Posts Tagged ‘The Hultsfred festival’

Tuesday July 20 2010, 1:11 am

Hello there!

Time flies and I’m surprised at how fast! It’s been three weeks since I last blogged but it doesn’t feel like it. I guess it’s because it’s summer and this time of the year time moves way too fast. It’s now it should move slowly, it’s now that you should be able to feel every moment, look at the time and think “Only one hour passed since I last looked, it feels like five!”. But of course the only time when that happens is when life is boring, in the middle of the winter when we’re stuck at work or doing something else equally boring. I can’t believe July is coming to an end. How on earth is that possible?! Summer will be over in about a month and I feel like it was May yesterday! This is such a horror to me since spring and summer is the only time of the year when I’m truly happy. Like I’ve told you before I can’t cope with the darkness of fall and winter. Seasonal affective disorder is a bitch and living in a country where fall and winter takes up half the year isn’t ideal. Because of this I’ll try to make the very best out of what’s left of summer. I’ll spend more time outside, take longer walks and pay closer attention to the beauty of nature – while it lasts. And I have bigger things than that to make something out of the remainder of summer since I’m going to Stockholm to see a friend and then on a cruise with my family in early August.

Since I last blogged the big thing that has happened was “Hultsfred-ändå-festivalen” (The Hultsfred anyway festival) as I call it. You might remember that I blogged about the fact that the Hultsfred festival was cancelled but that people were coming here anyway. Well they did. I’m not sure how many but at least 200 people came to Hultsfred, stayed at the camping (which is part of what used to be the festival area), partied and had fun as if the festival had never been cancelled. Of course there was a big difference. Instead of six stages with some of the biggest bands in the world there was a travel trailer with a sound system and local bands playing in the grass in front of it. Sure, the festival was smaller than it had ever been before but the energy was the same just as the attitude of the people. No, the attitude was even better. Here were people who came to Hultsfred without the big rock festival. Not many people except for German tourist do so because this is a really small and really boring town. But here they were anyway, determined to not let the festival go without a proper goodbye. I love them for that.

Plugs: adastra, Anna, Angie, Deanna, alisha

Wednesday June 30 2010, 8:02 pm

Yesterday was a day of great sorrow in my home town and today isn’t much better. The Hultsfred festival that’s been arranged here for twenty-four years has been cancelled due to not enough tickets being sold this year. Three years ago this was the biggest rock festival in Sweden with more than 30 000 tickets sold but after two years of only around 20 000 tickets sold and this years only 5000 they cancel the festival. After loosing money for two years they found it impossible to arrange a festival that would mean loss of money for the third year in a row and yesterday declared their bankruptcy.

An era of music, fun and party in Hultsfred has come to a end. This is sad for everyone who visited the festival but especially for us who live here. Hultsfred is a small town with only 5000 inhabitants and the festival was pretty much the only thing going on here. This is what Hultsfred is known for. This was what was good about living in this town. This was the thing you looked forward to every year. But no more.

There’s a Facebook group called “Vi som åker till Hultsfred ändå!” (We who are going to Hultsfred anyway!) though. It’s a group for people who are planning to come here to camp and party anyway, even though there’s no festival. I’m obviously a member of the group and I’m looking forward to participating in some kind of party during this weekend and next week. Like I said, no festival is especially sad for us who live here so it’s wonderful that people are still coming here. It would have been horrible with a week of absolutely nothing going on when there was supposed to have been a big festival taking place. Of course this will be nothing like what the festival would have been but at least it’s something. A last hurrah.

To those who made the festival possible: Thank you for the five wonderful years of festival fun I was lucky to be a part of. I will miss it a lot.

Plugs: kitty, Zanna

Tuesday March 30 2010, 5:46 pm

Hello there mateys!

Guess who’s back? That’s right, the most fabulous, the extremely amazing, the one and only… ME!

If you’re following me on Twitter you already know the reason to my absence but for the rest of you, one word: school. Yes, unfortunately I haven’t been absent because of amazing adventures but rather because I’ve been studying, studying and then studying some more. I’m now done with my two very first university courses ever. Yay for that! I made a (ugly) site for my CSS class which you can look at here and a really god damn crappy movie for my Flash class which you can view here. I will keep the site I made for my CSS class but I will change the layout. The current one sucks so bad but this assignment was about code and not design so I just focused on incorporating all the codes my teacher wanted us to use and then some more just to shine. So, code-wise it’s excellent. My first semantically correct layout ever. That’s what I’ll try to do with Whirlwind next, make it semantically correct because right now semantically it’s a complete mess. The list of my books on the site isn’t complete yet by the way. There’s some fifty more to be listed. Most of my antique (19th and early 20th century) books that is.

Anyway, moving on! I got some great news the other day. I got a job at this years Hultsfred festival! If you don’t know what that is, it’s one of Sweden’s biggest rock festivals with 20 000 – 30 000 visitors every year which, that’s right, takes place in my home town. Living here sucks big time but once a year it’s really great! So, I got a job as a stagehand at the Hawaii stage. That’s the biggest stage (where obviously the biggest bands play) and I’ll work backstage! Can you say absolutely fucking amazing?! This is the job I wanted and this is the job I got! Talk about unbelievably good luck considering there’s many different jobs at the festival. I think I got it because of the fact that I’ve worked backstage at the Hawaii stage before, back in 2008. I loved that job so that’s why I wanted to do it again and now I get to!

To even things out and make sure my life isn’t too good of course something bad had to happen to balance things out. So, my external hard drive crashed. Actually it didn’t just crash, I think it short circuit or something because there was a spark, a poof and then my apartment went pitch black. The worst thing is that since the HDD was connected to my (brand new) laptop it damaged that one as well. The DVI socket to be exact, which means that I now can’t connect my external screen to the laptop. I hope the warranty covers this because I need to be able to use my 20″ screen. That’s what I’m used to so the 15″ one on the laptop really isn’t enough. I wouldn’t even have bought a laptop if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s possible to connect a external monitor to it.

Speaking of computer stuff, I bought two new domains. www.whirlwind.se and a domain with my full name, which I’m not going to write here since I don’t want people who google my full name to find my site. Doesn’t make that big a difference really since I’m not exactly hard to find but still, at least it’s a little harder to find me now than it would be if my full name was written somewhere on the site. I don’t mind people I know visiting my site nor strangers. It’s those people I don’t know, that don’t know me but know of me that I don’t want here. Basically people who aren’t my friends or acquaintances but know who I am who just visit to snoop around.

I got a interesting mail by the way, from a company that wanted to take over whirlwind.se. I said thanks, but no thanks, only if you pay me a couple of hundred dollars. They weren’t interested which didn’t surprise me. I kind of expected them not wanting to pay that much for it but that’s fine because I don’t really want to sell it. I would never let go of it for less than a couple of hundred dollars. I now own whirlwind.nu and whirlwind.se, which besides .com are the most common top domains in Sweden. That’s great. Now I only need .com as well but that one’s taken.

Last but not least I want to show you my new lamps. After buying the lamp I posted a photo of a few entries back I became obsessed with the idea of replacing all the lamps in my living room. There’s nothing wrong with my old lamps but I wanted something more elegant looking for the living room. My old lamp for the ceiling was moved to the hallway and the desk lamp and lamps for the window are now retired. I got all of those when I was thirteen or fourteen so it was about time. So here’s the lamps I bought. The first one is for the ceiling (obviously) and the second one will hang on the wall above my couch bed.

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Plugs: Shaina, Angie, Joebs, Maria, tiff k, Ashley, clarity, Luna, Grace, April, Jennifer, maria, kitty, Regan, Zanna, Elizabeth, Aly, Mallory, Kristine, Malin, Kristen, Deanna, Lady, Alyssa, Citrine, Britney

Wednesday November 18 2009, 7:59 am

I went through photos from my cell. Most of them are kinda blurry since my cell phone camera don’t have a flash.

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Here I am during my festival job with about four layers of clothes since we worked outside through the entire night.

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Plugs: Marie Claire, gail, Vildvittra » Hittat i mobilen, Kristine, Milla, Rachel-Rebecka, admin, Annapanna, Malin, Alyssa, kitty, Leaielle, Angie, Karen, Aislinn

Monday October 5 2009, 4:32 pm

Kitty cuteness.
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I wore these boots during the Hultsfred festival. It was a bit muddy. Can you tell? The reason to why you should never wear too nice shoes at a rock festival.
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Plugs: kitty, Kristine, Pauline, maria, Alyssa, Marie Claire, tiff k, Shaina, Pam

Monday August 17 2009, 11:53 pm
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I finally removed my remaining festival bracelets. After having worn such bracelets for six years my arm feels kinda empty. Perhaps I shouldn’t have removed them this time of the year because now I have white marks on my arm where the bracelets used to be. It’s because of the bad sunburn I got at the beach in Visby.

The last festival bracelets. I used to have more but they fell off.
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Plugs: Alicia, Ariel, Shaina, Sakura, Marie Claire, maria, tiff k, Becky

Wednesday June 17 2009, 10:55 pm

Yesterday and today I’ve been doing some t-shirt surgery. Basicly I’ve made new tees out of old ones. I’ll post photos tomorrow. :)

I still don’t know which day of the festival I’ll work. It’s either thursday, friday or saturday. Personally I hope for thursday but we’ll see. I hope the job doesn’t mean I have to stand still in one place for twelve hours. Watching the entire area and thus being able to walk around sounds a lot better. It’ll still be pretty boring since it’s a night job and all but hey, at least it gives me a free ticket.

I hope I can get off my regular job for the festival. My attendance is really good so I hope my bosses will take that into conscideration and let me have some fun. This is the only thing ever happening in Hultsfred! I only work tuesday, thursday and half friday but working means I have to go to bed early the day before so I’m missing a lot more festival time than just those three days. That would really, really suck.

Plugs: maria, Elizabeth, Nicki, sarahc, 85reddig, tiff k, Anna, Sharleene

Monday June 15 2009, 9:59 pm

A couple of you asked about how much I get paid for the festival job.  The payment I get is a free festival ticket which costs 1490 SEK (189$) (137€). So basicly I get 1490 SEK for twelve hours work. Pretty nice.

I have to admit that if I didn’t live in Hultsfred I’d never go to the festival. First of all I really wouldn’t enjoy sleeping in a tent on a muddy field among a couple of thousands of drunk people. And then of course the bands playing this year really suck.

The Killers as a headliner. Hellooo! Can I say CRAP?! It’s not like there’s usually a lot of good bands but this is really, really bad! I mean, last year at least I saw HIM and the year before that my favourite band in the world; Manic Street Preachers. Now I’m gonna see Thåström, Takida and Lars Winnerbäck, which are all swedish! And none of them are in my top ten or even twenty of bands I like.

At least somethings happening in Hultsfred. It’s party party and I will love it even though the bands suck! :D

Plugs: Giza, Karin, tiff k, kitty, Ashley, Vashael, maria, Afef, Malin, Angie, Spencer

Sunday June 14 2009, 10:23 pm

I just realized I haven’t told you about what I’ll work with at the Hultsfred festival. I was offered three different jobs. One job with cleaning which sounds like hell. Just imagine cleaning up during and after a rock festival with more than 20 000 visitors! The second job was guarding one of the entrance gates to the festival. This job required me to work four five hour shifts spread over four days. The third job which I accepted is to be a guard at the sport center where the festival visitors can go to take a shower. I’ll work twelve hours from 7 PM to 7 AM and I’m done.

Last years job working backstage was so much fun but I did work one ten hour shift and one seventeen hour shift so this is a lot less hours. And I’ll be working with one of my sisters! The people I’ve worked with the past two festivals have been nice to hang with but of course I prefer hanging with my sister.

The festival is three weeks away and I’m really excited. The week after that there’s the Sonisphere festival. It’s this touring festival with Metallica as the headliner, which is coming to Hultsfred. I’ll probably try to get a work at that festival aswell  because otherwise I can’t afford going. If I don’t get a job it’s not really a big deal since it’s only a one day thing and I’m not a big fan of any of the bands playing there.  Of course Metallica are good but they’re not one of my favourite bands.

Plugs: maria, Anna, Sue, Giza, Kate, Saturnine, kitty, snez, Bella

Monday May 25 2009, 2:57 pm

I think I might have landed myself a job at the Hultsfred festival, the rock festival held in my home town every summer. Every year between 20 000 and 30 000 people visit the festival to see world famous bands playing. It’s great. It’s sex, booze and rock n’ roll. It’s the only time I actually enjoy living in Hultsfred.

Unfortunately the festival tickets costs a fortune so my only option is to work there to get a free ticket. I’ve done that for two years now and now it looks like I’ll be doing it again this year. The best thing is that my dad and my sister Nathalie hopefully will work with me. My dad is going to a rock festival! How cool isn’t that?!

I guess if you’re a teenager it’s not cool going to a rock festival with your dad but it’s different when you’re almost twenty-six. I’m past the parents are embarassing phase and since I’m an adult we don’t fight about what I can and can’t to since well, I’m grown up and don’t have to ask for permission to do what I want to do.

Plugs: Nathan, tiff k, Sharleene, Sue, Katie, maria, Aly, Sakura, Amanda, kitty