{"id":981,"date":"2012-07-26T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/testes\/?p=981"},"modified":"2020-09-25T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:24:43","slug":"milhoes-de-festa-2012-chronicles-day-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Milh\u00f5es de Festa 2012: chronicles & day 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s over, Milh\u00f5es de Festa 2012 is already past. From now on I\u2019ll spend the days missing all the fun in the last weekend (I\u2019ve already done all the sleeping I didn\u2019t during the festival, so that\u2019s what\u2019s really left). And by \u201cfun\u201d I mean the\u00a0concerts<\/span> all the crazy stuff you did so you can brag to your friends at some coffee’s\u00a0esplanade. This article here won\u2019t have more than a few shows of 19th July, differences to the past editions, novelties, complains, praises, histories, et cetera. Yes, you\u2019re still reading Bolachas.org, not VICE. Let\u2019s do a list! Mssng Milh\u00f5es de Festa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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River C\u00e1vado<\/em><\/p>\n

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– To start, this edition managed to bring more people to the festival, which I saw as a surprise. I went camping (all) the four days, and soon as I arrived it was already hard to find a grass area to pack your tent (I hadn\u2019t bring a fine mattress, so this was vital to me), but I managed to get one. As for the attendance during the concerts\u2026 I think it was the same!, so no problem there;<\/p>\n

– It was tough to pick up the bracelets, kinda. At the day zero they in fact located the picking point at the camping site, but it took a long time (luckily I arrived moments before they started doing line and got my credential in minutes). The next day, it moved like past years to the box office, which is in the festival site, thus making the campers walk a little extra with all the bags and stuff;<\/p>\n

– For the\u00a0maintenance, some changes in terms of number: less box offices for the ticket, less\u00a0bathhouses (however by the 2nd day of festival they increased the available ones) and a little colder water compared by a perfect one last year (still aceptable), urinals in the festival site (finally), but the most important: the offer in food improved! The Taina Stage offered a great variety of food not only for the day zero but for the rest of the days, same as the main stages (welcome back, sandes de leit\u00e3o);<\/p>\n

– The delays in concerts. I mean, this is unacceptable at some point: the first day, Throes + The Shine played over an hour late, and so as the following concerts. The second day also got to delay a lot,\u00a0forcing Hoy! to cancel the show, since it was fucking late! The third day got better, but still forget punctual concerts.<\/p>\n

– The poor amount of Vini sangria (fruit wine, close translation), as by the middle of the night there were no more stock, at least for the last 2 nights.<\/p>\n

– The Taina Stage, but I\u2019ll talk about it later on.<\/p>\n

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Clich\u00e9d photo #1<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the concerts. After I packed my tent (you could do this if you arrived earlier than 5 o’clock) and joined some buddies for a late lunch, there I was wandering through Barcelos to find the Municipal Market, with relativity ease (thanks, Google Maps). It all began with The Glockenwise<\/strong>, and this time you could say they took the meaning \u201cshitless rockers\u201d a little too serious: the show was totally unpluged, acoustic guitars, only a snare drum and no micros. This right there in the middle of the stalls with fruit and fish, with that awful smell and a strong sunny day. Ergo, totally worth it the attending and showing Glockenwise are capable of moving out of the tag of \u201csurfer rock \u2018n’roll band for girls\u201d. Great start.<\/p>\n

Right next was time for Ka\u00efl<\/strong>, and oh boy it went loud. And I\u2019m sure about this because I spent the concert some meters away nearby a coffee, pardon my unprofessionalism (well, Bolachas doesn\u2019t pay me, so I guess all in all I\u2019m unprofessional). Nevertheless, I did see a bit of the soundcheck and the passersby could not keep moving without noticing all that, so another well-succeeded performance.<\/p>\n

The following one wasn\u2019t a problem for my heavy drinking for the day, in the middle of a square, with a fountain in the middle and\u00a0esplanades for the\u00a0assistance,\u00a0although there were already a lot of people watching and therefore I couldn\u2019t see all the time what\u00a0Aspen<\/strong>\u00a0was doing to perform such a thick stoner rock. Whatever that was, they managed to fill Apoio\u2019s Square full of distortion and lingering death drums (funny that the drummer was the same guy from Glockenwise who did the job sooner with only a snare), there were quality.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to see C\u00e1lculo\u00a0<\/strong>doing some rhymes but a dinner was being appointed and so I missed the first of three or four hip hop acts of MdF, I think (the other ones were, well, you wait till I write about it). Just for this lack of hip hop bands it would be worth it to check this bro and see what kind of format and things he would do. Being from Barcelos and the concert free, I guess public wasn\u2019t a problem, so Milh\u00f5es wins this bet too.<\/p>\n

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Clich\u00e9d photo #2<\/em><\/p>\n

After dinner it was time to check Taina Stage, the new stage for this Milh\u00f5es, and what can I say? Well I say \u201clet this stage live for the next edition\u201d, because we have a perfectly good alternative for people not very keen on swimming, it\u2019s not so far away from everything and the place also works for the stage, a\u00a0plateau just meters away from the bridge over the C\u00e1vado river. It\u2019s a win, but not for this night (remembering that the following days it worked in daylight). Besides the place got a little too crowded, the illumination went down some three times after The Glockenwise concert (this time pretty faithful to their sound), I actually missed to know if GNOD\u00a0<\/strong>were playing, because I think it was somebody else(?) putting music (maybe Ana<\/strong> or Pedro Santos<\/strong>) to a low volume. Taking that into account I went drinking with some friends, meeting other people\u2019s friends, rocking in Xano\u2019s Bar and by the end of the night playing football with an empty water bottle with a Glockenwise member. And got pretty wasted. This is Milh\u00f5es de Festa! Living life.<\/p>\n

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Some metalhead we\u2019ve met in the camping\u00a0\u00a9 Am\u00edlcar Rodrigues<\/em><\/p>\n

PS: If you speak portuguese and you are desperate to read something about the concerts, then follow Bolachas.org on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0so you can ready the tweets I sent while in the festival.<\/p>\n

PS2: Let\u2019s go VICE and get personal, so I would like to thank a few people for providing such a nice weekend to me in a even nicer festival, so thank you beloved friends (you all know who you are), thank you new friends (add me on facebook, send me a mail or something), thank you Valpa\u00e7os camping\u00a0neighbors who offered us some homemade wine, thank you crowdsurfing Spiderman teddy, thank you metalheads of the acoustic guitars, friends with the guy who shouts \u201cDISP\u00c1RA E MATA O GALO\u201d, thank you lady from the upper bar in the hockey\u00a0pavilion for the kindness and electricity (first<\/span> 2nd greatest bar in the world), thank you garbage men for making me laugh with the best prank in life, thank you Shangaan Electro for the dancing, thank you Bro-X for the lyrics, thank you Unicornibot for the stage, thank you Throes + The Shine for the sweat, thank you India, thank you terror, thank you disillusionment, thank you Barcelos and thank you Milh\u00f5es. See you next year.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotos by SMF except where noted<\/p>\n

bernardo@bolachas.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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