Rock’n Coke 2007
This weekend, I went to Rock’n Coke 2007 with Izzy. What’s Rock’n Coke? Rock’n Coke is an outdoor music festival sponsored by Coke, that takes place at a small air field not too far from where I live (in other words, really far from where all of my friends live). It was an all weekend two day affair with Turkish, American and English artists (I am sure there were probably others, but I didn’t notice). Since Izzy and I were staying at my place and not camping, we had the fortune to have slept through the only spot of bad weather on the whole weekend which was a torrential down pour Sunday morning. Anyway here are some pictures and a discussion following each one. Enjoy!
 First of all, on the way to the concert, we had to drive around to the other side of Buyukcekmece lake. While we were driving, Izzy commented that something didn’t seem right because he remembered driving next to the lake the previous year, and that he remembered the fair ground being next to the lake. Well in this picture you can see the fair ground if you look closely (it’s the small white buildings), and you can see the edge of the lake. In the past year, because of the drought and the drastic increase in the number of people around it, the lake has receded several hundred meters. Again, that’s only one year! Think about where it is going to be next year!
 This was the main stage on the concert grounds. There was a second stage sponsored by Burn Energy Drink, one of Red Bull’s competitors. The other tent kind of sucked though. The main stage was the place to be. There were also lots of stalls selling stuff and lots of delicious places to eat. Bambi Cafe, my favorite fast food in Turkey (they sell Turkish food) was there, so I ate a lot of that.
 This is Chris Cornell. He was ok, but I wasn’t too crazy about him. Everyone else seemed to go crazy though.
 Here are Izzy and I relaxing in the shade.
 This was my favorite band. They were called Ozlem Tekin (a Turkish band). They were somewhere in the rock-spectrum (I don’t know much about music so you’ll have to figure that out for yourself). I liked that they had 3 cellos and 3 violins in their band. That gave them a really cool sound that kind of reminded me of Nightwish, a Finnish band that I really enjoy.
 Berna dropped in on us and we hung out a bit. It was fun. I would say I hadn’t seen her in a while but that would be a lie. We had just played Diplomacy together on Thursday, during which time Izzy lied to Berna and stabbed her nearly every move of the game.
Here is Berna sitting on my shoulders during Manic Street Preachers (a Welsh rock ban), who were excellent.
 Franz Ferdinand (Scottish I think). They were pretty good. They were the last performance.
You recognize Izzy and myself in this picture. From the left is Murat Onsekiz (which literally means Murat 18 - note, not the same Murat I work with) and Cem. If you look back at the pictures from June 13th, you will recognize these two as Izzy’s climbing buddies. I can never remember the name of the other guy. This picture was taken shortly before we all decided that Izzy wanted to crowd surf. We chucked him up in the air onto a good dense spot of people which quickly became less dense and dropped Izzy. No one seemed bothered by this.
 Izzy needed a shot of himself looking really bad ass right before we left. All in all it was a pretty cool weekend. Music is not really my thing but it was a fun experience.
On another note, it was Ant’s birthday on Friday. I will post some pictures from that evening when I get the chance. I was extremely tired! I ran gaming night, then had to get up at 530 in the morning to take our Polish distributors to the airport on Friday. Friday night I was exhausted. The place we went though was pretty interesting though. The waitresses were all transvestites (in other words they were actually waiters). They had some very bizarre performances go on during the evening. It was really cool despite being so worn out.
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