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Corona Fest
Saturday morning found 5 of us piled into a cab, driving from hostel amigo over to the mexico city race track, where corona were putting on their music festival. It was crazy that a day earlier we barely knew two of the other peeps in the cab and we had only just heard about the festival, but here we were, on our way.
First up was finding scalpers to get a ticket for me – there were only a couple free tickets and Hayley was using the last. Got mine for MXN700, which was about 35 quid. Not bad. Then it was smuggling in our cameras – mine in my shoe inside my sock, hayley tucked hers in her bra. But before we knew it we were inside, tending to our hangovers from the night before by eating burgers, hotdogs, pizas and cold cokes. We would have moved straight onto the coronas, but the bars only opened at 2…
A bit of an exploration of the site later (and wishing we´d worn baggies so we could swim at the Corona Beach, which had a stack of pools, white seasand, palm trees with coconuts, oh and a beer service to the pool at 25 pesos a beer – about 1 pound 25. Ice cold, delivered on a tray. Sigh mexico rocks), we found ourselves pushing to the front of the main stage to watch a band George wanted to see (2 door cinema club – they were pretty good actually and had us all jamming away). When they finished it was definitely way past beer-o-clock, so we chilled out in the shade and waited for the beer vendors and their magical trays of ice cold beers to come over. We didn´t have to queue once at the bars until much later that evening when they ran out of every but light beer (we found a sneaky bar in the corner which still had normal beer, hence the queueing). The afternoon was chilled, watching bands from the back of the audience, drinking plenty more beer and just vegging out in the sun. When the band (Delphic) who we´d got free tickets for came on we went over to give them some support. They were kind of dance-ish, but once again great to jam to. After that it was back to the main stage for the last couple big acts. And more beers. Pixies finishing off the festival was awesome though. They totally rocked, and it was so amazing being in that crowd of thousands of mexicans (all spanish speakers), all singing along word-for-word to all the Pixies songs. Very special experience. Looked like the band were really stoked about it too.
Then it was time to mission home – we just missed the last metro (tube) home, so ended up walking for ages till we got far enough away from the crowds to nab a cab for ourselves. He charged us an arm and a leg, but it had been such an awesome day and was getting late and we were getting tired and just wanted to get back so we jumped in. Half an hour later we were back in the hostel safe and sound and falling asleep super stoked – the Pixies in Mexico city!
3 comments October 22, 2010
Update
Wow, what a day we had on Friday. Awesome pub crawl around the city, then traditional mexican wrestling, complete with the masks, midgets and chickitas. So on saturday morning we were wondering how we could beat that day. Corona Fest did not disapoint! Will do aquick summary here since our computer only has about 10 minutes time left, and the usb isn{t working so no photos yet (we´re off to peurto escondido tomorrow so will edit this and put a proper post up with photos). The concert was awesome though ” highlight definitely being singing along with tens of the thousdands of mexicans singing to the pixies (and even though most of them didn{t speak english, they all knew the words!). Had always wanted to see the pixies, so crazy that 48 hours earlier we didn{t even know of corona fest, and yet here we were at the concert (hayley on a free ticket organised through a dude from the hostel and my ticket only 700 pesos off a scalper, so roughly 35 quid). What a day!
Anyway, here we are in acapulco, having a blast – the temps don{t drop below 30C cause thats how warm the sea is :-) Off to Peurto Escondido tomorrow – catch you then!
5 comments October 19, 2010