Yesterday I've been to the IndipendentDay, a music fest taking place every year in Bologna and starring international artists.
This time we were waiting for All Time Low, Tom Delonge's project Angels and Airwaves, the great Social Distortion, the Kooks and my all time favorite, the GreenDay.

I started listening to the GreenDay when I was an early teen, their music made me laugh and cry and get angry throughout my adolescence and I still like 'em, though the last album I bought was American Idiot and I'm not fond of their more commercial tendency. I'm a huge fan and always fancied watching their live exhibition.
This being said, for some strange reason I forgot about their presence at the I-Day and I didn't realize it until few days ago, when friends of mine asked me if I wanted to go to Bologna with them. I said yes but had no time to get the ticket - no big deal, they didn't get 'em too and we were supposed to buy them there.

Saturday night, the night before the festival, we went out all together with other mutual friends, to party. I missed so much having fun and getting tipsy with my ladies AHAH!

Btw, while we were just tipsy, one of the guy who had to be at the gig with me the day after was drunk as fuck, puking everywhere and falling asleep on the grass.
I went to bed at 3.45 a.m., praying inside my heart that the guys would have been on time that afternoon.

Obviously, they weren't.
It took forever for them to pick me and up, reach Bologna and find a place where to park the car, and when we reached the tickets booth we discovered the gig just went sold out! Oh noessss!
We had to turn to a scalper and I was ready to spend way much more money that how was originally required for the ticket. But... big surprise: the scalper was selling the tickets at 30€ (while their real price was 46, strange uh? Scalper are supposed to sell the tickets at way more money! Remember this detail) so we didn't miss the chance and bought the tickets.
Please, remember also this: it was 4.30 p.m. when we found out that the gig was sold out and decided to buy the tickets from the scalper - this means that a lot of tickets had just been sold.


We got inside missing the All Time Low (but honestly nobody cared lol), just in time to see Angels and Airwaves. Nothing compared to Blink182, of corse! But I relate so many things to their songs, as an ex made me know the band. I even lost my virginity to one of their songs, six years ago *romantic moment* XD

Two beer and then we were ready for Social Distortion! Man, I must confess I liked them but not followed their work as it deserved to, but from now on I will... they effin' rocked! Their version of Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues was so great, and songs like Dear Lover and Far Behind gave me goosebumps. And what about Machine Gun Blues? AHHHH! Soooo cool!


When they left the stage, we went for another beer, all excited: it was time for the GreenDay and their stooge, the Kooks.
While waiting for my beer, I got an sms from my boyfriend at home: "I've just read on the internet that Billie Joe Armstrong has been hospitalized" and the only things that cross my mind is that must be a joke. 3G didn't work so nobody can check the news online.
We didn't have to wait too much to drive our doubts away: from a loudspeaker we were informed that Billie Joe Armstrong had been indeed hospitalized and the festival is concluded.
"Your tickets will be completely refound" - such a cold comfort for all the people waiting for their fave band! >_<
We headed back home, and I crushed on my bed sleeping for something like ten hours. That's the end of it.

What makes me upset are the conclusions I've reached reading online articles and watching the news, added to what I've seen being there.
Billie Joe was hospitalized around 11 a.m. that sunday morning. Common sense lead me to think if you're hospitalized, even for something not that severe, you know you won't be ready to perform on a stage that evening - so, why the hell the staff didn't announce the cancellation and stop selling tickets?!
They tried to keep everything silent for FIVE HOURS and HALF, hours when they were making a lot of money not only with the tickets, but also with everything they were providing inside: food, drinks, merch.
The news leaked at some point, that's why we found tickets sold at a lower price: the scalper might have known about it and decided to get rid of all the tickets at that moment.
That sucks.

We were told we will just have to bring our ticket to any official reseller and we'll be completely refound, but I'm not that sure we'll receive all the money back as they told from the stage. I guess we'll get back a percentage. At least, having bought mine for less, it'll be almost a complete refund. We'll see...
Anyway, no amount of money will ever make me happy as the GreenDay gig would have! For sure!

Okay, end of the chronicle of my sunday.
In other news, this week I'm gonna shoot another set for the site, YAYYYY! No staff photographer this time, as I couldn't seem to arrange a shooting yet, nonetheless I'm sure the result will be amazing.
His name is Andrea Tomas Prato and I've worked with him before - do you remember the pictures I've published on here? ^^
I cannot wait, people!
In the meantime, minus clothes is still in member review. Let's give it another chance to get on the front page! It's a funny, sexy set after all... uhm?

Time to go.
Here some good music for you!

xoxo
your Lauretta

Don't forget to stalk me everywhere
Twitter ---> ranting and venting and tweeting silly things
Tumblr ---> I post a lot of pictures from my photosets
Instagram @brokendollhatesyou ---> pics from my everyday life