People are drinking more earlier

People are drinking more earlier are what two people said to me concerning the behavior of their German countrymen at the Schwabisch Gmund City Festival. They are becoming wasted much earlier in the evening and then drunkenly wandering around.

Yesterday was the first City Festival Day. The event goes for two days every year. There are food and beer stands and music stages all over the town. Most of the music we saw last night were bands playing cover songs, terrible stuff in my opinion. The town did something different though this year by organizing "The Battle of the Bands" competition. This took place on the main stage at the Munsterplatz and many local bands participated with one being crowned the best at 11pm. Here even if the music was not always that good at least it was original.