Wow, what a crazy week!
Saturday, August 8, 2009 - Liv Boeree
I’ve been back in the UK for about ten days now and haven’t had a chance to rest at all because last weekend was Sonisphere, a new rock and metal festival near London. It had my dream lineup of bands – Metallica, Alice in Chains, Paradise Lost and of course Anthrax, to name a few! If you don’t know by now, fellow UB pro Scott Ian is the guitarist and driving force behind Anthrax, so I was over the moon when I found out they were playing. Scott of course sorted us out with the best possible AAA passes enabling me to swan about all over the festival including the band areas where there was a plethora of free food, drink and even haircuts!
Anthrax played on the first day and absolutely blew everyone away with their performance. These guys are as hard and heavy as ever and it was a real treat to watch them play with their old singer John Bush. The rest of the weekend was of a similar ilk with more loud music and long hair than you imagine, finishing with standing on the side of the stage to watch Metallica. What more could a girl want?
The very next day the whole motley crew of bands, media et al bundled down to central London to attend the Kerrang awards (Kerrang is a famous music magazine in Europe). Scott was hosting the whole event which meant that he could invite a bunch of us to sit on his table along with his lovely lady Pearl (who played Aruba last year) which was amazing. All around were famous rock stars including The Prodigy, Skunk Anansie, Machine Head and Alice in Chains and things got pretty rowdy once the absurd amount of alcohol on each table started to be consumed. After the awards finished a group of 30 of us headed out to bar after bar, getting progressively louder until each bar moved us on. The night eventually ended around 4.30am with various members of the group getting lost or climbing into rickshaws in Soho and cycling off into the night screaming maniacally. Love it!!
- Kerrang Awards
- On stage!
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