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Saturday our tour kicked off. Months and months of preparations were up for the final test – and according to the press and the fans – we passed with flying colours.
As always we were a bit shaky here and there, but all in all this has been the best first gig on a tour, we’ve ever had. It is also the biggest production we have taken on the road so far and we’re VERY proud of it.
The venue of our first gig this summer was Schackenborg in the town Møgeltønder. It was sold out and we finished off as the last band of the day. The stage was great, the weather was beautiful and the crowd was nothing short of amazing.
We couldn’t have hoped for more.
All in all we’re playing just short of 30 gigs this summer – all in Denmark. We are still hoping that the live dvd will kick in the door to bookers , venues and festivals elsewhere in the world.
We know that many of you are not able to travel all the way to Denmark in order to catch a show and it’s important for us to let you know that we DO want to tour other countries. And we will. Sooner or later we will. :-)
Until then you can get the dvd in our shop – that is almost as good as beeing there…

See Ya!
Lina


Lørdag aften lød startskuddet for årets sommerturné. Måneders forberedelser kulminerede i et show, som både fans og presse efterfølgende har rost til skyerne.
Som altid gik det ikke 100% fejlfrit, men i forhold til, at det var årets første gig, så er vi rigtig, rigtig glade og tilfredse. Faktisk tror jeg, at det er den bedste turnéstart, vi nogen sinde har haft. Det er den største og mest ambitiøse produktion, vi nogen sinde har taget på landevejen, og vi er ret stolte af det hele.
Stedet var Schackenborg ved Møgeltønder. Der var udsolgt og vi var sidste navn, der skulle på scenen den dag. Det var et smukt sted, en god scene, fantastisk vejr og publikum tog umådelig godt imod os.
Vi kunne ikke have håbet på at få en bedre start.
Alt i alt skal vi spille små 30 koncerter denne sommer. Tjek vores kalender, så du kan finde ud af, hvilken koncert, som kan passe ind i din kalender.

Vi ses derude!
Lina
 

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That was an evening we won't soon forget. So many things were memorable to us and will be so for a long, long time.
First off the planning of the event, the release of the Deluxe Edition and the DVD was a far greater task than we had ever imagined. We had never taken on that kind of project before and were surprised at the effort and amount of work it took. On top of that it all came in the midst of preparing our Summer Tour '09 - and that is no small job either. It meant that the mental preparation for all of it had to happen in very little time.

The first semi-accoustic concert made this evening almost magical for us. The fact that the audience was sitting down, very attentive, made it possible for us to out-live dreams that we had never been able to before. The arrangements and the vibe of it all would be highly inapropriate at a festival or a regular gig for us, but this evening we got to take it down at take our time. We were able to spend a bit more time doing kind of a "Story-teller" type of show.
However much we felt like telling people about how the songs came about, how we felt, why we made this or that choice and so on, we had to keep it somewhat short. - It was a concert. Not a talkshow. And a short one too. :-) But what a performance it was for us. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Fortunately the feedback is telling us that we will be doing more of that sooner or later. Maybe we will even release some of those semi-accoustic editions... We can't wait to interpret more of our material and turn it into completely new expressions. But hey! That was far from the end of the evening.
The essense of the evening was the showing of our new live DVD. We finally got to see our own show - It felt like beeing present right there during our own concert as part of the audience. Terrific! Not in the sense that we just yern to watch ourselves, but more in the sense that we didn't have all the stuff to worry about. No qucik costume-changes or bad sound or technical difficulties. Just the music and the party and the energy.
To all you, who were there: THANX so much for a fabulous evening - you gave us better feedback than we could have dreamed of and we had goose-bumps and everything more than once. Fantastic. Truly amazing.

Oh! And last but not least: Our iShop is open for merchandise shopping. Go get a T-shirt or a poster or the new Deluxe Edition of Electric Cabaret including the DVD.
It really is worth all the hard work, we put into it. It's one to show the grandkids one day...

See Ya!
Paw & Lina :-)



Dette arrangement bliver et af dem vi sent glemmer, fra vores side var der så mange facetter i den aften hvilket gjorde at den vil stå meget klart i vores hukommelse længe!
Først og fremmest havde tilrettelæggelsen af arrangementet, udgivelsen af Live DVD'en og Deluxe Edition'en virkelig trukket tænder ud os allesammen i Infernal lejren. For ikke nok med at alt det arbejde der ligger bag det at udgive en Live DVD var uprøvet territorium for os alle, ja så var (og er) vi igang med at forberede os til vores sommer tour. Så der havde ikke været så meget tid til mental forberedelse som der plejer...

Den første semi akustiske del gjorde at denne aften næsten var magisk for os, for det at have et siddende, Infernal dedikeret og lyttende publikum gjorde at det pludselig blev muligt at udleve nogle drømme vi længe havde gået med (og som ikke rigtig passer ind på en festival f.eks.), nemlig det at lave sådan en slags "Storyteller Night"! - altså en aften hvor man selvfølgelig spiller en masse musik, men hvor der er lige så meget fokus på anekdoter og historier om hvordan og hvorledes musikken i vores verden kommer til, hvilke tanker vi har gjort os undervejs osv. osv., man kan sige en slags "bagom musikken" præsenteret live på scenen.
Dog synes vi slet ikke at der var tid nok til alt det vi gerne ville sige og spille, men det var en god smagsprøve på hvordan sådan en "Storyteller Night" kunne tage sig ud. Og her efterfølgende har responsen været så kraftigt og positiv at vi bestemt kun har fået mere blod på tanden på lave sådan en Storyteller Night engang i nær fremtid og måske endda udgive de semi akustiske versioner en dag!
Og prikken over i'et var selvfølgelig visningen af vores Live DVD som indfriede endnu en lille drøm for os alle, nemlig at opleve vores egen koncert udefra!
Det kan måske virke en smule narcissistisk, men det handler faktisk ikke som udgangs om at se på os selv, men mere det at opleve en koncert uden alle de ting man skal huske igennem en koncert, eventuelle problemer der kunne være opstået inden, under eller efter koncerten osv. osv. Bare kunne læne sig tilbage og nyde de flotte billeder og det fede lydmix!

Så TAK til alle jer der var mødt op og som uden at vide det, hjalp os med at indfri nogle drømme! :-)

Og husk iøvrigt at vores iShop endelig er åbnet, så nu kan I bl.a. købe Plakater og T-shirts, hvilket har været efterspurgt en del!

Ses til sommer!
Paw & Lina :-) 

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FINALLY it's happening - iShop will launch on Thursday next week!!
Last time we did sell merchandise on our website is well over 3 years ago and the guy who took care of it back then didn't in any way a satisfactory job, therefore it has ever since been my, and not least Linas, Mission to get a decent webshop up and run, one where we have checked every little detail so we are sure that we can vouch for it and ensure that you get a decent product and service.
But as you could read in my previous blog, there are periods in our lives where we are extremely busy due to the fact that there is some touring and a some new music to take care of also :-)
Therefore, it's an outstanding pleasure to finally be able to launch and offer you our very own iShop!

One thing which we also are very pleased with is that now we can offer people from around the world to buy our CDs directly from us instead of sending people to Amazon or other places where people can't be sure of finding what they seek, iShop has a woldwide delivery!
On Thursday when we launch the iShop, there will be a never-seen-before t-shirt as well, however, it have an exclusive premiere on Wednesday at Infernal, Deluxe, Live! in Imperial ... so if you're coming, you have the opportunity to get it before anybody else! :-)

The iShop will of course also offer you our brand new Live DVD and the Deluxe Edition of Electric Cabaret which contains both the album and the Live DVD!

So pop by on thurday when we launch iShop!

Write you later!
Paw :-)



ENDELIG sker det, iShop åbner på torsdag i næste uge! !
Sidste gang vi havde merchandise salg på vores hjemmeside er godt og vel 3 år siden og ham der tog sig af det dengang gjorde på ingen måde et tilfredstillende stykke arbejde, derfor har det ligesiden været min og ikke mindst Linas mission at få en ordentlig webshop op og køre, én hvor vi har tjekket hvert et led så vi er sikre på at vi kan stå inde for det og på den måde sikre dig, at du får en ordentlig vare og service.
Men som du kunne læse i min forrige blog er der jo perioder i vores liv hvor vi ikke har alverdens tid og gøre godt med da der er tournéer og lidt musik der skal passes en gang i mellem :-)
Det er derfor Lina og jeg glæder os HELT vildt til endelig at kunne slå "dørene" op for vores helt egen iShop!

En ting som vi også glæder os over er at nu kan vi tilbyde fra folk fra hele verden at købe vores CD'er direkte hos os, istedet for sende folk videre til Amazon eller andre steder hvor folk ikke kan være sikre på at finde det de søger, iShop leverer nemlig til HELE verden!
På torsdag når vi skyder iShoppen afsted vil der også være en helt ny t-shirts at finde, t-shirten har dog eksklusiv premiere om onsdagen til Infernal, Deluxe, Live! i Imperial... så hvis du kommer har du altså mulighed for at få den før alle andre! :-)

I iShoppen bliver det selvfølgelig også muligt at købe vores helt nye Live DVD eller Deluxe Edition'en af Electric Cabaret som jo indeholder både Albummet og DVD'en!

Så klik forbi på torsdag når vi åbner vores iShop!

Ellers så ses vi jo bare på Onsdag!
Paw :-)