Camera Obscura Blog: All
20 November 2009
Just wanted to thank everyone who came to see us at our recent UK and European shows. Of course the UK is in Europe but it’s not really is it? Just like I can’t do high 5’s with Americans I would also look like an idiot on a bicycle, Europeans do this very well. It’s the main difference between us, honest!
Anyway, we had a blast. It’s the first time we’ve toured so extensively in Europe and I loved every day of it. Of course there were many highlights, the modern art gallery in Oslo with the Jeff Koons’ Michael and Bubbles statue, our first ever stage invader in Aarhus, Britta Persson singing with us in Stockholm, that dog that was working in that pub in Leicester, visiting La Casa del Abuelo in Madrid (one of my favourite culinary experiences ever!), the general craziness of Christiania in Copenhagen (you are now entering the EU), the Boston tea party meat platter made for young Tim by the energetic Karl in Hamburg, the cannoli I ate in Milan while watching the aftermath of a car/tram accident, sitting hungover in a sausage bar in Vienna sipping gingerly on a beer, playing in a library, this list could go on.
Thank you all,
Lee
Peter Steinberg
said:
25 November 09
As I was rushing to Pearl Street Ballroom in Northampton, Mass., afraid I was late for last night’s gig, the door to a tour bus opened and two women stepped out. I turned around and smiled at them, thinking maybe they were Tracyanne and Carey, but I concluded, “Nah, couldn’t be.” Anyway, they smiled back, politely, and when I got to the club entrance I held the door open for them. Sure enough, when the band hit the stage a half-hour later, I saw that the two women I had encountered on the sidewalk were Tracyanne and Carey. I’m sorry I wasn’t more polite, and that I didn’t engage you in conversation. My girlfriend and I greatly enjoyed the show, although we wish the sound in the club had been better. I hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did, and that you come back soon to the Valley.
By the way, have you been to the camera obscura on the top floor of the Maine Children’s Museum in Portland? It’s pretty cool. I told the museum staff there was a band called Camera Obscura, but they didn’t seem to have heard of you.
Penny
said:
14 January 10
Please come back to the UK!