Roskilde is a city located on the ground not far from the capital of Denmark Copenhagen. There is a namesake music festival that takes place in that area and it's huge and the oldest event of its kind in Europe. It usually takes three to four days, there are several stages active at the same time, films are screened and given space to all those activities in artistic background in Anglo-Saxon world are contained within performance-arts, or portraits in real time, body sometimes painting, poetry readings more or less objectionable, contest for writers to sing assembled ad hoc and intended, in all probability, end up in some construction site once removed the circus.
A cheerful fast-food culture of the modern short.
All the most famous bands of the last decades have passed through there, perhaps starting with some minor stage up to the main stage, headlining some even like to establish an official passage into the world of those who count, the conquest of success world. Process that is untied, needless to say, the artistic growth or the validity of the proposal, but tickets are not sold the bonghetti playing, I would note the Mara Maionchi shift arrived at this point in a hypothetical discussion four eyes.
In the thirtieth year, exactly on June 30, 2000, Pearl Jam were playing. Throughout the concert, as during each concert, the whole crowd pressed to make some progress and reach the stage. Everyone wanted to get at the barrier, look into the eyes Eddie Vedder and company. Those who were already worried about the first file instead of opposing human wave to push it back and not lose its privileged position and hard-won. It 's a game ritual during any concert, and will become uncontrollable events of this magnitude. To complicate things there but the bad weather began. In fact, it rained, mud and rain made the grass, the mud made the precarious balance of all. At some point, the play broke down: thirty boys in the front row slid to the ground, could no longer stand up, trampled and ended up crushed against the barriers. The muscles that had managed to get them in front of everyone in the company fail to support them until the end, to protect them from over hundreds and thousands of people who drove as if they were one body. Five died instantly and the concert was immediately stopped. Within hours he was notified of the death of four other boys. The wounded were about twenty in all, no life-threatening, but certainly the matter did not end with a pat on the back and see you next.
The news went around the world in a few days, many newspapers They pointed to abuse drugs and alcohol that each event would lead the overall situation always about to break, others if they took the bad organization of the festival: the escape routes and a non-existent relationship security / viewer too low the main accusations. At the end of so many faults and no blame, but this event has deeply marked the career of Pearl Jam and their lives. Years passed before they returned to take back to play in events of this magnitude, and the album Riot Act, which came out two years after the tragedy, they decided to dedicate two songs to the nine victims: Arc and Love Boat Capitan.
Mestre is a town like many others. Every time I've been there by train I never managed to leave the area around the station, as I was frightened by the tangle of sheets and colored signs stuck to the least worst of the surrounding buildings. Mestre is one of the many cemeteries of asphalt and concrete where the modern man likes to bury himself. Maybe I'm wrong, but I do not think, even if you fail, or definitely would not do much. In fact I do not know much about the history of this city, of all the events that led it to be exactly the same as all other major Italian cities, the fact is that even in its insignificance is equal to them: it is not more is not less.
However, in 2004 the park was opened in Mestre San Giuliano. A huge green lung close the lagoon with views of Venice, a splash of color where the last reopen your eyes and rest your ears from the noise of everyday life. Given the location very picturesque place, three years after it was decided to move beyond the Heineken Jammin 'Festival, which had found in previous nell'autodromo fixed place at Imola. The Heineken is one of the biggest freak-Italian musical events, second only to Festivalbar for raw material quality and the average age for Pistoia Blues musicians (although this last point that I would not be read into the record, I'm not at all sure). Although this festival is, as mentioned just above, a showcase for old stars in search of bathrooms crowd to the most melancholy need for objective, sometimes it brings out something good. Make an imponderable, but pulls it off. These things happen in the fury of fire on everyone.
To celebrate the first edition in the new premises in exactly the Ides of June, they had to play on that stage of the park in Mestre, Pearl Jam. Yes, even them. A few hours of their arrival on the scene a tornado struck the San Giuliano, however, sweeping and destroying everything. Eight lighting towers and amplifiers collapsed and 30 people were injured. To tell the truth, and to focus the drama in its entirety, should be added that: in the tenth anniversary of the festival was been planned one more day to the usual three, and that Friday was only the second, the festival was entirely erased, one of the evening to come would be the only Italian date of the Pearl Jam of the year.
After this second incident related to the band, he began to think that some 'bad luck, whilst the Americans to take her five boys, but especially if the door in their travels to Europe. And so for years the custom spread among the superstitious rockers, talk about Pearl Jam as you would about a venereal disease, rarely a low voice and head bowed, hands well harpooned the testicles.
Montebelluna is a medium-sized cities resting comfortably on the outskirts of north-eastern plains piadana. At first glance it seems one of those American cities in California that are often seen in teen show broadcast primarily on Mediaset, a small and cozy city center and surrounding residential neighborhoods intervellati only small but manicured green spaces. Some building in the center, but nothing resembling the mass construction of large urban areas. Difficult to find a house without his corner of the garden and just as difficult to encounter difficulties in parking.
The reason why I speak of this town is situated about forty kilometers, meters less than meters, from Mestre. July has just arrived and with it its a intolerable and inability to sleep at night. Along with coming in July is also the Heineken Jammin 'Festival, Mestre always, always at the San Giuliano park.
Also Pearl Jam. In two days.
Four people right now are with his eyes to heaven to try to develop some very personal and projections on weather in the near future. In fact, none of these four people living in Montebelluna, but for a number of reasons that I'm not telling, it has become their center of interest (broadly defined). One of these four people are writing this humble post without any pretension to elegance of style, and it is doing during Sunday afternoon one of the hottest of the last twenty-six. May testify in person.
One of these four people is me, then just write as if I were an outside observer that I was perfectly natural and even increases the possibilities for my future schizophrenia. As I write this, sudo. In fact today I did nothing. While the temperature did not sleep worth a wood stove in my room, sweating, and not eat to avoid cooking, sweating, and breathing while sudo and curse the heat atrocious, guess what '?, Sudo. Except that, suddenly, as sudo, I also hear an echo of distant thunder. There are no clouds in the sky, and imagine if they passed a by mistake with everything What would be right now, but I can distinctly hear the thunder. In the distance, sure, but I hear them. In a few minutes is down by a blizzard proportions bibiliche an exaggerated amount of hail strikes all that meets, hitting trees and glasses, plates crashing into cars and walls of houses. Suddenly the wind gets up first-degree relative to Trieste and bora, so as not to miss anything, about fifteen degrees leaves without even try to discuss it together.
E 'right now that I understand the truth: The plane that will carry the Pearl Jam on stage Heineken has just landed in Italy.
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