Český Brod (Wednesday 4.7. Lidový dům – Party for the Eager)
Attendance: 9000 visitors
Number of bands: 92 bands
BANDS
PERIOD REFERENCES
A few comments and reactions from the organizers
- we apologize for the queues for beer, the brewery had more events at that time and they didn’t have a single tap left in stock…you convinced them for us that it can’t be like that… the price of beer is up to us, it seemed to us to be a compromise between too much and too little price of 17,50kč (somewhere it is also 20-25kč)… if someone was under the measure, know that they won’t serve next time
- a chaotic start?… another apology from our side… we really didn’t expect 80 percent of festival goers to come immediately before the event… in our defense, at least we tried to respond to the situation by having both main organizers take their cars and create a sort of improvised ticket office to relieve the main box office
- longer access to the site? … it was the only option… all other routes would have crossed the state road and that was unacceptable to the police
- hygiene? …70 x WC, 2x cistern, 2x mobile washrooms in the area and showers and washrooms in the campsite and swimming pool… next time we can strengthen the WC, mobile showers are unfortunately not available in our country
- dogs and children … it’s a bit irresponsible of the people themselves… we don’t want the festival to be full of bans… you’ve always behaved in an exemplary manner, so we don’t see why you should be subjected to similar orders
- Two scenes? … in case someone argues that he had to switch and that one would have been better, he needs to realize the consequences… one scene would have meant half as many bigger and foreign bands… at the moment when someone was not enjoying Mikke Patton, he could have gone for a sausage or a walk in the woods, this way he could have seen Asian Dub Fundation
- garbage? … this year there was a squad of garbage collectors… imagine being a garbage collector and having to work during the Apocalyptic??!! …they worked during the night and in the morning… they collected 1000 bags… thank them for that, otherwise we would have drowned in garbage… next round we can give a deposit per cup, which we will return to everyone the moment they take the cup to the collection point…
- thank you for your understanding with the early closure of the festival… horrible news were coming from all sides… for the safety of all of you, we have come to such a solution… the improvised stage in the beer tent and the two-hour Plastik concert was hopefully a patch for the attendees and a worthy punctuation for RFP 2001… yay and thanks also to the drummers with plastic bottles
- we didn’t forbid you to take photos, only for bigger bands it is a condition from their side, which we respected only on the stage and in the immediate vicinity
- you were an excellent audience and great visitors… you behaved in a polite, exemplary and considerate manner… for that we owe you a big THANK YOU
Pleasant moments
- APOKALYPTICA is playing table football with local bands in V.I.P.
- Patton taking a dip in the pool
- SHELTER stage diving
- TANZWUT – Ode to Joy !!!
- Fireworks
- Petr Hošek gets M. Patton to sign his hand … and vice versa?!
- SMS message from Magor (Tři Sestry): “very nice festival” …for Veronika one of the best concerts in her life
- the biggest applause to the water sprinkler man from technical services, he had to give an encore
- Plastics came up with the idea of playing in a beer tent
- drummers with plastic bottles
- bands, lights, people, applause, weather, chills, beautiful people