God reads my blog - I know! Because not long after I wrote about how hot it was.... Then it begins to rain cats and dogs!
That actually happened a few weeks ago, but I have to share this weather challenge with you. Just as we thought that the Danish summer had taken hold God decided to show that he obviously still is the world champion in watering the most flowers at the same time - and festival goers in the shortest time. We played at Vordingborg Festival and yes, it looked like rain, but that it was going to give me an experience I never had before, I thought not ...
Erann DD (a local danish artist) was on before us and everything went as usual, the site was fairly packed and boiled of joy, beer, the usual fastfood and cozy tones from the stage, but THEN ....
I promise you somebody turned on the cold shower! Never in my life have I seen so many people flee from a festival in such a short time. And never have I seen a band had to stop because of on stage rain and fear of a roof collapsing, due to the pressure from all the water that formed large lakes where the roof was not supported. At this time we were slowly preparing our self to not get on stage this evening and watched disappointed while the rain washed all the joy away.
We've probably played on the good side of a 1000 concerts and have never seen someone had to stop due to rain and I thought I had seen my share of heavy rain showers... apparently not! It was truly sad for Erann DD, who only played 4-5 tracks before he had to stop and save the band's instruments from being destroyed, but fortunately the rain stopped and he had the chance to play an acoustic track to finish the concert. :-)
That also meant that we saw a chance to play anyway, but it with our “safety screens” in front of the keyboards and the drums just in case the rain would return - which it fortunately did not. However, we realized that we almost rather would play with the risk of the drums getting wet than to have plastic screens surrounding Thomas.
It was really an amputated feeling to have him sitting in a cage without any chance of "feeling" him – DAMM - it will rain over my wet body before it happens again! We fucking need to feel the drums!!
But with all this said it all went pretty damn well anyway! The venue ended up being filled, people were happy and we played some music. In other words, a perfect evening! Thank you to everyone in Vordingborg for showing up, despite the weather! :-)

Write you later.
Paw

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Gud læser mine blogs - jeg ved det! For kun lige har man skrevet om hvor varmt det er…. så begynder det at VÆLTE ned i lårtykke stråler!!
Det skete godt nok for nogle uger siden, men jeg bliver nød til at dele endnu en vejr mæssig udfordring med jer, for bedst som man troede at den danske sommer havde bidt sig fast så skulle vorherre lige vise at han tydeligvis stadig er verdensmester i at vande flest blomster - og festival gængere på kortest tid. Vi skulle spille til Vordingborg Festuge og ja, det så da ud til at trække op, men at det skulle til at give mig en oplevelse jeg aldrig før har haft, troede jeg dog ikke…
Erann DD var på før os og alting gik som vanligt, pladsen var nogenlunde fyldt og emmende af glæde, bajere, lune pølser og hyggelige toner fra scenen, MEEEN så….
Skal jeg den eder hyl'me love for at der blev lukket op for den kolde hane! Aldrig i mit liv har jeg set så mange mennesker flygte fra en festivalplads på så kort tid og aldrig har oplevet at et band måtte stoppe på grund af regn PÅ scenen og af frygt for om taget styrter sammen på grund af trykket fra al vandet, der danner store søer der hvor presseningen ikke er understøttet. På det her tidspunkt begynder vi så småt at indstille os på at vi nok ikke kommer på denne aften og må bare se slukøret til mens regnen bare skylder enhver glæde væk.
Vi har vel spillet på den gode side af 1000 koncerter og har aldrig oplevet at nogen måtte stoppe på grund af regn og jeg synes sgu ellers jeg har set mine regnskyl, men nej, den havde jeg åbenbart til gode. Det var rigtig synd for Erann DD, som kun nåede at spille 4-5 numre inden han måtte stoppe og rede bandets instrumenter i at blive ødelagt, men heldigvis når regnen at stoppe og han får muligheden for at spille et akustisk nummer afslutningsvis. :-)
Dette betyder også at vi igen aner muligheden for at komme til at spille alligevel, men det bliver med sikkerhedsskærme foran keyboards og trommer hvis nu regnen skulle komme igen, hvilket den heldigvis ikke gjorde. Dog fandt vi også ud af at vi næsten hellere vil spille med risikoen for at trommerne bliver våde end at have plexiglas rundt om Thomas.
Det var virkelig en amputeret fornemmelse at have ham siddende i et bur og ikke kunne "mærke" ham - FØJ - det bliver over mit regnevåde korpus før det sker igen! Vi skal sgu kunne mærke trommerne!
Men med alt dette sagt så endte det hele sgu ganske godt alligevel må man sige, pladsen endte med at være fyldt, folk var glade og vi fik spillet noget musik. Med andre ord en perfekt aften! Tak til alle i Vordingborg for at møde op, trods vejret! :-)

Vi skrives.
Paw

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