This past weekend I ventured into Evita's home town of Darling to party the weekend away at the Rocking the Daisies festival. Along with Rocking the Gardens, held in Johannesburg at the same time, not only did Daisies boast a great party for all, it was also a campaign for Climate Change!
The line-up of awesome music made the weekend, my favourites of which were Goodluck, City Bowl Mizers, Taxi Violence, Springbok Nude Girls with a guest performance from Art Matthews of Just Jinjer, Niskerone, Boo!, Hyphen, Flash Republic, Jesse Clegg, Nibs van der Spuy and Guy Buttery, just to name a few... Hippies and rockers, and all those in between, pitched their tents together and jammed all weekend! There was so much going on I didn't manage to see it all; there was the main stage, the Red Bull electronic music dome, the comedy tent, and the world music stage. All of these stages had world-class acts going on from 10am 'til 2am.
Of course, there were also loads of popular food outlets such as Hudsons burger joint, Butlers pizza and Mexican Kitchen - to suit every early morning munchies craving- and obviously a Vida e Cafe for a coffee shot when the hangover hits :) If you're like us, you went really prepared and had your own little fry-up in the mornings!!
There were also great stalls, like Ska, so if you decided to take a break from the jol you could do a bit of shopping, or if you're like me and you misjudged the freezing Darling weather - you could buy a llama hat to save your ears from frost bite! Interactive stores, such as the Nokia store, gave out free RTD t-shirts when registering to their music store, which you could do right there on their awesome coffee table touch screen computers, AND could even charge your phone using solar chargers! Speaking of free t-shirts, WWF was also promoting "Save the Wildlife" by giving out free t-shirts too, for every person who registered on their database.
The weather managed to play ball for the Saturday at least, but by the time Sunday came around the sun had left and was replace by rain and wind. This coupled with many hangovers meant that only the few die-hards like myself and the Beer Monkeys, were left to party on Sunday!
What I really enjoyed was the vibe at this party, generally festival goers are happy people and RTD-goers were no exception, but more than that, there were many different types of people, young and old, with all different music tastes, and all of them got along really well. Kudos to everyone who made it there looking fabulous and fashionable all throughout the weekend!
So that was my RTD experience, I hope next year you will all join in the fun!! :) Check out Pretty Vintage in the next couple of days to see what was hip and happening fashion-wise at the festival! **xx
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