Party Review for Mekka Symposium 2001

found inTypeAuthorYear
downloadCows'n'Snakefights 5Diskmagazine
Nukleus
Altruist - Balder - Browallia - ...
a12/03
added 1/14
Shortcut impressums from 
 Mekka & Symposium 2001
  by Altruist/Tulou and 
     Browallia/Nukleus

First, we bought a car, then we drove to 
Germany.  But lets slow down and take it 
from the beginning.


Getting there:
==============
Altruist put a tape with 'die ärzte' and we 
took our first steps towards  M&S.  3 hours 
of traffic overload for the starting 60 km. 
Great start indeed. What a luck that Alt 
had some more of 'die ärzte' =) In South 
part of Sweden, its not only stormy 
weather.  its snowish! So we had to 
rearrange  our trip when we miss the ferry. 
Altruist and Browallia squeezed there after 
out  all  awakeness  to  manage  the   trip 
through Denmark instead.

We arrived 5 am to the party place, red 
glooming eyes,  and bodies dried out of 
enough sleep.  Some people already drinking 
beer at the staircase. We picked a parking-
lot in a residential  area some blocks away 
and counted sheepssszZZ until opening time.


At M&S:
=======
Getting inside, after some hours, everyone 
was  thrown out again.  After half an hour 
we could get inside again,  but now paying 
the entrance :-) Others next to our corner 
beside bigscreen are Traktor and Nature.

Later that evening, a true opening cermony 
a la Olympic Games with staff seperated as 
teams  like info crew, compo crew..    For 
fulfilling this purpose,  Steeler took the 
torch and a fancy  fire-routine was lit on
screen.  Innovative indeed.  Other kind of 
entertainment was ofcoz when the  Synthpop 
group Welle: Erdball held a concert. Bellow 
stage,  people freaked out and rocked.  And 
other  music played,  the inofficial  title 
song at M&S, between schedule, during 
compos and during other timesequences was 
the song 'Eclipse' from Apoptygma Berzerk.

As usual, the finnish guys were outside 
with MFX as the landlords of beers and 
vodka. For them, aswell as for Haujobb, 
night and day doesnt seem to matter, the 
latter since going round in white bathrobes 
all the time.

Welle: Erdball sells their new MCD at M&S. 
Other merchandises at the entrance were  a 
book entitled  'Hacker tales'  and the m&s
partytshirt.

Uprough shows preview of the demo 'April in 
Paris'. Traktor shows preview of the demo 
'Hetero Sapiens' Nature  does not show any 
preview of the intro ...#?

Chip/Nature and Chip/Kangaroo have a meet-
ing point at infodesk according to a loud-
speaker announcement.  Other more obscene 
stuff, is when Uprough's private life on
the local hotel in Falling Bostel. 
(definetly nothing for any diskmag 
galleries) The German scenereporter Zito 
borrows  Altruist computer  and knocking 
desperatly  over the  keyboard.  Such  a 
herectic tipping pressure  and speed you 
have  when you are in love and high rate 
of  emotional  inspiration.   Since Zito 
already has a girlfriend, Browallia 
consider that he wasnt writing love 
letters to all 37 girls beeing at M&S. 
Instead, he is a good writer!

"Who wants to be a Sceneonaire?" is a 
success on stage and Steeler sure has 
dicke Eier for such an entertainment. 
The Questions are of various flavours 
like "Pick an answer!" and "What function 
has the Blitter in an Amiga?".

The group Traktor is working in an almost 
puke-able rythmus with their demo.  Which 
made it hard for Browallia who wasnt very 
active to establish further contact  with 
them.  They manage it before deadline but 
Altruist noticed that Pumba/Traktor sleeps 
through all compos.

With cascading applause, Potion wins the 
introcompo with 'Gift'. Nature is waiting 
with the follower 'Grid 2' for next year.
At the Amiga democompo it was 20 entries. 
TWENTY ENTRIES. Thats nothing you just left 
uncomment.  Instead here are some sentences 
bout it:
During the compo, Polacks wading through a 
sea of beercans with a redwhite banner. 
What a release party , 20 entries! yiihaa! 
ok, guess enough is said about the demos.

After all activities,Altruist and Browallia 
invites to a car-party with PEZ n BEER.  In 
that car Browallia also made experience for 
the sleeping hours.


Home trip:
==========
After Altruist consume his probably 7th 
Curry Wurst we are leaving F-ng Bostel. 
This time we succeed to sadle our Volvo 
'87 on the ferry.  Browallia is freaked 
out when hearing the price and drives a 
couple of extra circles on the quay.
We take a photo of a Lobby drivers mega 
stomage,  apparantly a proud part of an 
epicentric fortune! After that Altruist
recognice that onboard they have an 
a4000 running Scala with some safety 
program. Starring at that for a while we 
decide getting some sleep in the 
disco room.