We caught up with Nace Jordan, bassist of Joker Out, a week or so after the Eurovision show in Liverpool, a few days after the show in Zagreb, and just before they left for the show in Dublin, where they sold out their first show in twenty minutes… On stage, they kept company to the Irish performers.
The fact that this guy, who is otherwise from Mlaka (T.N: small village near Kranj), is fully booked, can be confirmed by telling you that he moved into a new flat in March of this year - he has been living in Ljubljana for some time now - but he has spent less than 14 days there until it was time for the Eurovision Song Contest. He still returns to Kranj at least twice a week to visit his mother and to stay true to himself: he decided to get a personal trainer a while ago, so now he also goes to Kranj to train there.
Nace Jordan came into contact with music in primary school. He first played the guitar, which he soon replaced with the bass guitar. “Around the fifth grade of primary school (T.N: 10-11 years old), I became interested in instruments and a classmate and I decided to start a music group. He bought a drum set and I bought an electric guitar. Then we quickly saw that there were no bass players. So I sold the guitar and bought a bass guitar,” he explains. He has no formal musical training, but says he has been lucky that wherever he has gone in life, there has always been a good mentor who has been able to guide him.
I can picture Jure, Jan, Kris and Nace in Slovenia seeing all the shit that happened in Finland and be like “Damn, we knew it wasn’t a good idea to let him go alone”.
For those who don’t know, Italy is currently runned by a far right government, which is attacking and restricting LGBTQI+ community.
We have always sent very open minded artists since 2011 (some of them to be rumored to be part of this community as well) but none of them (aside Måneskin members, who come from the youngest and most inclusive generation) did what Marco did last night.
Marco always supported this but was never this exposed. This makes you realise how Italians are NOT the government and how now more than ever we need to support LOVE, no matter what.
