Seasons Wither 2010

Okay, so I finally did it. I finally went to Seasons Wither and truth be told it was not as great as I thought it was gonna be. It was on Saturday 29th May at Jet.... Which brings me to my first problem.

Seasons Wither is meant to be a metal/alternative music festival, of which I have a pretty extensive knowledge about and yet they hold it at one of the most preppy night clubs in Johannesburg. I'm possibly being very biased, I've never been to Jet before, but just walking into it - it looked like Ruby Blue used to look, extreme jock, preppy night club. I was not there all day like Brett and the rest of my friends. Brett and I left kakplaas at 9am to get there for just gone 10am as I had to do makeup for 3 girls in Boksburg from 12:30. We raced from Springs to Northgate to only find that we had left the tickets behind on the kitchen counter at Brett's place. We actually freaked out and started making alternative arrangements for me to pop past Brett's place after my shoot and race to Northgate again. Thank god we didn't have to resort to that because we found an internet cafe and did some printing and TA DAA - we had tickets which I had pre-ordered online for R80, compared to paying R150 on the day.

I got my wrist band, and onward to Boksburg I went, makeup kit in hand. I had such a fabulous time at the shoot that I actually didn't want to leave. I did makeup for 3 girls, and was having so much fun drinking wine, I even got roped into modelling for the 3 photographers because I was causing trouble. Modelling feels awkward, and I have no idea how people can model. Thats probably why I'm such a behind the scenes type of girl - photography & makeup. Leaving the shoot I got ordered to go buy alcohol for my friends who were all at Seasons. I eventually got there, 80km's later and we spent more time in the car lot, drinking, smoking, shouting at scene kids (you had to be there to appreciate the humour in that), going to mac donalds for food and generally just horsing around. I first went inside to see Haggis & Bong, who I had been looking forward to seeing but they were in such a confined area that the music from the bagpipes and the percussion from the drums sounded horrible because the roof was literally a few centimeters higher than their heads. So all in all, they were a let down. Then we went out to the cars again and only went back inside to see Hog Higgidy Hog, who I must say are definately one of my most favourite South African musicians - simply because they are unique. There set only started at 1am and I was really let down by the fact that a lot of the Season's goers had left. The Hog's performance, really was that, a performance and they rocked out. Definately the highlight of the day...

Seasons wasn't terrible, but it was no where near what I was looking for in a day festival. Despite the fact that it was meant to be over 18, and they had extensively advetised it - guess what. A bunch of highschool boys and girls got mommy and daddy to drop them off so they could come to Seasons... The drinks were way over priced and more fun was had in the parking lot because it was actually cheaper than drinking inside. Maybe next year they will actually do something worth the money.... We can always go watch Hog Higgidy Hog in Cape Town or at Back to Basix where they play a lot in Jhb... Not great organising and planning from the Seasons Wither organisers...

I didn't bother taking any photos... I was worried about pulling my camera out infront of a bunch of drunken children. I'm paranoid, but I don't have any money to actually replace it if anything happens to it. Better safe than sorry I guess!

Just hope they can improve because they have the potential be something great, especially with the following and fan base that they have.

Peace, love & cupcakes

xo

Flea