Goodbye Sweden!

I was sitting in the tourbus looking out the window between Umeå and Luleå, watching the rain pouring down. Terrible phoneconnection and thick forrest surroundings, then you know you're far up north. When it's a bit dark even at lunchtime, you know you're far from home :-)

After soundcheck Johan, David and myself went to a place called "Restaurang Corsica" and had pasta with renskav (no idea what that is in english, reindeer meat?) Anyway, that kind of meat is typical in north of sweden, and i don't get it that often. It was really good!

I didn't expect so many people on a show in Luleå on a tuesday, but fortunately i was wrong. It was lots of people and they treated us really well. The stupid teasing fights that Johan and me use to do on stage went a bit too far tonight, and almost affected the performance. I guess we have to take it a bit easier in the future..
After the show Raised Fist joined us backstage, but we couldn't stay that long as we had a long ride over to Finland this night. We drove to Haparanda and visited the Hulkoff farm, left the Raubtier guys behind, and passed the finnish border and continued towards Oulu in the morning.

I just found out something today. The Swedish part of this tour (with Raubtier) is called "Griståget". Right. There's t-shirts and stuff with the "Griståget" logo and the tourdates on the back. Right. But not until today i realised that it's my son-in-law (Daniel Jakobsén) who made the design for "Griståget". How wierd is that? Small world...?

So, this was the last show in Sweden (and with Raubtier) until we come back from the european part in November. Next stop is Finland and Oulu. I am really looking forward to the Finnish shows as we have a past with really good shows in Finland.

By the way, a great concert review from the show in Sundsvall! (in Swedish):
http://st.nu/noje/konsertrecension/1.3918617-tagtgren-utstralar-pondus




Parts of Pain, Raubtier and Raised Fist backstage in Luleå playing songs together...


Venue SC48 at soundcheck in Luleå


Raubtiers crazy stuff on stage, and it's no fake..


Raubtier has some serious shit on stage, like this machine gun..


Raubtiers machine gun again :-)


The sign "Griståget" on the Luleå show


The Hulkoff farm