One of the co-founders of the heavy metal festival in Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein (W:O:A, until August 6th) was impressed by the atmosphere at the first concerts.
“We were totally drained,” said Thomas Jensen on Friday of the German Press Agency. “The blood kind of gets back in the veins and it doesn’t really matter which band is playing.”
However, the co-organizer of the Wacken Open Air, which was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the corona pandemic, admitted that there were initial difficulties. At first there was a bit of a traffic jam on Wednesday, but after a two-year break the team “jerked a bit and we were a bit too slow when it came to issuing the tapes,” said Jensen. We would like to apologize for that.
The opening of the so-called infield, the area in front of the main stages, was very emotional. This year, the official 75,000 festival visitors pay for their food and drinks on the site without cash.
