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Noble City Rock Music Festival has started!
 * June 21, NOBLE CITY - As the Picture Discs entered stage and the first notes of their new song "William Shatner" echoed over the Woodstock Forest, I caught myself thinking "I'd much rather be at Fuck Fest, Austria then at this shithole." Pretentious hipsters all over the place, giggling teens who got day passes and intended on getting as drunk as possible before The Neon Adventure started its gig in the Warped Tent (which looked indeed rather warped, as some fucktard forgot that a piece of canvas is not a techno club) and families with Mick Jagger dads and crying babies. But I was enjoying myself. Everything is great about this festival, even its odd mix of patrons. A lot of people are college-aged kids into such bands as the xx and the Arctic Monkeys, like myself, and actively dancing and drinking the afternoon away. Tucked in between this mass of seasoned festival-goers, I spotted a lot of regular Noble City inhabitants, who probably became curious why the barbecue in Woodstock Forest produced so much noise. The variety of people is astounding, and there are 30,000 of them, all enjoying listening to anti-parent band Eggwhite ("As a parent I consider this to be a very anti-parent band", to paraphrase Henry Rollins) and Brunanter electro-swing act Jitana Electrica. The eclectic line-up and great atmosphere makes this a really, really enjoyable festival. And by enjoyable, I mean no-hangover-after-a-night-of-heavy-drinking enjoyable. The festival has a very nice, slowly-paced set-up and you never feel threatened by the huge mass of more or less inebriated people. The bands are hit 'n' miss though. I immensely enjoyed Eggwhite, which I otherwise would never listen to, but failed to understand the attraction of Devil In The Details, a cheap The Strokes rip-off from Newhaven I often rant about on these pages, as some of you may know. The other Brunanter act, Boy + Girl was a surprisingly pause. Their melodic, heartfelt indie pop lyrics went over my head completely, but I found myself white boy dancing right next to the speaker after a couple of songs. This first day makes the rest of the festival something to look forward to. That's also why I am now heading to rave kids The Neon Adventure for a healthy dosis of late-night booze-dancing. (Michael Graham)