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Volume 4, Issue 24 14 - 20 JUNE 2007 Roots www.bokitomotvrij.nl Festival programme insert FREE www.amsterdamweekly.nl Shooting in Gaza page 6 Short List . .9 Mark Morris, the post- post- enfant terrible interview page 8 Music/Clubs . .13 Gay & Lesbian . .17 GJ Dröge, RIP page 4 / Curious cabinets of wonder page 4 Stage . .17 Art . .18 page 5 page 20 Events . .22 Two years of DNA Foyer / Solar cycling Dining . .23 Film . .24 MUSIC: Nomad Soundsystem rooted in fusion p. 11 / ART: Facing faces p. 21 / FILM: Coming of age in rural Turkey p. 25 Classifieds/Comics . .29 14-20 June 2007 Amsterdam Weekly 3 AT TACHMENT S In this issue and... Philosopher Richard Rorty, who died last Friday, famously said: ‘[Solidarity] is created by increasing our sensitivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginalise people different from ourselves by thinking, “They do not feel as WE would,” or “There must always be suf- fering, so why not let THEM suffer?”’ Some seek solidarity by making films in war zones. Others take photographs of people making goofy faces in war zones. Meanwhile, the military com- plex reveals its two sides. First, there’s cuddly teddy bear-faced Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) to res- cue wounded troops. Second, the Pentagon confirmed this week it seri- ously thought about developing a ‘gay bomb’ that would shower hormones on troops and make them—quote—’irre- sistibly attractive to one another’. And to think the Chinese regard ‘may you live in interesting times’ as a curse. So make love not war! And as Rorty also said: ‘Always strive to excel, but only on weekends!’ On the cover SUSAN YOUSSEF AT WORK IN GAZA Next week We have a drinking issue. Letters Got an opinion? We want to hear it. 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Subscriptions are available for €60 per six months within the Netherlands and €90 per six months within Europe. Agenda sub- missions are welcome, at least two weeks in advance. New contributors are invited to visit Amsterdam Weekly’s website for contributor guidelines. Contents of Amsterdam Weekly (ISSN 1872-3268) are copyright 2007 Amsterdam Weekly BV. All rights reserved. 12 ICE CREAMS by Arnoud Holleman 4 Amsterdam Weekly 14-20 June 2007 AROUND TOWN Toilet ducks on display HERMAN SCHEERBOOM (COLLECTIE NPI) SCHEERBOOM HERMAN A museum of life, but he was never foul or nasty,’ says Just a kikker-in-deine-bil at the Paradiso. collectors’ Tarzan Van Ammelrooy, who occasionally encoun- tered Dröge at parties featured in the collections. programme. ‘He was very mild towards me. atre helped him with that. Walking around By Floris Dogterom among He could have ridiculed me; however, he in a coat with blue feathers and purple never actually did that with people. He put overalls with stars, he wasn’t all that differ- Dozens of walking sticks hanging from a situations in perspective and he always ent from the rest of the crowd. rod. A series of scans of earthworms. Thir- hippies showed respect—for everybody. That was ‘He was flamboyant, but never too ty wooden common cranes standing in the great strength of his show.’ much,’ says Jaap van Beusekom, director line. Fossils in a showcase. A number of RIP: Gert-Jan Dröge Van Ammelrooy first met Dröge in the of the Nationaal Pop Instituut. In those wooden penguins accompanied by toilet early 1970s at Paradiso, where he pro- days, Van Beusekom was in CCC Inc, an ducks with wings attached. AKA Mister grammed music, theatre and events. ‘My Amsterdam band that played Paradiso If you ignore the sign on the window Glamourland. first husband [Leendert Janzee] was a visu- many times. Later, he became the treasurer you’d say you were in a shop. A rather al artist and Paradiso was the place where for the venue. ‘For a long time, the office unusual shop, granted, but still a shop. By Marinus de Ruiter artists hooked up,’ says the actress. ‘We had a mural painting which portrayed ‘People in this neighbourhood are hardly were regular visitors. Everything was possi- Dröge as Tarzan,’ he remembers. Many for- familiar with the concept of a museum,’ Gert-Jan Dröge, who died of cancer last ble there. I remember a church service at eign musicians could not pronounce says Peter van der Heijden, sitting in the week at the age of 64, will always be Christmas where we were all lying on the Gert-Jan, so for convenience Dröge let temporary Natuurlijk Museum in Witte de remembered as Mister Glamourland, ground stoned. That was great.’ them call him Tarzan. Withstraat in De Baarsjes. ‘Men dressed in scouring parties populated by Dutch high That service, including mobile Jesus Dröge arranged gigs for around 500 djellabas come in, wanting to buy a walk- society and reporting from them in his statues and a light show for the choir, is a bands in Paradiso, including people like Dr ing stick. If I tell them this is a museum, unique tongue-in-cheek style on national good example of the playful events Dröge John, Ike Turner, Slade and the MC5, even they leave.’ television. For most people, it’s hard to organised when he worked at Paradiso though he had little knowledge of music. In Van der Heijden, whose Stichting Epi- imagine that the stiff-upper-lipped, reserved from 1970 until 1973. The former church, the early years of Paradiso the audience fyt organises the museum as part of De gentleman started his versatile career in which became a youth centre in 1968, need- was considered more important than the Baarsjes’ Juni Kunstmaand, is one of four Amsterdam’s underground scene in the ed a frivolous counterweight to the grimy band, and there was practically no music artist-collectors whose collections and 1970s, organising wild and colourful parties atmosphere caused by the drug dealers and journalism, so little documentation is left own works of art are on display. The Natu- at Paradiso. disaffected drop-outs hanging around in the about exactly which bands played there. urlijk Museum honours the tradition of Dutch diva Willeke van Ammelrooy building. Saxophone player Hans Dulfer, who cabinets of curiosities, or ‘wonder-rooms’. remembers Dröge as very open and opti- Dröge introduced weekly nights with set up Paradiso’s weekly jazz nights, fond- Wonder-rooms were especially popular in mistic. ‘I met him for the last time just two cheerful dance music and campy shows ly remembers sessions where celebrated 17th-century Holland, and showed speci- weeks before he died,’ says the actress. ‘I featuring yodelling singer Olga Lowina or rock musicians like Frank Zappa suddenly mens of what we would now categorise as suspected that he could be ill, but then female crooner Zangeres Zonder Naam. stepped on stage. One of his highlights belonging to natural history, geology, again, he always appeared somewhat Inspired by Andy Warhol, he incited all was getting infamous pianist Sun Ra and ethnography, archaeology, religious or his- strained and fatigued. That was a part of kinds of unusual performances. A theatre his 40-piece orchestra to play in 1970. ‘The torical relics, works of art and antiquities. him, even though he had these happy group was invited to confuse the crowd whole circus was there, with percussion- Some of these grew out to be museums, of eyes. That was also the case in his televi- with spontaneous actions like a staring ists and fire-eaters,’ he recalls. ‘The which the magnificent Teylers Museum in sion show.’ contest. There was an April Fool’s Day par- musicians were spread throughout the Haarlem is a prime example. In Glamourland, which aired with ty with German music, called hall. Gert-Jan loved it. Van der Heijden says he deliberately great success in the 1990s, the always ‘Kikker-in-deine-bil’, which ended with lots ‘He had a good understanding of what chose this neighbourhood for his project. impeccably dressed Dröge infiltrated the of people dancing nude on stage [pictured], had to be done and he supported me with ‘When I’m abroad, I like to discover these Dutch jet set’s parties. His shows had a and the ‘Miss & Mister Decadentie Verkiez- the music very well,’ says Dulfer. The saxo- little museums in out-of-the-way places satirical edge through his subtle but ing’, a decadence contest. phonist regularly visited Chez Nelly, the bar that are not mentioned in Lonely Planet. provocative interviewing style and sugges- Despite his staunchly middle-class Dröge ran after he left Paradiso. ‘We kept in And, after all, [although] the people in this tive commentary. Many of the well-to-do upbringing as a dentist’s son from the better touch throughout the years and when I met neighbourhood may not have a relation- weren’t that glad about Dröge revealing part of Enschede, Dröge had no problem him we’d go for a drink and reminisce ship with art, everybody does collect stuff their less attractive traits.