We did Coachella last night. Great experience. I have never played in front of such a huge crowd before, some seventy to ninety thousand people.
We were in Coachella from about seven PM. Had a dinner in a large tent and then went to a kind of a VIP room, which was on the periphery of the sector. Scarlett Johansson came by, she was very nice. I think she did helluva job at SNL.
The brass girls told me that another famous actor was hovering just outside the VIP room. He told the girls to say Hi to Björk. This was porn star Ron Jeremy!
I must confess I felt I was about to faint when we walked on stage. Such an enormous audience! Almost the entire population of Reykjavik.
The show went OK, though it will get better and better as we play more. This was our first real gig, the concert in Laugardalshöllin in Reykjavik was more of a final musical dress rehearsal. There we didn’t have lasers and we didn’t have our flags. So all things considered I think we did well. And Björk was simply adorable.
The idea of each of us having our own flags comes, of course, from the song “Declare Your Independece”: “Raise your flags, higher, higher!” Mine features the Qabalistic Tree of Life - on the side, unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding. It still looks cool, though.
It was a great evening. And now I have to stop writing as I have a plane to catch! We are going back to New York today.
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