Road diary - Summer 2000

Page 2 of 3 Entry No. 5 - July 13, 2000 On the road in Canada together with Triakel. After spending 4 muddy, mosquito filled days at the Winnipeg Folk Festival we are now in sunny Edmonton. Winnipeg was a lot of fun as usual.We got to play the main stage again, and did so in front of almost 10.000 pepole ! (and about 10 million mosquitos....) The day after we played a workshop that was hosted by Triakel, (so Kjell-Erik actually hosted himself), and Janne joined us for a couple of Hoven-songs. There was no Hammond around so he just used the Harmonium. Then Emma sang a version of "Moss och manniskor" with us, and Jens joined Triakel on "Innan Gryningen". Yesterday we played a three set show on this great place in Edmonton called The Side Track Cafe. Once again we used one set to share the stage between both bands. Bjorn played one song with Triakel, and Janne stayed for even more Hoven songs. We even rehearsed a duet between Emma and Pedro (!!!), but we didn't get to play it. Maybe it will happen in Yellowknife were we're going next.By the way, the show in Yellowknife is on the 16:th ! Not the 14;th as is sais on our website. In other news; Bjorn had his birthday and was celebrated with the usual amount of donuts, and Kjell finaly got his cowboy hat. Take care. / The Hovens and The Triakels Entry No. 6 - July 19, 2001 Safely back home from Canada. It has been two great weeks, consisting of playing great shows, seeing others playing great shows, meeting great people, shopping and kicking back and enjoying the great weather. Emma parted ways with us in Yellowknife after the last Triakel show to join up with Garmarna for two shows in Boston before going back home. As for the Hovens, we will enjoy our 6 days off before we play The Tall Ships festival in Stockholm next Thursday. After that we´re getting ready to do too much driving around Europe for a couple of weeks. Some good news for our friends in Minneapolis; we are going back next April to play the Nordic Roots Festival ! Yepp, make sure to be at The Cedar Cultural Centre on April 20th, 2001. Off to have a little lie down now......... /The Hovens Entry No. 7 - August 2, 2000 Vacation is over. When the weather finaly starts to get better here it´s time to go again. But it has been good to be home for a few days. We did play one show in Stockholm last Thursday. It was a festival called The Tall Ships Race, and you can see some pictures at this site. Other than that Jens has been planning his wedding (yes, he's getting married), Björn has been working with the big festival that takes place in Östersund every year the last wekend of July. Bo, Pedro and Kjell has been doing absolutely nothing at all, although Kjell is already in Germany playing with Triakel so he got a head start on us. He will hopefuly be in Belgium when we there on Saturday. See you there ! /The Hovens Entry No. 8 - August 8, 2000 Hey ! We're in Amsterdam, enjoying a couple of days off before playing at The Milky Way later this week. After driving over 2000 km. it was a relief to finaly arrive in Belgium. The shows in Dranouter went well, for both Hoven Droven and Triakel. Hoven played a late night show in a giant beer tent, and with over 3000 of our closest Belgian friends in the audience. It was sweaty... We met Anbjorg Lien and her band, and had a chanse to see some cool shows with Robert Plant, The Chieftains among others.The show at the Milky Way is going to be interesting, because it is a quite famous place. It was legendary during the seventiees, and The Rolling Stones still drops by whenever they´re in need of an after show gig. Later this weekend we're playing a show at a festival in Eindhoven where we're gonna meet up with our collegues in Garmarna. The soundtrack for this summer is STILL XTC:s "Wasp Star". / The Hovens and The Triakels << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>