[piemel]

Well, I am pissed off at the European contingent

1) Basically I feel that its utterly insane and retarded that yanks have to organize a Flatstock within europe.

2) Its SAD to see that after a few very succesful European events that there is still no European equivalent of an API.

3) Additonaly I am disappointed to see the participation level from the Euro people. I am stunned at the lack of French artists. I am glad to see the Dutch hop on the train or in their cars... but where are Belgians, where is Zeloot? And what the hell is wrong in Germany?

And so here we are a few years after some of the EUROPEAN artists were questioning and sometime complaining about the fact that one needed to be an API member to participate in Hamburg... and there is no EPI, there is a low particpation level from European artists and frankly speaking I see only very few bright spots there.

What the hell is going on here?

Why is it possible for a Firehouse crew to travel to the UK and the mainland with the current dollar rates but Europeans can not hop on a Ryan Air or Easy Jet flight?

Why do we have traveling roadshow geeks like Tuffy and others busting balls and crossing borders but the Europeans in general are 'stuck'

I seriously doubt that very first Flatstock would have been the success it was had the artists be European. Who is the European Kozik that can organize annd rally troops? Who is the European Firehouse that can keep the DIY RnR ethics together like glue? Where is the excitement?

There is something wrong here and if it means me making an ass out of myself and trying to kick those Europeans in their ass to get them react than so be it. Maybe something good will come out of it.

RAARRRGGH!!!!