Met Alex at the airport. He had been waiting for a Qantas flight cause Stone Sour was probably on it. Instead of that, A Perfect Circle, Bullet For my Valentine and the whole Metallica crew arrived on that flight. I spoke to Flemming, Big Mick, Zack, Justin, Josh and some others. Took pictures with some of them and then helped Alex taking pics of him with the guys from Bullet For my Valentine.
After that, we went outside the airport to take the bus and finally go to the city but Alex lost his wallet. We came back to the airport and found the wallet on the seat where he had been waiting. Then we were about to take the bus again and I noticed that Alex was desperately trying to find something inside his bag, it was the wallet again. Yes, he lost his wallet twice in less than 5 minutes. This time we started looking in the floor, the funny thing was that I walked behind him all the time and didn't notice when it fell. After 20 minutes of searching, Alex asked in lost property and I still can't believe how lucky he is cause, yes, he got it back.
Then we took the bus to the city and walked to Alex's Hostel. We had booked one single room for us and the idea was trying to accomodate ourselves in there. Unfortunately, we couldn't make it work cause the staff at the reception were looking at us all the time. We tried but it didn't work. So I had no choice and left the Hostel, luckily, while I was waiting for Alex, I found a Chilean friend that I met on the Adelaide show, Miguel, he offered me accomodation and I had to accept cause I basically had spent all my money on the flight and that left me with my pockets empty.
We walked to his Hostel and I slipped in. It was easy cause it was bigger, so nobody really noticed. We sat down and talked for about 2 hours and then we got thristy. We went to the city for a drink and while we were walking down the street, the most surreal thing happened as I looked inside of one of the restaurants and saw Rob Trujillo, of course I thought I was going mental, but then Miguel said: hey and it's Kirk there. We were so shocked, I was thinking like: then, everybody will keep saying that I'm a stalker, but c'mon, let's face it: if you're walking down the street and found these two guys. Are you going to keep walking or wait and try to get something? We didn't wait more than 5 minutes and they came out. They were hanging on with a bunch of surfers. Rob crossed the street to get into his car and Miguel, before Kirk left, said Hi to him. No, you probably wouldn't be expecting this but I do was expecting the fact that, Kirk was, again, DRUNK. HA! We both took pictures with him as he was looking like one of the Mortal Kombat's characters in a 'FINISH HIM' state. We had a handshake and then he left.
We went to Macca's and then headed back to the Hostel. Got into his room. It was a shared dorm, it had like 10 beds or so. Fortunately, it was almost empty, so we could accomodate ourselves very well. Once I was about to close my eyes, I was thinking: I just met this guy 2 days ago and now I'm on the same bed with him, yeah that's weird, my mom wouldn't be proud at all. HA! I guess that life on the road is my only excuse.
Next morning I woke up at 8 or something, picked up everything, went outside the room and patienly waited outside the female toilet to see if anybody was going out or inside of it as I needed a special card to get in there. After a while, I got inside, took a shower and then left.
Met Alex in his Hostel and we headed off to the show. Took the train and it was for free just by showing the festival ticket.
We found a huge line which we, again, skipped. Alex wasn't feeling very well, so he went to get some tissues, he took my camera to do some filming after that. Unfortunately, the doors opened before Alex could come back. Then I got in, got my last wristband and walked, yes literally, walked to the main stage. It was so funny cause I walked straight and just found a small stage, then I asked somebody: where is the main stage? She told me I had to turn right, so I did and it was all blocked. Then I asked a security guard where was the entry, he just opened one of the fences and let me get in. I was surprised as I was quite sure that I wasn't going the right way, however, the main stages where just in front of me and I kept walking, went through security again, showed my wristband and got the rail.
The crew was on stage getting everything ready for the show. Josh and Justin asked me how the hell I got in there that early. I was like: I just made my way through. We all laughed.
Then got a bunch of calls from Alex, he couldn't believe that I was already in. However, I saved the spot for him and he made it.
Memphis May Fire was the first band, most of their crowd where young crying ladies and young hardcore dudes. Didn't like them at all.
Then we got Anthrax, Tamahawk, Slayer and Blink.
After Anthrax, Nicole was on the rail and we made a space for Miguel who just joined us.
Throughout the day, we took a lot of pictures , Mark stopped by to say hello and good bye in case we wouldn't see him again. Meeting him was super nice, he is very cool. Unfortunately, we couldn't share that much cause he had to film before and during the show.
We got squashed in Slayer and Blink's setlists. BLOODY HELL. Blink was even worse than Slayer, Nicole got smashed against the rail by an asshole putting his arms around her, it was difficult to breath. So sad I couldn't enjoy Blink either in Adelaide and Perth, it was too brutal. At least, I enjoyed them a lot in Melbourne.
We were ready for Metallica. The show started and we got super pushed against the rail, it was sooooo painful. We were too tight one to the other, even if I had Miguel on my right side and Nicole on my left side, breathing was difficult.
The pushing was so hard that Nicole left the rail on the second song, she tried to resist but she couldn't, later on she told me she had broken her rib. So just imagine how hard the pushing was. Still, we all agreed that it wasn't more brutal than fucking Brisbane.
During the set, Lars saw me in the middle of the crowd, grinned and gave me a huge smile in Sanitarium, later on Seek he pointed at me and thanked me for travelling. Same with James. Both with huge smiles on their faces. That just made the whole trip worthy.
The set wasn't as good as in Adelaide or Melbourne, but it was okay. We got Metal Militia, such a good surprise.
Before they left, Lars threw another drumstick to me, I was planning on giving it to Nicole (as she had made a banner to get her drumstick) but this time, there where too many hands around me and the stick just hit the ground. Guess what happened? Security guards fucked it up again.
After the show, we all met at the booth, took a picture and then walked to take the train to the city. We ate something. The plan was getting beers, we were waiting For Claire, Melinda and Mark, so in the meantime, Miguel, Alex and me went to the Hostel to change our dirty and wet clothes. Once we came back, they had all splitted up cause everything was closed. Too sad I didn't have the chance to say good bye to the mighty Farzad, either my beloved polish guys. Such a shame, really.
The 3 of us spent the night in the city, we got in some restaurant, talked and waited, by 3 am we were all dead. Saying good bye to Alex was fucking hard. We spent so much time together that I love him as much as one of my brothers now. He's such a cool buddy, I'll be looking forward to seeing him anytime soon.
A shuttle bus picked me and Miguel up at his hostel. I slept all the way to the airport. Once at the airport, I fell asleep again, then said good bye to Miguel. Kept sleeping. Caught my plane and sleept the whole way to Sydney.
Now I'm at the hostel tiping this. Can't believe it's over.
Once I'm home, I'll do one last post with pictures and videos from my camera.
Can't wait to come back home, 3 days to go.
C.
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