Stockholm Sweeden

Tom Peloso & Jeremiah Green hanging out back stage.












Stockholm is a wonderful city. I would put it on my list of places to re-visit. I could spend some time there. People are really relaxed and it is a beautiful city. We played at a University. It was a really good performance.

Music fans in Europe are really into going to festivals. They sing and dance to everyones music. Modest Mouse in my opinion were the best band at pretty much every festival we played at. Every day when the band left the stage the crowd went crazy, stayed crazy, and chanted for more. That's the difference when you have a band that puts everything into it, puts on a show, and writes really good music.

I can only see them gaining in popularity in Europe and drawing bigger crowds.

Yes, there are looks of fatigue and concern oon our faces, thats because the tent was brought in from Bulgaria (red flag right there) and because it had already collapsed earlier in the day. You'll note that the fence also had collapsed. The Sweeds, they built the Volvo but they cannot build a festival site. All in all it was a great festival. The people of Stockholm are really kind and we enjoyed talking with them. Ya see, they start learning english in the second grade.

More to come.........

Intermission.

I will be posting soon.
I am flying to Dublin today and will upload pictures tomorrow on June 2nd.
I hope you are all doing well.
I am on to the Flaming Lips tour. Finally some rest.
Be Good!

Coming Soon !

The Flaming Lips

July 1st through 3rd Cork Ireland

July 4th through 6th Turku Finland

July 7th through 9th Brugge Belgium

July 10th through 13th Barcelona Spain

July 14th Madrid Spain

July 15th Glasgow Scottland

July 16th Oklahoma City Oklahoma

July 17th Portland Oregon ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

In Memory of............

In major cities around the globe white bicycles are placed in area's where there has been a fatal bicycle accident.



The Sign says "In Memory of the Victims of Climate Change"

This is a play on it.




Sweeden is interesting.
This picture was taken around 11:00 pm and it looks like the sun had just set. The sky is still lit and grey. It's somewhat hard to feel tired when it is still light outside. In three days I will be in Norway where the sun sets at 2:45 and rises at 3:30.

Bikes and Bends

I found this bicycle. It dates back around WWII.
I also found a Yoga Studio, but it was closed. Good to see it there though.

Statues Of Sweeden

Gun Kontrol

Aarhus in the middle of the street.

We had a bit of time to walk around Aarhus Denmark. The venue fed us down the street at a small cafe. It was a really cool town. It was actually quite. Bicycles out number cars about twenty to one.

Pictured: Abe Guitar Tech above. I think that he got a free bowl of soup with that hat.

Chris and Scotty sitting outside of the cafe'.

Johnny Marr, Joe Plummer, and Jeremiah Green working out some music.

Johnny Marr and Evan Player going over the set List. (Evan is the tour manager)

Cast and Crew

Scott McPherson: Drum Tech
Ian Lyles: Lighting Engineer
Jeremiah Green: Drummer
Shane Johnson: Production Manager
Andy McLeod: Bass Player





Now that I look at this it looks like a really bad bio for a band trying to look really serious.......I think I will call this band Black Rainbow.

Aarhus Denamark

This is another venue in Denmark that is part of a large artist community.
The people in this town were some of the healthiest, happiest, looking people I have ever seen in my life. Everyone was smiling and seemed to be full of life. Says something about socialized medicine and laid back ways of living.

Brussel Sprouts

This evening was my favorite show of the entire tour. It was all Issac with a dash of pure chaos. Caution was thrown to the wind and then ran over, ground up, and set on fire. It's nights like this that make it all worth while. Might not have been their best performance but it was by far the most fun.

Brussels

I have decided to just add to this page everytime I update my blog. That way it can be bookmarked and you the viewer can check it from time to time if you are interested in seeing what I am seeing of the world that I happen to be in at the present moment.





This is from a Government sponsered venue in Brussels, see the government gives some tax money to the arts.(instead of big business interests) In Brussels everyone is allowed one year of their life to persue whatever artistic endeavor they wish to. For a whole year you are able to focus on that thing alone and see if that is something that you would like to do with your time here. Some people turn this into a career and some don't, but at least they tried.

This venue was state of the art and had all of the best audio and lighting available. The local crew were amazing and helpful. We had a great time here coming off of our Festival run. Nice place to visit if you have the chance.