Thursday 8 May
Slept solidly and got a good breakfast in before doing some work in the hotel room. Met Antz in the lobby and had lunch with the team before getting him started on the 4x2 metre canvas in the shade outside the club. Supervised the setup then headed back to get a bit more work done and pick up Don for sound check. Once that was all dispensed with I took my leave and cooled off from the dry heat in the pool for a while, allowing the thousand thoughts in my head to settle after a few laps.
At 7pm we went for dinner at Sokdy, just next to the hotel, and had more fish, veges, rice and chicken, before heading to Marina for the big show. Doors opened at nine and Don treated the early birds to a warm-up set featuring Shadow, Digable Planets and many more songs they didn't understand. By ten the place was getting into liquid phase with the help of some well-timed jiggy selections, and Antz took up his brush and finished the black outlines of his piece while the crowd looked on intently.
Big bottles were soon the order of the day and guys and girls were letting go - after he completed his canvas a few punters came up to Antz and asked him to tag their neck, their leg, their waist, and even one girl's breast! The 26 year-old couldn't believe his luck and I encouraged him to stop and breathe, have a drink, think about what he was about to do, then execute! Awesome.
By midnight Don was running low on commercial tracks and let the house DJ take over for the last spot. The capacity crowd rocked till the end but no groupies hung around for the artists - we headed for supper just down the road before making it back safe and sound. All in a day's work.
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