Weeknotes 29

Blog posts

I did spend an evening this week drafting a blog post, but after thinking about it for a while, I decided not to post it. It just didn't feel like a post worth sharing in the current format. Ah well. Let's try again this week

What happened

Stray Kids

I'm a big fan of K-pop and Stray Kids is one of my favourite groups, so when they announced they'd be in germany for their world tour, I had to go. Gladly we were enough people, and one of us managed to get tickets, I was in queue position 60.000, so I don't think I would've gotten tickets.

Accomodation

Anyway the concert was on Tuesday this week. Annoyingly it was in Frankfurt so we had to take a train to get there first. We choose to spend the night as we didn't feel like spending the whole night getting back. Our hotel called itself 'Airport Hotel' which might be technically right, but in reality it was in a small town on the cargo side of the airport, with the only way to get there a once an hour bus from the people terminal. Also from the hotel to the train station that took us to the venue was 1.5 km footwalk, which was especially annyoing on the way back. But at least it was cheap.

Concert

The concert itself was great. I mean the mixing wasn't the best, but maybe it was the best the venue, a football stadium was able to offer.

We got there roughly 2 hours before it was set to start to find absolute chaos, I don't know why but the queues for the entrance were absolutely unorganized, and quickly degraded into just a ball of people who didn't know where to go or what to do. Anyway we joined the ball and after some time, we ended up at the gates and inside. Turns out we weren't fully inside yet, as we still had to go through a second gate to get to our actual places inside the arena. After running around the whole arena to said second gate we were finally able to enter.

One major downside of the standing area inside the arena was that we had no proper toilets, instead just porta-pottys(?) without running water.

The show itself was different from most other concerts I've visited, I don't know whether that's because it was larger, because K-pop just works that way, or maybe because of Stray Kids specifically. It was very choreographed, apart from small interludes where they talked to the crowd everything felt preset, from the animations on the screens, to dancers and the mechanical movement of the stage parts. Also I feel like I watched the concert more through the camera feed on the display than on the actual stage. Which is somewhat to be expected, as the stage was quite far away, but still not what I want out of a concert.

Conclusion

Would go again, would maybe even pay a bit more to get closer tickets next time. The only problem will be finding people willing to come along and pay upwards of 400€ for on evening.

Media

I love AI. This is both very concerning for the future of online discourse, but also very funny.