Rocking The Gardens!!
I took this series of pictures whilst “Tidal Waves” was playing, and found a GIF maker online called Gickr!
How awesome was Rocking The Gardens at Emmarentia, bunnies!!?!
Before heading for the concert, we met up and had a delicious breakfast at Doppio Greenside. I really think we need to warn venues if a bunch of bloggers or Tweople are about to descend on them… we’re a demanding and exceptionally opinionated bunch. The food was pretty good, the company was fabulous, but the service coulda been better. Oh how we loathe having to look for our waitron!!
We then had a splendirific time sharing a chill-spot under the trees with ExMi and her BF, Snowgoose and her sister AKA bananaramagirl, Bergen, Shebee, her other half John and her fav 14-year-old Cassie. I haven’t been to a festival like this in well over 5 years and I was immensely chuffed to have won two tickets! We were rather unorganised though and arrived sans chairs, blankets or refreshments! Thankfully we were with people who were organised and we could share their blankies. And there was a “beer tent”- which IMHO could SO have done with a basic queueing system (like the ones they use in the banks) because people just crammed in at the bar counter and stood 5 and 6 deep… And a few drinks could take up to half an hour! There were also food stands for munchies. And not nearly enough portaloos or toilet paper.
SURPRISE!!
Are there ever enough porta-potties!??
People watching was a scream! Festivals like this one always entice the weirdos out of hiding and we giggled aplenty at weird outfits and strange behaviour!! And of course there’re always some rude wankers who decide they want some of your space and simply force their way in. When they left, John pointed out to them that they had not picked up most of the garbage they had accumulated and would they be so kind as to do so since this was a “green” festival. They did, without making a fuss. I think they may have been a tad embarrassed, which serves them right.
The music was great and we had a pretty cool view of the stage. Despite leaving early we saw most of the bands, including Fire Through The Window, Bed On Bricks, Tidal Waves, aKING, Ashtray Electric and the Black Hotels.
And apparently Sass was there too with her hoops- and as we hobbled out we saw a pile of hula-hoops and commented on them… but we didn’t see her, which is a pity. We did see a few people we know though, and there was quite a lot of howdies and hand shakes through the day.
We ended up leaving the festival a good three hours earlier than we planned because I stepped in a hole in the dark and sprained my fargin ankle! I was in agony at first, and then it felt okay… but it very quickly started swelling and hurting again, so we left. I’ve never done this in my life before (nor have I broken any bones because I’ve always been tooo chicken to climb trees and such like) and I am frankly surprised by how much it hurts. I reckon that walk to the car was one of the longest I’ve ever done! And I was sorely disappointed to leave as I had really wanted to see Freshly Ground and Gang Of Instrumentals 
Anyhoodle, I’ve loaded a bunch of pictures on Flickr if you’d like to see more!
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Looks like you guys had a ball! Love the dancing peeps
Jeanette´s last blog ..Just Bradley 
Sounds like loads of fun Angel. How does your ankle feel today?
Louisa´s last blog ..It’s called a calendar buddy…
Jeanette: I love taking pictures of festival goers. They’re always keen!
Louisa: its tender, and annoying with the bandage and such on… but its not as sore as last night. Thanx for asking.
Angel ´s last blog ..Rocking The Gardens!!
Glad you had a good time sorry to hear about your ankle.
Bobbi Janay´s last blog ..Personal Day
Sounds like SUCH a blast!!!
Sorry about the ankle ruining the fun a bit for you though.. Hope it gets better real soon
P.S. Cool animated gif !!
Briget´s last blog ..Fokken Prawns, ekse!
What a Jol!! Sorry you hurted your ankle. I can emphathise as I still battle with my ankle since I tore the ligaments that one christmas. It is very painful and if not looked after properly can be a problem. Take care of it.
Brigitte´s last blog ..NUDGE-NUDGE, WINK-WINK
Scuze my spelling - i am in a hurry….
Brigitte´s last blog ..NUDGE-NUDGE, WINK-WINK
Gawd - I think the last time I went to a music festival it was Woodstock ‘99 in Heidelberg…
Sorry you sprained your ankle and had to leave; Sounds like it was great fun!
MeeA´s last blog ..Lone(ly) Wolf
it was smashing amounts of fun - sorry you hurt your ankle.
and i hope you dont mind if i pinch a few of your pics - will credit you of course!!!
xx
ExMi´s last blog ..Happy Friday Heverybodies
What a blast!!!
Gilz´s last blog ..Sunday Stuff
Cool .gif!
Hardspear´s last blog ..Al work & no play take Hardspear from his blog away…
What are the rules of the game?
Palabuzz´s last blog ..Richard Gutierrez, scandal on NAIA
Sounds like fun
Sorry about your Ankle - hope it’s feeling better!
Mellisoo´s last blog ..Monday Memories
I was there too! Going to upload some pics later this week. It was such an awesome festival. Had so so much of fun!!!
Shahil´s last blog ..Because
Sounds like a blast!
Hope your ankle gets better soon!
Alet´s last blog ..wordless…
Sorry about your ankle babe
SUCH a pity that you missed Freshly Ground…they are INDEED awesome live! IMHO you didn’t miss much with Gang of instrumentals - they were at our staff party and I couldn’t make out what they were singing. They just sounded like noise.
Oh…and I have also never broken a bone *touch wood*
acidicice´s last blog ..Parties, fights, movies and Thanksgiving
It looks like that it is a load of fun.
EZtuts´s last blog ..Make money from spam blogs
Sorry about the foot!! The rest sounds like great fun.
Wenchy´s last blog ..Somebody wrote this for ME…. and had no idea.
Sounds like a blast. Soz about your ankle. Hope it gets better quick!
Tamara´s last blog ..Taste of Joburg
Bobbi Janay, Briget, Brigitte, Gilz, Mellisoo, Alet, EZtuts, Wenchy, Tamara: it was a blast- I am so going again next year!!
And my ankle is feeling better slowly…
MeeA: I never got to any of the Woodstocks…
ExMi:
Hardspear: thanx dude! I’ve been looking for a cool GIF maker for a while, and this one takes up to 10 photos!
Palabuzz: what game would that be…?
Shahil: so where are the pics?
acidicice: G.O.I.’s act was starting when we were leaving…
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