Winter Greetings from Magdeburg

I am now almost exactly 3 months away from the Franconian way home and would like to engage this time in style. You've all noticed it determines:

Winter is here. With all its shadows and light sides. The last one for me, anyway Samstagbend already one of the highlights of the cold season 2009/2010. Why is this so, I want to tell you in the following lines.

It has long stood on a notepad on my pin board following appointment: "19.12. Kristofer Åström, Moritzhof". The name says Åström one or other of you may have something. For one, the man is actually the head of Fireside, a pioneer of what we blew up in recent years Sweden Rock so in the ears. In the last decade but made with Kristofer Åström eight LP-Publish again and again solo attention. You could also call the blond Scandinavian Sweden Pete Yorn. On his albums take a deep melancholy, sunny and refreshingly relaxed - just like on the last "Sinkadus EP," he testified again and again first-class songwriting skills.

I'm so late in the afternoon with the hope to get some tickets in advance for Moritzhof, which I already knew from the outside. Through the window I get to a small group of people, of whom I like a person than the advertised K.Å. recognized, see the table to sit. It looked very relaxed. We would like to set himself and knocked. But I just wanted my tickets and finally you will not want to impose. So, left through the door into the cafe and put on the counter. I wait two or three minutes opposes to me from the kitchen by my standards in the years who has come very, very bearded man with a bandana, hat over it and a pretty nerdy black glasses. "I would like to buy tickets for tonight's concert," to which he gives to me in English to understand that he does not understand me. No problem, I think, and ask again, but this time, consequently, in English.

I could sell tickets to the type not to change but already he has left an impression. When I go back to the apartment, I come to the conclusion that this had probably been one of his roadies. Fast.
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20:50: At the door there was still tickets available. Luckily. The stage lights come on. The band takes the stage. And who is strapped to the bass, like the fraternal twin of John Paul Jones? Exactly, my acquaintance from the cafe. The beard he has twirled for the show funny tentacles. It looks something like the villain from the first part of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Nikke Ström is he, and as I suspected, he has been playing in bands for over thirty years. You can see (and hear) it to him.

What followed was a concert of the finest grade, let's take impressions are difficult to describe. But what we can say with complete justification: The songs shine by Kristofer Kristofer Åström live in an incredible depth, not least because of the superb musicians of the "Rain-aways," as the band around the artist. So all is now set his heart: Kristofer Åström. The best live.