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Hellfest part II

The other side of the Hellfest.

You have to know that the Hellfest is annually hosted by the town/community of Clisson.

What´s so special about Clisson?

Well besides its history (which I will spare you in order to get to the pont) it is an Italian town with a lovely castle.

To be precise; around 1800 two brother came into the valley of Clisson: Pierre and Francois Cacault (painter and diplomate).

They had to flee Italy and were so inspired by it that they started to rebuild the town the toscan architecture in mind. The result? A lovely little town in the middle of nowhere that makes you want to relax near a well, have burrata with grilled vegetables and a glass of Sangiovese.

Tags: architecture, castle, Clisson, France, Hellfest, Toscany

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Hellfest part 1

19 Jun

I like to tackle my boundaries. And again, something I was never likely to do was to go to a Heavy Metal festival: Hellfest

I worked there as a make-up artist for a German/French Channel called Arte and because I jump on every occasion to do something stupid and funny I ended up running around in a giant wig.

It was very interesting to experience a universe that is so not my normal habitat. I loved watching people and their outfits. Besides the fact that concerts started at 10:30 am (Death metal – boy did my ears hurt) people were surprisingly calm and incredibly polite and adorable. I guess that has something to do with the fact that they can express who they are and live it out and therefore there is no aggressiveness whatsoever.

We did a lot of interviews and I loved the difference between seeing artists in front of me being very calm and professional and then loosing it on stage throwing blood on people in the front row.

I was also surprised that there were bands I actually knew; Lynyrd Skynyrd (thanks for singing Sweet Home Alabama), Slash, Ozzy Ozbourne (Why did you pour that bucket over your head? It was raining anyway), Guns N´Roses, DAD, Steel Panthers…

Anyway, there are two things I didn´t get. First there was the wall of death (people running into each other like on a battle field) and second; I have never gotten so much attention in my whole life than when I was wearing my wig (and most of the time you didn´t even see my face). People actually believed it was my real hair and boy did I get some weird proposals.

I guess now I know what to do if I ever get lonely cause surprisingly, in this scene, everybody is very much into family. Most artists were married and just caring about their wives (some even dragged them along to the festival).

Sex, drugs and rock´n´roll? No, faithful is the new sexy.