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October 27th 2004
Posted on 10/27/2004 by the_hives
Stuttgart, Germany to earth. Come in!
Woke up in a cold sweat. Slept 3 hrs. Need to write. Thee Band had a day off here today. Would have been nice to play insted as I truly feel we are HOT at the moment. Case in point, Vienna. We played a show outdoors there yesterday. It was late October. We were not cold.
Today at the show in Stuttgart, Germany our friends from the soul/rock band Moneybrother will visit us. I see a late night in my immediate future. We toured with them here in 98 but nostalgia sucks so lets leave it at that. I should sleep but first!
I have been thinking. The Hives may need to play some weird bills again. We love playing to our fans. You. However it would be good for band morale to have to struggle a little more for the love of the crowd. Seen a lot of comfortable bands lately. Too many. Beeing popular, which we are, is fun but we always took pride in beeing able to conquer any audience. My question is.
Where is any audience?
Good night, world. Wherever you are.
HPA
October 20th 2004
Posted on 10/20/2004 by the_hives
Hey hey hey!
Madrid was a royal hoot. We spent the day before hanging out in Biarritz sampling the water and eating the food. It´s been a while since a day off felt that good. I generally like playing more than not playing. Got in to a stare down with some inhabitants and checked out the 50´s chic of the old hotspot hotels. Good times! I am writing to you from a the battleship Tourbus where we have spent the last week or so. We just finished playing a set that included the Dion masterpiece Born to cry. Great song and we, true to form, did a great job with it! You can also find this on our last single as a b side. We recorded it in Soundtrack of our Lives studio in Gothenburg with Bjorn from Union Carbide Productions on the day of our last show there. It took a few hours to set up but was a quick recording. Sorry about the change of subject. MADRID! The venue was a put down adventure swimming park thing. Looked cool and new but the locals told us en espanol that it was financed with drug money and not used anymore. (A shame for the kids in the neighborhood) They seemed to be on drugs themselves some of them. The other madridians where on their best behaviour and in their best clothes.
Great to meet you again.
Sorry about the four years. There you go. See you next time!
Howlin Pelle
You know, the tall singer.
October 16th 2004
Posted on 10/16/2004 by the_hives
Hello Children,
It´s me. Your lead singer. I am currently in Wiesbaden having completed 3 shows on our first euro tour in several years. It was great meating you all again in Malmö, Berlin and Amsterdam. It is true what they say. Abscence makes the heart grow fonder. YOU LIKE US EVEN MORE NOW. Good. We like you too. Spent the remainder of the night yesterday talking to the locals at the local discoteque. Good people, Lame music. A weird equilibristic quasi-salsa live band and some bland vacation-house in the club. Oh well. Today we went to a german-italian deli and bought cheese and wine. Feels cultured as fuck actually. Gonna eat it now,
Onwards,
HPA
