We arrived here on Friday after a splendid stay in Hong Kong. Our concert there was very good, I think, though we did have some technical problems. Something happened during Hyperballad that wasn’t supposed to happen, and the electronic harpsichord kind of died on me early in the evening. Nonetheless we were all in high spirits and the audience was GREAT.
Yesterday was interesting. In the morning I went to the place where my grandfather spent his last years. And in the afternoon I hooked up with Björk and a few others of the group to see a Chinese opera.
In the beginning the screeching falsetto of the singers made us all have a laughing fit. But then the monotony of the music started to have a dulling effect on us that was strangely soothing.
After some time had passed though, it was no longer soothing.
The last hour was pure hell!
I suppose many Chinese persons would say the same thing about some (maybe all) modern Western operas…
Anyway, tonight is our last concert for a while. Tomorrow we will go home for a vacation - we look so much forward to it!
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March 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 am
thx for linking my video~~~it was such a surprise!!!!!!
we are completely delighted in the concert,and hope you guys had fun in hong kong too~~~~~
btw,now i know ur name~~~Jónas!!!(though i don’t know whether i can pronounce it right~~:P)~
and,we all think that U R SO CUTE, BUDDY~
i have been to shanghai,and i think u may love that city
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 am
thx for linking my video on youtube~!!!!! it was such a surprise~!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~
we r completely delighted during the concert and i hope u guys had fun in hong kong too~~~
btw~now i know ur name““Jónas ~!!!~~~~(though i am not so sure wether i can pronounce it right~:P)
we all think that U R SO CUTE,BUDDY~~~
i have been to shanghai,and i think u may love that city~
i fall in love with iceland because of u guys~
chinese people love you
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
i heard that the media completely leave you guys alone in shanghai, no press briefing, no journalist at the airport or the hotel????
and i can’t even find a photo of bjork at the airport!!!
wow~!!!! AMAZing~~~~~~
only bjork can make them so considerate““`
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
主办单位为免有“意外”，特别为她作出“VVIP”安排
I quoted from a news bout bjork,
the words above mean that: to avoid any “accident”,the host make her(bjork) a special arrangement as “VVIP”………
“VVIP”~~~~~WOW~~~~~interesting““`
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
The video is great! I can’t wait to see you on the Melt! Festival in Germany!!!!! How long take a concert? I hope opn the Setlist will be these songs:
Earth Intruders, Declare Independence, Wanderlust, Bachelorette, Hyperballad, All Is Full Of Love, Venus As A Boy, Human Behaviour, Cocoon, Pagan Poetry, Who Is It, Oceania, It’s Not Up To You, Desired Constellation, Hidden Place, Army Of Me, Five Years, Unravel, Joga, Hunter
But I let me surprise.
Last night I had an idea: You can take Theres More To Live Than This (with electronic/real harpsichord, beats), Alarm Call (with beats from Mark Bell), Heirloom (beats), Crying (beats, horns), Enjoy (beats, horns), Isobel (horns, beats), Possibly Maybe (horns, beats), Headphones (beats), Big Time Sensuality (beats, horns), One Day (beats, horns), Triumph Of A Heart (beats, horns) and Pneumonia (horns) on the setlist.
Because that songs would sound great with the horns and they are “Volta-Style”. =)
Greetings to the “Volta-Team” and Björk
Markus
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Vacation Vay-smay-shon! - Get back to work! And while your at it, come back and do more solo shows in Australia!
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Have a great concert tonight ^^
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Good to hear you were looking after your roots.
I remember my uncle kissing the ground when we arrived in Sicily, back in Oct. 2002.
This and your return to Iceland before the UK Tour makes me think that there is no place like home !
Romain.
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
it sure looks like fun!
how was the opera visually?
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I dare you to dedicate “Declare Independence” to Taiwan!
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I’m glad you will be performing Declare Independence in China. And I wish you were performing in more venues there. I think all of China needs to hear that song. Especially with all the censorship of the internet, you can’t even search for words like freedom or independence or democracy or revolution without getting hit with a firewall. Frontline did a great investigation into this on PBS about Tiananmen square, it’s called Tank Man, if I remember right. Remember the guy who braved the tanks? And no one knows his name, and no one ever will. And then all the riots in Tiananmen square. Well it was pretty interesting to have them interview 20 year olds straight out of college in China, calling themselves well-educated, and yet when shown a picture of this tank man guy, they were clueless, they thought maybe it was some parade or joke. They’d never even heard of it because it’s been virtually wiped from every history book and you can’t search for that either on the internet in China. And Google and Yahoo cooperate. Pretty scary.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 am
Good to see you really getting into the music! HA HA. I think you are mad!
Kayleigh
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Yesterday show was really amazing… Really really thank you for coming to Shanghai!
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Its cool you got to see a very personal and meaningful part of your history in China Jónas. I’m surprised that you were bored by the Chinese opera, Björk worked with Japanese Nho theather for DR9 and I consider that a more difficult form of opera to listen to. Glad the concerts are going well, thanks as always for your updates!
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Great happy dancing in Bjork attire!
“Tomorrow we will go home for a vacation” What a concept!
March 4th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Which Björk followed to the opera?
Hm, did you find chinese people better in speaking english than the japanese? I have heard that