Dreams That Money Can Buy

You know those contests where you fill out those little postcards with your information and drop it in this shoebox with a slit to put the postcard in?

I never win. But this time I actually did.

It was a contest for work and I actually won two tickets to a concert at the
Tate Modern
I was quite excited since I never win anything.

When I picked up the tickets the ticket read:

"Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy With The Real Tuesday Weld"
"Unreserved seating on floor cushions."

It was funny because we were trying to decipher the ticket to figure
out the name of the band.

Was it?

"Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy" and "The Real Tuesday Weld" would be the band starting the gig off ?

Or was the band name the whole name printed on the ticket?

Was it British Hip Hop? Indie music? Good ol' fashioned Rock and roll?

My coworker and I had no idea. And the fact that this was taking place in a Modern Art Museum, we were never too confident in our guesses.

The fact that we were sitting on floor cushions and surrounded by modern art kept us guessing.

We get there fashionably late and pick up our "Gourmet Food Boxes" which came with a small bottle of champagne.

We sat down on our floor cushions and our guesses never came close.

"Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy" translated to a Director and a movie.
and "The Real Tuesday Weld" was the name of the band.

Movie and a band you ask? Exactly.

It was one of the weirdest yet thought provoking performances I've ever watched. Also, sitting on the floor of the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern on a floor cushion to watch a movie and a band is an interesting first time experience.

First, the movie itself was quite interesting and disturbing at the same time. Its about a guy who starts a business selling dreams his own dreams! The actors in the movie didn't interact through verbal speech, but instead, interacted visually (by staring at each other) and a voice over would describe what they were thinking or saying to the other person.

Each of the dream sequences would involve surreal images. Different colours, shapes, and objects were displayed on the big screen and during this time the band would play.

Overall, it was quite an interesting experience, especially with 4 glasses of chamagne and missing a proper dinner. =)