zuska: 2009/08

* Last weekend I had a chance to visit the Hip Hop Kemp near Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic - "the most legendary hip hop world meeting" as announced on the official web site :: hiphopkemp.cz :: I was just lucky that I hadn't had to pay 1.200 CZK for the tickets 'cause this event was kind of a nightmare.
* Our delegation (Mirka and I) reached the destination on Friday evening. The first surprise was the parking - a guy in a yellow west told us to "leave it somewhere at the back, there should be some places yet". WTF?! I thought that the guy was there to have an overview how it looks with the parking capacity but obviously not. However, we found a place finally and left our car there, hoping that no one will block it and we still will have a chance to leave later on.
* After we got inside the festival area, we were surprised again with a notice that "the food can be purchased with the 'kemp dollars' only". Nice idea but only for the organizers. The girl who was changing the money had told us that we definitely can change it back later. Well.. not really. Before we decided to leave on the Saturday afternoon, we wanted to change the 'kemp dollars' back and oops! it was not possible. Luckily we met someone who wanted to get some of those so we get rid of all of the 'kemp dollars' at the end. With this being said - if you didn't spend all the 'kemp dollars' you had changed, you just donated the organizers. Congratulations, very clever idea!
* The Friday night was okay, we were enjoying the music on the main stage mostly, having fun till 2am. It was time to go to bed, so we got back to the car and had some sleep.
* We were woken up quite early, folks nearby thought that everyone must have enjoyed a Russian hip hop at 8 am. Not really.. After being woken up such a 'nice' way, we started to look for some place where to satisfy our hygienic needs. No success. Toilets were only inside the festival area (closed till 1 pm) and inside the camping area. To access the camping, you had to pay an entrance fee (100 CZK + 20 CZK for a shower) - no matter that you had slept in your car so you hadn't had a tent there. Fortunately, we met a friend who had told us how to get to the VIP camping area with toilets and showers. Thanks God! I learned from the :: hiphopkemp.cz/tickets :: that if you wanted to have some comfort, you had to pay 1.000 CZK to have an access to VIP camping with showers, toilets and 'pools' (don't call it pools - I've got bigger one my yard). Nice joke, ain't?
* After we had found out that there was nothing to do till the afternoon, we decided to get some solid fool. The festival area with all the bars and takeaways was closed till 1 pm, so we had to walk for about 15 minutes to get a lunch in the local restaurant. The food was quite okay but the lady who had served us was unbelievable rude. No matter, I don't plan to go there again.
* The weather was getting worse so we decided to leave the festival and get over the loss of not seeing the Moja rec, Warszawski dezcz, Killa Kella, PIO Squad and Kontrafakt. The main reason to get out of there was not really the weather but such a horrible organization. If any of you had a change to visit the :: Pohoda festival :: near Trencin, Slovakia, you probably understand what does it mean when someone is thinking about the visitors of the festival. The Hip Hop Kemp is not that kind of a music event.