In a venue with a closed roof you are able to use the lighting more effectively than outdoors. That was something that was very noticeable last night in Strawberry Arena in Stockholm compared with Helsinki, where it was naturally light the whole night (which is normal that far north). For starters, it was totally dark... Continue Reading →
Helsinki 12.07.2024 #SpringsteenTour2024
If you arrive as early as two days before the show, as I did, it is a great opportunity to do the roll calls. You are early enough to get a decent number and it is also a chance to meet old and new friends. That is what I did together with my friends Ann-Sofie... Continue Reading →
Odense 09.07.2024 #SpringsteenTour2024
โHey, Odense. Er I klar?โ (Are you ready?), Bruce shouts when he walks on the stage at exactly 20:00, and then counts down to Lonesome Day, followed by No Surrender, Prove It All Night and My Love Will Not Let You Down. Weโre off to a great start even though I would have preferred the... Continue Reading →
Hannover 05.07.2024 #SpringsteenTour2024
Due to the 2024 Football European Championship, only one (!) Springsteen show is scheduled in Germany this year. As a consequence it was also the hardest ticket the get your hands on. However, when it was settled that Germany would play the quarter-final against Spain, in said championship, on the exact same day as the... Continue Reading →
Barcelona 22.06.2024 #SpringsteenTour2024
The start of SpringsteenTour2024! This year we are doing fewer shows. Already when the concerts were announced we agreed on a couple of rules on to what shows to attend. The first rule was that if Springsteen was playing more than one show in the same city we would only see the second one, so... Continue Reading →
Where the Bands Are (Lime Cordiale, 30 March 2024, NYC, USA)
A trip to NYC for Easter led to discovering Lime Cordiale, an energetic indie pop rock band from Australia.
Where the Bands Are (The Gaslight Anthem, 16 March 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
The Gaslight Anthem is a band I listened to quite much some years ago and I always wanted to see them, but never had the opportunity before. When we saw they were coming on a weekend to Utrecht, a cute city in the Netherlands we fell in love with last year when staying there for... Continue Reading →
Media Overload 2023
Welcome to my annual end-of-the-year chronicle. Here I reflect on the passed year, the media Iโve consumed, the trips Iโve made and other personal stuff and oh boy, was this a busy year! This post took forever to write and in the end I had to cut a lot of things out just to get... Continue Reading →
Where the Bands Are (Madrugada, 2 september 2023, Hamburg)
Living in Gothenburg, most of the times there aren't any direct fligths to where you want to travel. This time I had to fly to Munich to get to Hamburg. The bad thing was that the flight was 20 minutes late and I only had a 40 minutes layover to begin with. My Lufhansa app... Continue Reading →
Monza 25.07.2023 #SpringsteenTour2023
The Milan (and Monza) area was battered by severe thunderstorms on Monday and early Tuesday (the show day), resulting in a large numbers of trees falling over streets and even causing the deaths of a 58-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl. They even considered cancelling the concert, but extra park workers were working the whole... Continue Reading →