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Blasts from the Past: Public Service and The First Strøm
Here’s a pic from the last day of the most recent Strøm Festival:
Chriszka and Fred Alert synchronizing their junglistic hand signs at the Strøm Festival 2024 Block Party.
Always trying to make sure that the time-traveling is elegant and on point, I thought this would be the perfect time to find a picture from the very FIRST Strøm.
And to my surprise and joy, the collection of photos I found in my archives looked VERY different than I expected: The first Strøm was a beach party! The Strøm Beach Afterparty 2007!
Not the sunniest of beach parties, but people seem to manage. Some better than others.
I would have forgotten about these following connections between festivals, had I not re-read old documents and such, but Strøm started out as an afterparty to the Public Service Festival.
Here’s an article I wrote about Public Service in CITADEL in 2006 (the year before the Strøm Beach Afterparty):
As it says in the article, Public Service took place for the first time in 2004 at Krøyers Plads, (ex-)home of Luftkastellet.
Here we are, wandering through the first Public Service 2004.Later on, Trentemøller was playing.
At the time of my article in CITADEL, two years later, the Public Service festival had moved to Ørestad Nord, and big parts of the area were ‘still a construction site’.
As you will see in the following photos, big parts of the Public Service festival area were STILL a construction site in 2007 (or maybe time just doesn’t exist, as per usual):
At Public Service in 2007, young junglists find their way through the tunnels of the construction site.Ravers lost in the labyrinths of time.Signs show the way through the mazes filled with memories and other decorations.After many maze moments, the junglists found the dancefloor.And everybody kisses Mariiiii.This is what the dancefloor looked like through the lens of my super duper 2007 camera.People want beer.Bateman and Feltman want techno.2xChr and Anne Julie look like they had quite the party already.Construction site poses by the pros.Other pros, less hardened by life, are sorting out some technical stuff.And Chriszka met a fellow Fusionist and is happy.Waiting in line in the hallways of this glamorous construction site is so Berlin.Decara hides from the camera as per usual.Before hiding, talking.
And after Public Servicing, beaching.
So here we are, back at the Strøm Beach Afterparty 2007, the day after Public Service:
There’s a lot of good stuff going on here, if you zoom. Look at this rare instance of Emok and Jean von Baden in the same photo. They are both caught in a thousand party photos through the years, obviously, but rarely in the same one. They just exist in different universes. But here they are, right next to each other.MHM One is playing and Ned Flanders is networking.And look how Jonas Jagd is in the centre of everything, as he would be today. Time doesn’t exist.Andreas has managed to escape from underneath Jonas Jagd and points to the sun.And Chrell manages the beach lounge, with all chakras aligned.Everybody’s here, if we look long enough!And that was the first Strøm (at least in my photo stream) – 17 years ago.17 years later, people still sit on the ground, listening to music.And Mariii is still happy and still wearing a jacket in the same color. Time doesn’t exist.
