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[My Weekender] with Julie Pure

Julie is a booking agent, "party cooker" and promoter of the We Are Enfant Terrible concert at LOgO bar tonight. This is her predicting her weekend of chaperoning that dog and pony show around China....
Last updated: 2015-11-09
Julie is a booking agent, "party cooker" and promoter of the We Are Enfant Terrible concert at LOgO bar tonight. This is her predicting her weekend of chaperoning that dog and pony show around China.

My weekend starts on Friday morning with breakfast at Paul Bakery on Dongping Lu with my friends from the French band, We Are Enfant Terrible. We amuse ourselves trying new jokes with the stragglers still coming out of Dragon Club.

In the afternoon, I take my friends to fill up on caffeine at Boonna 3, before heading to Qipu Lu for silly shopping. We are looking for clothes with animal themes. We love animals. Don't you?

At 6pm we head to LOgO to do sound check with the band. Owner Taipei is still hungover from Wednesday night. Sound check takes two hours cause everyone is acting stupid and we have to run around the neighborhood finding more electrical wires. At 8pm we go to dinner at a local restaurant and I force my friends to eat chicken feet for the first time. Back to LOgO at 10pm, the night starts with Little Punk vs. Popclo DJing. Then We Are Enfant Terrible and Funky Fingers play, but I miss it cause I'm busy working at the door the whole night, arguing with all the French guys who don't want to pay.

It's a great night, and I have to play momma bitch at 11am on Saturday morning to get the band on the bus to Hangzhou. We shoot some scenes at the big temple for a future music video. We walk around the lake before heading to sound check with crazy cat "CC", the organizer for the Dream Party we are playing at tonight. It's bound to be a chaotic night as the venue is an art warehouse and everything must be set up.

Just after midnight, I have to play supersize double-cheese momma bitch to get everyone on the party bus as we head back to Shanghai to rock the late crowd at The Antidote party @ The Shelter. The band is drunk. The driver is going crazy. We arrive at Shelter just before 3am, and Funky Fingers -- always full of energy -- is ready to rock the place. I'm exhausted but Ozone gives me some mysterious drink and now I'm jumping around like an excited toddler, ignoring the fact that we have a 9am flight to Beijing Sunday morning.

We miss our flight, of course. The airline is uncharacteristically helpful and gets us on the next flight. Funky Fingers is missing. Shit! But somehow he makes it to the sound check at 2 Kolegas. We take naps at our hotel -- a totally charming place on a quiet hutong near Houhai Lake.

DJ Popclo -- also the singer from We Are Enfant Terrible -- has to prepare for two sets, first at Kolegas, then the Jue Festival after-party at The Boat. The Boat is slightly slanted as it's frozen in the ice -- this makes everyone feel extra drunk. It's another all-nighter, but we're on a 10am flight to Nanjing Monday morning. We wear our Qipu animal theme clothes to the Nanjing Zoo and do some more filming.

The weekend ends with our gig at Castle Bar, before heading back to Shanghai for a week of sleep.

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