We hit the
road to Oslo at 9:45. Listening to Spidergawd, Motorpsycho, Andreas Berg, his
dad’s instrumental rock album from the 70s, Andreas’s other band, 22. A mix of
Mars Volta, Messhuga and 80s Queen, is how he describes it. Everyone is pretty
fresh and in a good mood. Beautiful day so far on this drive. Car is pretty
packed but we are doing fine. Long trip ahead. 520km to Oslo and small winding
roads where mostly you can go 50-.80km/hr. Only after 5-6 hours do we hit a
highway where you can go 110. I took a
lot of great pictures.We had to get up at 8 and be on the road by 9 for Oslo… We had a great gig last night in Trondheim.
I drove the last part of the time to the venue and hostel and later the
parking garage. We arrived at 16:30 at the venue and loaded all the stuff up
stairs. Very cool club and nice people. Andreas stayed and had coffee or
something but it took us at least 20mins to find the way to the hostel and
check in and get our room. We took our stuff up there, I checked in for my
flight and then we walked back to the venue for soundcheck at 18.
Australian soundman was great and the other band Steinstopp had already
set up the drum kit and was also providing the cabinets. Very cool guys. They
are fans of Øresund Space Collective. I would meet a lot of people, including a
nice woman from Finnish Lapland named Aria, who wanted a picture of me. She loves
ØSC. Very nice. Great to see Rune and his friends as well as Stian.
Soundcheck went pretty well. There were some issues with Øyvin’s bass
but all else was fine. We ran through Stone Cold Killer and that was about it.
After that we went downstairs and had pizza. They make their own pizzas at this
place. I think we all had the Satan
pizza. Fresh chilli, red onion, Italian salami, Fontana cheese,.. it was a very
good pizza. The bread part was excellent. Nice… They also gave us coupons for 4
of the cheap draft Hansa beer, which is terrible. I was able to talk the nice
bartender lady into giving me one of the lager 63’s instead, which was so cool
of her. This was a very nice local beer.
Steinstopp started a bit early and played a bit short so there was
plenty of time. They were young guys, a trio, and they started off quite spacey
and then it became a sort of psychedelic stoner doom vibe. The audience really
liked them. There was 60 paid people and it was 170kr to get in. We had some
sort of door deal. Anyway, they played
a pretty cool set of only 5-6 songs with some different dynamics. The bass
player sat down and the guitar, who played very loud, did some nice solos as
well. Cool guys..
Set List: Jamambalam, Urtern, Suppedrolderm, Intro-Qassearn, Mykkærn
We hit the stage right on time and started a little spacey and then
went into Stone Cold Killer. Andreas, who by this time had had a few beers,
played it too slow. We managed but it should have been faster. Machine on the
Hill, one of the songs Andreas likes the best, was going really well and then
Vemund was having trouble with his baritone guitar so he just up and left the
stage before his solo spot and we just continued on as if he never left and
then he was back. That really surprised people.
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| Our Audience |
I felt like this was a rough gig but it pushed into unknown territory
and we made it through the asteroid field!!! Andreas was just killing it on the
drums. He is loving playing in the band. Anyway, a long and dangerous
Supernova, lead to the best version of the Ghost and Vemund’s longest and
coolest solo of the gig. Then we ended with Warp Speed. Super intense ending.
We played about 80mins and blew people away. Wow.. Great feeling.
Set List: Stone Cold Killer, Machine on the Hill, Supernova, The Ghost,
Warp Speed.
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