Hold the door — the Porta-Potty door, that is.
Kristian Nairn, who played Hodor on “Game of Thrones,” performed a highly-anticipated DJ set on Sunday, May 26, at BottleRock Napa Valley during Monkey Shoulder whisky’s pop-up Porta-Party, a “speakeasy”-like activation that festivalgoers could only access through an orange Porta-Potty door.
The Irish gentle giant, who stands at 6 foot 10 inches tall, has been spinning progressive house music for more than two decades — well before his 2011 “Game of Thrones” debut as the simple-minded stable boy at Winterfell — and is currently on tour. (In fact, Nairn jetted to Phoenix right after BottleRock to spin a late-night set in Phoenix.)
Nairn, or DJ Hodor as many fans chanted during his set, had already performed alongside Bay Area-bred EDM act White Panda during a silent disco on the Lagunitas Stage on the second night of the festival, and had appeared on the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage for a Sunday afternoon shrimp boil. But it was his special DJ set at the intimate dance party that had dozens of people lined up for the bathroom in the rain.
Hahahaha! @KristianNairn just noticed his hands are still dirty from the shrimp boil on the #culinarystage #BottleRock2019 pic.twitter.com/Y2h36MUiAN
— Mariecar Mendoza (@SFMarMendoza) May 26, 2019
But even Nairn’s star power couldn’t trump the love Bay Area rapper Too Short got during his surprise appearance at the Porta-Party.
And as the last act at the party, Too Short shut it down — literally. He brought in such a large entourage and attracted so many fans to the pop-up space that the fire marshal was forced to close down the Porta-Potty a little early on Sunday evening.
Other artists who packed the Porta-Party during the three-day festival were Paul Oakenfold, Citizen Cope, White Panda and Crystal Method.
.@BottleRockNapa veteran @whitepanda is performing RN at @MnkyShldrUS #PortaParty pic.twitter.com/WgArF4M2m9
— Mariecar Mendoza (@SFMarMendoza) May 26, 2019
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