Graspop Festival 2023 - TIME TO PARTY!! Front Row & Mosh time!! - Friday PART 8
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In this series of upcoming Videos I have tried to show what a FULL Graspop Festival experience is like (in 32°c heat) from Start to finish. I'll be posting 1 video every other day at 7PM until we are out of footage & these will be "Premieres" so we'll have a Livechat along the way if thats your thing & yes it's really me typing! ha!
SO
🤘🏻Graspop 2023🤘🏻
Well that was one of the best weekends I've ever had!
In terms of a "Perfect Festival" it's an 11/10!
I tried all weekend to find at least one fault and it was borderline impossible! A true credit to Belgium 🇧🇪🖤
So to start, we left Download (and you'll see the absolute state we were all in in a few videos time 😂) & we had literally 12 hours to do all our washing, get Bartek back to our place in Folkestone and get on the Ferry to France to drive to Belgium. I had never driven a right hand drive car on the "right side of the road" either. But yeah we somehow pulled it off. (Cheers to Ruby Dad for letting me borrow one of his cars because of the Hearse fail)
For comparison, We got on the Ferry, drove through France & into Belgium, parked up at Graspop and had 2 beers in QUICKER time than it took to leave the carpark at Download!
I really had concerns about not speaking the language but this is the weirdest thing in every direction theres another conversation with another language! So at all times you'll be hearing syllables and pieces of words from 5+ cultures and yet everyone knows perfect English and makes the effort with us. - it made me feel insanely uncultured and thick knowing 1. But it didn't hinder us at all.
Band/crowd wise, you REALLY notice a difference between foreign gigs and London gigs!!! It's ridiculous! People have manners and ask to get by with pleases & thank yous thrown around all the time. & The crowd is less Vocal/rowdy. But they just seem more respectful to the music.
Band Highlights
Pantera!!!! FINALLY!!! - It's a tribute, treat it as a tribute! But they did everything right. It was cool to see what it could have been & the Solos were done as a tribute not a like for like carbon copy, it's exactly what I wanted to see. (& Yeah I choked up) 🖤 - (People at DL were asking for the Southern flags to be taken down & arguing about it etc, but musically it was perfect).
Avatar - VIP!!! It'll be on yhe Vlog as to how I got our group there! 🤣
Deathstars - it's been forever, I love them but they Keep cancelling tours & gigs in London so was about 10years or so since the last time.
Watain - I love that show!!! - Cool to see Rubys reaction to a satanic Death Metal band 🤘🏻
Amon Amarth - You'll have to see the Vlog as to why! 😂
Behemoth - We were front row/ pit and they are perfect!!! Good set list too.
Motley Crue - John 5 has totally changed this band!!! It was a cool new direction & the best I've seen them for ages!
Obviously Guns n Roses!!!! 3 hours of classics! 🖤
Machine Head - Always
Skindred...I absolutely love them
Not Bad...but kinda disappointed
Slipknot! NO CLOWN 😔 I get the reasons why, but man you miss his stage presence/performance as a hype guy as well. - that said we saw them like days before & it was still cool & a permanent favourite!
Motionless in White - purely a visual thing but I miss Chris old stage gear 😆 the rest of the band still tart up but the hoodie just feels kinda flat.
I know I'm REALLY clutching for those negatives too!! 😅 But it's nearly impossible! There's so much good & that thats the Best/Worst I could come up with.
But yeah doing this roadtrip with my Best mate & Girlfriend (+ meeting the others) was one of the best experiences I've ever had personaly but absolutely Exhausting!!! I know that you know we go hard, but 14 days in tents, with 30°c heat + the rest is tough! - to the point I'm only just coming too now 😂
So yeah, this Festival🇧🇪...
EVERYTHING is Fucking Perfect! The people, the Organisation, the polite multilingual Staff, the food & drink prices, how clean & respectful it was, the town/area it's in & obviously the line up! I literally can't put that all in to words....
All I can say is DO IT!
Absolutely Loved it!
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-Thanks for reading this & Watching! It means the world to our little group of craziness that you'd come up at the festival & say Hi or whatever we all chatted about. We are all real approachable people! 😂 We all exist in real life & you'll never be tuned away. Really appreciate the feedback!
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If you have your own Festival Vlog (Or know of any others) Please feel free to drop a link in the comments!!! I absolutely love checking these out! Especially those who have different opinions, use different campsites and see different bands!
That Wheelchair crowd surfer brought a tear to my eye!! 11:50
He deserves his own Video for not spilling his beer!
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What a moment!
I know right?!??
What a Fucking moment!!!
Maybe I'll post it as it's own Video later on
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This bought a tear to my eye too! I think this is one of the most wholesome and inclusive crowds I’ve seen in a while, love to see it! This channel is bringing me so much smiles and joy since finding it a few days ago!
Thank you for checking out a few of our videos 😊
- and yeah, the Belgian crowds were ao respectful and adult, it was a total culture shock for us as we had come straight from Download 😂
" TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE 🐝
" ROCK N ROW " 😀
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Was at Download this year for my 7th time and your videos have shown me how much better things can be - You've single handedly convinced me and my girlfriend to head to Graspop next year instead! Great vlogs!
Great stuff!!!
Really chuffed with that!!
Thank you!!! ☺️🤘🏻
You'll both have an absolute blast!!!
Footage of the front, mosh pits, bartek going over amazing! Wheelchair guy cool 😎
Thank you!!!
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This day was absolutely perfect!!!
Perfect video to enjoy after my work shift this evening🤘🍻 grasspop looks an incredible festival, cheers you beautiful people😁 see you at bloodstock 🍻🍻😁🤘
Cheers Bro!! 🍻😎🤘🏻
I haven't felt so buzzing looking back at a festival since I was about 18/19 😂
So really hoping Bloodstock is close to it's usual excitement!!!
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@@billymayhem it's going to be epic at bloodstock 🤘😁 keep up the awesome videos bro 🍻🤘
So cool! you look a diehard metalhead, but at graspop you look like a kid on his first experience with metalheads. This is exactly how I feel every year on graspop. And I've been there 12 times \m/
That passion never leaves mate!!!
I'm nearly 50 festivals in and I'm just as excited now as I ever was!! 😁🤘🏻
This festival is special!
- Also I txt this while drinking a beer from Pitfest in Holland 😂🤘🏻
Best party 🎉
It truly Was mate yeah!!!
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Wow! What a great festival. I live in Canada, and a good metal festival is hard to come by, so I live vivacious through these videos! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for Watching!!!
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Same here!
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Cheers mate!!!
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Fair play for filming with one hand in a mosh pit Billy. I took a blow direct to the nose with a crowd surfers boot during Hell Is For Heroes, Leeds Festival 2003. Need to keep your wits about you.
Taken a beating a few times in pits man yeah! Absolutely love it! 🤣 Lost countless shirts, shoes, phones cameras and a tooth in pits over the years!
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Great footage! Brings be back to Graspop!😀😀
Not long until we get back there!!!
Best festival!!
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Woohoo I made it onto one of your vids 🤘🤘🤘 I’m the English dude right before Machine Head in a Parkway Drive vest. Was wicked meeting you guys
Ahhhh I was hoping you'd show up!!!
Hahaha!!! What a Gig!!!
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And in less than 2 weeks we ride again at Bloodstock. There’s a little precursor to me meeting you guys at that point but that’s for offline beer chats if I bump into you at Bloodstock 🥳
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I think I get what you mean!! 😅
But we're easy enough to find if ya wanna party!! 🤘🏻
Good stuff always down for partying sir will look out for you guys
Fuck yeah! Amon Amarth looked amazing! Glad to see Ruby recovered fairly quickly! 🍺🤘
They Smashed it mate!
The sound was all over the place as it was so loud, the camera was soaked in suncream, sweat & beer and I resorted to using a phone to make sure I captured the madness!!!
Ruby is a champion!!! Fighting fit in 4/5 hours after that issue! 🤘🏻
Love the rowing!
Bartek Rowed his own boat the wrong way!! I was laughing so fucking hard!!! I only just got a bit on camera!!
Awesome video, so glad Ruby was feeling better x
She's a Champion!!
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Bet machine head was way better in the hanger! Yeah definitely a good day had!
Nothing will beat that day man!!!
Even as a 3 piece that day they were absolutely fantastic!!!
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Seen behemoth for first time supporting slipknot back in 19. Enjoyed them more than I did slipknot, amazing band live.
That was such a great tour right!
Me & Bartek went to the Sheffield gig and got stuck on a hill, we then ended up at some random nightclub & nearly missed our coach home!!! 🤘🏻🤣🍻
I miss the live chat everytime im all ways at work but just wanna let you know I dig the videos i have watched all of them keep rocking in the free 🌎 😂❤
Thanks for watching!!!
That work stuff destroys the social life don't it! I feel ya!!
Ugh!!!
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Behemoth always amazing
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" AWESOME CHAIR " 🍻
No My Dying Bride? Best band on the whole weekend!
I didn't know they were even at the festival!
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Love Amon Amarth 🤘
🍻Raise your Horns!!🤘🏻
Haha
@@billymayhem they did the rowing on the floor to Amon Amarth at Wacken 2014 🤘
@@matthewneale428
It's way too much like exercise!! 😂
In 2014/15 a friend of mine ended up "Rowing" straight through Piss!!! 🤣 I laughed so much I literally broke!!
@@billymayhem lol 😂
😂😂 so much fun. Bring on Bloodstock.🤘🤘
Not long now!!!
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Hopefully machine head do download or bloodstock next year 🙏🏻
🤘🏻HEADLINE!!!!🤘🏻
Amon amarth are great live arent they
So Fucking Good!!!
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@@billymayhem yeah i definitely wanna go to graspop it looks so decent and the people seem lovely i watched the last video with ruby getting defeated by the sun and obviously with what they did in a short amount of time thats brilliant im glad shes okay now 🖤🤘
The people were next level friendly & it really made the festival for us! - came away Buzzing!!! Tbh we're still loving it now. This was exactly how I felt about Download when I was like 18! 😂
& Yeah Ruby's a Champion! She was fighting fit in hours, I'd of been a whiney lil bitch for days with how she went down! 🤘🏻
@@billymayhem yeah same here to be fair and yeah the line up always seems better than download and i totally agree on your vlogs of download is shit compared 😂