The Gampel festival is the most expensive, worst organized, strangest festival I have ever been to...

First of all the ticket price...64.-- CHF (about 43 USD) if you buy the ticket in advance, 70.-- CHF (47 USD) if you buy it at the door...this is the price for one evening, and the only interesting band was THE CURE!! Plus you couldn't reach the place of the festival with the car and you were obligated to leave it in a car park...another 15.-- CHF...

Well, I arrived at the festival at around 6 p.m. and it was raining, great!

I met a couple of friends coming from Spain and France who were shocked about the ticket price...I didn't enjoy absolutely anything at all until the Cure started at 9.30.

There wasn't much people because of the weather (it was sooo cold!) so I was in the first row...everybody must had been fed up with rain because nobody was pushing, screaming, dancing or even singing...probably the worst audience I have seen so far...

The show was great! Nothing to say about the sound, this time it was almost perfect and I suppose that Robert felt like home because of the rain...it seemed that he was getting closer and closer to the audience...he forgot some words (as usual...but that's why I love Cure shows...always different...), talked a lot and also danced (!!!)...and all this under the rain...it really was a magic moment!!

I really enjoyed Sinking (again!), Lullaby (first time I have heard it this year) and Disintegration; I would have loved to hear "A forest" because that was the right place to sing it...

And after the show me and another 200 people had to wait about 45 mins (and guess what...yes, it was still raining!) for a bus to come...great, uh?

"We arrived in Gampel very early, around 4 p.m., when it started to rain. We left the car in the village, as near as possible to the closed road to the festival area, so we only had to walk for some minutes (Christina, try this next time!).

Only a few people were waiting in front of the main stage in the rain. Everyone could get free rain coats, so after a while everybody was dressed up like a black litter box. The people really enjoyed that, dancing and hopping around.

After a horrible show with a drunken and aggressive audience of "dog eat dog", The Cure started finally at around 10 p.m. with "shake dog shake". We really enjoyed every second of the show, it was absolutely fantastic! Everything fits that night, no technical problems, good sound, Robert and the band in a brilliant mood. To us the audience seemed to be very impressed, not worse. Everybody was singing along, following each of Robert's 'dance'- steps, and even if the stage was too high (about 2.5m) the band was very close to the audience and seemed to enjoy it, too. They laughed a lot, and Simon had fun with some french fans. They threw a football-scarf "France world champion 98" up to him and he tried to burn it down.

Besides the wonderful slow-sung version of "sinking", "Disintegration" was one of the best songs this evening. Robert came to the front of the stage and sat down, watching the audience. We had the impression as if it wasn't near enough for him. Magic moments, we even forgot to take photographs (hey, Bianca from Austria, do you got that?). At the end of the show Robert hesitated to go. Unfortunately The Cure weren't the last in the lineup, so there was no way for another encore. We think that everybody in the audience had rested the whole night if he would have continued, in spite of the rain..."