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The Lent Festival in Maribor was almost David Byrne’s last show.
David Byrne has a blog. If you don’t know him or are too young to remember, Byrne was the leader and founding member of the legendary New Wave band Talking Heads.
He was at Maribor’s Lent Festival this summer and blogged about the experience. (Scroll down to his entry for July 7 to read it.) Apparently, he didn’t have such a great time, thanks in part to the moribund VIP section. He writes:
"Last nights show in Maribor was sadly drenched. The city has it’s yearly arts festival, of which this is a part, and they’d built a nice floating stage on the river next to a medieval tower. It promised to be a lovely evening, but a huge thunderstorm pummeled the area and though it let up, attendance was spotty- that, and the fact that the festival sponsors and VIPs were given the entire area in front of the stage (the plebeians were in the bleachers). These VIPs were, of course, bored and completely unresponsive. I wiggled my butt, spazzed out, danced and jumped but nothing was going to move them."
After the show, Byrne made the mistake of using a Slovenian road while there were Slovenian drivers on it. It was a near-fatal mistake that almost cost him, and everyone else on his tour bus, their lives. He writes:
"Last night was - driving through the rainy hills of Slovenia after the show in Maribor a truck began to overtake the bus on curve. It was a two lane highway and sure enough here comes an oncoming 18 wheeler."
Byrne’s tour bus lost a mirror and got dented but otherwise escaped unharmed. He later admits it could have been a "real serious mess."
You can read all about his Slovenian experience here.
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Truck drivers in general are ruthless. They overtake one another on the highway without any warning. I had near accidents with them on several occasions when they’d sheer out without a directional sign all of a sudden.
“pummeled” - what a lovely, lovely word. I’ll add that to my collection.
i’m wondering how many slovenian truck drivers (18 wheelers) drive on our roads :). and Mike - do you really think slovenians are such bad drivers … i’m in our neighbour countries every week. that’s sometimes worse … and i’ve been in sicily :)!
ps: i agree that we are not the best drivers tough
His description of Belgrade makes me want to visit:
The women here and those passing in and out of the hotel lobby all dress like hookers. Well, I’m exaggerating, but there are lots of heels and pretty extreme push up bras and lots of tarty trimmings- I will assume that it is just the local fashion, that it’s not necessarily working attire. (Did some percentage of the men die in the war leaving an excess of women?- that would explain the tendency to bait their hooks so heavily.)
Mauro, Graham and Sara all confirm this- not only that, but they claim there seem to lots more women in the bars and clubs than men…Mauro says that at one point in a bar he looked around an he was surrounded by 9 gorgeous women, and no men…at our concert someone, a local, claims that the audience was 80% female.
If you want to see really bad and stupid drivers visit the following; Italy, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, France.
Maybe the truck driver was from one of these places.
Mike - do you really think slovenians are such bad drivers
They have their moments, but they’re probably not the worst. I drove in Trieste once and it was the first time I tasted fear. But I’ve heard stories that no city in Europe can approach the chaos of, say, Hong Kong or Rio.
I’ve been in Rio and it pales compared to Casablanca or Teheran … now that’s nightmare .