Buenzli 20 - the Demodées

Written by T$





Like every serious scener visiting the cozy annual Swiss Scene Event is a mandatory part of a pleasant summertime. However, this year things were different: As we found out, the old proven and tested location had started to hate us (see the Buenzli 19 fast compo releases for further uninformation) and urged our fellow organizers to relocate to a yet unknown place.

Finally after months of uncertainity it was announced that Demodays 2011 would take place inside the Schützi in Olten, CH - and a lot of open questions popped up: What happened to Buenzli? Will there still be cowees? Will the new location rule or suck? Is it easy to find or will we get lost in the dreaded traffic sign maze intended to trick foreign visitors into expensive toll roads? And what is all this scenepoints stuff about?







Thus an expedition of two fellow Stuttgart sceners consisting of Styx/Headcrash and myself started in order to discover the truth. Travelling worked rather well, with only minor difficulties finding the right direction when compared with the first travel to Winterthur in the previous years. However, it was pretty astonishing to find out that the target of the Aarau road planning department seems to put as many 90°-turns into a flat valley, rendering the route into something that looked more like a Pipe Mania display than a real journey.







The Schützi turned out to be an old sports hall now primarily used for concerts and similar events, with a huge parking lot and a public bath next to it (hooray, no neighbours who might complain!). Unfortunately, the weather wasn't friendly enough for swimming there, but having showers and parking right next to the party place is an improvement nethertheless.







Interestingly, every extra feature from the old location was also available in the new one: A cozy chillout/compo watch area (now with sofas instead of carpets), a (small) grandstand, the Chefkoch foodsupport area and - most important - the stairs outside large enough to socialize with beer & barbecue. Even better, the barbecue grill was now provided by the organizers, a nice gift following the success of its predecessor at Evoke.

As Unlock told us, the name "Demodays" was introduced to make the event look more appealing to officials, companies, media and other possible supporters - makes sense given the fact that "Bünzli" means something like "Babbit" ("Spießer" in German). But maybe it was also due to the fact that other sceners read last year's logos as "Bünzu" or even "Binnzu" (german for "I´m drunk"). Anyway, most sceners ignored the name change, and we'll see if next year will continue using it. It was good to hear that setting up the party worked pretty well, even for a fresh location, thus chances are good that the Schützi will host more Bünzlis in the future.