It was a Sunday, and we cruised off to pick up Rorn's cousin Dymo before heading midtown. People were flooding towards Myers Park, but we somehow luckily found a park at the YMCA, and walked down to Myers Park. It was a lovely sunny day, and the park was packed. There must have been somewhere around 10,000 people there, at least. We managed to find a seat under a tree next to the hot-dog stand about 100 metres back from the stage.
But we soon got sick of it, as sitting on a slope took more effort than we thought, and moved around some. As we moved through the crowd, Dymo kept meeting people who recognised him but he couldn't remember for the life of him who they were or where he'd met them.
We eventually ended up even further away from the stage, after stopping to have a chat with the one person Rorn knew there: Anna, from the now defunct all-girl Hardcore band Toxic Shock Syndrome and the punk venue Necropolis.
Presently Salmonella Dub took the stage. From where we were sitting, pretty much all you could hear was reverberated bass, but I believe they played their hit «Johnny» as the first or second song. It was all going pretty mellow.
Then Dymo saw across the crowd an old acquaintance of his and Rorn's, a guy named Jolyon [he's a DJ who also puts out a fortnightly dance magazine]. Dymo went and talked to him. We sat listening to the music, but then suddenly Dymo disappeared with Jolyon. This left us with a dilemma, as Rorn decided that Salmonella Dub weren't her cup of tea, and that she'd rather go home and have a large feed (those damned munchies, eh?).
So we waited about ten minutes, and he still wasn't back. So we decided that he'd be able to make it home without us, and took off at a rapid speed. I can't remember if it was a nice feed or not, but I'm sure we probably made the right decision.
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