Hollis Nolan

After an interesting experience sleeping on a bus with 13 guys and one girl (yes there are only 12 beds, Taka and Neal got stuck sleeping in the lounges), I got up at the decent hour of 7am and walked over to catering. After standing in line for a bitI discovered that sound doesnt have the time for that sort of thing and we have to just cut to the front, grab some food and go. I got to my stage early and contuined labeling and organizing things. Bands showed up around 10 and the first one started at 11:15. The band line up went: Atack Atack, Ivy Leauge, The Aka’s, Brokenside, Therefore I Am, The Architects, Shad, TV / TV, and Interparty System. I’ll write more about them later. During one act a beer bottle thrown from the crowd hit the corner of my console and broken shards went flying past me.

For a console I’ve got a midas sienna. The doghouse was packed solid.

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Got back to the bus, showered, and went scrounging around for food. When I went to sleep we were rolling up North.

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Bummed a ride accross LA to pomona and got to the venue around noon. Found a whole fleet of busses parked and waiting and a little sign where the rat sound bus was supposed to be. Got settled, picked up some cool swag, then went out to the smartpunk stage, which was out with all the others in the middle of a horse racing track. I realized later that the trick each morning would be finding my stage. There are six stages total and a ton of vendor and band tents.

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Mostly things look like big empty fields we come in and build stuff.

Finshed setting up and came back to find our bus waiting for us.

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