Download Festival 2011 - Day 1

After months of antagonising waiting, planning, arguing and deciding, it was finally here. Three days in glorious metal heaven (as close to heaven as you can get 10 seconds out of Derby anyway). In actual fact, the first day was met with aparthy from the most of us, apart from the strong desire to see Children of Bodom, it was expected that day 1 would be the most average, or even most boring. The weekend plans to watch the "best bands we can think off" as described by Luke, or "Crap" by a shortly converted Adam where soon thrust into action (cheeky ;D) with the well reviewed Puddle of Mudd for those who could be bothered (Ie Simmonds and Aimee), but for the majority, it all began at Black Stone Cherry who sung their hard southern rock songs with excitement that soon filled the fresh faced audience, and even their cover of an Adele song was also surprisingly well received (We all love a bit of Adele, dont we).
They finished their set with "a new one that has been on the radio all week". The average radio ratings where subsequently displayed by the amount of people who had little or no idea of the new track.

All the while watching this surprising impressive band I had a feeling in my gut that could only have been brought on by one of two things; either I was about to ask a super-hot girl out or, and probably the more likely, I was already waiting for a date, with Children of Bodom! Yes, the feelings of anxiety, fear, love (and possibly a boner) where all at once attacking my emotions. It was Alexy time, and didn't I know it! Not my Funeral was the first song up, and it blew my mind, (I especially love this one becuase of the fact that it reminds me of the GTA: San Andreas intro song, right?)
The whole set, the songs, the order they where played, how Alexy, Roope ect conducted themselves on the newest songs and even the arty trademark reaper baring backdrop (also the new album cover) shouted  "Hi, we're Children of Bodom, we have a new album and we like it a thousand times more than our old stuff". Which after 17-18 years of being in a band, playing your old songs again and again must, on the whole, be mind numbing, right? Although it could be said that tracks from Hate Crew Deathroll where missed slightly (Oh how I long to hear Needled 24/7 live!!).

And that concludes my day one of Download, i know its bare but i must admit i did forget about watchin kOrn... I am an idiot...
Tom :D

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