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The weather forecast looks so promising in the morning, but then the first veil clouds open in the afternoon. First of all, a positive development for the festival audience, because the sun is also sizzling mercilessly at the Hurricane on Sunday with temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius.
Acts such as Ikkimel and later also Nina Chuba are dressed according to the weather. And Australian Amy Taylor from Amyl & The Sniffers chose the bikini. With “Fucking Soldiers Holding Down the Fucking!” She praises the most resistant in the dusty pit. But while the evening Zeal & Ardor play their set on the tent stage, the first drops fall from the dense clouds. Finally cooling!
Sunday at the Hurricane: “We are partying in Billstedt”
Some let the dirt rain off the skin, others wrap themselves into ponchos-just like Jan Böhmermann, who breaks on the Forest Stage in an oversized rain cape and with a helmet on an e-scooter. With the Radio Dance Orchestra Ehrenfeld, he performs hits like “I have the police” and “Allo Points”, who know fans from his satire show on ZDF.
There is also a surprise: in Hamburg at the Budni cash register, a guy had something for him and he couldn’t help but take him to the festival. Jonas Schulze appearance: “Discounter” fans know him (or actor Merlin Sandmeyer) as a awkward shop person from Billstedt.
When Böhmermann tuned in the last song of the set with the home love song “Vegesack”, a storm report appears on the screens. All spectators should retreat to their cars immediately.
The festival circles a thunderstorm for two hours, but after some rain and listening to music in the parking lot, things can go on. Not only Green Day has agreed to sit out the storm, SDP also continue where they were interrupted. With Ballermann humor and accordion, the Spandauers lure the returnees back to the River Stage.
“One Two Three Four, We Don’t Want No Fucking”
The Sunday at the Hurricane finally ends with California punk rock: a guy in the rabbit costume gives the heating shot to “Blitzkrieg Bop” before Green Day starts the night with “American Idiot”. “I’m not part of a War-Time Agenda”, in view of the latest developments in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Billie Joe Armstrong holds back with longer versions, but lets everyone feel what he thinks of Trump and the global tensions. Because towards the end it rains “Dookie” bombs from a Zeppelin, which is labeled with a sad smiley and the words “Bad Year”.
Despite all the heavy things in the world, Green Day succeeds in a small happy ending at the oak ring in Scheeßel, which many people send happily home. And as Armstrong says it so beautiful: “We don’t stop rain, because this is the Hurricane Festival!”