Gavle is a beautiful city.
We just walked home from the concert hall (which was amazing).

The weather is fresh (very Vancouver like) Lots of beautiful, healthy, fit people, riding bikes and walking. The streets are alive tonight and everyone looks like fashion models.

The concert was the best yet.
Great crowd and we tossed in a new surprise song into the set.
After each show the custom is to give each band member flowers. We don’t really know what to do with them but as you can see in this picture, they are very beautiful.

This is my first attempt at a live podcast. I promise I’ll get better at it and work at finding some interesting content. Here is the link. http://tinyurl.com/ag3sl
When I get some time I’ll set up an atom feed and a podcast player. If any of you techno fans want to help me . . .PS: We miss u budda

send me an email at colin@colinarthur.com.

The weather is clearing up, it rained last night. Actually it poured. Mick’s birthday started off with a laugh. We had a Swedish Karaoke Cab driver. Seriously, he had two screens playing video karaoke. A big screen in the van’s backseat displayed low the budget video of “Follow the bouncing ball” to 3 Times a Lady, while Ollie the driver had his owm screen to watch while he was driving. Mick wouldn’t let him sing.

Our plane to Stockholm is delayed an hour. Maybe I will try an airport podcast. The CD’s are expensive. Well . . . everything is expensive.

If I could describe the hotel that we are staying at in Gotenborg in one word, it would be IKEA.
My room is the size of a shoebox yet it is very practical. The Swedes, like the swiss, have some very creative ways of designing everyday items and making things more efficient. For example, you can only use the lights in a hotel room if you put your key in a special slot (you never lose you key either). I could go on but I hear the band in the lobby getting ready to leave. We are flying back to Stockholm this morning. We then drive a couple of hours to Gavle – I’ll update from there.

PS: I tried to upload the podcast last night from the Koncerthaus but the connection wouldn’t allow it. Maybe I’ll get lucky from the airport.

We left Stockholm at 6:45 am this morning and flew to Gotenborg. They were photographing some Swedish models in the exit row in front of me on the plane so it made for and interesting flight:)

We are finding that there are some hardcore BTO fans here so we have been dusting off some old classics. A guy came up to Randy at the autograph table and said he had something to show Randy, he started taking off his jacket and shirt . . Check out the BTO tattoo.

We played with Mattias last night. He is a star in Sweden but he has also been a big BTO fan since he was a kid.

He knew the songs almost better than Randy and we rehearsed the tunes exactly like the recorded versions. On the next podcast you’ll hear a bit of rehearsal.