Posts tagged Mäkkelä
Turku, Batman & Robin

Ein guter Abend für Turku. Die Tour bis hier hin kein finanzielles Desaster, keiner am Durchdrehen. Läuft. Daran werden auch die beiden jungen Prolls nichts ändern, die etwas zu zielstrebig auf mich zuhalten. Für Ärger ist es zudem auch eindeutig noch zu früh am Abend. Einfach zwei Nervensägen, die üblichen Weirdos, aber heute bin ich milde gestimmt. Sollen die auch zu ihrem Recht kommen. Kurz texten lassen und dann „sorry, aber ich muss dann mal Jungs, Show geht gleich los. „I'm the singer, you know?“. Was in der Art. Eigentlich guter Plan, nur eben nicht heute.

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Pikakahvi Days

You have to accept it. You've reached the bottom end. Finally. You know it when shopping for food. That’s when you always get to realize. It's the cheap supermarket, just across the road. Cheap as in buy an XL bag of carrots for the price of half a carrot. Cheap as in processed meat from the sweatshops of hell. Cheap as in trashy things for trashy people.

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Hey Sunna! I heard you quit dancing?

I had no idea how what they were doing and what I was doing could somehow come together. The whole process turned out to be exploring situations, movements, and moods related to a constantly changing text. Fundamentally, it was about "them" and "me." In retrospect, I believe the moment I started to see something tangible from the snippets that were created was when the distinction between "them" and "me" disappeared.

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2022. Halftime.

If you haven't done it yourself, touring for a couple of months or longer on your own, you probably can't imagine how this feels. Changing places on a daily basis, losing ground both literally and metaphorically. It can feel, or rather it does feel, marvellous. Being free to do what you always wanted to do. On your own, walking across the sunny main square of Maribor, having a coffee in one of those unique, renown Kaffeehauses of Vienna, meeting wonderful, interesting people. Sounds great? Oh it is, but there are those other moments or times, the dark ones. When you realize being on your own is not always a walk in the park, when you realize it's just a nicer expression for solitude.

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FEAR AND TOURING 2022 (in German and English)

I can't estimate whether or if so how important it is what I'm doing, but to give up something that made life worth living for you or me - maybe just for an evening, maybe more often - I simply just can't do. If us on stage don't muster the courage to be there for you, in front of it, it'll be irrevocably, finally over.

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Ein wenig Fluchen und ein wenig übers Reisen 2021.

Sie haben mir bis in den frühen Morgen versucht Songs schmackhaft zu machen. Tschechische Songs, die alle irgendwie mit der Geschichte des Theater-Kollektivs, hier draußen bei Melnik zu tun haben. Das wäre wirklich der Knaller, wenn Du irgendwann einen davon spielen würdest. "Schlaftrunk?", fragt Martin. "Schlaftrunk!", antworte ich.

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