Best memories
- Lollapaloozas with my high school friends...we were a tight bunch (and I was often the only girl

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- Doomsday in Germany, for the Skinny Puppy reunion. Not only was it a spectacular show, but the people there were gorgeous,I saw and talked to other bands I like (And One, Covenant) and after SP were done, the skies opened up and it just poured. Like some kind of omen. And we drove there and back on the Autobahn. *fear* And it was fucking Germany!!
Worse memory
- WEMF 2001. I don't even wanna start, but that was the most miserable, fucked-up experience.
- Ozzfest 2001...the bands were enjoyable but it was just the hottest, most humid day of the summer and spending it in a parking lot is not fun!!
Best festival
- Doomsday 2000, because of all the bands I liked, and it was a chance to finally see SP...though other years have not been so appealing to me. I still want to hit more European goth/industrial/synthpop festivals while I'm young, like Maschinefest and Wave Gothik Treffen.
- Lollapaloozas, of course....especially 1992 (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Chili Peppers, Ministry) and the year Hole played (1995, I think). I think it really set the standard of a touring festival with multiple stages, a "vendor's village" etc. I know it's not happening this year but might be coming back next year.
- Area: One I would have enjoyed more if it had been set up better. I like the idea of rock, rap and dance music in one place. I want to see Bowie this year but I'm waiting to see what the rest of the line-up is like. And if it'll be at the Docks, because that place just did not work.
Didn't go to Edenfest, have been to Warped...it was alright, but I wouldn't go back. However I do admire the Warped people for trying to keep tickets affordable.
Future festivals...I'd like to see:
- Eclectic line-ups, and I don't mean Limp Bizkit and Eminem or something...Area: Two is headed in the right direction, I think.
- a 3-day festival a la Reading/Glastonbury/Leeds (also dreams of mine to attend)
- Lilith Fair was not my thing musically, but I liked the idea...I would love to attend the Ladyfests in the U.S. So I'd like to see a return of a female-oriented festival but with more of the kind of stuff -I- like.
Crossover of genres:
- I'd like to see it, I think it can work, and has worked in the case of Area: One. A Canadian equivalent would be awesome...all I know about right now is Edgefest, and IIRC, it's very "rawk."
~jen