Thanks to the Norman Palm Gang

Thanks to the people who attended our shows in Germany, Austria and Swizerland! And of course to the eclectic Norman Palm bunch who welcomed me on the tour with them. Tomorrow The Drunk Lovers are flying to Berlin and on Friday (1.10) we play the first show with Mystery Jets @Magnet, Berlin.
Other shows w/Mystery Jets: 3.10. Underground@Cologne, 4.10. Atomic Café@Munich

Berlin

Within two hours of getting here I’m carrying the ingredients for a feta salad, good dark roasted coffee, a fresh whole wheat loaf of bread, and water. I'm walking through some previously unknown street of Xberg now thinking I live here. I am the happy resident of a two bedroom 3meter-ceiling apartment with two hours for myself before the record company posse gets here.

My cab driver from the airport was definitely a drummer. I just know. I felt shy, like always with drummers.

I’m reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. We all must read it now because Julia Roberts is on the cover of the paper back edition. The other travel book I took with me is a library book! (Don’t tell your librarian friends). Eat Pray Love is kind of like my life this second – or maybe my life is a lot better right this second. (I’m not sure how I feel about finding my own personal guru for example.) More comments on the book another day when I have read more of it.

My suitcase was five kilograms overwheight I was informed. Please, remove four kilos or pay 10e per extra kilo. Somehow this whole exchange at Helsinki-Vantaa felt very personal. As if we were really discussing my body and not my luggage. If it had been my body, I would have been able to say that on the moon I weigh nothing so what’s the big deal. But I was aware of the line behind me and so I was silent and embarrassed and I half opened my suitcase there infront of the counter and pulled out a box of CDs (2,4kilograms), a pair of knee-high boots (hardly weighed anything) and then panicking I rummaged for a shoulder bag and a canvas bag to stuff everything in there – oh, and the power extension for my computer! Suitcase closes again and now it was 21,2 kilograms and I was a red-faced free woman (with two pieces of hand lugagge).

I will be blogging when I can from this tour but at least once a week the blog will appear on Rumba.fi (in Finnish) and at times I may add something more here in between.

Mystery Jets support shows announced

Before I leave for my solo tour supporting Norman Palm, I'm just letting you all know that I will be warming up for Mystery Jets on their German dates in October. And for those shows my band is flying in to play too, so beware and be there:

Astrid Swan supporting Mystery Jets (UK)

1-10-2010
Berlin@Magnet
3-10-2010
Cologne@Underground
4-10-2010
Munich@Atomic Café

Astrid swan SOLO supporting Norman Palm

11-09-2010
Hamburg @ Übel & Gefährlich

12-09-2010
Köln @ Studio 672

13-09-2010
Frankfurt @ Brotfabrik

14-09-2010
Dresden @ Societätstheater

15-09-2010
Nürnberg @ Musikzentrale

16-09-2010
Marburg @ KFZ

17-09-2010
Munich @ Atomic Cafe

18-09-2010
Berne @ Kleine Schanze

19-09-2010
Schorndorf @ Manufaktur

20-09-2010
Vienna @ Chelsea

21-09-2010
Graz @ ppc

22-09-2010
Innsbruck @ Weekender Club

24-09-2010
Erfurt @ Klangerüst