Tags: Sibiu, Romania, festival, ArtMania, Copsa Mica
Date: 16 June 2007 13:46:05
Copsa Mica is a little town in Romania which is notorious for being thoroughly polluted (there's some chemical factory or somesuch there which spews out all sorts of chemical delights over the neighbouring area). I read once years ago that life expectancy there is the lowest in Romania, and also that it's pointless hanging out your washing because it gets blackened by soot whilst out on the line. The Rough Guide to Romania refers to it as "filthy" and I remember years ago being on a train which happened to stop at Copsa Mica station, and noticing that, well, it really didn't smell very good there.
Yesterday a rock music festival started here, for 3 days, and one of the local papers said that for these 3 days Sibiu will become "blacker than Copsa Mica". The festival is called ArtMania, and it is the largest rock festival in Romania, featuring bands with names like "Anathema" and "Within Temptation" (or maybe it was "Without Temptation", I forget). Certainly I have to say I have noticed a huge number of goths and various others in black t-shirts and eyeliner wandering around the place - in fact yesterday, when I was dressed in a dark blue top and a dark blue skirt, I felt distinctly colourful.
I also felt distinctly old.