What a horrendously harsh weekend.
Had 2 gigs, Kaliningrad (russia) and the SMS Festival in Germany. Sounds simple right?
The gigs were great, and I guess I've managed to blank out the stress from my mind now, like it was all just a dream, but man, the travelling. Intense. The most time I have spent in a car, like, EVAR.
Here's how it went...
Friday:
Leave the house at noon to go to heathrow airport.
Fly to Frankfurt (1.5 hrs)
Transfer to flight to Gdansk (Poland) - 1hr.
Drive to Polish/Russian Border 2 hours.
Wait at border 2 hours.
Get through border. 1.5 hours.
Wee in a bush in random Russian village, far enough away from army people. 2 minutes.
Drive to Kaliningrad once in Russia 1.5 hours.
(thats 6-7 hours in a car. A pretty ghetto Nissan minibus thing.)No time to stop for food.
Get changed and put on makeup - 15 minutes.
3-5am DJ. And drink bottle of wine. With Ice cubes. Suprisingly good Chilean Sav Blanc - not expected, seeing as we're deep in Russia. :-)
3 hours sleep.
Saturday:
10am leave hotel. Go through all that again, drive, border etc. 5 hours.
Gdansk-Frankfurt 1hr (inc 20 mins sitting up sleep)
4 hour drive to festival place.
Switch cars.
30 mins drive to hotel
15 mins sleep.
25 mins bath and get changed/makeup.
Eat muesli bar. 2 mins.
2-4am onstage.
4 hrs sleep
Sunday:
1030am leave hotel.
Drive 4 hours to Frankfurt airport.
Fly home.
Have bath.
Sleep.
Here's the video anyway... Just doing my bit to dispel the myth that the life of an international superstar Dj isn't always as glamorous as you think ;-)
John B's Traumatic Trip to Kaliningrad and SMS fest in Germany
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