Friday Night With Steve H.

So, if I wanted to go see the Katy Perry concert later this year, looks like it would have cost me a thousand bucks. And in any case, right now it looks like the two nights (yes, two consecutive shows down here in the world's most isolated capital city) are completely booked out.

What?!

Where do 1. these people get their money from? (I know the answers: parents and 'employment packages')

And you wonder why I show 
McLarens all the time.
 

And, 2. Are they seriously trying to tell me they even know her latest material?

We are talking, maybe, could be, as much as eighty thousand people going. That place can definitely seat half that in any one night.

When I found out Steve Helstrip was coming down here and when he asked the handful of us down here if there was anything we'd like for him to include in the set, naturally I quickly responded our girl JES.

Turns out, he already had made a re-mix of 'As The Rush Comes' by Motorcycle (Jes and Gabriel & Dresden) back right when the track came out which was twenty-one years ago now!

So, here I am, Friday night at a venue which is nothing to look at from the front and on the insides is this vast complex of nested bars and restaurants and stages and everything... Not to mention it made its 'recent' name by promoting this 'we support gender everyone/everything' but long long before that, had that sort of reputation anyway. And that despite that during the daylight hours, it was the favored haunt of the journalists and editors from Rupert Murdoch's flagship newspaper down here - The Sunday Times.

Remember Bill Smith, that time when the AFP raided the place Monday morning that time when we had to tell them that we had busted the 'Five Eyes' Network's operations down here spiking the undersea communications cables with multiple heads-of-state conversations being illegally intercepted? (The stupid fools literally thought we must have been working for Murdoch).

Ah, but I digress. 

All the time!

Anyway...

Late late into an utterly mind-blowing heavy trance night (would have been early hours of the morning by then), Steve plays 'As The Rush Comes' by JES and I stand there stunned, because what am I watching and listening to - sixty-five to a hundred people all singing the words out loud, louder than any other thing they had appeared to know all night.

And I'm thinking 'this can't be right; there is not that many cultured educated people in Perth!'

And look at the ages! My god, kids of twenty not much more - and then all the way up to maybe fifty. How do they know this song??

Not a single drugged up individual in them (trust me I can tell).

Fit males, extremely good-looking females, several that are dressed like they were wealthy. 

It would be misleading if I indicated more about them (the super-wealthy ones) because there are several similar people down here and these are not those ones who are in the (local) public eye down here.

Very multi-ethnic.

Interesting lot, really, you'd have to say.

Steve Hesltrip.
Friday night.
Down here.

How good is Steve Helstrip in RL?

For a start the light show was way up there, but you have to keep in mind though, that Michael Jackson's global tour lighting people come from right here... So. Was extremely good, put it that way.

6 hours straight of heavy heavy hard (evocative, melodic) trance - classics, archived material, new mixes, live mixing. Sound system was beyond extraordinary. There were shafts of sound combined with shafts of light happening.

Mind you, no earplugs and you're basically going to kill yourself.

For just ten people ** were going to save the city last time down here. LOL

And, these days, it is a lot easier to spend the whole night alone and apparently unarmed/unprotected, in the city.

I'm skeptical about the eighty thousand crowd though. But then, I have no faith.

A mountain of rocks and stones I can move; a mountain of people not so easy to do.