Sweden / Denmark

It's been a few days since the last time I posted about the shows, and a lot has happened as well. While the people in Germany have been amazingly nice to everyone of us, the scenery in Sweden has been beautiful. I was talking with Steffen about it all... I plan on coming back to Germany for as long as I possibly can... but we have to make a weekend trip to Sweden. It's just beautiful. I don't really know what other way to put it. Pictures always speak much more than words, so I figured I'd just let photographs explain our time in Stockholm, Sweden:


































Later that night, we played a show in Uppsala, Sweden. It was at a nice little cafe place called the Grand Cafe. The staff was very nice and fed us a great meal of authentic pasta salad. We followed a band that sounded a lot like the Strokes. Afterwards, we went out to a small pub in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

The next morning, we travelled a long, cold day over to Copenhagen, Denmark. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see much of the city. It turns out I woke up in the middle of the afternoon in the van and everyone else was gone. It was the first time I had slept all through the afternoon and didn't even wake up when we stopped. i just found myself waking up next to a huge store called the New Yorker in the middle of Copenhagen. I thought I was alone as well, but much to my surprise, Philip was sleeping in the bench seat in front of me. Even though I missed out on the daytime in Copenhagen, the city was very beautiful.

We then played a show that night at a small venue called Lades. It was much like a basement looking club. The opening band was really cool, combining live electric and acoustic guitars with a lot of electronics. We then played a nice electric set where we played El Scorcho for the first time on this tour. We've been working out an extended bridge during the middle of The End which we played for the first time on the tour as well. Even though it's a few shows into the whole trip, it felt like the group was finally becoming much tighter, as it's only been a few shows with Mike.

Afterwards, we talked with some of the locals and met a lot of nice people. At some point in the night, the whole group traveled to a blues bar down the road, where Philip ended up getting on stage and jamming with the local blues guitarist. I have never seen anything like it... Philip is amazing at what he does, and probably jammed for about 20 minutes on stage.... unrehearsed... just purely phenomenal. I got a good 10 minute video from the whole journey, too.

We followed that day with a long trip back to Germany. Beautiful Lies and Pull A Star Trip spent the afternoon with a nice journey by van and ferry (which consisted of over 9 hours). Much sleeping took place in the van, and thank goodness I never have to drive because I really needed to sleep. I'll miss Sweden though. It's cold there, but not to our surprise as we're used to the chill of the air in Boston. I do hope to go back. Two shows in Germany to report on in the near future. I'l be writing about those shows soon and very soon.