Exit Part Two- Back to the Exit

Wow, so we´re only up to the first night of the actual festival, and a pretty big night it turned out to be. N*E*R*D were pretty awsome to start with, and pretty laid back too, followed by Mike Skinner and his Streets, who were pretty good too, and well attended by many-an English geezer who has taken too much in their past.

Now I must take this opportunity to mention that, although we may thing of ourselves as fair drinkers in Australia, nothing compares to the encouragement provided by the Exit festival organisers to have just a couple more. To purchase a drink, you had to buy tokens. The options for beer were either one beer token, or 6 beers, and this token could be purchased for the price of 5 single beer tokens. So what else were we to do, but buy every beer by the 6 pints. This certainly set up each evening well, and proved to do quite the number on a few of our travelling companions on the first evening.

Around 4am saw a couple of thousand odd Aussies descend on one of the smaller of the 16 stages at the Festival, to see homeland heroes The Presents strut their stuff (right). This pretty much went off, and the sun slowly rose behind us, to signal the end of this first night, and tell all of us that it was time to catch some much needed Zs, before the heat really got turned on, and forced us out to the river again for more Baltic Vodkas.








To Be Continued...