A whiskey-centered event A photo post
This was earlier this year in Paris : this was a promotional event organized by the Whiskey maker Jack Daniels. It took place near la Bastille in the
Door Studios on rue Lesdiguières in the 4th arrondissement and it seems that lots of Paris-nights people were there.
At the door, the security detail was strict to make sure all incoming people were invited guests, not brawling youths looking for cheap fun. After leaving your coat, your helmet or whatever you needed to get rid of, you were given three plastic cards, each being a token for a free Jack Daniel's drink at one of the two stands. The motto of the evening was vaguely Warholesque, from the reproduction on the walls to the fancy disguise of several of the guests, beginning with Nicolas Ullmann who wore a magnificent Warhol wig.
Nicolas Ullmann is from what I understand an active person of the Paris night scene. The guests, who were mostly twentiers and thirtiers with quite a good number of middle-aged men and women, were treated with hotdogs, pocorn and of course whiskey, served straight (if you asked) or in the form of cocktails.
Nicolas Ullmann à la Andy W.
I went alone to this event, B. prepares an exhibition and spends a lot of time in her studio creating her works. I had called Lyz but she was working that evening chauffeuring important people in a limo, so I would drown my loneliness in a few whiskies exchanged against sleek plastic cards. Most people were having cocktails, one being named Ultraviolet and another The Couch, but I was more conservative and chose a straight whiskey first, a Jack Daniels' Single Barrel, not bad for an introduction. I'm not sure of the order of what I got with my two other cards, but I think that I took tried The Couch, after which I went back to the real thing, a Whiskey named Jack Daniels' Gentleman, a very nice smooth and strong drink...
Skilful one
The first part of the event took place on the street level where the whiskey, the cocktails, the popcorn and the hotdogs were offered (didn't even try to get a hotdog, the crowd was too thick on this stand). The atmosphere was good and relaxed, there were a few photo ops where celebrities and other people posed with the name of Jack Daniels' brightly displayed all over (it took me some photoshop work to take it off the Fender....). Then, downstairs in the basement, the music began, with several groups like
Stuck in the Sound,
The Burnin Jacks and others. The first one that I listened to was quite good, with a late 60s' or early 70s' feel. Here are
a few more pics of the event shot by a woman I spoke to while she was using her Canon G11.
Straight from the 60s'
She's having The Couch
Cocktails ease it all
I know this girl...
Brunettes with a guitar
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