We have just arrived in Bordeaux in France. Our coach left at 2.30 last night and we have been driving for fifteen hours! We didn’t leave straight away after our gig in Amsterdam for we were invited to sail on the city’s waterfront, which was an amazing experience. So now it is almost evening again.
The concert went well. I believe there were some ten thousand people in the audience. And they screamed a lot!
It was nice to have our own concert for a change, i.e. not playing in a festival, even though doing the latter is usually fun and always an interesting experience.
We did buy the Yamaha CP300 and I like it so much that I want to buy an identical one for myself to use at home. I don’t know exactly how many voices it has, but they seem countless.
Some of Björk’s songs sounded different last night, i.e. different to how we have been doing them. For instance, the Yamaha has a tango accordion, which is just the sound I wanted for I Miss You. And a harp does sound more mysterious and “pagan” in Pagan Poetry than a harpsichord.
We will stay in France until Wednesday. We have a break now for a few days; boy, do I need to rest a bit. The next concert is in Bilbao on Friday (FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH!).
It is happening more and more frequently that I have to remind myself where I am. I believe this is the seventeenth or eighteenth hotel since April and I am starting to feel a bit disoriented. Sometimes when I wake up in the morning I have no idea where I am.
Björk told me yesterday that she has felt like this ever since she first started touring, when she was a teenager.
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