Travel like a wave, hit like a particle.

We travel light these days. What’s more, we travel like light: masslessly, though impactful when we (on a good day) reach our goal. This is our inventory list for this week’s concerts:

  • 1 x Guitar (acoustic in soft bag).
  • 1 x Accordion (also in soft bag).
  • 2 x canvas bags full of electronics, microphones, cables etc.
  • 75 x CD (for six shows), 18 x LP (assorted, all I could carry) and 600 x postcards (to give away).
  • 1 x cello (in hard case + flight case) with cellist.
  • Too many t-shirts and foreign currencies.
  • Too little underwear and English pounds.
The Moddi duo tour setup. Funky paintings not included (belong to The Boileroom, Guildford).

Yesterday we performed in Manchester for the first time since ye olde days of 2010. Last time, we were 5 on stage and 4 people watching. It is good to be able to say that things are moving in the right direction. These are the songs we played:

The Man in Ausa (translated from Norwegian, world premiere)
The Squares
Poetry
A Sense of Grey (the audience demanded it)
Run to the Water
Bridges and Balloons (Joanna Newsom cover)
Krokstav-emne
Eli Geva (new single, to be released 31 October although I haven’t told anyone yet)
House by the Sea (hit like a particle)
Rubbles (after too much talking)
The Architect (after too few thankyous)

And then I lost my voice. Luckily, it was already late. And Monday. And everybody agreed that it had been a good day.