DAY TEN - FIRST NIGHT IN NORWAY - HALDEN

The journey back to Hamburg and the onward flight to Oslo were very smooth sailing, no stress or hiccub whatsoever. I was met at the airport by Kai Jarre who is promoting my few gigs here in Norway. The first night was a return to Halden where me and the band has such an amazing time last month at 'Down On The Farm'. This time it was an acoustic show in about a 150 capacity venue called Erlandsens.  The turn-out was overwhelming and the gig was great, i was joined for two tunes on guitar and vocals by Christian, the frontman of local heroes 'Gringo Bandido'...we did Dead Flowers, which was great and an epic version  of 'Waitin For The Man' it was really fun. 

After the show it was a return to the Grand Hotel, where we stayed before..the very hotel where my bassist 'Switchblade' Steve Fanning famously spooked the receptionist one afternoon by asking her for a 'REALLY sharp knife'. The Grand also has a legendary night-porter called Winston [im not actually sure if thats his real name or the lads just made it up]..Winston is a great man for tipping his cap to you and turning a blind eye to a bit of 'carry-on'...On our last stay here we had three rooms between the band and we invited half the town back to one of them for a few drinks one night...im not exaggerating when i say there were half a million people in the room at one point...when our drummer Hog apologised the following morning to Winston he said 'No problem...any time'. A fine Norwegian Gentleman if ever there was one.

Once i put all my gear back in the Hotel and got freshened up a little i went next door to Siste Reis Bar where we actually did a gig last time we were here. The bar was packed playing good music and lots of people from the gig were there so i had a good buzz with everyone and stayed pretty late. I seem to remember drunk singalongs to Elvis and Alex Chilton tunes, two of the best singers in history!!!

Today im bound for Oslo, the show tonight is at a place called 'Revolver'...it will be my first time ever playing Oslo, im looking forward to it...i hope some people come!!!

TMSxxx