Last Saturday, April 26, was Klub Golem night, we were to present Turkish-Swedish Aux Animaux, DJs lined up, people ready to help with bar, wardrobe, photos, so on. Unfortunately Gözde Duzer, who is the Aux Animaux project, had fallen sick and lost her voice on the very day which she wrote us in the morning. With no voice there was really no way to do the concert so, needless to say, we didn't have the best of mornings. However, my co-musicians, Alex Anarki and Kaos Korrosion, are also part of Klub Golem, so all of us being there anyway we had a quick look at each other and decided to step in last minute and do a concert ourselves so that we'd still be able to present an evening with a live show as well as DJs. We knew Rune Sørensen, DJ Sue She, who is of course also part of Klub Golem, would be able to make it to the venue early as well, just as we knew people from the venue, Ronny Rode and Kim Jaskov along with trusty driver Jonas Hvidt would be there together with our sound engineer throughout all the years, Claus Christiansen. Having done our live sound for countless concerts we knew he'd be able to handle the last minute change as well. Other DJs were Nik coming down from Northern Sweden and Olivia Obskur who also used to perform in my live band for a couple of years so we thought what's better than three musicians who didn't have a chance to rehearse - why, four, of course. Obskur was ready to step in and do her vocals on Grantræet unprepared which we thought was fitting on a day like this.
Naturally we put together a set list based on our latest couple of concerts and went through songs during sound check but faced another challenge as we were setting up the room for Klub Golem. Part of our standard Klub Golem set-up includes what we call an Eighties Corner featuring a fully functional Commodore 64 which guests can use for playing games. And they do. Unfortunately, our monitor had also fallen sick, it turned out, and going at it with a screwdriver didn't do the trick. We ended up borrowing another monitor last minute from Sidwave of the aptly named The Suppy Team, one of the local eighties cracker/hacker groups on the 64.
The evening turned out good in the end; a good number of people showed up, making for a busy dance floor most of the evening, as well as many a round of Commodore 64 gaming and we had a supportive concert audience which of course made it easier for us to pull off an un-rehearsed show like this. The thing is we normally rehearse a good deal - and we will continue to do so, even if this, our un-rehearsed concert, turned out fine. So a big thank you to everybody who helped turn a dire situation around and make things work, not the least my co-musicians - I'm proud of you.
We are now working on the last details so we can present Aux Animaux for next Klub Golem.
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