Dour Festival

Funk Doctor · Post by **Funk Doctor** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:23 am

I'm leaving for Dour festival on Wednesday, 5 days of drugs, drinking and music. See shows from Looptroop, Rahzel, A-trak, Kool Shen, Roots Manuva, Sinik, Heltah Skeltah and much more. We're gonna be roughly 20 guys from Belgium and Holland, each bringing an ounce. We'll see how long it'll take before one of us is gonna be driving back for more

I'll try and get pictures up afterwards

shoe · Post by **shoe** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:16 pm

sounds pretty awesome man, thats a lot of bud, have fun

Shwoot · Post by **Shwoot** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:34 pm

That sounds like alot of fun man, I went to a 3-day one a those once. Is it gonna be like a camp-ground thing? Hope ya have fun man, nice sig.

jonny cockeral · Post by **jonny cockeral** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:17 pm

i saw rahzel last year, bit disappointed but still

charlesmingus · Post by **charlesmingus** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:19 pm

i saw Rahzel this time(ish) last summer and he was fucking awesome. With Mike Patton too.

Post by **WeedGuru_Flow** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:08 pm

I'll be doing about the same thing with my mates at the end of august at pukkelpop

gonna do shrooms there for the first time

Funk Doctor · Post by **Funk Doctor** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:12 pm

OK dudes, here it is. The Official Dour Festival Report 2005 by yours truly.

Day 0: Wednesday.

Got up at 10, got ready, packed up my shit and left for my mate's house at noon. Arrived there an hour later with nobody there. I call up one of them, turns out they're out getting the weed. 10 miutes later they arrived with 75 grams of A grade weed for the 3 of us. We smoked a few spliffs and hung out until 3.30, then left for the station to catch the train. We had a rendez-vous in Brussels with a Dutch-Flemish group. But since the train was so packed, they didn't get to our car. One advantage about a packed train: The ticket guy can't get through, which means 2 things. 1) You can ride for free, and 2) You can smoke a joint without the risk of getting caught. So I rolled one and lit it up. 10 minutes later, almost everyone is passing around joints.

We arrived at our rally point at 6pm, a trainstation 10 miles away from the festival. A shiver went down my spine when I entered the tunnel to get to the bus stop. The entire tunnel was laced with cops, picking out random people from the crowd to search their bags. Lucky for us, some idiot thought it was a good idea to smoke one in front of the cops and we got clear pass. We met up with the rest, smoked some more joints and got on the bus. After about 3 miles of dragging a ton of luggage we made it to the line at the entrance. About an hour later we finally passed the gates.

We set up camp in a little secluded spot with trees around, hoping they would give us shadow during the day. We got properly introduced to eachother, we took out our 25g bags and all the Dutchies are like "Whoa, that's a big bag you got there, man." We rolled a blunt with 4 grams of pure Moroccan hash. Check the picture below to see the result.

My 2 best mates (and business partners), properly fucked up. A perfect moodsetter for the rest of the festival. We spent the rest of the night smoking, drinking, shotting passing people with a squirt gun, yelling "Nique la police!" ("Fuck the police!") when we saw security or police and other nonsense. We also somehow ended up yelling "DENNIS!" all the time. At around 1pm, some people saw my bag and came over to buy weed. I told them I wasn't selling, they went "But you got a huge bag right there, man.", I tell them to fuck off, they start insulting, we barely managed to avoid a fight. After this everyone was in a bit of a bad mood, and since we were tired from the trip anyway, we decided to call it a night. And all through the night, the name Dennis could be heard from many tents.

to be continued...

Funk Doctor · Post by **Funk Doctor** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:08 pm

Day 2: Thursday

Woke up at around 9am, soaking wet. I came to the unpleasant conclusion that we put our tents smack in the middle of the sunlight, for the entire day

Fortunatly, we had a solution. Apparently there was a lake with a small beach in the vicinity of the festival grounds. After a healthy breakfast consisting of a hamburger, a joint and a couple swigs of Jack Daniels, we set off to the lake. When we got there, it was better than we imagined. The lake was in fact an abandoned stone quarry which was flooded with clear water. After a descent down the slopes (not such a smart thing to do with weed & whiskey in your system, I almost fell 60 feet deep) we made it down to the beach. The water was just the right temperature for a cooldown, and we ended up staying for over an hour, smoking, drinking and fucking around. Check the pic.

Eventually, the cops showed up, resulting in everyone yelling "Nique la police!" (French for "Fuck the police!"), and the cops left again. Over the next days, they showed up regularly, threatening to cut festival bracelets. We didn't give a fuck

We got back to the camping at around noon, smoked some more, and left for the first day of festival at 4. There wasn't really something we wanted to see, so we just spent the time exploring the festival ground and, of course, smoking more joints. We picked up shows by Hextatic, Jagga Jazzist, and finally Herbaliser. I got pretty wasted, and we decided to make a gangsta pose picture

We failed horribly

We got back to the camping at around 4am, where we finally met the infamous Dennis. We ended up thrashing his tent, he didn't seem to really care. And so, day 2 of Dour festival came to an end.

to be continued...

Post by **WeedGuru_Flow** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:29 pm

Lol, nice report funk.

It seems to be a tradition to have something to yell at the festival campings each year

last year at pukkelpop it was 'HOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH'

(whores)

well actualy, its hoereuh at pukkelpop each year ^^ real mad fun to scream your lungs out whilst rolling up

Post by **Weedguru Higher** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:09 pm

Ha that quarry lake rocks!

GAZ · Post by **GAZ** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:57 pm

That lake looks well nice. I wish we had somewhere like that here. Last year at download festival everyone was shouting 'bollocks' and this year people where shouting 'Dave' for some reason. People talking about festivals makes me wanna go to one right now. Shame I have to wait till august

Post by **Weedguru Higher** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:58 pm

Cheer up we are 6 days from August

GAZ · Post by **GAZ** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:04 pm

Its end of august though Im waiting for. lol.

Funk, hurry up and put more pics up.lol. That blunt looks nice

jonny cockeral · Post by **jonny cockeral** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:39 pm

this is a good story whens the next part coming. i love music festivals - perfect place for getting off your face

Funk Doctor · Post by **Funk Doctor** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:08 pm

I'll try to get the next part up ASAP, right now I have too much shit to do.

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