DASSIES SAYS:
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- Don’t speak what is not true
- Don’t take what is not offered
- Don’t be a pervert
- Practise to be psychic
- Don’t kill anyone or anything
ADDITIONAL DASSIE RULES MADE BY OPPIKOPPI FAMILY FOR NOT-VERY-TOGETHER DASSIES:
- De la Das, De la Das… nobody wants to hear that in the camp site. Or Boney D. Or Das Lepard. Think about the camp site around you when you are thinking about playing tunes.
- Don’t be an idiot or irritate people: this rule also helps when away from the festival.
- You are not sexy when you are drunk. And probably not that clever either.
- Don’t be sexist
- Don’t be racist
- (1) Don’t be an idiot. (2) Don’t be an idiot. The festival gives you freedom, use it sparingly. If you don’t know what to do with it, go home and toil for another year.
- Don’t irritate people around you.
- These rules are not actually necessary for the initiated but each year there are new pseudo-Koppi fans which kreeps into the camp site and does not yet understand the community of trust.
- When in doubt: hit them with love.
- Don’t break or burn our trees.
- There is not enough water on the farm:
- Don’t bath unless people from distant campsites complain about the smell
- Don’t drink water: there are plenty of better choices we can suggest.
- We are bringing back some chemical toilets (in addition to the camel thorn squadron) as there is not enough water to keep the flushables ticking over.
- Maybe we can suggest not eating too much as well.
DASSIE WANTS YOU TO HAVE FUN!
- The party is switched very on: but don’t miss your favourite artist: get a line-up and make your plans whilst you still have an opportunity.
- Contrary to popular belief, OppiKoppi actually has warm showers and regularly cleaned toilets. Many people will find this comforting.
- There is also another trick for the not-so-dusty dassies: Hotel Kreef. Try their semi-luxurious accommodation. (www.kreefhotel.co.za)
- Have fun with the rest of the dassies, but don’t be an idiot or irritate others. This will get you very far.
- As you arrive make sure you know where you are. As an added bonus try and figure our who your are. This will almost certainly change over the period of the festival but it is always a good place to start and other people in the small bar will be supportive of your personal journey.
DASSIE's NIFTY WHAT-TO-BRING-ALONG LIST:
- Friends
- Personality
- Bucks
- Blanket
- Toilet paper
- Mozzie repellent might be a good idea
- Bring extra toilet paper.
- Make sure you have a ticket for the gig. And remember to bring extra toilet paper.
- You can take your own chow and drinks to the gig. You can take it anywhere at anytime, but you MUST have some sort of safe container to drinks into the entertainment area. This means something like plastic cups, bottles etc. OppiKoppi also has plastic cups handy for you at the gigs. Like a mother.
- Scrounge sun screen from someone.
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DASSIE SAYS: BE SAFE! CHECK OUT THESE TIPS, TRICKS, RULES:
- Stick with your friends whenever possible. Especially if both, more or all of you are lost.
- Drugs: don’t be the champion. Or a champion. Or a mule.
- Fires: This is the number 2 reason on the list of all time OppiKoppi injuries, but the number 1 reason for lack of transportation comes Monday morning. The festival has burnt many cars: watch out for your wheels if you need them to get home.
- Fires love tents. Also don’t sleep in or on your fire: this trick looses its humour the moment when the first aid tannie starts cutting away the scorched bits of flesh-cum-toyota-cum-tentflap remaining on your forehead to apply the bushveld strength Theramican.
- Thorns: Number 1 in the annual list of koppi medical assistance statistics. Nature devised thorns to keep mammals well away. Ignore 50 million years of Darwinism at your bodies own detriment. Or watch the beauty of nature at work on Fanie’s body after he has passed out.
- You can bring drinks into the entertainment area but it has to be in a non-threatening manner: i.e. no cans, bottles or anything in glass. Plastic cups, squeegee bottles etc etc is just fine.
- You can not bring cooler boxes into the entertainment area. Even if you try.
- Theft: it feels like everyone at OppiKoppi is your friend – and mostly they are - but there has been some vermin-mice-dogs which started stealing stuff in the camp site at the last festival in a strategic manner: please lock up your valuables in your car and report incidents at the newly appointed camp security where needed.
- Roadblocks: use it, don’t use it.
- Your wristband is your ticket. Without the wristband you are not officially in and can get thrown out at any time if the various gate personnel sees you. Simple.
- No guns are allowed: that’s just shitty style. The same goes for quads and bikes.
- Don’t try and pitch your tent at the end of July – you’ll be gently removed. Gates will open for ‘OppiKoppi 13 – The Way of the Dassie’ on Wednesday the 8th of August in the morning. So you’ve got the whole day to pick out a nice shady campsite for you and your mates. Also the entertainment area will probably only open on the 9th, depending on logistics. We will open some far of bar/party on the 8th but watch the site for details.
- Bring a pleasant or fluffy jacket, or just sit in the small bar until your pleasant jacket feels fluffy – you won’t only fit in with the rest of the dassie clan, but you’ll also be a lot warmer than Stevie Knucklebein in his torn Metallica t-shirt.
- Start saving up a bit of cash ‘cause there will be killer Dassie shirts and band stuff. (We will attempt putting in ATM’s again as many people liked them last year.)
- Get your favourite band to play at The Way of the Dassie by voting for them on the Band Wish List on the new oppikoppi site. (this will come just now).
- Join a ‘Lift-Club to Koppi’ and stuff all your mates in one car – you’ll save heaps of money on petrol and you’ll make Dassie’s environment a lot greener. We are starting forums on the site for exactly this purpose.
- There is probably no need to get aggressive over anything. You have the time at the festival to mull this over and will come to the same conclusion. Love everyone else, and yourself. And his dassies equally.
- Don’t bring dogs or any pet to the festival (except dassies of course): they get braaied and that is never nice for the owner to see. Your dassie should be safe with us.
- There is a lost and very-lost section at security. This new department has to be considered a long shot: we have not found anything in 12 years.
- Lock away your valuables and place/hide your keys when you arrive: then make friends. Then have a good time. Not the other way round.
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