Med venlig hilsen … Denmark you are as cute & sweet and warm the 3rd time as you were the first time we met.
Odense…best place to get stuck in the jazz club’s back parking lot freezing ones ass off. Aalbor ... best place to shop & party & best "Doggy Bag" after the concert. Middlefart…from the stage-best view of the new city's bridge-the old bridge is on the Danish Kroner bills & the best place to take a picture of a sign. Viborg…best place to enter contests, get on radio spontaneously by making up a song on the spot and the best place to talk 'shop' and 'tour details' with fans and audience after the show. Ikast-Brand…best place to jump on a trampoline & shoot video while jumping & best place to see photos from last years show framed in the back hallways at Bakkehuset. Skanderborg…best place to have a live for TV video shoot & a candle lit dinner back stage with friends. Skive…best back stage mini rooms & best theatre decor & vibe. Ebeltoft…best place for high winds (the locals barely notice it) & great ideas (like the weighted hoola-hoop for exercise). Thisted…for your eclectic hippie vibe & your Irish pub we love you. And Goteborg…what's there not to love?!
The Ocean & Beaches seem to be everywhere we went.
We love the 1/2 flush, whole flush option on the toilets. Save water…and if a half flush don't do it, just do another 1/2;). We love to say ""Hi HI","øl". Tak" : Hello, Beer and Thank You. OH and mostly: thank you for your Danish pastry: marzipan & custard filled OH Spandau! We visited every bakery we saw.
Robbin Thompson double billed most of our concerts in DK. Most precious moments I remember are when we met in Skanderborg, our rooms side by side and he right away shared a song, shared his photos on his mac and his stories of his collection of beautiful angel trumpets that he has scored & nurtured through his travels throughout his tours. Next: I insisted we sit outside in Ebeltoft on a patio with a fresh cold øl. And as winds that wouldn't let you keep your hat on swooshed intensely by Robbin got a call from his wife in the USA saying his boat got slammed by a storm. He was so calm-not all like the wild wind. On stage Robbin whispers & roars and is like the wind moving sometimes vigorously and always vibrantly through the cobblestone streets and quaint corners & shops…with different timbres as is soars through the many bicycles & trinkets. Powerful, moving and magical. He also threw some valuable road tips my way: "Get a string sponsor", "get a guitar case that holds two guitars", "Don't put packaging tape on cars as it will take off paint" & "Hang a f^*#! ' tie"
We are half way (5 weeks of 10), Sam remarked…before we started our two weeks in Denmark. It seems the tour is picking up speed exponentially as each concert goes by.
Favourite article seen by Simon Staun in NU Magazine. (see photo)
Favourite photos seen so far by Flemming Skully & Ron Putzi.