When the festival took place, there was a heatwave all over europe. Except East Germany. We were on the edge with a huge drop of temperature. At night the temperature dropped down to 10 degrees, during the day it would eventually go up to 20 degrees. We were freezing.
I am going with a few friends, but they are staying on the campsite. I took a hotel room. I arrive around 7 or 8 pm on the festival. While I walk around, Alex sees me from afar, nodds shortly and greets me with some kind of military salute. Weird.
Compared to the year before, the festival seems twice as big. Some areas changed, the main stage is huge now. The year before the DJs were playing inside an old camper van, now there is an actual stage with a tensioned roof.
Then I find my friends and we walk around the area.
Later at night we are at the smaller stage Birkenhain where I had read tarot for Carlo the year before. That stage changed as well and somehow looks bigger now. It is very crowded. We are listening to an interesting set of someone but don’t know the name. At the end of his set they are playing a remix of Tom Hooker – Atlantis. One of my absolute favourites.
After them it’s Alex’s turn. I never listened to a full set of him. My friend did a few times. She said this time it was very different to his other sets.
I don’t remember much. There were some kinda italo songs, but played slower. There was one song saying something like “Vielleicht braucht sie einfach etwas Liebe” (maybe she just needs some love). The end of the set was a shocker for me. The set ended with the first few seconds of Eartha Kitt – Where Is My Man.
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