Slam Dunk Festival, Leeds

Furious D wrote:I haven't been reading it, what have people been saying?

its only a minority making these kinds of comments but basically 'stay out of the fire if you dont want to get burnt'

ie. if you wanna watch a band you enjoy and be near the front then you can expect a grow man to throw himself off of a 15/20 foot high balcony at you.

Have you read what these people are saying?
http://www.punkdisasters.com/story.php?id=5196

"Most bands just talk about jumping from the balcony but they bitch out.
Sucks that he broke her collarbone, bitch shouldn't have been standing
there. Bitches don't belong in the pit, they belong in the kitchen."

I don't care if he was even joking, I'm so angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Morons...


Fixed your link btw

It didn't work? Ah well, cheers!

I've just watched the YouTube video. I know there's "punk" and everything, but that's just irresponsible.

Kinda reminds me of a few years ago when I saw The Aquabats in nottingham and a band called "Never Heard Of It"'s lead singer was just generally being an arse. He dived into the crowd and in midair got punched in the face.

I found this very strange as it was at a Aquabats gig (probably the least likely place to find any violence.)

I'll admit, it was funny just because he was still singing at the time and all you heard was "Urgh" suddenly.

ScaredOfPoo wrote:Kinda reminds me of a few years ago when I saw The Aquabats in nottingham and a band called "Never Heard Of It"'s lead singer was just generally being an arse. He dived into the crowd and in midair got punched in the face.

I found this very strange as it was at a Aquabats gig (probably the least likely place to find any violence.)

I'll admit, it was funny just because he was still singing at the time and all you heard was "Urgh" suddenly.

Yeah he done that in yeovil to, However the aquabats were good fun... grown at home supported that gig to, ir i remember rightly... not sure about sheffield though?

its fair enough to walk away with a couple of bruises after a gig depending on how mad you go but no one expects to walk away with broken bones, especially from some irresponsible sod that jumps from that high knowing that their are a lot of kids present

punkdesasters type thing wrote:"Most bands just talk about jumping from the balcony but they bitch out.
Sucks that he broke her collarbone, bitch shouldn't have been standing
there. Bitches don't belong in the pit, they belong in the kitchen."

that Has to be a troll, theirs no way any one is that fucking retarded

time to get my rage on over at punktastic i feel

edit: their apears to be some good posters on crunkspastic and they have it well in hand

didn't a broken collar bone retire bad religion's drummer of like 10-15 years? using that as precedent, she could sue him for millions

Furious D wrote:

Andy DTA wrote:

Summers wrote:FUN TIMES AHEAD

Come introduce yourself andy, i'm wearing a colourful aquabats shirt and have a big tattoo on my arm.

haha i didn't even see this. lucky i met you anyway, lol. hundred reasons for the win.

What a fucking good day this was.

Skints =
Random Hand =
Farse = :/
Sonic Boom =
Slackers =
King Blues =
Hundred Reasons =

Thats my very technical and wordy review, right there.

Haha you watched the exact same bands I did!

Hundred Reasons were mint

Did you just watch Random Hand as well then? haha

Andy DTA wrote:

Furious D wrote:

Andy DTA wrote:

Summers wrote:FUN TIMES AHEAD

Come introduce yourself andy, i'm wearing a colourful aquabats shirt and have a big tattoo on my arm.

haha i didn't even see this. lucky i met you anyway, lol. hundred reasons for the win.

What a fucking good day this was.

Skints =
Random Hand =
Farse = :/
Sonic Boom =
Slackers =
King Blues =
Hundred Reasons =

Thats my very technical and wordy review, right there.

Haha you watched the exact same bands I did!

Hundred Reasons were mint

Did you just watch Random Hand as well then? haha

Haha, I watched our crowd. Apparently they stopped letting people in?

i didn't hear or notice anything like that :S where did you hear that?

Ollie said they stopped letting people in cos it was at capacity. Hard to tell from the stage so I'm just gonna choose to believe it without question

It was pretty damn busy in there at times. I know that just before King Blues, I'd been chatting to Robin and he tried to leave to go pee but was told he wouldn't be allowed back in without queuing up if he left.

But yeah, unquestioning belief usually works for me too.

I reviewed this for another well know web-based forum but here's my direct blog link where the whole piece links together and reads a bit better than the PT website:

Al talks shit

so were the other stages allowed drinks in? maybe it was some special floor in the vans room or something? how rubbish lol.
and I agree, farse was a nostalgia trip and I LOVED IT I hope they bring out some new stuff soon

thats well bad about that girls collar bone :-(

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https://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=25916549264&ref=ts

also, on teh subject of stage dives etc, anyone see the guy who crowd surfed to the stage but then bottled jumping into the crowd and kinda just eased himself in? awww lol! i cant remember what band was on

bah stupid work filter, have to check those links from home, from what i can see about he collar bone most people seem to be taking it seriously and such.

seehar wrote:so were the other stages allowed drinks in? maybe it was some special floor in the vans room or something?

Yep. In fact, the little stages had better beer. Red Stripe in the Drop Dead room; Corona in the Punktastic stage. All so much better, and colder, than the god awful Carlsberg/Tuborg 'warm from standing on the side' one-two punch.

Only the Vans stage was straight edge. Dimmers says it's because it is a mosque from Monday to Friday. I read it was because the folks that donated the cash explicitly said "No drinks, squire." An unnamed source claims it was to entice the hair-straightener crew into the good stage.

The truth is out there...

Al wrote:

seehar wrote:so were the other stages allowed drinks in? maybe it was some special floor in the vans room or something?

Yep. In fact, the little stages had better beer. Red Stripe in the Drop Dead room; Corona in the Punktastic stage. All so much better, and colder, than the god awful Carlsberg/Tuborg 'warm from standing on the side' one-two punch.

Only the Vans stage was straight edge. Dimmers says it's because it is a mosque from Monday to Friday. I read it was because the folks that donated the cash explicitly said "No drinks, squire." An unnamed source claims it was to entice the hair-straightener crew into the good stage.

The truth is out there...

the vans stage is the riley smith hall which is used as a theatre room most of the time. it seems that you never have been allowed to drink there.
the islam society rents out another room to serve as their mosque which is somewhere else at leeds uni.
still rather daft that the stage where the most adults are gonna be is teh one where you cant drink

Daft, or conspiracy? Hmm???

I think the worst thing was not being allowed to take cups of water in.

I said to the guy on the door into the vans stage surely thats a little stupid on a day as warm as this what happens when people get dehydrated and start passing out? and he replied 'speak to the festivals organisers its their rules' so I did and he(the festival organiser) seems a little disturbed at how overzealous the people on the door were with regards to not letting drinks in. I dont think he was expecting that.

Al: great review. Only spotted two mistakes as well

Peeky: Security staff the world over have the same mentality. Namely, "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. But if I don't know the rules, or disagree with them, I'll just do whatever will annoy most people". Had the same trouble at the end when I was trying to find out if my friends who had been to the specials were allowed in to the club night. Responses from the 6 staff asked ranged from "yes", "maybe", "i don't know", "ask that guy over there" to "no, now fuck off".

lightowler wrote:for example she will probably never be able to reach strait up in the air with that arm or lift anything heavy, although these are rather minor for perminate disabilitys, their perminant disabilitys inflicted on a young girl (asumeing it was a young girl due to it happend in the refectory) for some dick to look cool

I've broken my collar bone on the right side three times, I can reach straight up and pick up heavy stuff, that said the guy is still an idiot, and it doesn't sound very fun to have the weight of a guy and his balls of steel come crashing down at you from that height.