Sundaze BXL (28/05/23)
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I accepted this gig knowing that it would be one of only a handful of occasions in my time as a DJ so far that I’ve agreed to obligations in different countries on the same night/day. I would be playing in Bristol on the Saturday night and Brussels on the Sunday afternoon, which implied getting no more than a few hours’ sleep and multiple train connections over Sunday morning and lunchtime. This kind of itinerary is par for the course for most regularly touring DJs, but at this stage I’m still a sporadically touring DJ only just beginning to double up gigs on my weekends. And while I have got much better over the past few years at coping with travelling and sleep deprivation in general, I know there are much tougher levels of touring — and the attendant bodily and mental punishment — left to be explored.