Southside Festival

It's been over 10 years since I've see Portishead live. It's all coming full circle.
Sometime late in the summer of 1998 I found myself wandering around Köln wondering
where my life was going. I had just gotten off the plane from Seattle, and things
seems hopeless. I was to start school at an American university in two days. That night
at the Bizarre festival I made some german friends, and found myself in a VW bus with strangers. I managed to make my way to the stage just in time for Portishead set. PJ Harvey was finishing up, and was enjoyable as well.

Flash forward to 2011, and again I find myself here about to see Portishead again at
a german music festival.

Southside seems to be a good antithesis to Rock am Ring. Less Rawk! More music.
This year's line up includes Portishead, the Sounds, Elbow, Arcade Fire, Eels, Chemical Brothers, Warpaint, An Horse, Lykke li, the Kills, etc

Can't wait to meet some new german friends, share some drinks, and laughs in the camping grounds. It's funny how life comes full circle. Here we are...
everything ends only to start again.