Road diary - Summer 2000

Page 1 of 3 Entry No. 1 - June 11, 2000 The band is on the move! The first two shows for this summer are over. The bands first performances as a five piece went judging by the audiences reaction very smoothly. Two new songs were played for the first time, and some old songs that the band haven´t played for many years were also added to the setlist. One more show to go in Sweden before going to America this Thursday. Watch this space for roadreports from the band. Meanwhile more dates has been added for this fall, and two more are expected to be cleared in a couple of weeks. Entry No. 2 - June 16, 2000 Hi guys. We're on the road in The U.S.A. Just finished three mindbending days of doing TV, radio and also doing what we do best; playing shows. Three so far. We've visited Decorah,( we did not get arrested, although the city council had bouhght a decibel meter and given the police the authority to pull the plug on us if we played too loud. They saw the press kit, saying "these guys will blow your speakers in waltztime"....), Duluth and last night we played the Cedar Cultural Centre in Minneapolis. The home away from home for all the Scandinavian folk musiscians who are on tour over here. It was a lot of fun as usual, and tonight we're doing an instore appearance at the Roadrunner record store in Minneapolis. Then some days off before we fly to San Fransisco to do a couple of shows. We're enjoying ourselves as usual over here, and a huge thanx goes out to the Northside crew for takin such good care of us and making us feel so at home. As usual. See U soon . - The Hovens Entry No. 3 - June 27, 2000 Home for a short breather before continuing towards The Roskilde festival in Denmark this Sunday. Our visit to California was a lot of fun. (A huge thanx goes out to Barbara Osher and her staff at The Consulate Of Sweden.Let´s do it again !) We didn´t have so much time off in San Fransisco, but a short sightseeing trip across the Golden Gate bridge was made, and we had alot of fun hanging out with some new made friends. (Thanx for dinner Anders !) The band will sleep now for a couple of days, and then we´ll load up the van and go to Ånge on Thursday. By the way; the soundtrack for this summer is the new album from XTC, "Wasp Star". GO AND GET IT NOW !! - The Hovens Entry No. 4 - July 4, 2000 The next part of the tour is over and done. The shows in Ånge and Svartnäs went well, but it whas during our drive down to The Roskilde Fetsival that we with great sorrow took part of the news of what had happened there the night before our arrival. Eight people had been killed, crushed to death in front of the stage during Pearl Jams performance on Friday. This, of cource, set the tone for the rest of the weekend, and our deepest condoleances goes out to the family and friends of the departed. Despite the tragedy the bands and the crowd on the festival hung in there, although many people left in protest because the festival didn´t cancel the rest of the program. We feel that we did the best of the situation, and we want to thank the 6.000 people that stayed with us during sunday nights show. We hope to meet you again under more happy circumstances. Next stop; Canada ! See you in Winnipeg this Saturday. / The Hovens << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>