“Did you write the book of love?”
Paul Young, Come Back and Stay
What a great disaster. What a beautiful mess. Skint and optimistic. 2 days of beer diet (Jever, Becks, Raven, Tegernseer, Augustiner, Astra, some private breweries at Alstervergnügen) with the Druffalo Recreational Fund For Teenage-Minded Men.
Friday afternoon . First Stop. Berlin / Cologne Main Station. Editors 5 and 2 board trains in Berlin. Editor 4 boards train in Cologne. He is joined by a famous Clochard who opened a branch office on Hamburg Main Station. Uneventful train rides. Editors 5 and 2 read Marvel comics on the ipad and discuss the advantages of the 616 Universe.
Meeting point Hamburg. All three Editors need a beer, badly. Next stop Empire Döner on Lange Reihe, St. Georg. Raven Pils. Then: A place to dump 180 kg of vinyl. Editors 4 and 5 need a beer with our friend Jan Boche on the Reeperbahn. Editor 2 checks out Thailia thaeter, where Erobique is playing a big revue show tonight with the Whitest Boy Alive, Schorch, Kamerun, Andreas Dorau, Das Bo and many more. The show is magic and great at the same time. Erbobique announces the DJ’s but Editors 4 and 5 are still in Schnaps mode in Sankt Pauli. Editor 2 starts playing at the bar upstairs Thalia. One CD player crashes mid warm up set. Puzzled looks. The room gets packed like a sardine can. Finally, Editors 4 and 5 arrive with Jan Boche, sharing a fair blood alcohol concentration. The host (Erobique) arrives. The ladies start dancing. Boche drops some 7″ of magic. The night turns into something special. It just refueses to end. Boche gets a heart attack, he is missing some valuable pieces of his audio equipment. He gets another one: Editor 2 plays 2 records in a row. Big foul. The beer keeps coming. Editor 4 gets Schnaps. Somebody gets an Imbissplatte with Gummibärchen. Bizarre northern customs. The night ends in a big black blot of blackness.
Next day: Shopping, drinking, hair cut at Tony & Guy. Drinking. This Hamburg Urban Outfitters is so lame. Editor 2 meets Erobique at Alstervergnügen. Casey claims he just picked up some stuff at Thalia and gives Editor 2 a ride to Betalounge. Our boys drop a set of average magic. Editor 2 tries out some Rockabilly. More beer, sun downers and a nice chat with the Betalounge guys, our Hamburg manager Heiko and DJ DSL. 22 h: We gotta run: Another set – this one at Thier. The Schanze looks like Ballermann without the tanned people in Badehosen. This Saturday night scene is just the worst condensate of Oranienburger Strasse without the hookers. The bar is nice. We play some disco and two-step and meet the dancing professor. After we are finished we send some people to a Sauna Club in Harburg. Then it is bed time. Finally.
Thanks guys, see you next September.
