Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know?

Back from Midtfyns a day early, mainly because my partner in mud and crime, got sick! Also there were no really good bands left, all though Kathleen Edwards might have been good, I'll tjeck that with John later on....
Of course I ended up jinxing the festival anyway. For a moment I actually thought shaking you fist at the sky, screaming 'why do you mock me God!, worked, but no - it rained constantly from thursday night till friday evening..... it wasn't a bad Festival, but it wasn't really neither.... Manics were good, but far from their best. I saw them in Vega last year, and there they just on fire. Last night all three members seemed uninspired, and though they played the lost track Judge Y' Self (that turned out to be quiet a stomper), and Camper Van Bethovens Take the Skinheads Bowling, it was miles from their best show! *sigh*
The Festivals highlight came earlier friday night, when Flaming Lips went on stage in an orgy of dancing animal, giant ballons and glitter (like a girl wrote to me; 'sounds like a standard friday night on Funen'). I never seen anything like it, and when Wayne Coyne decided to sing happy birthday to all the people lucky enough to celebrate their birthday in a mudpit, and said (something like) And to prove we really mean it... we're gonna do it in blood and then smeared his face with fake blood, well, that was just fabulous!
Loveshop was great, as usual, though not as good as last year when they where pretty much dragged off stage because they wouldn't leave. Who needs Michael Stipe when you got Jens Unmarck. My problem with REM has always been that I think some of their songs are fantastic, but quite a lot of them are rather dull and uniteresting. They should do less albums. The concert went pretty much the same way - playing bizar b-sides and non catchy new material is not my idea of a good concert, especially not when it's raining cats and dogs!
HIMwere by far the worst concert I've seen in a very very long time, and The Rasmus suprised everyone and sounded more like Skagerak and Pretty Maids than Garbage North.
I'm afraid that that was it, the rest of the time I spend drinking beer and screaming More Monitor!!! at stupid efterskole bands at The Frisko stage!

Try'n say The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon fast ten times after each other, it's f*cking hard!

Why does it always rain on....

I don't want to jinx it, but the sun is actually shining right now! I'm of to Midtfyns in a couple of hours, 5 days of drinking, bitching about drunken teenagers with scruffy hair, and outa-tune guitars, and some rahter good bands! I'm looking forward to see REM, Flaming Lips, LoveShop and obviously Manics for the sixth time, they haven't let me down so far..... it's gonna be great! Now I'm off to make a DANISH MUSIC IS REDUNDANT sprayshirt....

EU-F*CKING-REKA

I beat the bleedin' system.... or to be more precise, I beat the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon system! Yes, finally found a guy with a Bacon Number of 6, the wildly famous Punjena Vrana.... take that Roy, Anders and Christopher! Now I can go to Midtfyns with peace in my soul, which helps f*ck all when you got water in your tent, but hey....

More than a feeling.....

Don't you just love when rumors run wild? Like Ronaldo joining Burnley? Yeah it's great isn't it? It's not more than a couple of weeks ago since a friend and I discussed why football stars don't, once in a while, take a year of to play some shite football team just for the fun of it, oh wait it has already happened! When I was surfing Burnley pages I also discovered that not only they have they just signed a Danish goalie, but they also have former The Jam frontman Paul Weller as a fullback... quite impressive!

Welcome home from Roskilde Roy, the artist also known as the biggest Doves fan in Denmark! The fact that he has seen Doves as many times this last year, as he has Iron Maiden in his entire life, just goes to show what a big softie he is!

Of course I'm only bitching becase the weather turned crap the moment Malk De Koijn said their last yo on Roskilde, and it's gonna stay drap until I leave Midtfyns.... oh well... My buddy Mads and I spend the day visiting one of our old friends in Odense, he's currently living with his pregnant girlfriend (by him, as far as everyone knows), 2 big cats, 7 kittens and one big ugly albino frog..... he seemed happy, though it could just be a last spasm! Afterwards we spend the afternoon spraying Manics style shirts.... the "I HATE DANISH INDIE ROCK" turned out really great! And I bought a white suit, which I am currently wearing, feeling like someone out of Miami Vice or a a guy playing a minor part (maybe the saxomophone) in Duran Durans Rio video.... it goes without saying that it's a great feeling....

I'll go and set up our tent tomorrow..... all alone... in the rain..... wearing not my new white suit, but my new Blur cap, it is also very nice.... unlike the weather.....