This weekend saw my first festival of the summer. Rock-a-field in Luxembourg led me to a European festival for the third time in as many years. Kings of Leon and Franz Ferdinand beckoned, although the Ting Tings and Razorlight prolonged the wait. The festival is surrounded by trees and sits somewhere in the south of the country, we blindly got on a bus and let them take us to the forest before walking about a mile to the secluded field.

All feeling pretty good so far

Secluded Field - Check

Great Bands - Check

Ticket - Check

I made my way to the press box on the offchance that they might have forgotten to reply to my email I had sent earlier in the year, standing in front of me was a youngish girl who had travelled from Iceland in her 20's crying because she'd forgotten her ticket "this is not an excuse" bellowed the man behind the counter. I considered my plan of action.

"hello" I said, "don't worry I have my ticket, however, I was hoping to take some photos of the bands, I emailed Michel (the organiser) a couple of times"

"and did you get a response?"

"obviously not, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation" I replied

"well in that case it would appear that you are not worthwhile enough"

I was a little taken aback by this response, not even the nazi style guards at Glasto were this obnoxious.

With this in mind I walked into the festival, without a single ticket check and suddenly felt even more sorry for the Icelandic girl, who was now out of sight. 

My heart sank immeidietly as I saw ticket booths to purchase tickets for food and drink. My pet festival hate, even more so when the ticket booths outnumber the bars. Not to mention it was essentially £4 for a half pint of beer. V Festival seems cheap in comparison. This festival lacked everything a decent festival should have. There were no quirkly little festival gems, except for the amazing Moldover (feature coming soon on this guy), which was actually part of the Rockhal stand, Luxembourg's equivalent to the ICA. We loved Hal Flavin who are in London at the end of August, on the local band stage and although we missed them a big thank you to Mutiny on the Bounty who took us home and will be touring the UK soon with their brand of Mathematical Rock.

Kings of Leon rocked and so did Franz Ferdinand...Razorlight...well...do you care...and a big shout out to Eagles of Death Metal who are proper old skool rock!

It's just a shame about the worthless organisers who didn't give a crap about us, the bands or well, anyone.