I'm still recuperating from a strenuous, but very cool weekend. I DJed the Jesse Malin/Tommy Stinson gig at Voxhall and although not a lot of people had shown up it was still a really great night out. I only had to play before the show began (which actually started really early as Stinson's guitar player got on and played a few songs before Stinson went on) and after the show, so inbetween I had plenty of time to hang out, talk to people, and listen to the concerts.

I saw Malin open for Ryan Adams two year's ago, but this time I enjoyed the show a lot more in part because he had brought along a keyboard player, who also sang backup vocals. Once again he told a lot of stories and made quite a few comments about the upcoming election, which was highly entertaining. He also played a couple of covers including the brilliant Everybody's Talking. But the highlight of the show was when he got down on the floor and lay down and asked the audience to join him. Then he made everyone sing along on Neil Young's Helpless, which was a cool thing to do. The showed lasted almost two hours and as promised Malin played like he was playing in front of 10.000 people and not just a 100+ people.

Jesse Malin uses a Sinatra song as his outro music, which I followed up with a Wilco track and seconds later I saw Malin rushing towards me. He'd come out to sign autographs and talk to people, but just wanted to say hi first. Later, he came by again to pick out a few records he'd like to hear and stayed in the bar until they closed. Obviously, I was stuck behind the mixer all night, but I could see that Malin at some point joined my friends at their table, so they got to talk to him quite a bit. However, I did hang out a bit after I had stopped playing, so I got to chat a little with Malin and his crew, who all mentioned several times how much they'd enjoyed the music, which was cool. We took a bunch of pictures at the show, which you can find in The Gallery. And apparently myself, Roy, and Kristian weren't the only bloggers in attendance.

So, obviously I got home rather late after the show, which normally isn't a problem. But as mentioned we had signed up to play in the flag football tournament (Go Aaby Pirates!), so I had to get up at eight Saturday morning. Anyway, I made it out there and was ready to play our first game against Team Søvn & Komfort. Unfortunately, these poor kids had never played flag football before, so they got their asses handed to them in a record breaking way as we ended up creaming them 108 - 0 - the highest score of the day (their team ended with a combined score of 274 - 0). They were very cool about it and we ended up talking to them a lot between games.

I guess we were a little cocky going into the second game and as a result we played rather poorly. It got better in the second half, but we lost anyway, which was pretty disappointing. But we stepped up in the third game and won without trouble in the best game we played that day. To qualify to the second round you had to either win one of the 12 groups or be one of the four best teams in second place. Our first game made sure we were the best second place team by a hefty margin, which meant we had achieved our goal of making it to the knock-out round. But after playing three forty minute games we were pretty worn out. We scored on our first drive and stopped them on their first drive, but then they started blitzing like crazy and that was the end of that. We never scored again and got out-run and out-played on defense, so we sorta gave up in the second half. But it was probably for the best as we couldn't possibly have played another game.

I hung out for a bit to see the guys from Zulu play (they ended up winning the tournament) and later I went to a party to celebrate that one of my buddies had handed in his thesis. I'm not really sure what time I made it home, but I was definitely tired and sore all day Sunday, which is an indication of how much fun we had. So it was a pretty great weekend. I don't have any more DJ gigs lined up right now, but I'm going to see Devendra Banhart Thursday night and The Datsuns next week, so that should be two fun nights out.