Germany Fall Tour - PART 2

6.10
Off to Dortmund and Subrosa. A nice little crowd and good atmosphere, foossball as usual and good times. Touring Germany in the fall means rain, obviously, but so many beautiful places we pass on the way between cities!

Thank you, Peter, for the bautiful roses!! The tour bus has never smelled so good.

7.10
I forgot the charger for my laptop in Beverungen and we went searching Dormund for a new one, wothout luck though. We arrived at Kanal 21 in Bielefeld quite early and those woderful people working there helped us out with finding one we could borrow! Thank you so much for that!


We had a fun TV show (sorry for saying on tape that ”I am a beer”....hm..maybe I didn't get enough sleep the night before)
It was very very hot on stage and I think noone of us has ever been that warm before, I felt like a really engaged soccerplayer after a good game. :)
Petter took some cool pics of me with a doll we found in the back. I hope I can show them to you one of these days.

We decided to stay in Bielefeld that night and went to a bar – Milestone.
While there I thought it felt familiar somehow...and suddenly I realized: this was the bar where I spent my birthday night last year together with Olav and Dirk from Cafe Del Sol in Bad Salzuflen!
I tried to have a mojito 'for old times sake' but they didn't do cocktails on tuesdays...
We had a brilliant night though and met lots of new people and danced on the tables until the sun was almost up again!


8.10
In the afternoon, after a nice breakfast, we drove towards Höxter.
Tonenburg, so special and always so perfect: The mood, the audience, the sound, the people behind it all..I said it during the show and I will say it again...
The best thing about it is probably that my ”german family” is always there. Makes me both strong and nervous at the same time.

We shared the night with Joanna Chapman Smith and Tamara Nile from Canada (nice to hear and talk to you!)
The happy swedes fell into bed preparing the thoughts about the next day: Video Recording Day...

9.10
We picked up Axel, the filming-man who was kind enough to help us out with this little project, in Göttingen and decided not to go to Wuppertal with the colored stairs we'd had in mind for the shoot but instead to a huge park in Kassel – who had very very longs stairs.
To get up to these stairs we had to drive inside the park (where you're not supposed to drive) and we "got" a little permit note from "our organizer Karl Heinz" saying we definately could drive and park our car in the park...


Working with balloons at a windy day is tricky – and I'm guessing theres lots of clips where the balloons pop and you can see me jumping 5 meters up in the air.

We ended the shoot at a muddy field in the sunset. I'm looking forward to see the raw material soon!
Chinese food in Göttingen and off for bed.
Thank you Alex, it was so good to meet and work with you!

10.10
Last day of the tour. Kunsthof in Helbedündorf.


This place is hidden in the woods and hills, and coming there I realized I could stay there and live for some time..
When we first showed up, the promoter met us in the door, clay up over the elbows and kids running around the pottery-room they had there. The whole atmosphere was so friendly and creative and special.
We played the show in the old cow-house, kind of reminds me of Tonenburg somehow. People were dancing to our music, participating in a cellphone-video-by-audience-thing..
It couldn't have been a better end to the tour.

So, the tour is over for this time.
Thank you, my sweet band, for this one.
Thank you all the wonderful new people we've met.
Thank you dear friends and known faces for being there.

lots of love to you all, hope to do this again soon.

I will put up a video log here as soon as I'm ready sorting all the clips – keep one eye open!

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Listening To: Bob Hund – Folkmusik För Folk Som Inte Kan Bete Sig Som Folk