Last Saturday a friend of mine – the legendary dj Ender was turning years. He had invited a bunch of friends – mostly other deejays and music people to Korjaamo culture factory to celebrate – which in this case meant buckets of sparkling with a cake avec.
I was the only music critic there. My gentleman colleagues don’t hang around in the dj scene too much. Half of them were probably in Tampere (Music and Media fair to get themeselves wasted) and the other half at Tavastia club digging on Ane Brun. I was happy enough to recollect her gig in Huvila tent last August. She was so strong and fragile. All points to her, that night she touched my emotional side, but I don’t long for deep waters in November! Musicwise, the only deep I want is deep house…
Back to Korjaamo..I sipped on my sparkling – probably Freixenet and vodka cranberry (again) and drowned into work related conversations with some music people e.g Tuomas Kallio who’s the man behind Flow festival and Nu Spirit Helsinki. Very mind blowing discussions from a critic’s point of view, even though I couldn’t persuade him to reveal a tiny bit of next year’s line-up.
Talking about music people – my cell started beeping continuously. What a surprise, the contradictory musician friend approaching me with the lines introduced to me already 13 years ago! Further details later. I was (for once) in the mood to go to Botta or someplace else as boring (but oh so popular), to meet him and hear about HIS career since mine is not interesting. He was apparently pondering between different options so I carried on with my interesting conversations and stomped my feet to the beat of dj Eppu’s and Lauri Soini’s ( a.k.a 80’s cop) goodies.
The ever- weird musician couldn’t make up his mind. What’s the point in sending smses without an outcome and why can’t he approach me in the daytime? I’ve given my critics on him way back and I think I just have to stick to it. Seems we are playing musical chairs here!
