Here’s some pictures I took of the bathroom door in the artists’ dressing room of El Sol club in Madrid.
Mind you, these are pics of just one door.
You’ll see that the most popular topic is shitting and farting. This captures the essence of what it is to be a performer.
Not the glory. Not the glamour. That’s the superficial stuff.
What all artists share, together, in this humble little bathroom, is the experience of pure pre-show panic and terror that makes their guts burn and throb… until all this misery explodes in the toilet bowl. Sometimes more than once.
Think about that next time you see a concert by your favorite artist.
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