1 juni 2019 – Nijmegen | The first outdoor festival for me this year and during the week before the first of June, I was afraid I had to search for some rain gear in the attic. Luckily the forecasts got progressively better and closer to the weekend it was said it was going to be hot. And hot it was!
This tenth anniversary of this festal had quite some set backs. Ticket sales were below par because of the lack of big names. And when there were no big names to be announced (Slayer could not or would), it was by then simply too late to get another ticket selling band.
The possibility of Ajax playing the Champions League finale could caused some more damage, but that one went astray. Still, there were a lot of tickets unsold so the organization decided that with one ticket, two people would be admitted. On social media this was not received very well either by some… It seemed everything they tried slipped out of their hands and critics took cheap shots at the organization.
Luckily the majority called, phoned or texted their friends and shared their tickets with them or even with total strangers.
Due to the smaller crowd expected, the site layout was smaller and that was not a bad move. With sunscreen, a water bottle and my camera gear I went to Nijmegen for two days of sun, metal and beer… and sun and even more sun…
