Two or three times a year, the nearby Goffert Park is turned into a concert
arena. There’s a large field amidst the trees which is currently surrounded by fences. Inside, a huge stage is built, and there’s space for about 60.000 people.
Today is the Sonisphere Metal festival, with koRn, Slipknot and as headliner Metallica playing. I used to a really like Metallica, I actually saw one of their concerts of the “Nowehere else to roam” Tour in the early nineties. (Support acts were Suicidal Tendencies and The Cult. That concert was really cool, although I think I’ve bruised a rib in the mosh pit. Since they’ve let the recording industry instrumentalize Metallica to fight against sharing music, I’m having issues with the band’s politics. Filing lawsuits against your fans is not the way to deal with them, or new and upcoming media and the failure of large parts of the music and recording industry in the adoption of the Internet.

So tonight Metallica will be giving a concert within 5 minute walking distance from my home. I didn’t get myself a ticket, but got woken up today when the festival started.
The concert starts at 20:45, and we’ll probably go over to the park, there’s still a lot of place outside the fence, with many people who didn’t feel like buying expensive tickets but still like hanging around in the park — it’s their (our) park after all. And you get free live music by rather prominent bands. Other bands that have been performing in my back-yard in the last years include REM, Live, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, and many more. A rocking neighbourhood.

Now playing: koRn – Live at De Goffert, Nijmegen 20 June 2009

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