Tina Dickow and the Dead Man’s Chest
Wow. I am tired. Still. That was a long and hard weekend. But very rewarding too.
The concert went fine. Tina and the band were magnificent. A couple of new songs. A lot of old classics. It was a seated concert. At the last song (well, before the encores) everybody got up and there were thunderous applause. Granted I haven’t been to a huge amount of concerts, but that was by far the loudest and longest applause I have ever experienced. Beautiful moment. Another beautiful moment was the start of set 2. They lit a couple of candles and then the whole band gathered around them for “that campfire feeling”. That was neat. My favourite moment though, was when Tina talked about the special edition of her latest album. A music reviewer (Thomas Treo, your typical a*hole reviewer, who seems to reprint the same review everytime he reviews a Tina record or concert) had criticised her for releasing a special edition with new tracks. He said it “ruined christmas for her fans”. Hah! Well, anyway. Tina said that her brother had done extensive research on P2P and she encouraged everyone who had the album and just wanted the new tracks to go to “this place called Piratebay” and download them. How cool is that? Further proof that Tina is the bestest popstarsinger ever. Name one other established artist who would advertise for piratebay! Haha.
My first thought was “uh oh, your record label isn’t going to like that”. My second thought was “wait a minute, she started her own record label. I think she’ll get away with it”. I still think KODA and APG (the Danish anti piracy group) would be rather pissed that she told her fans to go to AN EVIL ILLEGAL TORRENT SITE THAT KILLS BABIES AND EATS KITTENS. Of course I would personally never download anything from a site like that, it is undoubtedly run by Al-Qaeda terrorists and funded by Colombian drug lords. But Tina is my hero, yes she is.
A great concert, all in all. Only one minor mishap. When an usher came and poked me on the shoulder and whispered “no photography allowed”. Whoops. I turned off my camera and hid it away. Too bad. I really like taking pictures at concerts. It’s a part of the experience for me. But okay. Fair’s fair. I wasn’t bothering anyone though. I had an aisle seat and I wasn’t using flash. But there you go. I still had a great time. Now I just need to recover.
I think I’ll go write some christmas cards.
December 6th, 2006 at 16:20
Ha, ha, hee, hee! We have more snow than you do! The goats didn’t have a problem walking in the path where my husband had used the snow blower so we could get out to the barn. But until we stomped down the snow in their fenced-in area, they didn’t want to come out.
But no one had to be pushed/pulled out of the barn this year, thank goodness. They are getting better about walking on leashes. Silly little goats will do just about anything for salted peanuts.
Glad to hear you had a good time at the concert. She sounds like a wonderful person besides being a singer. No “I’m a big star and you aren’t” behavior there, she sounds like a really-down-to-earth person.
December 6th, 2006 at 21:45
Deb – Well rub it in why doncha! I could use some snow. Sweet, serene snow. This snow blower of which you speak, does it have a “super nuclear mega power” setting that would blow the snow all the way to Denmark? I’m crossing my fingers.
Tina is the most down-to-earth musician I know. Ahem, okay I guess I don’t know that many musicians, but you get the drift!
December 7th, 2006 at 4:15
Is that a “snow drift”???? We’re holding the snow for ransom . . . maybe photos of sweet-faced playground animals full of Danish goodness might get an inch or two of snow sent your way! We’ll work on it for you.