11 October,
Hamburg, Germany
finally we left Sweden. not that I don't like Sweden but a tour doesn't quite feel like a tour until you leave your own sandbox. After a short boatride over to Rodby-Puttgarden we drove to Hamburg. The venue was called 'Astra Stube' and was a fun little spot on a corner of a big crossing. it was really nice sitting on stage while strong lights from all the cars flashed by outside. Thank you Wolfgang who encouraged me to play "Homesick", it's in the setlist now, promise.
We found a new friend in Nils who was responsible for us that night. he even took Christian to an old slaughterhouse to have Schnitzel 4 in the morning. i would have gone but I don't eat meat. it was a great night and it felt like a great "start" of the tour. hopefully we will pay another visit to hamburg on our way back in december.
12 October
Krefeld, Germany
in Krefeld we finally met our friend Peter who drove 70 km to go and see our show at 'Kulturrampe' in Krefeld. Thanks Peter, it was a real pleasure meeting you.
We slept in a little hotel room and we were desperately trying to find some original German dirty tv-shows....we found a wheel of fortune - only topless..
13 October
Amsterdam, Netherlands
after a great breakfast at III&70 we said goodbye to Kristian and Nils and started driving towards Amsterdam. I tell you, German highways are slow...auto-bahn my
a...traffic everywhere, moving 10km an hour.
While in amsterdam we met up with our friend Alma, a modern dancer from Sweden. together with all her dancer friends we hung out for the night and passed out in their attic.
14 October
Amsterdam, Netherlands
We met three great girls in Amsterdam. The first day we met Alma Söderberg and the second day we met Signe Tollefsen, a great singer/songwriter from Amsterdam - click the link and listen to her songs. We played a show at a place called 'Skek' and Signe jumped in to play a song with us.
15 October
Amsterdam ,Netherlands
This was quite a busy day. We had a show at 'Lloyd Hotel', an old big building that used to be a youth prison during the war that they had turned into a hotel. They had kept the rooms authentic with how they used to look then. creepy but charming. Anyway, before we played that show we went to 'Desmet Studios' to play live in dutch radio and web-tv. we played the following songs:
Seasons of Guessing - Gustav Haggren
Fragile me, fragile you - Helena Arlock
Frying Pan - Christian Cuff
Sing it out - Gustav Haggren
The show at 'Lloyd Hotel' was one of the best so far, 4 opera singers were singing before us, the room acoustics was beautiful, we got a grand piano, Vincent - the guy who ran the show was a great guy, free parking instead of 4.60€ an hour, we played for a mix of people from all over the world..although I think one japanese woman in the front row fell asleep towards the end. and we also met Larae, our third Amsterdam girl.
16 October
Amsterdam, Netherlands
We played a second show at Desmet Studio, tracklist was:
Silo - Christian Cuff
Bow Low - Helena Arlock
Homesick - Gustav Haggren
Pretty Floor - Christian Cuff
some of the desmet live songs are up on Youtube -
www.youtube.com/marilynrecords
After the show we had a big night out with Larae before we passed out at her living room floor. that red light district is interesting. Amsterdam is interesting, I'm going to sell a million records so i can buy a house boat in Amsterdam, next to Richard Branson's boat..
17 October
Kruibeke, Belgium
Our beloved gps "Jim" told us that it would take 1:45 to get to Kruibeke, Belgium from Amsterdam and I'm sure he was right...although there was a big accident so the lines were endless. 5 hours later we arrived otside of 'Cafe Carnot' where we would play the next day. The owners Jerome and Veerle were kind enough to let us come one day early since we had this day off. They told us that they opened Cafe Carnot two years ago and the reason they called it 'Cafe Carnot' is because that they met one night in France at a place called Carnot when they were drunk and in love. I liked that story.
18 October
Kruibeke, Belgium
This was a big day for the Indienational Tour. Our first show in Belgium was Sold Out! Opening for us was AHCH
this was a gorgeous night with a heavy afterparty. Me and Jerome started talking about playing a show at the Cafe Carnot 1,5 years ago and finally we did it and I knew that it would be great fun but this was over the top. Thanks Kruibeke for all the KWAK beer.
19 October
Kruibeke, Belgium
Unfortunately our show at 'Penny Lane' in Lille, France got canceled for no apparent reason. We had some great friends there we were hoping to meet but there was nothing we could do. Someone changed his mind without letting us know..
We shook the bad news off and ended up having another great night with our new friends Veerle and Jerome. Me and Helena made some famous Swedish vegetarian mashi-mashi for everyone and we all watched the mighty classic movie "Willow" gorgeous stuff.
 | Currently listening : Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild By Eddie Vedder Release date: 18 September, 2007 |
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