On our first night we had no gig so we hung out at Olivars apartment where he and his girlfriend Paulina made us most welcome. We listened to the new PJ Harvey album which was really good. We also Listened to a couple of records by Madrugada, one of Norways most famous domestic Rock bands. Olivars cousin Robert was the guitarist in them but sadly died in 2007. Good music, reminded me of the Bad Seeds with Jeff Buckley singing over it.
On the saturday we had an instore gig in a great little record store called 'Big dipper' if you are ever in Norway check it out, it has a great selection of Vinyl. We played about 8 acoustic songs on thier small stage, gary played guitar, i played guitar sang and brian played an improvised percussion devise that Paulina made out of Pasta. - Rock N' Roll. After our stint at the record store we went for a wander to a record fair at once of the City's bigger venues 'Rockafellers' then for a drink at a nice little bar called 'Bonanza' called after the famous US cowboy series from the 60's [or earlier?] in which Lorne Greene plays the earnest Trail Boss 'Ben Cartwright'. Nice bar, only fits about 20 people, lots of photos of Townes Van Zandt on the wall. I liked that.
The gig at Revolver was great, The band who played with us in a kind of a co-headline capacity were the Mono Sapiens, Great matching suits, loud guitars and Great catchy garage rock tunes. I really liked them a lot. They were really cool guys too. We played our 3 piece set up, which seemed to really impress the crowd. The sound on stage made it difficult for us to truly love the gig [The stage was deep and the 3 of us were very far apart] but the crowd seemed to love it. There were a few people there who have seen me play on many occasions in either the US or Norway and they said it was the best its ever been so i cant complain too much. After the show the venue [Revolver] turned into an underground 60s soul club, we danced our holes off. It reminded me of Bruxelles at the turn of the 2000's with Tomo Tighe on the wheels of death! - great night.
We went back to our hotel, full of drink and had a few sips back there too. I ended up with a minor head Injury from some kind of frolicking me and Gary must have been doing which was a bit bad but we did come up with 2 great realizations.
Realization 1 ) We are going into the Oil business [We are Oil Men now]
Realization 2 ) We are gonna get the Edge from U2 to produce our next album. Instead of paying him in money [He is loaded, giving him money would not enrich his life in any way] We are gonna cut him in for a slice of the action in our newly contrived Oil business.
After we got politely asked to leave the Anker hotel the following morning as we had pushed it about 2 hours past the required check out time we went and had breakfast at revolver. I only had coffee but the lads had amazing looking food. Our buddy Ivar and his son Adrian came and joined us, as did Olivar [Paulina must have been sick of us at this point. hehe] and we sat for a while and had a good laugh. We took an early bus to the Airport just so that we could feel settled and hang out for a while. We all downloaded an app called Baby Scratch on our iphones and started wrecking peoples heads by having a hip hop jam in the Airport. If i wasnt us, i would have hated, and possibly killed us.
Hope you all had a nice Valentines day, We are heading back to Norway again next weekend to play two shows so ill talk again after that.
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