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Great to have Bryan Kearney with us this week, and lucky me, he played trance that was more melodic trance than hard/tech trance, which I loved :)
TFSF's Sony Jacob opened the night for us:
we celebrated Sony's BD
I even made a screen for him :)
he even got cake
Nice to see friends and happy crowds:
Bryan Kearney nicely did a meet and greet with a few contest winners and then took over for a great 3H set:
Great to start TFSF's new year with Blastoyz at Public Works for his US club touring debut, yeah for us!
Martin Cisco opened for us, including a great new mix of Gamemaster:
it was Anna's Birthday celebration too
glad to re-unite with friends
Anna had many friends come for her BD:
After Martin, Triode took over:
Then Blastoyz came and took over around midnight:
he nicely did a meet and greet
shots!
Blastoyz even got a cake :)
Back on the dancefloor to meet people and enjoy the sets.
And then got to enjoy Blastoyz's psytrance:
wonderful lasers
Thanks all for the great night. Here is a short video summary:
I've been using solar lights for a bit over 10 years now, they are easier to install since they do not require garden wiring (and the original wired lights in the garden stopped working after yard work, or sometimes gophers. When that happens, it really sucks to dig out the yard to figure out what wire went bad). So yeah, solar lights have downsides, like:
they ship with too small batteries I replace as soon as I buy them
the solar panels are sometimes too small to properly recharge them except during full summer with short nights
the plastic can be cheap and fall apart after several years of sun (lots of plastic actually does disintegrate in the sun after a few years)
and then, this, the coating/cover on top of the cheap solar panels, also gets damaged by sun after a while (less than a year for a few I got)
Sometimes, I'm also a bit of an overachiever, and analyzed the actual lights in power draw vs amount of light coming out since all the specs online are a lie:
But despite the downsides, it gave me a chance to upgrade them over the year to better ones, including color changing ones which have somewhat held up so far:
Sadly, I have to write two years later (2024/12) that most firefly lights are shit and break after a year or less, from bad solar panels, or otherwise.
