For the last weekend of June I managed to escape Berlin city-fumes and travel some 130 kilometers up north to little place called Lärz.
Lärz is literally in the middle of nowhere. There is an old formerly Russian airport on which some punks bought and arrange there every summer this humongous festival called Fusion. I've never seen anything like that.
The map of the airport city.
One half of the program.
Of course I've been to festivals in Finland and so on, but one cannot really compare this to them. On the huge areal there is something like 20 stages and places, where they stage shows for more or less 24 hours a day for 4 days for the audience of closely 100 000 people.
There is main stage, but the program is not so concentrated around happenings there as it many times is elsewhere. There is tens of thousands of people, but it doesn't feel so packed at all, because of the big space and more spread-out program. I actually found it hard to believe that there is so many people.
The ideology of the festival is somewhat of creating a parallel society for 4 days, where everybody can find their own way, space and time for action and unite with others, without prejudice and borders. And hope to make world a better place, at least for these four days.
The whole attitude of this festival is more chilling out and laying back. Somehow all the people, both guests and the orgnisation, are very relaxed and friendly. And it's not just about music, on the offer is also theater performances and film screenings. And some art-works distributed around the area, such as installations and sculptures.
Something is happening somewhere any given time.
View to the camping area from top of the Cabaret hangar.
One of the reasons why I really enjoyed this festival was the fact, that it smells like Asia to me =). The vapours snaking to the air from all the food-stalls selling the variety of vegetarian food (no meat allowed on the site) and the spices they use; curries, coconutmilk, chilis... Incence sticks... weed... And also the the toilets in the heatwave of +30-something*C temperature =) =)
Weather was remarkably good for the time I was there, albeit in the nighttime it dropped to 12*C. So warm layers were really needed there, but it was so beautiful to go see the sunrise! The big variation of temperature is due of the vast open area and clear skies.
Below some impressions....
Chilling out @ Kalkutta on Sunday afternoon.
Setting sun @ Turmbühne and feather in the hat.
Lärz is literally in the middle of nowhere. There is an old formerly Russian airport on which some punks bought and arrange there every summer this humongous festival called Fusion. I've never seen anything like that.
The map of the airport city.
One half of the program.Of course I've been to festivals in Finland and so on, but one cannot really compare this to them. On the huge areal there is something like 20 stages and places, where they stage shows for more or less 24 hours a day for 4 days for the audience of closely 100 000 people.
There is main stage, but the program is not so concentrated around happenings there as it many times is elsewhere. There is tens of thousands of people, but it doesn't feel so packed at all, because of the big space and more spread-out program. I actually found it hard to believe that there is so many people.
The ideology of the festival is somewhat of creating a parallel society for 4 days, where everybody can find their own way, space and time for action and unite with others, without prejudice and borders. And hope to make world a better place, at least for these four days.
The whole attitude of this festival is more chilling out and laying back. Somehow all the people, both guests and the orgnisation, are very relaxed and friendly. And it's not just about music, on the offer is also theater performances and film screenings. And some art-works distributed around the area, such as installations and sculptures.
Something is happening somewhere any given time.
View to the camping area from top of the Cabaret hangar.Youtube-clip of some scenes by dEEcorPyro.
One of the reasons why I really enjoyed this festival was the fact, that it smells like Asia to me =). The vapours snaking to the air from all the food-stalls selling the variety of vegetarian food (no meat allowed on the site) and the spices they use; curries, coconutmilk, chilis... Incence sticks... weed... And also the the toilets in the heatwave of +30-something*C temperature =) =)
Weather was remarkably good for the time I was there, albeit in the nighttime it dropped to 12*C. So warm layers were really needed there, but it was so beautiful to go see the sunrise! The big variation of temperature is due of the vast open area and clear skies.
Below some impressions....
Chilling out @ Kalkutta on Sunday afternoon.
Setting sun @ Turmbühne and feather in the hat.
The real earworm of Fusion 2010by Synapsenkitzler @ Tube Station
Salon de Baile.
Cabaret hangar.
Hmm. Got it.
Bachstelzen.
Bicycle-energy 4 the band =)(4 Bikes on the right side of stage provide energy needed)
Ecological.
Lasers were quite amazing. Video by SexyStulle.
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