Alan’s Denmark blog #8 Mottled blue and grey now and a definite nip in the air. Im feeling a bit tired. The sound of tyres on the wet road and the wind swooshing round the bus…if I close my eyes, the gentle rocking pulls me towards sleep. People’s everyday lives slide past with the road ……age old woodland……ancient hedgerows….we dont even impinge on the historical momentum of this landscape….merely flit back and forth across it….pausing here and there to pass comment and eke out a living as musicians. How many centuries have these fields seen stubble in the autumn…how many trillions of leaves have fallen and added to the soil’s fertility? I know I go on about the windfarms but there are so many here and they dominate the skyline. In some lights, they look beautiful, balletic even and at other times, in the rain, in silhouette and in line, like some oversized cloud shredder or sky harrow. When, aeons from now, the forests have closed around them again, will people remember what they were for…… or will they make up myths to explain them? Today is pretty dismal….much cloud and rain…..the headlights almost have purchase on the roads…..soggy fields …..full of soggy gulls….green and black and grey….oh me miserum…….still….on the bright side….theres lunch coming…..weve been invited to Else Hjortshøjs for a typical Danish meal. The sun comes out. We find out that no-one has actually got Elses address…..no-one panicked…. Facebook and a few phone calls sort it. When we arrive, the hospitality is wonderful. A local beer with fish course and schnapps followed by liver pate and meatballs with crispy bacon plus a variety of crudites and breads….nice conversation…coffee….only a shame we couldnt stay longer but the gig called so we set off again……sated and slightly soporific…into the sunshine. We pass the biggest windfarms in Europe…… there are only two of them but theyre 250 metres high…..there are another eight planned apparently. Earlier today we got stuck behind one of the blades being transported by road….it was huge. An hour later, were setting up Skovsgaard Hotel in Brovst…Tim has yet another make of digital desk to make sense of. Every desk on this tour has been different. some nights you can see the steam rise……its 5.00…..dinner at 6.00….gig at 8.00………oh and the gig last night in Tobakken, Esbjerg was fine…..more later..A x
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:20:12 +0000
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