Fm4 Frequency Festival 2014

From 13. to 16. of August the Fm4 Frequency Festival took place in St.Pölten, Austria, about an hour outside of Vienna. The line up was amazing including Lily Allen, Tom Odell, The Neighbourhood and The Kooks.

But at festivals it’s really all about ups and downs, isn’t it? 

The first down came when we had to wait all in all four(!!!) hours to get our wristbands and finally be able to enter the camp site.

The Neighbourhood

My friend and I were clever enough to sign up to the Green Camping area in advance. It’s free and there are some rules as to not let you litter lie around or shout around at night, rules which are quite easy to obey in my opinion.

We only got to know how good our choice to go to the Green Camping was when we went through the normal camp site. It was already pretty full and brought images of displacement camps to our minds…

After almost dying because our stuff was so heavy and successfully building up our tent we decided to rest a bit first.

In the evening we first went to the stages. We feared that we already missed the big hits by Bastille but just as we arrived they started playing “Flaws”!

Tom Odell

Afterwards Macklemore and Ryan Lewis came on stage. To be honest I was very sceptical regarding this line up choice. It’s not really my kind of music but the live performance was amazing! Even the heavy rain couldn’t kill the great vibes in the crowd. This certainly was an up!

In the next days we went to see The Neighbourhood, Tom Odell and Rudimental. They all were absolutely fantastic, Rudimental being kind of a wonderful surprise. I didn’t know them all that well before but after Tom Odell we happened to be at the barrier and the musicians had an amazing power.The whole audience danced hard.

The only bad thing here were several drunk crowd surfers lusting for their 10 seconds of fame…

Rudimental

On Friday we saw Marteria, a German hip hop artist, and Lily Allen. Babyshambles got cancelled because Pete Doherty was probably deliriously lying in his flat in London, high on drugs...

But Lily Allen was fantastic as I could sing to almost every old song she played and even if her new album is too electronic for my taste actually, with a little bit of festival feeling and booze it’s great to dance to.

Afterwards we even danced to Skrillex but couldn’t help and laugh about ourselves as this is actually totally not our music, but the good vibes made hard ravers out of us…

That night we payed the Nightpark a visit. You needed to take a shuttle bus there and the way really is too long if you’re asking me.

Rudimental

The Nightpark looked cool though and we danced some more, only the really bright light that flashed up sometimes was quite unnecessary as we thought because really, no one wants to see the hard truth of our festival destroyed faces at night. The huge flames that sometimes came out of the walls also were a bit of a ridiculous special effect that let us question if we might die at a festival in a BBQ like scenery…

On Saturday we needed a lot of sleep to be prepared for the last night. We got to the stages in the afternoon to see The Subways, The Editors and The Kooks.

The leadsinger of The Subways did some serious stage diving and took our breath away as he climbed on the watch tower and jumped into the crowd.

The big personal final of the festival for me was the show of The Kooks. They played a great mixture of old and new songs and their frontman’s dance moves were very entertaining.

The Kooks

We only listened to Placebo backstage but they sounded really good and the aftershow party was a nice way to end our festival experience.

The next day we had to pack and leave the campsite. The normal area looked as if a bomb hit a displacement camp…Just a little bit of environmental awareness should be in everyone you’d think but when you see the tons of garbage everyone left you know that it really isn’t like that.

As a conclusion I’d like to say that, again, festivals really are about ups and downs but it’s all worth it as long as the line up is good, isn't it?

Let me know about your festival experiences in the comments XX