Happenodrome Party Report
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Today the army of the 12 Gritos, and among us especially Psychogrito and King Negrito, are very happy to inform you that the live performance of this weekend was a real success!
In fact we had been invited by the exquisite boss of the French magazine "Happen" to participate to the third anniversary of this magazine dedicated to the arts and nightlife animation in ffice:smarttags" />Bordeaux. Of course we were really happy to participate and had a few ideas about how our participation should look like. Would we bring in a ton of chocolate and melt it under the warmth of the spotlights? Would we empty fifty bottles of Cheval blanc in a plastic pool and swim in it? Maybe it was a better idea just to hand from the ceiling and let peanuts fall on people heads?
You know the Gritos, it tooks us a while to come to an agreement, which, at the end of the day was quite simple and efficient. We must admit that we were not the only one, that was all the spirit of this “Happenodrome” (in French landing ground for happenings) and for instance the birthday party started by a dance exhibition from the Compagnie Strap, which involved twin dance from two guys on a music played by only two musicians.
The Gritos and the Strap Compangy: Gritos cannot dance like this, for sure
After that there was a short mix by Rotten, based on cool bands like Noir Desir or Einsturzende Neubauten - even though I still do not understand what they exactly say in the songs and why there and strange noises of slashes- and then came live a very interesting rock band “Les Bas d’Anselm” (Anselm stockings in English) who played a mix of Rock and jazz and bizarre music. The singer, dressed in black was like inhabited by an agitated daemon and the guy who blown the trumpet looked like John Galianno himself, while the drummer seemed coming right out from a serial killer movie…
King Negrito: oh my god, Galianno incognito
That is not music for the masses as used to say Dave Gahan but real experimental rock n roll and that was cool. And when they stopped, it was our turn to step in the ring. With the help of a fantastic DJ we unleashed the very first Gritian Movie, known under the Cryptic code name “A12G-BT59-33BX” so we were sure nobody would even guess the beginning of the start of what was in it. And that was very interesting to look at the people that were shared between dancing on the DJ sound, and trying to figure out what was all that about, why there were Gritos all over the world even if they were not at all aware of it!
A12G member: There’s a big green eye in the sky watching at you!
In fact probably some of them realised that even if they thought they were living in the most “communication enabled” possible environment, they were completely unaware of the Gritian invasion, and that was really fun to observe. And in the meantime, some others were just enjoying the place, the music and that was also cool, it was not a Cannes premiere – we were there last year, it was far less laid back –
A Grito: play DJ Bass Trap, play!!!
And in fact that was quite cool to see the thing from the back of the room: the DJ was really like…an icon?
Gritos watching DJ B-Noyt: Boum boum Kss kss ksss boum boum yeah yeah!!!
I mean, sometimes, you think the DJ does not deserve the public – for instance in Manchester or Brussels, I saw fantastic people in the room, putting the party on fire despite the lack of quality of the DJ sets – and sometimes, you just dream they play in front of a crowd that really wants to party, and that was the only sad point, the people should have gone mad and jumping all around and they just got dancing normally. I took that occasion to have a drink with Psychogrito at the bar, while looking at the “Happen magazine” managers that were enjoying with the party, preventing people from going the wrong way…
Psychogrito, Negrito, the HappenTeam: 24 hours party people !!!!
And the party lasted…. Till the Gritos were tired and went to bed :-) but indeed that was really a cool night and, in the name of the Army of the 12 Gritos, I want to thank the whole team of “Happen magazine” for offering us that participation. And we can tell you one thing: that gave us a lot ideas, and some of them…very fun J For instance I am very pleased to let you know there is an official Army of the 12 Gritos DVD, and also some cool sweat shirts ehehe! Do not hesitate to ask us the details if you are interested….
Kisses to all,
Psychogrito, King Negrito and all the Army of the 12 Gritos
