On the road with Guerrilla Zoo - Vienna
Travelling Zoo
Driving. To Vienna. For a weekend. Mad. But the chance to take a tour bus complete with band, performance artist and hula hoopist across four countries and back in three days was just too random to pass up. The gig was with Klub Kohelet - an all-girl outfit that runs club nights in Vienna. London's Guerilla Zoo had been invited and they needed an extra driver. I wasn't doing anything that weekend and I'd never been to Vienna.
Everything was condensed that weekend. I'd started out on a roadtrip with seven strangers all trying to navigate around eachother and ended up with a bus-load of people that felt more like family. The gig seemed both compressed and extended at the same time. Sleep deprivation was starting to set in. We'd driven 18 hours to get there, gone out for food and spent an afternoon wandering around the city. Our hosts had set up beds for all of us but I'd barely had the chance to use mine until I fell into it at 5am, drunk and still buzzing with borrowed energy.
Arktorus Rann punctuated the night for me. In person they looked too clean-cut to produce their complex rock sound but on stage they transformed into a writhing, gnashing animal. Steranko followed with their trademark high-energy punk rock and the crowd went wild enough to knock the live visual artist Vort's work flying. He was jamming with paint to VJ Azz and the bands and somewhere inbetween were hula hoops, pain-fuelled performance art, poetry and DJs from the UK and local scene - it was all becoming a blur of colour, light, sound and stimulation.
The zoo gates were open and Vienna was swinging with the Guerrillas.
(Big thanks to Klub Kohelet for coffee, beers, beds, meals and mutual love.)
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Jessica Smith (road tripper extraordinaire)
SEE THE PHOTOS - > http://www.flickr.com/photos/7129737@N07/sets/72157601942679550/
Driving. To Vienna. For a weekend. Mad. But the chance to take a tour bus complete with band, performance artist and hula hoopist across four countries and back in three days was just too random to pass up. The gig was with Klub Kohelet - an all-girl outfit that runs club nights in Vienna. London's Guerilla Zoo had been invited and they needed an extra driver. I wasn't doing anything that weekend and I'd never been to Vienna.
Everything was condensed that weekend. I'd started out on a roadtrip with seven strangers all trying to navigate around eachother and ended up with a bus-load of people that felt more like family. The gig seemed both compressed and extended at the same time. Sleep deprivation was starting to set in. We'd driven 18 hours to get there, gone out for food and spent an afternoon wandering around the city. Our hosts had set up beds for all of us but I'd barely had the chance to use mine until I fell into it at 5am, drunk and still buzzing with borrowed energy.
Arktorus Rann punctuated the night for me. In person they looked too clean-cut to produce their complex rock sound but on stage they transformed into a writhing, gnashing animal. Steranko followed with their trademark high-energy punk rock and the crowd went wild enough to knock the live visual artist Vort's work flying. He was jamming with paint to VJ Azz and the bands and somewhere inbetween were hula hoops, pain-fuelled performance art, poetry and DJs from the UK and local scene - it was all becoming a blur of colour, light, sound and stimulation.
The zoo gates were open and Vienna was swinging with the Guerrillas.
(Big thanks to Klub Kohelet for coffee, beers, beds, meals and mutual love.)
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Jessica Smith (road tripper extraordinaire)
SEE THE PHOTOS - > http://www.flickr.com/photos/7129737@N07/sets/72157601942679550/
