{"id":5687,"date":"2011-11-30T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2012-05-28T00:21:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T22:21:10","slug":"synergy-live-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/synergy-live-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Synergy Live: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
Friday 25 November 2011<\/div>\n

Synergy Live 2011 – wow, definitely a highlight of the year. Three days full of fun fuelled by booze, adrenaline and awesome music; the experience has left my body broken and my mind racing. I want to do it all again. Right now…but I can’t, so I’ll have to settle for the next best option: reliving my festival experience day by day.<\/p>\n

\"Main<\/a>\u00a0 \"Entrance<\/a><\/p>\n

Last year’s Synergy<\/a> had been my first and I really liked that the fest was relatively small and pretty much intimate compared to something like Ramfest<\/a>. In the build up to this year’s you could sense they were thinking bigger though – BRMC was a huge pull (at least to me) and the organisers were advertising extensively.<\/p>\n

Arriving at the venue it was clear that things had indeed increased in size, exponentially. Pretty much everything was bigger than in 2010: the number of international acts, the sound, the size of the LMG tent, the camping area, parking lot and the distance between them.<\/p>\n

The journey from the car to the campgrounds was long and tiresome. It was really hot. Raptors circled above and I wondered (drunkenly) if they were eying out hippies as potential prey. They wouldn’t’ve gone hungry – hippies, hipsters, headbangers, rockers and stompers, they were all there in their thousands.<\/p>\n

\"Hippie-hunting<\/a>\u00a0 \"Entrance<\/a><\/p>\n

Once we set up camp we headed down to the concert area where there was a\u00a0 huge choice of entertainment on offer – 3 music stages (main, LMG and Red Bull’s electro\/dance area) a comedy tent (I only visited it once and listened for a few minutes to a guy describing homeless people in Obz), carnival rides and even a mini cinema screening interesting short films. My attention was split pretty evenly between the main and LMG stages, though I did make a few stops at the Red Bull stage too. As I was authorised to shoot everywhere, I intended to run around and see as much as possible all weekend, as a result I caught very few full sets from any act but that’s the nature of festivals – there are always multiple things that interest you happening simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\t\t