GanJam 4557Beloved and Missed Kalistani Tradition Comes Back in Force
March 21, 4557Audience Applauds Techno Band Electrical Inviction nn Night One of the GanJamThe sky of High Bong was filled with an unusually high amount of good music, cheers, and smoke last week, and no the citizens of Neveras didn't just decide to carouse a little more than usual. This year's GanJam was a smashing success, reaching almost 800,000 attendees during an entire week of merry-making. Many stoned carousers were quoted as to saying three short and simple sentences: "Good music. Good art. Good drugs." This phrase can be used to describe any of Kalistan's previous GanJams, and has come to be an unofficial slogan for the festival, which just goes to show how much entertainment the Kalistani people need in these trying times of political strife.
Unlike most past GanJams, this one hasn't had a set musical theme due to Isaiah Billings' wish to make this a "GanJam for everyone to enjoy. Everyone from cool jazz fans to death metal psychopaths. Everyone needs to forget about life for a while, and sitting at home and masturbating and smoking your pot just doesn't do the magic that a GanJam does." But like previous GanJams, this one has been filled to the brim with political performances and art exhibits, despite the wishes of Billings.
ODEN sales during the unusually long GanJam are reported to be in the tens of millions with an even higher profit, and this is evident in the thousands of discarded needles and roaches as well as the numerous reports of irresponsible drivers and car accidents.
Socialist Metal Band Red Symphony Performing Call of the Revolution on Night TwoNights One through Four of the GanJam were dominated by socialist rock and metal bands with a liberal pop artisthere and a conservative blues performance there. The real jewel of this year's GanJam was found on Night Three when conservative blues singer and guitarist Garry Heldman performed
Song of Kalistan, a song of patriotism and Kalistani pride, with socialist singer Scarlet Way and liberal guitarist Dixon Mason. After their grand performance, the drunk and high audience began a cacophony of singing the national anthem and chanting various party slogans.
Socialist MC Warden Freestyles On Night FourFrancis Giles, a Crooner from Ananto, Performs Dahriel, Dahriel on Night SixNights Five, Six, and Seven is where the real musical diversity set in. Scores of musicians played during these three days, seemingly each with their own genre of music. There was the a cappella group The Harmonic Glory singing
Broken, the electro group Glowing Atmosphere performed
Fluorescent Dawn, the Vrassa funk group Blueberry Molerats confused and entertained its audience with a drug-induced performance of
Private Volcanoes, but the most viewed performance during these three nights (Third in the whole festival) came when a famous Ananto crooner named Francis Giles stole the stage to perform three songs:
Dahriel, Dahriel; Lunar Flight, and
My Girl. The applause for Giles lasted minutes, and his praise is still being sung throughout Kalistan today.
Soldierly Brotherhood by Gordon Smith Displayed at the Memories of the Civil War Exhibit During the GanJamThe non-musical art exhibitions were lacking this year, with the only exhibit of note being the Memories of the Civil War, an exhibit funded by Kalistan Veterans Society which displayed numerous painting, photographs, and sculptures depicting the Civil War of the 4520s as well as relics from the war.
Isaiah Billings Closing the GanJam with his Most Famous Hit, A Man Like MeOfficially, this GanJam closed with the Yoshimi Boys playing
Odufaray Girls, but just as they disappeared off of stage, Isaiah Billings strolled up onto stage and sat down at a piano hidden in the back of the room and said into microphone "I hope nobody minds, but hearing all this music got me into a playing state of mind, so I'm going to come out of retirement for one song." That one song was Billings' most famous,
A Man Like Me. The audience sent this surprise performance out with thunderous applause and delight, and this GanJam was ended as the highlight of the decade.