Do I need to say that I had a wonderful time in Sweden?
Det här var så coolt att det förtjänar all uppmärksamhet det bara kan få. I lördags var jag på fest hos Joel, han bor mycket märkligt (men fantastiskt) på en husbåt på Skeppsholmen. Det var en skitbra fest och Joel (+ syskon) hade dessutom fixat så att Peter & Frans kom förbi och spelade. De har under våren kört något de kallar för Vardagsrumsturnén. Ju mer jag funderar på det, desto bättre tycker jag att hela konceptet är. Det är så klockrent!
På deras site beskriver de turnén såhär:
Om du vill att vi ska komma och spela hos dig – skickar du ett mail till vardagsrumsturne@gmail.com. Om vi kommer överens om ett datum skickar du ut inbjudningar till dina vänner och bestämmer utöver det hur mycket utomstående publik du vill ta in. [..] Om du vill komma och titta på en konsert – mailar du ditt namn och mobilnummer till vardagsrumsturne@gmail.com och skriver att du vill komma på konserten till exempel “6 februari – Radhus i Vällingby”. Om det då finns platser kvar skickar vi i ett svarsmail: adress, starttid, mobilnummer, ev portkod samt lösenord.
Huruvida mat och dryck serveras är individuellt för varje spelning.
Värden är arrangör och har alltid rätt.
Såhär beskrev de Vardagsrumsturnén innan de började spela i lördags (spelningen på båten var mer som ett “efterfestgig” på Vardagsrumsturnén):
Peter & Frans Vardagsrumsturné – Berättar om turnén from Christian Gardö on Vimeo.
Jag har snott videon från Christian, han filmade även en del låtar i HD som du hittar på hans blogg. Det är inte bara ett bra koncept de kör, de är bra också!
Det finns så mycket med deras idé som är bra, så mycket de gör rätt, och så mycket jag som åskådare tyckte var häftigt. Jag är förvisso ingen ‘roskildehjälte‘, jag kan garanterat räkna antalet konserter, antalet band jag sett live, antalet festivaler jag varit på – på mina tio fingrar. Det här var bara så galet bra ändå. Jag tycker inte bara att det är bra för att det blir så personligt, och inte heller bara för att Peter och Frans är sköna killar. Jag tycker “Om du vill komma och titta på en konsert”-fenomenet är ett så jäkla skönt tillägg också. Ombord på båten hade vi t.ex. besök av två damer (tjejer?) som bodde på Tyresö, de kom helt enkelt för att återuppleva Peter och Frans samt dricka ett glas vin. Det var fantastiskt!
Jag skulle varmt rekommendera Peter och Frans till dig som ska köra en fest i gott sällskap och vill höra lite skön musik!
Var du på Norna i lördags? Gå med i Facebookgruppen! De finns givetvis även på MySpace (Peter och Frans).
Det verkar inte vara så många som upplevt det vi gjorde. Tack JJJ!
Tomorrow is a big day here on the green island. Thousands of people will down the first pint at 0900 hours and wear green to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. Everyone’s Irish on the 17th of March, it’s a beautiful concept really. So what do you do on Saint Patrick’s if you’re in the heart of Ireland? Unfortunately, you work if you’re Swedish …
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Even Stockholm (Limerick to be precise) has picked up on it properly this year:
Picture taken by Joel Jonsson.
See what others have to say about Saint Patrick’s Day.
Hey everyone! I’m back again after spending two wonderful weeks on Koh Phangan, Thailand. It was not really that adventurous, rather chilling and days with soaking in the sun while trying to multi task with the ocean, the pool and a good book (and perhaps the occasional daiquiri). Heavy stuff!
I don’t know why, but always when I’m on vacation it is the time to read books, it’s what feels as if you’ve got all the time in the world – just not think about anything, except the task at hand to read a good book. I thought I’d update you on what I read during the two weeks, especially since one of them was really awesome and is also going to become a blockbuster movie, again reuniting Scorsese and Di Caprio. This is going to happen in The Wolf of Wall Street, a biography about the life of Jordan Belfort, creator of the Stratton Oakmont brokerage firm – also referred to as “The real Gordon Gekko” (after Michael Douglas’ character in Wall Street). Without giving too much away, I mean – you can always read the Editorial review on Amazon, this is a MUST read for anyone that enjoys Entourage. Especially the 90s Entourage-lifestyle when the Testarossa was king, and the coke was his queen. Totally enjoyable and written in a fun way, can’t wait for the movie!
I also stumbled upon Gomorrah at a bookstore in Dublin earlier this year, haven’t been able to read it but I figured that this trip was the perfect excuse. This book is exactly was the subtitle refers to; A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System, Camorra. The author is ‘investigating’ journalist Roberto Saviano who also happened to grow up in the area – and he tells his tale about the place on earth where mafia-related murders are more common than anywhere else in the world – and about a mafia much worse than the notorious Cosa Nostra. Very confusing at times, loads of names and families to keep track of, but still a good read.
The third book I read on this very seldom extravaganza was The Broker by John Grisham. I’ve read quite a few books by Grisham and I have to say that each time is some let down. It’s always a really slow, cliffhanger kind of deal with Grisham, nothing being told properly until in the last 100 pages or so when everything suddenly comes to life, I’m not sure whether this is a good thing or not; but personally I truly enjoy high-paced books such as the Wolf of Wall Street much more, where there’s really not one single dull moment in the book. That’s why I can’t really understand why Grisham is such a celebrated writer. Just read the review, sounds intriguing, but it actually isn’t. Disappointment, again.
My forth contribution is Welcome to Hell by Colin Martin. It’s one of those books that is always listed in the ‘best sellers’ in Thailand, about a man that innocently spent 8 years at the Bangkok Hilton, one of the worlds most notorious prisons. It’s quite a ride, and quite a story. I don’t know whether Martin was stupid, unlucky or just at the wrong place at the wrong time – or perhaps it was a mix of both.
Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally killed that man’s bodyguard. Colin was arrested, denied a fair trial, convicted of murder and thrown into prison, where he remained for 8 years. Honest and often disturbing, but told with a surprising humour, “Welcome to Hell” is the remarkable story of how Colin was denied justice again and again.
I’d say that Martin’s book is definitely worth reading, even though I’ve read The Damage Done, about Warren Fellows, a narcotics smuggler that spent 12 years, also at the Bangkok Hilton – which I found was much more detailed (and quite disgusting) and a better read. I don’t know, I think there’s more honesty involved once a person is actually guilty, Fellows is guilty as few – while the circumstances surrounding Martin as I mentioned are just a mix of stupidity and bad luck.
I gotta give it to myself though, I read about 6-10 books yearly, and probably 90% of all pages I would read (that aren’t work related) – would be read during vacations. Does that make me a bookworm? Or just a wannabe, I’m guessing for the latter.
When Mia was here a week or so ago we took the opportunity to swing by Oktoberfest here in Dublin. Or actually, it’s called Paulaner Oktoberfest due to its sponsor. It’s a pretty small event held close to Spencer Dock and the IFSC here in Dublin, they were a bit ambitious and kept the party going for a full 10 nights, but I guess that’s needed if there’s a bunch of tents outside in rainy Dublin – gotta keep the people happy! They did however miss a couple of things, sure – the beer was flowing and people was kept happy this way, but when the beer wanted out, the Liffey once again took a heavy beating from drunken Germans. Girls? Well the few that actually made it weren’t to excited about the toilet prospect, being a full … 3 or so.
A also had royal visit by the Turk and Philipp last weekend, it was the reunion of best of pals from Australia and it was really nice to see them again, they’re now full on finance, it’s basically all about “show me the money” these days. We managed to squeeze in a meeting to the Guinness Brewery (it’s a must!) – and the Turk actually tasted Guinness, his first alcoholic taste in five years. But I guess, if there’s somewhere you oughta break free from religious views and such, it’s in the ’sky bar’ at Guinness Storehouse in beer-land numero uno.
Speaking of numbers and Guinness, Guinness & Co. makes nearly €2 billion annually – only in Ireland. Impressive. Something really interesting and funny about Guinness, and definitely something not most people know about Guinness is this fact: about 40 per cent of worldwide total Guinness volume is brewed and sold in Africa. This fact actually has an underlying meaning to anyone who studied marketing, it’s part of a very famous case and one of the most successful marketing campaigns of all time, ’starring’ Michael Power in Critical Assignment.
