Sunday, May 25, 2008

Late night in the city

"Sounds a bit like Sex and the city"
--My fiancé (about my choice of headline)


Anyways, I've had a great night. People has been talking about this "Kulturnatta" event all week, and tonight it was finally happening. From what I've heard it was supposed to be a fest of fiftheen year olds, heavy drunk on moonshine. Scary, huh. Well, had to see it with my own eyes. Well, actually I wasn't so interested in the event itself, since I hadn't heard about any other artists than the Swedish legend Thomas Di Leva, which I have nothing against really, it's just that he's a bit too 'mainstream emo' for my taste. Anyways, we thought it would be okey to just check the pulse downtown, so we scheduled this event as tonight's big plan. Then what? After my beloved fiancé's awsome cooked dinner, I read the magazine with the artist listings. It comes to my knowledge that Afasi & Filthy, one of my favorite Swedish rhyme-swingers, is going to kick it live. I've never ever seen them live on stage, so I got all wired up. So we went. First thing we saw when we had left our bicycles were a fight. It took only a couple of minutes for the police to get there, so hopefully the bad guys had what they deserved. It was still half an hour until they would enter the stage, so we were just strolling around in the city. I took a pee in the alley, due to the waiting lines for the public toilets. Just before the band went on stage there was a clique of local emcees doing their preview-thing. I thought I recognized the guy behind the mixer as a guy I was corresponding with over the net a couple of years ago. Anyways, AFC got up front and everyone shouted. The crowd got bigger and the sound blew the speakers. Afasi started with a statement about how he was happy to be in U-town, plus that he had seen the - big - stage in the middle of the city (where Di Leva held his show), and that he was a bit dissapointed over the fact they had only this (which actually did(!) look a bit like something put up to hold open mic session). Anyways, they started kicking it.



I had been curious over if Afasi had it in him, the ability to kick it as fresh live on stage, as on pre-recorded tracks. He held up to my mesasure, so I was pleased. Snapped a couple of photos and a short [really poor quality] video clip, which I will upload later. Anyways, this text blog is on-the-run-uploaded over my cellphone's built-in GPRS modem, so it will cost me like a smaller fortune to upload megabytes(!) of video. Like I said, later.. Hope you all have had a great night!

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