go to a music festival

The day before yesterday I ordered my ticket for a certain music festival taking place this year, and yesterday I received it :D. I am super-excited about it …

Here’s a little more background info, though.

In 2005 I actually ordered a ticket for a certain festival that seemed to be quite great. I mainly wanted to go there because of Eve Of Destiny, a band I loved so much. However, it turned out that various bands that were announced to play there didn’t know about this at all. Nobody asked them, they didn’t even say they were going to play there, so they then announced “Hey, we are not going to play there!” Among them was not Eve Of Destiny, yet the list of bands announcing they were not going to play there got longer and longer. In the end, the festival was cancelled, I neither got my money back nor did I even get that ticket at all.

Afterwards, I must admit I didn’t really want to go to any other festival. I could not afford it, too, after all.

Then, there were several festivals passing which I would have liked to attend, but I couldn’t go because of school or because of other things that happened at the same time. I went to the Manga Party Festival in April last year then, but this doesn’t really count as a “music festival” for me. It was great, though, no doubt in that.

And then, last summer, there was this festival taking place in Germany at which a friend of mine and I got to meet up. I did not go to that festival, BUT! I went to the warm-up party and I was so happy to meet said friend and his girlfriend and another friend of his …

Aaanyways. For this year, I thought I might go there. And I will. I am totally excited already :)! I am already looking forward to the bands playing there, and if I am lucky, I can be with some friends, too. It is going to be great, I am very sure about this. The only thing I really hope for is that it will not rain … (But even if it does, I can still buy an umbrella. I guess. :D)

This year’s Wave Gotik Treffen (is it “Wave Gothic Meeting” in English?) is over now, and I realized that many things in my life have changed so far.

So far, almost every year I thought “I want to go there!”, but ever since I turned more to the visual kei-/j-rock-”scene” (say what you want; I don’t care …) I somehow forgot a little about my past. Now that I listen to gothic music more and have watched videos and pictures of former WGTs, I am starting to long to be a part of this scene again. Long story, and probably not really related to this topic. If you want to know more, just ask …

But whatever. I read that next year’s WGT will take place from 29 May to 1 June, and I am seriously thinking about going there. I remember the tickets were fairly expensive, but maybe I will find a way to earn more money before that …

I think this would be great; there are so many people going there, and even though I am more of a shy person than a person who has no problems with talking to others, I think that these people would maybe actually talk back to me. Of course there are also idiots in the scene, but you always are confronted with this problem, no matter where and who you are …