This years Hasturock came about very nice indeed! We set to plan a very low key garage event with two lights and a projector but that's not how the thing turned out. Luckily! Merja sketched a proper lightning plan at lightning speed and we got the local school and now-defunkt-theater (Tornio town only has money to burn on activities that might produce pro-skiers and pro-ice hockey players) to lend us two truckloads of lights and equipment.
Friday was spent cleaning the venue and pulling 1 kilometer of cables. The fuses of the old building couldn't handle the load at all but out clever technicians solved every party-stopping problem with their industrial-grade tools. Cannot say too much here but VR (finnish railways) runs good current. Totally saved by our techs here =)
The ghetto projection screen was build from these abandoned polystyrene sheets that were lying about the venue plus some vegetable protection sheet thrown in for good measure. The 6 meter wide construction was then attached to the ceiling with the help of fishing line, tape and about 8 broken drumsticks. Totally saved by mr Massa who popped by on his way to a film shoot in Rovaniemi.
Friday night was rough, covered in dust and totally knackered but we got the lights and the screens on and ready for saturday.
Saturday morning there was more tweaking of lights, setting up the stage and finding the perfect location for the kinect used for Z-vector visuals. Slowly the bands came in with all their gear and we saw it best to go home to eat cabbage casserole, it's never a good idea to stick around when there's a soundcheck going on.
Doors opened at six and people started flooding in. I mean, we got one person. Things were really picking up! Our bands loved the venue. The people who came loved the venue. Gradually we got a nice crowd who couldn't believe there was an event going on at a relatively distant location in Tornio. Party happened!
Too much to write here, I'll save all the future celebrity scoop for my controversial memoirs but we crawled back to Camp Hastur at 6 am feeling slightly wobbly. Everybody had their fill of excitement, old friends were met and new friends were made, half eaten hamburgers were warmed up in oven and empty bottles collected.
Today we posted a lot of pictures and things on the facebook page, take a look if you wish. Sound tech slash bassplayer Olli managed to crystallize the essence of Hasturock, the warm and funny do-it-yourself spirit made the day.
Back to the old grindstone with hoodownr, there's a player test to arrange and a gazillion other things to do, another busy week with no partying. Our droid programmer threatened that there will be a new build to test. Gotta keep walking!
yours exhaustedly,
sami
hastur
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| making artist passes |
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| trischloss brand cream! |
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| shellfish graveyard |
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| tornion syntymättömät ministerit |
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| trischloss setting up |
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| another live saved by ollis madskills! |
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| team rovaniemi |
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| roadcrew dog Veera |
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| our lovely VJ Johanna! |
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