Despite having days off i got up really early on Monday morning to do a photoshoot with a great photographer named Dominic who is a friend of the Label. We did some classic rock n roll locations..in a factory warehouse, on a rooftop and down by the railroad tracks!!!! hehe...I had a good time doing it for a change.
It was my desire all along to spend my days off in Hamburg so i got a train from Bielefeld to Hannover then on to Hamburg arriving at my hotel on the infamous Reeperbahn in the early evening. Id researched and had been recommended some great rock n roll bars in Hamburg, sadly because my days off were Monday and Tuesday none of them were open. In fact, it was fairly quiet overall, even the dirty-owl-divils wrangling the punters into the strip-clubs looked like they had a pain in their bollix. SEX TRADE ladies and gents, thats what the Reeperbahn is famous for, that and The Beatles. The thing i found most amusing is that the clubs choose to have a crazy-eyed fat owl-lad sleazily grunting at the punters as they pass by instead of employing one of their 'sexy' sirens at the door to try wrangle some trade. My hotel was basic and simple and facing the street and though neither nights were busy by reeperbahn standards, whatever little bit of action there was i could hear it all. Still, i love towns like this, a lot of history that they dont teach at school.
I spent a good bit of time exploring the neigbourhoods of St.Pauli which almost would remind me of Williamsburg in Brooklyn and definately of Kreuzberg in Berlin, a really nice area just a few hundred meters from the extreme sleaze.
I feel almost too relaxed at this point and im actually dying to get back to work tonight. The venue is right beside the cities main red-light street where the mots are displayed in the windows like FX Buckleys, no women or children are allowed down this street, one assumes thats because thier husbands and fathers dont wanna get caught with their mickeys out.
viva le sleaze...thank christ for good old-fashioned-sailor-towns like Hamburg!!!!
more news from the darkside tomorrow!!!
TMSxxx
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