For technical reasons I have been unable to blog until now. I’m so sorry!
We came to New York last Wednesday. I haven’t been here since I was fifteen - what was I thinking? I have been walking around Manhattan for the past few days, there is so much to see. The vibes are just GREAT.
I remember feeling that I had walked into some movie the last time I was here. That feeling was reinforced when we had our first rehearsal at the NBC studios last Thursday, for the Saturday Night Live show yesterday. The walls are lined with signed photos of famous actors. I even saw two of Alec Baldwin, who has been in the news lately for an abusive message he left on his daughter’s cell phone. Maybe a course in anger management would be a good idea for him.
Yesterday we arrived at the studio around four o’clock. Björk was kind enough to bring me a bag of socks I had purchased the day before, but left at her place when I was practicing there. The socks were behind me on stage during the two performances at the show. Henceforth, they will be my lucky socks!
I think the show went quite well. It is not easy to perform live in front of millions of people. But all things considered, I was surprisingly calm. The same goes, I think, for my fellow band members, and for Björk herself.
I didn’t sleep too much tonight. Too excited! And today we go to California for the Coachella festival next Friday. That should be fun. As it was so eloquently put in one of the memos we received recently: “Lets load them wagons and head out West. Ye ha!”
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