Kids' Party — Valgamaa

The van turns off asphalt an hour south of Tallinn and the venue is another forty minutes past that — a manor hall, a barn, a clearing with a marquee that was not there last week. Kids' parties in Valgamaa happen where the power might be a generator and the nearest socket is a quarter-kilometre walk through wet grass.

The room matters more than the playlist. A stone hall with a vaulted ceiling throws every shriek back at itself; a timber barn soaks up sound and goes dead past the fourth row. We arrive early, find the structure, then build the rig the room can actually hold.