see the opening band Delain and then megadeth in the rain and then motorhead who kick ass! go back to the camping to spend time with the finish guys and then back to sleep a litlle before wake up to take the first buss to amsterdam and then to say goodby to ami who will stay there till graspop, take a train to eindhoven airport and then a ryanair flight to rome. scream for me europe - part 3: rome In my plain from eindhoven to rome i found Jakkoo one of the finish guys i was meeting in field of rock, i know him allready from the last tour. my friend phil who book our hotel in room allready sms me that the diraction for our hotel that we have are wrong and he was right! in the end i find the hotel only with a taxi!!! never ever take a taxi in rome! it is so expensive and you are lucky if he understend english and know where to go! when i meet phil the first thing we did was go to eat italian pizza. next day we go to see the sightseeing of rome, i was in rome alot of times before but it was phil first time there. we go to the colloseum, it is my second time i visit it and it still impresive me so much and then when we on our way out we meet boris!!! amazing was first time i saw him after athens. while boris still in the colloseum he take a pic of me and phil outside: then me and phil go see the rest of the city and meet more guys like tina and jontha and then in the vatican city we meet HÃ¥kan and tobias from sweden. then we go to find the olimpic stedium to know for sure our way for how to get there in the concert day. we was there in about 23:58 and there was allready about 15 fand wait on the que!!! it take us long time to find our hotel and we walk so much that day and could not found our hotel and after we walking for about 2 hours we past some bar and some guy who so us with our iron maiden t-shirt tell us that janick gers incide the pub, we did not belve him so then he tell us "look this way, ou see here is janick"... at that momement he point on some bold guy and i know he joking but after few second when the bold guy move we saw big blond hair like only one man have... JANICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we get in talk with him a litlle and then take a photo with him next day was the big day... on our way to he stadium we take a metro and somehow we decide not to buy tickets and when we get out there was a security police! what a bad luck!!! each of us was need to pay panelty of 50 euro we arrive to the stedium and meet boris and it take us time to find the meeting point and all the rest of the guys from the IMOC, me phil and boris was at the barrier center. first band sadist was very good band and then during lauren harris gig boris get vip and left us and as much as the time go on it was more hot and the crazy italian fans get more agresive so it was so much pushing, when madoston was on stage the gey left me start to kick my hand and push me! so here i am not at the berrier try to survive inside the most crazy fans in the world so i deside is enouth for me, there is no way i go to enjoy in this madness! i get out feel so tierd and go to seet and relax with the rest of the IMOC guys. before motorhead get on me boris and sten saw rod the manager of iron maiden. when we saw motorhead we saw phil on the big screens just before he also get out in the end. iron maiden give a great show! it was one theire best for me. after he show the metro was close and there is almost no taxi to find! it was nightmare not able to get a taxi and we walk so much and we allready so tierd after the concert and i feel like i can't walk no more, about in 3 or 4 in the morning after walk so much we found a taxi and found out that the hotel was much far away so we could never survive to get there without a taxi. i allmost did not sleep cause i neet to take a flight to brussle so when i get to the metro the first train was only in 6:30!!! so i miss my last buss from the terminal center to the airport so i must take a taxi to get in time so here i spend more 30 euro and it was big trafic on the road but i get in time to the airport and meet boris for our flight for graspop festival. scream for me europe - part 4: graspop festival and brixton after no sleepin night before me and boris arive to brussle, take a taxi to his amazing hotel calles mozart! it is so beatiful!!!! we go to meet Ami my israeli friend on the train station (he come from amsterdam). we go and eat kabab in the city center and then me and ami leave to our hostel. from about 4 pm i was go to sleep till the morning!!! earlly in the morning me and ami take a train to the festival and found 1 more guy from israel who join us, on our way my nose was bleeding we found more israeli guys next to our camping, i put my new nightwish flag on aour tent to help boris and sebastian to find us, they find us and then start to drink beers non stop and go see Epica, Whithin Temptetion and arosmith! i forget how much i used to love arosmith long time ago cause they give amazing show, i enjoy so much in arosmith. after arosmith i was so tierd and go to sleep. second day of the festival start with been first row in lauren harris and right after see Sirenia and walk around the festival area in the rain till heaven & hell, toni iomi is my favorite giutar give great solo and dio my favorite singer no metter how old he is he still rock not like shity ozzy! after get so wait in the rain during heaven & hell we meet alot of other guys from the iron maiden forum, me boris and jon spend the time till maiden toghter like have fun in the car crash... i get very good spot in the front for iron maiden and they give another great show! afer iron maiden we found anita, smuggle Anita an yakkob since they didn`t have camping pass and then we start to drink and i got so drunk!!! We partied until almot 5 and went to "sleep" until 6 since we had to catch the shuttle bus to the train station in Mol. i was so tierd, felling bad after so much wine AND beers!!! me, sebastian and boris flight in the same plane to london for the last concert of the tour in brixton. scream for me europe - part 5: brixton so tierd fron no sleep and with big hanghover from last night in graspop i flight with sebastian and boris to hetrow airport and when we arive i meet tobias and wasted beers from sweden and go with them to victoria. there i meet my friend cristian from croatia and go togheter to the bar neer brixton to meet all the rest of the imoc friends. i wanted to go to the que cause i did not have wrisband but iwas so tierd and and i stay in the bar til 6:30, i was the only one who drink diet cock! it was firs time for me in brixton, it's beatiful venew. buy the brixton t-shirt, enjoy one of the best maiden concert i ever was (still earl's court was my favorite with dave flag) first time i also see clive bur! so i did not sleep night before so togheter with graspop i saw iron maiden 2 time in one day!!! after the show me, kristian and another great guy i forget his name go to the bar drink red bull! that's it! the big journey of me in europe come to end and i flight to texas. i had the best time in my life!!!