The third day of Pinkpop, was unfortunately the least; some of the artists I really lived up to seeing couldn’t bring the performance I expected, and because of the sunny weather my hayfever was really acting up badly; you could see me wandering the festival terrain with a constantly running nose and tearing eyes. I may sound a bit too negative about the last day, but that’s not how I really feel about it; it still was a good day, only in comparison with the previous ones it was the least.
The first band that day was Fiction Plane, featuring Sting’s son, quite allright, although most of the music reminded us of the Police. That’s why I also feel the day was really kicked of by the second band we saw: The Wombats; a great party alltogether, starting with a brilliant a capella about boys and girls and marciupials. Gavin DeGraw was the follow-up on the main stage, but it’s not really worth mentioning more about him… We continued to the tent where Kate Nash would start of her gig….which was quite terrible…Tally, Mark and I were already joking that she screamed louder than the Cavalera Conspiracy which was playing at the other stage. This had a lot of people immediately turning around, just terrible 
Luckily, because we left early, we were able to get some good places in front of the stage for Racoon, the next band, to see what would become the best gig of the day, really good and brought with a flair of humour here and there. The Hives did the complete opposite of the Foo Fighters; talking too much and really these blokes are just the most arrogant bastards around, quite irritating 
Back to the tent again for Saybia, quite nice, but a lot of the same, and again the bad sound quality…Queens of the Stone Age was also ok, but it felt like one constant flow of music without any recognisable parts. One nice part of the Queens performance was that the security guards, who seemed a little bit overprotective and too active, we scolded by the lead singer common guys this is a fuckin’ Queens of the Stone age concert, we can have some fun without hurting each other! Unfortunately, the best Queens song, their only hit, came at the end of the set.
The next band was actually one of my favourites, the Counting Crows, and the more disappointing it was that also they could not really convince; we already left earlier for Roisin Murphy who was playing at the other stage. Surprisingly, her performance was quite good, I would have wanted to see a little bit more of it, but we needed to move to have a good place at the Rage Against the Machine gig which was next. The crowd just when crazy during that performance, and I think I was the only one really not appreciating it; too much anger, too many politics, and more importantly political statements I couldn’t disagree more with.
Still, Pinkpop has been an awesome experience, the wombats and racoon made up for what the other bands failed to bring. Also, I’m sure I’ll try to get tickets again next year, the atmosphere was just so amazing and friendly. More than 60000 people visiting every day and as far as I know no fights at all, just everyone enjoying the sun, the music, the food & beer, and each other’s company…you only wish that could happen more often in everyday life
