OPPIKOPPI!

Jayhell

So, who is heading up to the farm for a few days of debauchery next weekend. I'm going for number 12 to kill the mind and body and revive the soul and get a yearly fix of mind altering the rock 'n roll.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

VellaJ

I was going to go, but at the moment I don't feel like 3 days of ultra-super-mega dust with no showers and 20,000 peeps ?

Scorched

I'll be there! Still need to figure out how I'm going to move my practical so that we can get going early on Wednesday.

deefstes

LOL. Our company developed the payment solution that'll be used at Oppikoppi and I fought tooth and nail to get myself out of the responsibility of being there. Thousands of drunk and drugged people trampling a dust bowl into a finer dust bowl to the cacophony of hundreds of alternative rock bands ain't my cup of tea.

But hey, if it's yours then have a ball. While you're using your contactless smartcard to pay R30 for your Tequila and Red-bull, think of me who'll be busy scuba diving at Sodwana for the whole loong weekend. Yeehaaaa!

Jayhell

I don't buy food or drink there as it's super expensive and all the rest still sounds like a hell of a lot of fun. My wife and I are super prepared campers so we usually live in luxury. As I said it's my twelfth one so we got dust masks and all incase of emergency. As you said different strokes for different folks... Enjoy the long weekend anyway you need.

Hammeron

Here's hoping that Bullet show up this time..... :?
Seether are a damn great band live tho, should make it worthwhile for sure.

Lethe

hELL YEAH!

Freddy-Bl00D

Im amped!! Last year was my firts oppikoppi and wel i was a little unprepared.. This year im ready for it! Gonna camp and party in style.. This time im taking wet wipes.. Lots of wet wipes!!!!

Jayhell

Freddy-Bl00D wrote Im amped!! Last year was my firts oppikoppi and wel i was a little unprepared.. This year im ready for it! Gonna camp and party in style.. This time im taking wet wipes.. Lots of wet wipes!!!!

Ya, don't forget the wet wipes and it's gonna be a cold one, So pack a few extra layers of that liquid jacket. I'm so exited I can hardly think straight, I feel the Koppi calling...

Lethe

Bring a mask for the dust. It gets really bad!

Freddy-Bl00D

Lethe wrote Bring a mask for the dust. It gets really bad!

I wish i saw this post earlier haha... Still coughing up bits of dust and recovering from the chaos..
Worth it everytime! Hope you guys had a good one

Jayhell

I had so much fun, I feel like a new person. Can't wait to do it al over again next year.

Lethe

Yeah, was a great party! Rough, rough, rough as always! ? Which bands did you guys like ? Enter Shikari really impressed me live, but when I went onto Youtube it's really not my thing. Mainly because of the cheese vocals. Bullet were great, but did anyone else get the feeling sometimes they were lip synching? They did have backing tracks or harmonisers for the vocals and even some guitar parts. It was really well done. But it did seem a bit weird sometimes.
Didn't watch the Eagles of Death Metal though...

Jayhell

Eagles of death Metal was the best followed closely by Fokofpolisikar and BEAST.

Hammeron

Lethe wrote Yeah, was a great party! Rough, rough, rough as always! ? Which bands did you guys like ? Enter Shikari really impressed me live, but when I went onto Youtube it's really not my thing. Mainly because of the cheese vocals. Bullet were great, but did anyone else get the feeling sometimes they were lip synching? They did have backing tracks or harmonisers for the vocals and even some guitar parts. It was really well done. But it did seem a bit weird sometimes.
Didn't watch the Eagles of Death Metal though...

Lip synching? Back tracks? Fail.

Lethe

Hammeron wrote
Lethe wrote Yeah, was a great party! Rough, rough, rough as always! ? Which bands did you guys like ? Enter Shikari really impressed me live, but when I went onto Youtube it's really not my thing. Mainly because of the cheese vocals. Bullet were great, but did anyone else get the feeling sometimes they were lip synching? They did have backing tracks or harmonisers for the vocals and even some guitar parts. It was really well done. But it did seem a bit weird sometimes.
Didn't watch the Eagles of Death Metal though...
Lip synching? Back tracks? Fail.

Like I said, it seemed like it at first. But there was definately a harmoniser or backtrack involved for the backing vocals. Wanted to know if anyone else thinks the same.
I rate the main vocals were live though, considering that his pitch did slip now and then.
But yeah, good show. And I don't think that backing tracks/ harmonisers are all that bad. If you really wanna give the audience everything they hear on the CD, why not program some parts to make it sound more like the album if you can.
I guess it's a matter of style.

I also really, really, really enjoyed that French band. Circus something... Must actually get some of their stuff. Super super tight and energetic. And such awesome musicians! Kinda folk based rock with a brass wind section. Really really cool.

Jayhell

Congos also was an epic fail. Started 20 minutes late due to cables being routed wrongly and then the sound sucked anyway. I missed Bullet completely due to being all kinds of messed up myself at that stage and after Eagles I couldn't care less. Seether was good, but I still think a lot of the local acts were better than most of the international bands. Albert frost was also really good, the few songs I saw, I actually passed out in the middle of his show in the middle of the crowd, it was the first time i 'slept' since wednesday evening. Rock 'n Roll! The worst part was the 7 hour drive back to Roodepoort. But all and all it was an epic weekend!

Lethe

Jayhell wrote Congos also was an epic fail. Started 20 minutes late due to cables being routed wrongly and then the sound sucked anyway. I missed Bullet completely due to being all kinds of messed up myself at that stage and after Eagles I couldn't care less. Seether was good, but I still think a lot of the local acts were better than most of the international bands. Albert frost was also really good, the few songs I saw, I actually passed out in the middle of his show in the middle of the crowd, it was the first time i 'slept' since wednesday evening. Rock 'n Roll! The worst part was the 7 hour drive back to Roodepoort. But all and all it was an epic weekend!

Watched about 2 songs of Congos. From what I heard I quite liked it.
Seether was fail though. No energy and sloppy. I actually fell asleep during their set lol.
7 hour drive? Hectic. I left sunday morning at 7am. Took me 3 hours to get back to JHB.

Jayhell

Lethe wrote
Jayhell wrote Congos also was an epic fail. Started 20 minutes late due to cables being routed wrongly and then the sound sucked anyway. I missed Bullet completely due to being all kinds of messed up myself at that stage and after Eagles I couldn't care less. Seether was good, but I still think a lot of the local acts were better than most of the international bands. Albert frost was also really good, the few songs I saw, I actually passed out in the middle of his show in the middle of the crowd, it was the first time i 'slept' since wednesday evening. Rock 'n Roll! The worst part was the 7 hour drive back to Roodepoort. But all and all it was an epic weekend!
Watched about 2 songs of Congos. From what I heard I quite liked it.
Seether was fail though. No energy and sloppy. I actually fell asleep during their set lol.
7 hour drive? Hectic. I left sunday morning at 7am. Took me 3 hours to get back to JHB.

We left at 12 and got home at 7, it's our own fault. Next year we will have a better escape plan. The thing that bugged me about Congos was, I saw them a while ago at Park Acoustics at the Voortrekker Monument and they absolutely rocked. This time thou it was an anticlimax. As I said Seether was good, not awesome, they seemed to be dragging on. I was hoping for a few old Saron Gas songs. I just hope al the bands had a good time and spread the word around the world so we get more and better acts. Holding thumbs for the Queens of the stone age. Other acts I really liked was Taxi Violence and The Make Overs.

deefstes

I'm curious, did any of you use the contactless card payment system at the bars? Our company developed the system and I'd be interested to know how it was received. Don't worry if you feel like saying it was utter crap, I wasn't personally involved on the project so I wouldn't mind if you thought it was rubbish. I'm just interested to know.