As the weather cleared up, about 25,000 people came to the festival on its last day, bringing the four-day total visitor number to 79,000.
Not only festival-goers had a good time in Sopron, performers did as well. The members of Franz Ferdinand bicycled into the city centre, and Laurent Garnier took a helicopter tour of the region. Limp Bizkit partied back stage until four in the morning after their gig. On the way out of town, front man Fred Durst stopped at a hypermarket to buy toys for his children, who accompanied him to Sopron. Marliyn Manson, whose performance at the festival caused quite an uproar, slipped into the local McDonald's to escape the heat while waiting for his ride to Vienna.
One of the curiosities of the festival was the transformation of two Trabants by the artists István Ef Zámbó, Dániel Pál and Pál Kálmán to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, an important event preceding the fall of the iron curtain.
Photo: Dániel Kováts, MTI
