Here I keep some memoirs of (mostly music) events I’ve helped organized, participated in, or attended; I’m putting trips I’ve gone on here as well.
A doujin music event in Paris which I helped organize!
I sorta-kinda was support crew here. Also includes general notes on my trip to the beautiful city of Wrocław, Poland.
diff --git a/html/events/premier_impact.html b/html/events/premier_impact.html index 2a720ae..151bd13 100644 --- a/html/events/premier_impact.html +++ b/html/events/premier_impact.html @@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ { background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; } .org-svg { } + + + @@ -211,20 +214,20 @@This is a retrospective on Premier Impact, a music event we held on the 10th of May 2025.
A bit of context that’ll help illustrate some of the organisational difficulties involved in the event:
@@ -255,9 +258,9 @@ The observant reader might notice that this is a bit of a tight squeeze; it coulThe event theme was doujin music and generally J-core/breakcore/anison, though in practice we gave DJs complete free reign as to what to play and the event was better characterized as “we invite our friends to play good music”; it’s perhaps best understood in relationship to other similar events2. These events are already common elsewhere, but not aren’t yet established in France, despite there clearly existing a sizeable audience for them — our aim was thus to start putting this on the map here in Paris.
@@ -271,9 +274,9 @@ For the poster we ended up borrowing a lot from the -Since this was our first event3 we went into this without existing contacts and without a confirmed audience. Largely because of this4 we mostly committed to finding a venue that would let us host the event for free.
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We originally got a reply from Les Amarres on April 4th, so we were in communication with both them and Spot 13 in parallel, but we only got confirmation they’d be available on April 15th. They let us hold the event in their venue for free, so accepting immediately was a no-brainer. They even gave our staff free drinks and meals11!
Only now that we had a venue we ready to formally invite guest DJs and start putting publicity out. Promo went out on April 24th, less than 2.5 weeks until the event.
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Those that were present around the end of the event might have seen Apt and I frantically faffing about with two DJ controllers, three laptops and a bass guitar. We ran into two kinds of technical issues during our set.
@@ -466,9 +469,9 @@ The GK-3B is pretty expensive so we had bought it with the intention of using itLooking critically, behind the scenes—and to some extend unfortunately also on the stage—this was an organisational mess. Some of this definitely could’ve been prevented – Apt and I take full responsibility for the original error of failing to secure a venue in time. Other hecticness in the planning wasn’t really preventable—there’s a reason this post opens with a description of our schedule—but will be avoided in the future. It was a learning experience for sure.
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Alex, apt-get, mercury.lamp, pachy and myself were in Wrocław1, Poland between April 30th and May <END DATE> for Millennium Strike Live WROC.WAV where apt and merc were performing (B2B, under alias Re;iwa Diabolik). Shout out to pachy for finding time and money to join us last minute; I am very very glad he was able to be there, it wouldn’t have been the same without him.
Basically all the time in Wrocław before the event was spent on… actually preparing the set, which hadn’t really been started yet, so we were mostly inside the hotel — this had much to do with apt and I being busy preparing for Premier Impact and everyone just generally being busy. Alex, pachy and I were technically free, but I was also trying to make stuff happen for Premier Impact still, and we all kinda hung around for moral support.
With us primarily being there for the event and it being a really busy period, I don’t think any of us had really read up on the city very much. Safe to say we were all very pleasantly surprised! Wrocław is an absolutely lovely city; real student town energy with lots of young people, very warm hospitality and a very homely, casual atmosphere in restaurants as well.
Wrocław has really cool architecture, a pretty eclectic mix of styles and old and new stuff. Lots of old defensive works that I believe were built after the Mongol invasion. Quoting Wikipedia:
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Overall Wrocławians made a strong impression on me as warm, hospitable, humorous and headstrong people. Wrocław had a very active anti-communist resistance that they are very proud of, and they’ve kept that history very alive, both visibly in the city scape but also in their endearing fashion sense.
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