Where the Bands Are (Lime Cordiale, 30 March 2024, NYC, USA)

A trip to NYC for Easter led to discovering Lime Cordiale, an energetic indie pop rock band from Australia.

Where the Bands Are (The Gaslight Anthem, 16 March 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

The Gaslight Anthem is a band I listened to quite much some years ago and I always wanted to see them, but never had the opportunity before. When we saw they were coming on a weekend to Utrecht, a cute city in the Netherlands we fell in love with last year when staying there for...

Media Overload 2023

Welcome to my annual end-of-the-year chronicle. Here I reflect on the passed year, the media I’ve consumed, the trips I’ve made and other personal stuff and oh boy, was this a busy year! This post took forever to write and in the end I had to cut a lot of things out just to get...

Where the Bands Are (Madrugada, 2 september 2023, Hamburg)

Living in Gothenburg, most of the times there aren't any direct fligths to where you want to travel. This time I had to fly to Munich to get to Hamburg. The bad thing was that the flight was 20 minutes late and I only had a 40 minutes layover to begin with. My Lufhansa app...

Monza 25.07.2023 #SpringsteenTour2023

The Milan (and Monza) area was battered by severe thunderstorms on Monday and early Tuesday (the show day), resulting in a large numbers of trees falling over streets and even causing the deaths of a 58-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl. They even considered cancelling the concert, but extra park workers were working the whole...

München 23.07.2023 #SpringsteenTour2023

The Olympic Stadium in Munich was built already in 1972 to host the Summer Olympic Games. The characteristic curved tent roof construction is still very impressive and it is one of the city’s landmarks. By the way, did you know that Crown Prince Carl Gustaf (the current Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf), met his future...

Hockenheim 21.07.2023 #SpringsteenTour2023

Hockenheimring is a Formula 1 racetrack in the small town of Hockenheim and also the next venue for our next Springsteen concert. At first we were hesitant to buy tickets for the show since we had heard that it was in a remote area, but we (or at least I) also thought it would be...

Vienna 18.07.2023 #SpringsteenTour2023

A perk from being on this tour, other than the chance to see my favourite band, is to discover places that I’ve never seen before. This includes Newark/Asbury Park, Barcelona and Utrecht. Now I’ve also taken the express sightseeing tour of Vienna. We set off really early with the train from Ehrenfeld Bahnhof, Germany at...

Hamburg 15.07.2023 #SpringsteenTour2023

We arrived to Hamburg at around ten o’clock, with an early train from Cologne. Plenty of time to check-in to the hotel, have a quick look around, have some lunch and then head to the arena. We discovered rather quickly that there wasn’t just the Springsteen concert going on in the city. There were lots...

Copenhagen 13.07.2023 #SpringsteenTour2023

On this tour, when you are going to two shows in the same location you are given a concert free day in-between shows. To have something to do, and because it was a bit rainy, we decided to go to the cinema and catch the premiere of the film “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (part 1)”....