Two on Tour – Thank you Mannheim!
Last night was a gift show, big surprise. These days when you know why you’re doing all this. Even if the sun was shining, I felt blue, far away from everything, lost. We were afraid to play in front of nobody, on a tuesday evening. But the location was so nice, we thought we will offer a good performance and have a good time anyway, like a private concert, something cosy and intimate after the last 2 festivals.
And it wasn’t empty, just incredibly sweet and comfortable, I just digged into the songs, smiling, like I wanted to thank them all to have come to see us. I wanted them to go home and say they got something special, unexpected, the same way we did. We were really touched, because it’s rare and lovely, magic can happen at every corner only when you don’t expect it.
I woke up on the highway to Munich, we did the usual 45mn stop at a petrol station. The bumpy road makes it difficult to sleep. I finished my book and didn’t know what to do, endless trip. Munich has this typical architecture, a bit cold and arrogant sometimes. Strange place. I never really liked it even if it’s full of great memories from the old days, where everything started for Michel and I. Tonight is a big night, dear friends will see what we became after all these years. Sadly we can’t install the lights onstage, the show won’t be the same and I am so upset we can’t perform at our best in this town. And it’s not even surprising, it was always like this. All the performance will be on us, naked, punks in glitter. I hate this pressure, I am not on stage to be important, but to share a moment, as a vector. Because we don’ t have the lights, I will have to dig inside myself to find the inspiration not to care. Maybe I’ll be wilder, maybe I can kick someone in the face if he misbehaves.
I went to the supermarket to fill up the fridge and cleaned the bus, some habits to feel home. I am not going for dinner, I stay alone in the bus to write the blog and check emails or reply to interviews. Again, thanks Mannheim!
Munich, can you top this???
Hi kittin, what a great post, i hope the show in Munich went well too, even tho there were no lights. did magic happen this night too, like in Mannheim?
good luck with the rest of the days in Germany :)
Love, Jan (Dublin – from Amsterdam).
no munich can top what you share with us, your life, your voice, your soul.
that is why you sing and share your music with us.
take care
jorge