A whole career swap
Since leaving games I've been taking some space to just do all the things I want to do now that I have a ton of free time, and what I've realized is that what I want to do 90% of the time is go to concerts, so I'm usually at a show at least 3-4 times a week. Most of the coolest concert venues in the city are DIY volunteer run spaces, so most of the time I also wind up helping somehow throughout the night.
I've got a little checklist now of all the venues in Copenhagen that I've either played, done lights or sound for, or done some other kind of work in, and someday I want to have been involved in every venue in the city, world domination, muahahahaha!
Ungdomshuset døds ⚡🎸📗🍻
Ungdomshuset salen ⚡🍻
Underwerket ⚡🎸🍻
Basement ⚡🎸
Beta2300 ⚡🎸
Jagtvej 65 ⚡🎧🍻
Stairway 🎸
Islands Brygge Kulturhus 🎸
Loppen ⚡
Rust ⚡
Hotel Cecil ⚡ (soon)
Valby Kulturhus ⚡
Rentemestervej bibliotek ⚡
Lights
I started learning about lights at Nasty Cut festival in May 2024 thanks to my amazing friend Austeja and I've really fallen in love with it. There are a lot of similarities between lights and sound, but you get to make a lot more active creative decisions when you're behind the lights desk, and you feel like you're performing alongside the band in a way thats really fun and challenging. I'm also very interested in doing more non-concert work, I had the opportunity to design and program lights for a small Baroque opera.
Sound?
I don't want to drive the console but I still really like to help support the live sound engineers when I can. My degree is in audio and I did take courses about concert sound but I'll only run it in truly DIY, no one else has any idea what is going on type situations. Count me in for setting up the stage, moving gear, setting up mics, sound check, and whatever other miscelanious sound tasks the night needs.
Booking
Booking is a bit new for me but while playing concerts and running lights I've met so many amazing musicians and wanted to help support them and get them gigs whenever I was able to, so I started booking about one show every other month myself, and supporting other shows as more of a venue manager type position (it's a diy space so we dont call anyone a manager) inbetween my own bookings. Contacting supporting bands, organizing traveling bands arrival and departure, getting posters designed and printed, covering the city with as much promotion as possible. It's a lot of work but insanely rewarding when all that artistic collaboration you pulled together manages to pack a room on a tuesday night.
Bartending
Not only concert bartending but I just really like doing physical jobs where you get to talk to strangers all night. My first ever bartending shift was at K-town as soon as I moved to Copenhagen and I'm pretty sure I met every single person who would become a close friend of mine over the next few years during that shift.
Misc
Band care, venue organizing, stage handing, running door, activist food, doing the stupid laundry for the band hotel, there's so much to do to keep our coolest DIY venues up and running and it's so worth it.
