Back in Highgate, rather addled with flu. It started as a cough on Saturday, but by Sunday evening I had the tell-tale shivers, fever, headache, and general inability to cope. I’ll write about what happened in Lund and Gothenburg soon. For now, though, here’s some other people’s takes of the trip.
Rachel Stevenson’s blog account:
http://millionreasons.livejournal.com/204181.html
Ms Rachel refers to a favourite Swedish film of ours, Lukas Moodysson’s F—ing Ã…mÃ¥l (aka Show Me Love). Every time we’re travelling in Sweden and see signs to Ã…mÃ¥l, we always think of the film. I feel a little sorry for the place and want to give it a town-hug. I also feel the same way about Slough, thanks to John Betjeman’s similar unkindness.Â
The whole film is streamed here:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5599594765620844277&pr=goog-sl
Anyway, back to the Fosca tour. Niklas from the label has sent me a review of the Karlstad show. They give it 4 out of 5, um, alarm clocks:
http://nwt.se/ArticlePages
Photos from Karlstad by Magnus Hernegre:
Photos from Stefan Olsson, taken at the Gothenburg gig. As you can see, the stage was somewhat more modest than Karlstad, yet we had about ten times the audience. Plus a few stage divers and an all-out stage invasion. Not that you’d know it from these pics:
