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Free Form Festival 2009 @ Warszawa – 16/17 X 2009
Last year’s edition of Free Form Festival was my first. I really liked the fest and there were many nice things going around for me at that time, so having good memories and being asked to shoot the meet & greets with the artists, I decided to visit FFF for the second time.
The biggest disappointment (for me) was the location and the weather. Free Form had really bad luck, because just days earlier almost whole Poland was struck by snowstorms/storms/low temperature and it was mid-October and the place it was. So it was pretty cold and I ended up being wrapped in two hoodies plus a winter jacket – nice and warm. The place itself wasn’t so bad, but it didn’t have the atmosphere the previous location (Fabryka Trzciny) had.
The gigs were OK, but three of them just blew me away – Karl Bartos, Birdy Nam Nam and Vive la Fête. Bartos performed the stuff he did with Kraftwerk and I finally got to listen to some of my favorite songs ever, songs that shaped electornic music, songs that my Dad used to play me when I was little (I was so scared of the metalic voices in Trans Europe Express). still I’m soo mad I haven’t seen them in Kraków last year and it will be one of the biggest “concert” mistakes of my life. I don’t know why, but Kraftwerk’s “machine music” always brings tears to my eyes. Birdy Nam Nam’s and Vive la Fête’s performances were, on the other hand, full of energy, loud noises and should be put in a dictionary as words that are used to describe the word party. Party on, party hard. And that was what the crowd did!
Big thanks goes out to Kasia Tarka, for all the help, and Monika, for letting me stay at her flat, helping me not to freeze at the party, not being mad at me for returning at some mad hours and eating the food from her fridge:) And, of course, a festival gallery would not be complete without my “trademark” picture of H., my festival soul mate, my BOO! brother and one of the best people in the whole universe!
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