And Yes This Is Real

In Copenhagen now. It's true what they say about the women of Scandinavia. I'm just glad I don't have a particular thing for blondes or I might implode. Anyway...
We did the Way Out West festival in Goteborg, Sweden on Friday. It was a cool little festival in a park with grass and tress and such. It was overcast most of the day and pissing rain for little bits of it. Marc looked dapper in matching Way Out West poncho and frisbee.


I started the day with the Boredoms (which was luckily in the tent since it was pissing during this particular bit of the day). It was a bit on the bombastic side for so early on a rainy day, but I thought they were amazing. Eye (the mad dreadlocked leader) has all these guitar-ish things mounted on 2 stands, each tuned to a different chord. He proceeded to play these by smashing them with various length sticks, depending on how many he wanted to hit at once. Nothing if not different.


We did our set on the main stage and lucked out with a lull in the rain. It went well and there was a good sized crowd, owing to the stages being staggered instead of competing. The whole crowd more or less watched everything. After Albert I did double duty mixing the almighty Eagles of Death Metal. As usual, it was great to see them both on & off stage and despite Jessie having no voice they worked overtime for those Swedes and left them reeking of rock-love & mustache wax.


Next I saw Primal Scream who I thought were pretty good with some amazing parts mixed in. Much better than the end of their last Glastonbury set which was embarrassing.

Speaking of embarrassing, the Pogues closed the main stage and were easily the disappointment of the day. I mean, sure, Shane McGowan will be shitfaced. We know this. But watching a fat drunk guy inaudibly slur his way through a bunch of songs is shit, even if the songs are classics. After hanging in as long as I could on the Eagles bus, I hit the bunk for the trip to Oslo. It was an overcast day so I slept through most of it. The show was late and surprisingly sweaty. Lots of pretty blonde people who talk funny. Fun for the whole family.


We woke up in Copenhagen for a day off and our last hotel until we go home. The hotel was in a bit of a seedy area with sex shops and prostitutes for blocks. We headed over to the nicer bit called Nyhavn (see above) where we hung out when the Strokes played Roskilde. After a nice meal by the canal we wandered back thru town towards the hotel. Matt, Steve, Vicente & I were sidetracked by a trip to Tivoli Gardens, which is a really old amusement park in the center of Copenhagen. It's pretty sweet as amusement parks go and we went on the crazy roller-coaster (The Demon) and the high swingy things (The Himmelskibet), which is apparently the highest carousel in the world. Fun for the whole family!

Himmelskibet

Europe is so fancy!!

Now we're at the gig waiting for showtime. Matt found a new hat...

And the dressing room is on the 1/2th floor. Those crazy Danes. You never know what floor you're on!!