Tingsek

After a fantastic weekend with two amazing gigs I'm set for a couple of days off in Norway.
We
played Sundsvall city fest on thursday and if it wasn't for the grim
fact that they opened the gates just 10 mins before we HAD TO be on
stage, it was all good.
Actually it felt like I hadn't played live
for months because all the songs got new life and we played them like
we had never played them before.
Inspite the fact that it was a
little early and the entrance fee a little high, the ones that were
there showed us enough good spirit and love to make the lack of
audience nothing we thought about what so ever.
Then we had a day
off that we spent hungover on different trains without AC, heading for
the Arvika festival. We Arrived there Saturday morning and the weather
was perfect, the festival it self truly wonderful as always and best of
all, my girlfriend was visiting together with a friend from Oslo!
We
had an early show (wich I like on festivals because then you can spend
rest of the day wondering around drinking beer out of plastic cups,
listening to music like everybody else.) It's also a little scary
because you never know how many people that are gonna show up. 4000
people did and made the hour on stage feel like 5 minutes. We did our
best show this year and everyone was absolutely amazing. (I even played
a song that I wrote 12 years ago. It's called Walls of stone and was
never released . This guy in the front row was chanting for it (he's
been doing that a couple of times now so I guess he heard an old demo
tape or someting.) I decided to play some of it, I couldn't remember it
in full at the time, and it was the perfect add on to the show. Thanks
to you for showing up at so many gigs making me play it because now I
decided to record it again...

Now I'm in Oslo doing absolutely
nothing until tomorrow. Then I'm gonna see Bruce Springsteen with my
girl and her dad and have the best possible family night ever...
I
Really hope the Boss (Ha ha, what kind of nickname is that, really)
won't forget what he did in the 70's and will give us some greetings
from Asbury Park. Either way he's probably gonna make me a teenager
again (Arena gigs tend to do that to me)
Also, after a couple of
months finally diggin into the Sopranos ( I just watched all seasons
back to back) It's gonna be hard not to assoiate Little steven with
hard ass Silvio Dante (sorry, I know It's stupid) but It's gonna be
weird the first couple of songs...
Then on thursday I'm gonna meet
up with my band in Grimstad for the Skraal festival and then finish off
the perfect summer week with my family!

I love you all wonderful lovers of life and I hope to see you soon.

Magnus