This year’s lowlands festival started on Friday. For the last six editions I have been there, but we are missing out on this one. Also because it was sold out incredibly early, I think they broke a record with that. More importantly, we are not going because the line-up totally sucks this year. In a news article today they reviewed the Friday evening and mentioned there was dance, rock and even metal. Like having metal is special, I mean the previous incarnations of lowlands always had a very large share of punk, metal and alternative bands. Unfortunately, that has really been on the decline over the last few years. This also attracted a different kind of people and the real authentic “lowlands feel” that I felt during the first time I went really started to evaporate in the last few years.
Too bad really. We’re opting for proper concerts instead these days (and living in Amsterdam is very helpful for that :). We will be seeing Korpiklaani at Pagan Fest in September and hopefully we might even catch Enserifum when they hit the Netherlands. Seems like Anti-Flag will be playing the Melkweg in November.
Oh yeah, the studies are done now and I should be receiving my BSc and MSc certificates on Friday (both in Computer Science, surprise). So I have been getting back into GTK+ in my spare time now wooooo. Should definitely be playing more guitar and bass guitar as well.