i would at the very least take some beer ion, hey if you can openly smoke holiday 25s, winnie blues or carona cigars at a supposid "drug free" festival you can certainly drink beer innit.
apparently, you weren't even allowed to crowd surf at parachute this year??!! never been, but its that sort of thing half the fun of it? are these people destroying the fun and purpose of an event like that?? i say its all crazy man. surely, no one actually abides by the rules of single sex tents, just plain weird.
Well, I am not christian and dont really care about this thread..but not being able to drink or put your dick in funny places at a rock festival you willingly go to is fairly f%$#ing different to the shit that went on under the Taliban.....so there!
I'm sick of these sort of comments. If we enforce these rules, you call us religious heretics or restrictive or weird, and if we don't, you call us hypocrites! What do you expect at a christian festival? How would you like it if I started to say Big Day Out was weird because they don't have such rules? It would be completely stupid of me beacause Big Day Out is a non-christian festival. But that doesn't make me want to stay at home and miss out on Metallica! So expect to have christian rules at a christian festival. If not stay at home and miss out on great acts such as Z Amigos!
The thing is, Big Day Out has the same kind of rules. If you want to drink while you're at the big day out, you have to go to a special area onsite. The difference with parachute is that if you want to drink, you have to go outside to drink. At least parachute allows pass outs. Big Day Out doesn't.
I'm not christian, but I would be dissappointed if I saw people going there cause they thought it was funny to break the rules. There are so many places in life that have the same sort of rules that we often don't question... why question the rules of parachute? Duh! It's a fucking christian music festival, of course they're gonna have rules!!!!!!
And Lucifer Sam, you're being more Taliban like than we are, with your whole "I don't like how these people do things, they should do things the way I want to" attitude. And it's not only in the name of religion, but in the name of safety.
I played on the debut stage and I was told no smoking. 5 Mins late an organiser lit up a smoke. I wouldn't mind the rules if you christian retards stuck to them. Religons and preaching are about bitching at other people... right?
ALL IN THE NAME OF SAFETY!? Fuck off, sleeping in the mixed sexed tents isn't going to set fire to japan or something. If my band wanted to stay for the three nights, how the fuck do we go about it? I have a chick singer and we are all good mates, not fuck buddies (which are the devil I might add). We wouldn't be able to stay in the same tent.
So we ended up paying $50 each for our tickets to play at THEIR festival, like they were doing US a favour? That's not to mention time off work, transport, food etc...
Well, I was going to say I thought the rules about single-sex tents are a bit draconian even for a christian festival, but z amigos is right. They're trying to set an important precedents for their main audience.
DeathMachine, did they withhold information regarding the rules? did you get there and only then discover your sleeping arrangements were screwed? Did they tell suddenly you at the gate that you owed them money? I doubt it. If you want that audience enough to pay, turn up and follow the rules, then just fuck up and handle it with dignity.
As for one person lighting up, sure it's stupid of him it's his lookout, not yours. And one person doesn't make an entire religion, but it's probably pointless trying to tell you that since you're on a witch-hunt.
// "I don't like how these people do things, they should do things the way I want to" attitude. And it's not only in the name of religion, but in the name of safety.
the "prohibition of sharing a tent with a member of the opposite sex unless your married" rule has nothing to do with safety, it has to do with enforcing the values of the hardcore Christian Fundamentalists, after-all didnt jesus preach tolerance???
Fuck DeathMachine, how old are you? 2 years in a row I have slept with females in my tent. What are they gonna do? Through me out? Then again, I think it's a great rule and something good for them to be encouraging.
And the whole smoking thing... you're a fucking idiot. I dunno where you tried to spark up but I'm sure the organiser lit his smoke in the areas where you were allowed to smoke (eg 80% of the land at mystery creek). And if you both tried smoking in the same place and he got away with it, then I wouldn't believe you because you come accross as one bitter bastard who would say anything to make it seem like the world hates you.
shore, your a idiot mate. you ask death machine how old he is in a lame attempt to suggest he is im-mature, then you brag about breaking rules at a christian festival. and then to make yourself look like more of an idiot, after braging about sleeping in the same tent as females for two years you decide to encourage the rules that are based on the organisers and the majority of the audiences religion, doesnt that make you both a hypocrite and an idiot??? and then to make yourself look more of an idiot you post a comment identical to what Jotun has posted for these last few years "IF so, you guys sucked!".
ass.
Uh no. We were comtemplating staying or not but it was too fucken expensive to pull everything off because the ENTIRE CHRISTIAN RELIGON OF CHEAP DOLTS decided they needed to build a new statue of Mary or something.
Yes I'm on a witch-hunt.
Yeah we still paid the money and played FOR THEM, but I'm saying the organisers (or the whole religon because I said so) are cheap, selfish, cheap, retards, who are cheap. When I hold my own anti-christian festival on the same dates and steal all their customers, it would be free and just run off copious amount of advertisments (which parachute ALREADY do!)
If christians follow a religion, in theory they should all act the same. If one guy starts being a cool smoking cool guy with a smoke of cool, then I will immediately assume the whole festival is a crock of shit.
I'm going to go touch myself in joy of being in an anti-religion religion.
//We were comtemplating staying or not but it was too fucken expensive to pull everything off because the ENTIRE CHRISTIAN RELIGON OF CHEAP DOLTS decided they needed to build a new statue of Mary or something.
Hahaha. I love it. Pissed-off people making huge generalisations rule.
I was playing guitar for a friend of mine's band - Karel Van Helden, if anyone's curious - and my wife was watching us. One of the security guards grabbed her and told her she was going to have to accompany her to the security centre because her pass was on backwards. her pass was put on her by the staff at the gate, and she was utterly stunned. I soooo wanted to go and give the lady a piece of my mind...
Give some people a wee bit of authority and stand back!
classic.
But, deathmachine, I do have to ask, if you are so anti the whole thing, why did you want to play there?
I was anti it before I went, because I was biost towards non-christian events. But that was when I was younger. So I decided to give it a chance. As soon as I got there however, I hated it. We played, then I wanted to leave some more. The crowd were a bunch of retards that stood there and didn't know when to clap. Our soundguy couldn't turn on a microwave to reheat a pie and we were made to pay money to do them a favour.
Shithead? I was just asking, DeathMachine, no need to be a jerk..
Sorry it was such a negative experience. The 2 shows I played were in The Cage, and the soundguys in there had everything SO LOUD that it was painful. I'm not against GOOD LOUD music, but when it's so loud you get your head taken off by the 4k it seriously detracts from the vibe. Lots of potentially good shows wrecked by the excessive volume.
And monitor engineers fiddling once it's perfect, so you get unnecessary bursts of feedback, and the great onstage sound you had is gone by the third song. I *hate* that.
Sorry man, the 'shithead' wasn't meant to be taken seriously. I was kdding.
Anyway, our sound guy was too quiet. I'd love to be too loud!!! As long as it was balanced right. What was in the cage anyway? I never went. I just played and left coz it was gay. Like a big gay dog.
next year im gonna go up, wear a "satan loves you" t-shirt, red contacts, spray lynx on my hands and light them- oh, and i cant forget my trident either. heh heh heh...anyone wanna join me? :D
Yeah, and everyone would look at you and go "You're a fucking retard". The funny thing is, you'd get along with everyone else just fine if you weren't wearing an offensive t-shirt. I got another idea, why don't you go to... hmm... south africa and wear a t-shirt saying "I HATE BLACK PEOPLE". That would be really funny eh. Ha Ha Ha.
Sorry to burst your bubble but its already been done, i met a couple of people one wearing a manson tshirt and the other a BLS tshirt wear red contacts but not lighting their hands on fire. Also if you did that you would have a really bad time, harassing people when your out numbered atleast 10000 to one is usually not a good idea but by all means go ahead, forking out $140 just to try and insult people doesnt really seem like a great way to spend money but it would amuse me and it would help them because you're giving them money to help improve their christian festival and in doing that you'd be promoting christianity.
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Who got caught????? The people in the ...
Who got caught????? The people in the tent next to mine did.
great poll. i should go to parachute ...
great poll. i should go to parachute next year and see what they bust me for, and what they do with me afterwards.
informative pamphlets!...
informative pamphlets!
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EVEN YOU can really be a soul winner ...
EVEN YOU can really be a soul winner with illustrated tracts!
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I find the whole single gender tent ...
I find the whole single gender tent thing weird.
gay?...
gay?
No sex till after marriage! Ha!...
No sex till after marriage! Ha!
i would at the very least take some ...
i would at the very least take some beer ion, hey if you can openly smoke holiday 25s, winnie blues or carona cigars at a supposid "drug free" festival you can certainly drink beer innit.
apparently, you weren't even allowed ...
apparently, you weren't even allowed to crowd surf at parachute this year??!! never been, but its that sort of thing half the fun of it? are these people destroying the fun and purpose of an event like that?? i say its all crazy man. surely, no one actually abides by the rules of single sex tents, just plain weird.
//apparently, you weren't even allowed ...
//apparently, you weren't even allowed to crowd surf at parachute this year??!!
well, you couldn't at BDO either :) unless you were cedric from TMV
my friends said that in previous years ...
my friends said that in previous years crowd surfing was allowed, this year, they'd be kicked out if they were caught.
I saw people crowd surfing....
I saw people crowd surfing.
i have a new nickname for parachute - ...
i have a new nickname for parachute - Talibanfest. judging much of the freedom restricting rules made in name of "religion".
Well, I am not christian and dont ...
Well, I am not christian and dont really care about this thread..but not being able to drink or put your dick in funny places at a rock festival you willingly go to is fairly f%$#ing different to the shit that went on under the Taliban.....so there!
are they promoting homosexuality?...
are they promoting homosexuality?
The only time we saw any security was ...
The only time we saw any security was the first night when we were all outside a mate's tent and they checked the wristbands
I'm sick of these sort of comments. If ...
I'm sick of these sort of comments. If we enforce these rules, you call us religious heretics or restrictive or weird, and if we don't, you call us hypocrites! What do you expect at a christian festival? How would you like it if I started to say Big Day Out was weird because they don't have such rules? It would be completely stupid of me beacause Big Day Out is a non-christian festival. But that doesn't make me want to stay at home and miss out on Metallica! So expect to have christian rules at a christian festival. If not stay at home and miss out on great acts such as Z Amigos!
The thing is, Big Day Out has the same ...
The thing is, Big Day Out has the same kind of rules. If you want to drink while you're at the big day out, you have to go to a special area onsite. The difference with parachute is that if you want to drink, you have to go outside to drink. At least parachute allows pass outs. Big Day Out doesn't.
I'm not christian, but I would be dissappointed if I saw people going there cause they thought it was funny to break the rules. There are so many places in life that have the same sort of rules that we often don't question... why question the rules of parachute? Duh! It's a fucking christian music festival, of course they're gonna have rules!!!!!!
they market as a family event don't ...
they market as a family event don't they... much like family areas at sporting events they are smoke/drug and liquer free.
//What do you expect at a christian ...
//What do you expect at a christian festival?
maybe some water turned into wine
an immacuate conception or two
and a bit of love thy neighbour
And Lucifer Sam, you're being more ...
And Lucifer Sam, you're being more Taliban like than we are, with your whole "I don't like how these people do things, they should do things the way I want to" attitude. And it's not only in the name of religion, but in the name of safety.
Shut up. I played on the debut ...
Shut up.
I played on the debut stage and I was told no smoking. 5 Mins late an organiser lit up a smoke. I wouldn't mind the rules if you christian retards stuck to them. Religons and preaching are about bitching at other people... right?
ALL IN THE NAME OF SAFETY!? Fuck off, sleeping in the mixed sexed tents isn't going to set fire to japan or something. If my band wanted to stay for the three nights, how the fuck do we go about it? I have a chick singer and we are all good mates, not fuck buddies (which are the devil I might add). We wouldn't be able to stay in the same tent.
So we ended up paying $50 each for our tickets to play at THEIR festival, like they were doing US a favour? That's not to mention time off work, transport, food etc...
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Well, I was going to say I thought the ...
Well, I was going to say I thought the rules about single-sex tents are a bit draconian even for a christian festival, but z amigos is right. They're trying to set an important precedents for their main audience.
DeathMachine, did they withhold information regarding the rules? did you get there and only then discover your sleeping arrangements were screwed? Did they tell suddenly you at the gate that you owed them money? I doubt it. If you want that audience enough to pay, turn up and follow the rules, then just fuck up and handle it with dignity.
As for one person lighting up, sure it's stupid of him it's his lookout, not yours. And one person doesn't make an entire religion, but it's probably pointless trying to tell you that since you're on a witch-hunt.
//Did they tell suddenly you ...
//Did they tell suddenly you
..suddenly tell you
// "I don't like how these people do ...
// "I don't like how these people do things, they should do things the way I want to" attitude. And it's not only in the name of religion, but in the name of safety.
the "prohibition of sharing a tent with a member of the opposite sex unless your married" rule has nothing to do with safety, it has to do with enforcing the values of the hardcore Christian Fundamentalists, after-all didnt jesus preach tolerance???
Fuck DeathMachine, how old are you? 2 ...
Fuck DeathMachine, how old are you? 2 years in a row I have slept with females in my tent. What are they gonna do? Through me out? Then again, I think it's a great rule and something good for them to be encouraging.
And the whole smoking thing... you're a fucking idiot. I dunno where you tried to spark up but I'm sure the organiser lit his smoke in the areas where you were allowed to smoke (eg 80% of the land at mystery creek). And if you both tried smoking in the same place and he got away with it, then I wouldn't believe you because you come accross as one bitter bastard who would say anything to make it seem like the world hates you.
well, I did witness one of the ...
well, I did witness one of the soundguys smoking behind his sound desk.
Hey Death Machine...why did play there?...
Hey Death Machine...why did play there?
Im 87....
Im 87.
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// well, I did witness one of the ...
// well, I did witness one of the soundguys smoking behind his sound desk.
Do you think he was an organiser or do you think he was from a sound company?
nah, dont think i did ah....
nah, dont think i did ah.
shore, your a idiot mate. you ask death ...
shore, your a idiot mate. you ask death machine how old he is in a lame attempt to suggest he is im-mature, then you brag about breaking rules at a christian festival. and then to make yourself look like more of an idiot, after braging about sleeping in the same tent as females for two years you decide to encourage the rules that are based on the organisers and the majority of the audiences religion, doesnt that make you both a hypocrite and an idiot??? and then to make yourself look more of an idiot you post a comment identical to what Jotun has posted for these last few years "IF so, you guys sucked!".
ass.
Oh by the way DeathMachine, i'm not ...
Oh by the way DeathMachine, i'm not sure if it was your band... but I think it was you, did you play first? IF so, you guys sucked!
//Do you think he was an organiser or ...
//Do you think he was an organiser or do you think he was from a sound company?
I didn't stop to ask. I didn't actually care...
He was a good sound guy too.
i guess you missed the point NonBreed....
i guess you missed the point NonBreed.
Uh no. We were comtemplating staying or ...
Uh no. We were comtemplating staying or not but it was too fucken expensive to pull everything off because the ENTIRE CHRISTIAN RELIGON OF CHEAP DOLTS decided they needed to build a new statue of Mary or something.
Yes I'm on a witch-hunt.
Yeah we still paid the money and played FOR THEM, but I'm saying the organisers (or the whole religon because I said so) are cheap, selfish, cheap, retards, who are cheap. When I hold my own anti-christian festival on the same dates and steal all their customers, it would be free and just run off copious amount of advertisments (which parachute ALREADY do!)
If christians follow a religion, in theory they should all act the same. If one guy starts being a cool smoking cool guy with a smoke of cool, then I will immediately assume the whole festival is a crock of shit.
I'm going to go touch myself in joy of being in an anti-religion religion.
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//We were comtemplating staying or not ...
//We were comtemplating staying or not but it was too fucken expensive to pull everything off because the ENTIRE CHRISTIAN RELIGON OF CHEAP DOLTS decided they needed to build a new statue of Mary or something.
Hahaha. I love it. Pissed-off people making huge generalisations rule.
I was playing guitar for a friend of ...
I was playing guitar for a friend of mine's band - Karel Van Helden, if anyone's curious - and my wife was watching us. One of the security guards grabbed her and told her she was going to have to accompany her to the security centre because her pass was on backwards. her pass was put on her by the staff at the gate, and she was utterly stunned. I soooo wanted to go and give the lady a piece of my mind...
Give some people a wee bit of authority and stand back!
classic.
But, deathmachine, I do have to ask, if you are so anti the whole thing, why did you want to play there?
Just curious.
I was anti it before I went, because I ...
I was anti it before I went, because I was biost towards non-christian events. But that was when I was younger. So I decided to give it a chance. As soon as I got there however, I hated it. We played, then I wanted to leave some more. The crowd were a bunch of retards that stood there and didn't know when to clap. Our soundguy couldn't turn on a microwave to reheat a pie and we were made to pay money to do them a favour.
But we played for exposure. Shithead.
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making a band pay for tickets to a gig ...
making a band pay for tickets to a gig they are playing in is billshit
Shithead? I was just asking, ...
Shithead? I was just asking, DeathMachine, no need to be a jerk..
Sorry it was such a negative experience. The 2 shows I played were in The Cage, and the soundguys in there had everything SO LOUD that it was painful. I'm not against GOOD LOUD music, but when it's so loud you get your head taken off by the 4k it seriously detracts from the vibe. Lots of potentially good shows wrecked by the excessive volume.
And monitor engineers fiddling once it's perfect, so you get unnecessary bursts of feedback, and the great onstage sound you had is gone by the third song. I *hate* that.
Sorry man, the 'shithead' wasn't ...
Sorry man, the 'shithead' wasn't meant to be taken seriously. I was kdding.
Anyway, our sound guy was too quiet. I'd love to be too loud!!! As long as it was balanced right. What was in the cage anyway? I never went. I just played and left coz it was gay. Like a big gay dog.
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next year im gonna go up, wear a "satan ...
next year im gonna go up, wear a "satan loves you" t-shirt, red contacts, spray lynx on my hands and light them- oh, and i cant forget my trident either. heh heh heh...anyone wanna join me? :D
Yeah, and everyone would look at you ...
Yeah, and everyone would look at you and go "You're a fucking retard". The funny thing is, you'd get along with everyone else just fine if you weren't wearing an offensive t-shirt. I got another idea, why don't you go to... hmm... south africa and wear a t-shirt saying "I HATE BLACK PEOPLE". That would be really funny eh. Ha Ha Ha.
that's no funny you racist prick...
that's no funny you racist prick
count me in... i'm gonna dress as a ...
count me in... i'm gonna dress as a snake
yes, that's right, i am racist and ...
yes, that's right, i am racist and very unfunny.
you do that gina...
you do that gina
Sorry to burst your bubble but its ...
Sorry to burst your bubble but its already been done, i met a couple of people one wearing a manson tshirt and the other a BLS tshirt wear red contacts but not lighting their hands on fire. Also if you did that you would have a really bad time, harassing people when your out numbered atleast 10000 to one is usually not a good idea but by all means go ahead, forking out $140 just to try and insult people doesnt really seem like a great way to spend money but it would amuse me and it would help them because you're giving them money to help improve their christian festival and in doing that you'd be promoting christianity.
The guy in the slayer shirt that was ...
The guy in the slayer shirt that was getting preached to was the funniest thing I saw while I was there.