The Journey Itself Is Home

I forgot to mention that Ghostigital was our supporting band in Udine. Here they are, just before jumping on stage. They look sweaty already, so it is not difficult to imagine how they looked like after their concert in that awful heat.

In the center is Einar, to the right is Curver and to the left is Peter van der Velde.

And here is a photo of the drivers who have been responsible for our lives during the European leg of the tour, Jona (to the left) and Phil.

As I have said before a lot of people work for Björk, not just musicians. All in all we are about thirty people travelling together. I have mentioned some of them here, such as our tour manager, Shaun Martin and our production manager, Peter van der Velde, as well as our front of house sound engineer, Kevin Pruce. But there are others. Here below is a picture taken by Damian of Bob Lopez, who is the monitor sound engineer responsible for what we, the musicians on stage, hear in each particular song. I love you Bob!

We have now arrived in Geneva and I have an excellent room with a view over the Lake. It is wonderful to have escaped the scorching heat in Italy, which was of the infernal variety. When we came to Udine we couldn’t do anything except sleep or spend the afternoon in the hotel swimming pool. I chose the latter.

On the next day we had our concert in Villa Manin. We again rented a harpsichord, which came all the way from Rome. This time I made doubly certain that it was tuned right. So everything went well. I played a lot of songs on the harpsichord, Venus As A Boy, Aurora, Hunter, Pagan Poetry, All Is Full Of Love, Hope and Vökuró.

It was nice to once play a “real” instrument with a character of its own. The top notes were slightly out of tune after a few songs, but it just added to the charm.

There were no sexy skeletons this time!

We will have a few days’ rest now, for our next concert is on Wednesday. I’m not quite sure what I’ll do with my daughter here - we’ll see.