Party Review for The Gathering 1994

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The Gathering 1994

·PARTY ON - AFTER THE PARTY


It has almost become pure tradition that the Upstream editors manages to
keep up the fun and excitement after the actual party has ended. The
Gathering '94 was no exception.

By Wolfman

Having   difficulties   getting   ferry
tickets  home  in time, yours truly and
the   usual   bunch   "walking   in  my
footsteps"  were forced to spend 2 days
extra after the party had ended.
This   was   surely  an  experience  to
remember.

Living on a crate
After  most  party attenders had packed
down  and left the perrimises there was
only  a  bunch  of  Danes consisting of









members   from:   Static  Bytes,  Polka
Brothers,   Balance,  Kefrens,  Virtual
Dreams  and 2000 AD had made themselfes
comfortable  on the balkonee where also
the arcade-machines were situated.
After  most  party attenders had packed
down  and left the perrimises there was
only this rowdy group of Danes left.
The   partyhall,   which   was   easily
overlooked from the place where we were
sitting,  looked  liked something which
could very well be the sad leftovers of
a  nuclear  blast.  Said in short:  The
place was really messy!


Well,  actually  this  mess  was  yours
truly,   Wreko   /  Balance,  Connor  /
Balance   and  Gilthanas  /  2000  AD's
ticket  for  being  able to stay at the
party-place  for  a  few  days extra...
Need we say more?

The scene-team
Already  some  hours  after  the  party
closed down some guys felt like playing
a  game of soccer and after some time a
lot of other people joined along.
It  was  a  great couple of hours where
amongst  other  people,  Toastmaster  /
Movement,  Mr.   Hyde  /  Andromeda and
several  other  scene-guys were running
around in the hall like madmen.
Later,  when  the match seemed to get a
bit boring, some unlucky guys from Iris
was   targeted  by  a  destructive  Dr.
Robotnik  /  Movement to be the ones to


feel  the  ball,  and after that nobody
seemed   to  want  to  hit  the  goals.
Wonder what the poor sleeping guys from
Iris felt when the woke up?

DJ Amiga
Since  the  sound-equipment in the hall
hadn't  been  unplugged there we were a
lot  of guys who were really anxious to
use  the  over-dimensioned stereo for a
little  module-playing  session.  Yours
truly  connected his Amiga 1200 with 90
megabytes    of    modules    and   the
party-people  left  raved  out  to  old
Heatbeat-hits and everybody had a great
time.

Booze-night
On  the  last  evening  before the last
four    guys    from    Denmark    were
departuring,  things seemed to get into


a  nice  party-atmosphere.  We saw this
as  a  good  opportunity to consume our
confiscated  booze, that is if we could
get it from the organizers.
Unfortunatly   some   people  are  less
honest  and  all  the booze confiscated
had  already  been returned to the less
rightful owners, BUMMER!
This  was however no problem.  The very
generous organizers offered us to share
their  booze  and who were we to resist
such charming offer.  We four Danes had
a  really  nice  night  thanks  to  the
Norwegian co-vikings...

Zzzzzz...
After many hours of Upstream #8 editing
and  occational sleeping in a fridge as
big  as a tent (...) one could not miss
the  feeling  that some proper sleeping
would  come  in  handy.   On  the  last


evening  the  organizers showed another
side  of  their  great  hospitality  by
letting  the  four  of  us party-people
sleep  in  the  bedrooms  installed for
drivers  etc...   Really  a great thing
when  considering  the  fact  that  the
rooms  actuallt  costed  200,-  Nkr per
night...

Next year.. After the party?
Not  much  more  to  add  to  this cosy
story.  A great "Thank you!" must go to
the  organizers  who  really  gave us a
nice "after party"-time.
Don't  worry, Crusaders. we'll be there
next year, at least after the party ;-)