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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July 9th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
it was very very very beautifull last night!
i liked the people listening outside on “bjork-hill” (read: wimbledon’s henman-hill)
and the changing colors of the sunset behind you all!
dank je wel…
July 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
welcome in Bordeaux. Hope you’ll enjoy the town.
I wish i can give you a present
so i’m gonna wander in the city to put it in your poket….
May the strong wind of two days help me….
July 9th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
“that ol’ Bilbao
down where we used to go
That ol’ Bilbao
casting its golden glow
that ol’ Bilbao moon
love never laid me low
that ol’ Bilbao
why does it haunt me so?
I don’t know
if it would have brought you
joy or grief
but
It was fantastic!
It was fantastic!
It was fantastic!
beyond belief!”
- Weill / Brecht, HAPPY END
July 9th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Haha, I was one of the screaming fans.
The concert was amazing, I have no words. “All Is Full Of Love”, “I Miss You” and “Hyper-Ballad” were the best, I felt like I was listening to them for the first time.
Thank you.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Hey Jonas, did you see me? I wove my “volta tour” flag up front in 3rd row.
And I had a bit of “brass paint” on my forehead, for the occasion.
To be honest, I felt like Björk wasn’t really into it at first. She seemed somewhat absentminded.
But that bit in “5 years” where she walked to the edge and articulated “you just can’t handle, baby” was adorable!
Also, the string thing was amazing and totally unexpected. How did she do that?
July 9th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Hey Jonas,
I thought like, all the celebrities, you used to have a plane like a jet to go to others cities.
But Europe is a small continent, you can go easily from a country to another so I think using a plane would be expensive and funless as travelling on buses is so funny !
Enjoy your stay in Bordeaux, the city of wines. I think Bjork like wine as I saw her drinking any on the “Cambridge DVD”.
You are in the best region of France to me. I come from South East (Cannes/Nice), but South West (Bordeaux/Toulouse) is better. You will cross the Basque Country. Be careful.
And be careful of the HEAT ! It’s very hot and dry here in Sth France, it’s hotter in Spain and in Sth Italy (like Sicily). Drink a lot ! Prepare the solar cream !
And long live Espana !
July 9th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
wasn`t 13 supposed to be the lucky number in the end?
July 9th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Hello Jónas,
First of all, great performance last night! It was really energetic and the build up in songs was excellent, I liked the alternative versions of songs and I didn’t expect from Björk to have such a range and control of voice the entire concert, it constantly gave me goosebumps. It was hard to know for me if I would like björk live at first because the songs are such intimate personal worlds, but listening live to the quiet parts was beautiful and unifying and the harder bits were explosive and incredibly energetic.
Too Vesperanto: The white strings were I believe two little boxes which sprang open, I could grab them because I stood at the front
I also made some good pictures of Björk which I’d really like to share, is there an e-mail or something I could post them too ?
Furthermore I thought the sound yesterday was incredible, I’m used to much louder concerts so this was really well tuned out. It’s so important for the music you guys make to get all the little things trough, sometimes the beat overpowered it a bit. But I guess you can’t let it get to much into one bit, for the sake of the harmony and clearity.
Thank you so much for coming to amsterdam, please come again soon, whenever, we will definitely be there again with thousands and more to admire icelandic gorgeousness.