DR. MARK BENECKE: WGT Diary 2022 (13/60) – Depeche Mode? Abba? Roland Kaiser? (1/3)

Automatic translation. Improvements are constantly being worked on.

7:16 p.m.: Excitement like in a bat cave at excursion time: Festival director Sven hands over the (literally) hot-off-the-press WGT program to WGT mascot Mark, along with a useful moon calendar that extends to WGT 2023.

20:33: We are in the agra hall and are about to open the WGT. A few days ago, a famous band crumbled into dust. (Depeche Mode – author’s note) “Elvis, how do you feel?” DJ Elvis: “Affected. I don’t post pictures or anything like that, I have to work that out with myself personally. But, what many think, that the whole band breaks up, I don’t believe that. One should first give time to the family and band. Fletch should go into the ground, time of mourning… and after that they will do something new. My idea for the future is that they make an album and a tour. A cool idea would be to build up Fletch’s keyboard and irradiate it so that it seems as if he is there. Or like in ABBA an avatar. That would be the best thing to do for Andy.” Oli: “That spoke from my heart. We all feel that way.”

After bringing in a case of lemonade – supposedly the drinks ordered for the DJ team – DJ Elvis whips out an alcoholic liqueur from the GDR. As if that wasn’t all, he then pulls a plastic cup from the Roland Kaiser concert with the singer’s face onto the stage bathed in colored light. Silence. (Text and photos: Mark Benecke)

Roland Kaiser, raked! Depeche Mode? – Check! And Abba, too, actually. Then the next part is about a crowd of people.

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