On Saturday the Love Parade was on. I went there with my friend who once upon a time had scribbled in her highschool yearbook that one of her lifelong goals was to make it to Love Parade. 10 years later, she was there! Me, i just wanted to gawk. We walked down Strasse der 17 Juni in a throng of badly dressed people who were dancing to techno. It was funny. People were partying on the top of lamp posts and sometimes getting a little bit too friendly when the crowds were packed tightly..There were floats on each side of the street with loads more badly dressed dancing people and djs. Some of the songs i heard recalled my days (nights) of dancing to house music in the sweaty back dancefloor of an awful club, the Garden. Im glad those days are over. People used to think i was always on drugs cos I danced so much, but i wasnt, i just love dancing...oh, maybe i dance funny. i dunno.
WHICH IS WHY SATURDAY NIGHT WAS SO GREAT. i saw The Horrors, The Klaxons and WhoMadeWho at Rio. This was rave music at its best..We were all raving mad! It was a dance to the death. The party started at 11pm, but the night truly began when The Horrors took to the stage. From the first rip of Josh Horror's guitar and snarl from Faris Horror, it was a relentless onslaught. Out of control..Their set was sexual, dark and thrilling...in that way that fear can feel good. Screeching "Jack the Ripper" at us, the dirty london gutters were practically spewing from their mouths. Faris was wont to stalk off the stage and menace the crowd, threatening on the mic from beneath his mop of shiny black hair. Josh is a livewire onstage, his eyes gleam psychotically..one minute he's absorbed in ripping it up on his guitar, the next he's in the crowd screaming in someone's face.
Whoever it was will probably have nightmares for a week. If you want nightmares for a
...NOT for the faint of heart...thats basically what happened on the dancefloor, especially to me. But yeh, minus the slimy entrails part.
the Klaxons were certainly able to keep up the momentum. Each of them attacked their instruments intensely. That dancefloor certainly got a thrashing..I highly recommend visiting their space cos you can download "Atlantis to Interzone" AND "Gravity's Rainbow" and then you can go to BIG STEREO and get a nice remix of the latter by Van She and then be a very fucking happy person indeed.
Didn't realise how much of WhoMadeWho's music i already knew! How ace. They seemed surprised how much everyone enjoyed their set. They kept up with the rave theme slightly with their BANGIN version of Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction", innit. You can hear it here. TUUUUUUUUUUNE!
As an antidote to the horror feature, this video has been giving me the utmost joy lately.
When are the Cribs coming to Berlin???!!!
ps- i should say something like, Yay, Vice! for hooking me up with an invite + throwing a bloody good party for everyone in celebration of Vice Germany's 1 year anniversary. Free beer all night, really all night..free CHERRY BEER really all night..swoon..a great crowd and an effing great line up. Check their photo blog for when they post up photographs from the night, there were several Vice photographers on patrol that night. I certainly hope I do not make any incriminating appearances.
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This is a great account of Saturday! Ahh it was such a good time, you danced aMaZiNgLy!
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