Mirage last night, at Head Power. It was a strange night, it was advertised as mainly an 80s night, but it was flipping between 80s and modern EBM.
Satoko-chan was spinning when I arrived, but I hung around downstairs for a little talking to Rob, by the time I got up to the dancefloor she’d nearly finished, to be replaced by a DJ playing Japanese 80s cheese which all sounded familiar but I just couldn’t place it.
Maya-chan had put my name on the door (along with two guests, she thought Kate and Tim were coming along too), but I didn’t know, so Emi-chan managed to get me a quite unexpected partial refund.
There was a spring present giveaway, where the compere played paper-scissors-stone with the audience until someone won the thing he was giving away, there were a few things in his box that noone wanted so he ended up just randomly throwing them at people. I got a Kirin lager mug, which wasn’t particularly useful for anything (holding around 1/4 of a pint, what kind of a lager cup is that?) so I ‘forgot’ to take it with me.
I spoke to Satoko-chan after she’d finished her set, she seemed quite excited about DJing again, after some time without playing. She claimed that 10 years ago she used to do lots of DJing, but I don’t believe that for a second, theres no way she’s old enough to have been DJing for that long, she doesn’t look more than 23 or 24. She had another set later, which was a little more modern stuff.
The evening ended with a really cheesy 80s set for most of which we were cringing in the corner squealing ‘make it stop’.
Afterwards we all headed up the road to Jonathans, but not before the compere having found a couple of his spring presents lying around unclaimed after everyone had left. Fortunately he didn’t appear to remember that he’d given me the lager cup and forced Yvonne to take it, along with the other presents she’d got.
At Jona I got to meet (I think, I wasn’t actually introduced) Risu-san, who is very cute and seemed to enjoy reminiscing about going to Slimelight during her year living in Angel.
Getting home at 9am makes a bit of a mess of the next day, as I tend to say each time I do it. Still, I’m now getting tired again so its just a question of waiting until the dryer has finished its load and then I can fall asleep.