Ok, two things:
It just dawned on me that my album 'Tesla' is turning ten this fall. I can't believe it's been so long. And with the current political climate, Tesla is probably not the best title for an album, but luckily the album is not named after the car, but after the inventor Nikola Tesla, who all the songs on the album are about.
I've played material from 'Tesla' at most of the shows since its release. Synesthesia and Oscillations have been almost regular features, but we've also played Voltage Control and Transatlantic.
For the concerts we have played this year, we have introduced a jazzy version of the song 'Electrical Storm' which is about the thunderstorm that reportedly raged the night Nikola Tesla was born. During the concert in the Dome a week ago, a thunderstorm passed by Allinge while we were playing, and since large parts of the Dome are made of plexiglass, all the lightning could be seen by the audience. And quite symbolically, the start of Electrical Storm was supplemented by a completely natural light show. It was captured by our cameras, and you can see it here:
On the northern tip of Bornholm, at the northern end of the town of Allinge and right by the rocky shore of the Baltic Sea, lies a very strange building. It is called Domen (The Dome) and was built in 2012 in connection with the annual event 'Folkemødet'.
I don't remember when I first saw it, but I remember being instantly fascinated by the unique architecture. I thought it looked, in a strange way, like a round version of Utzon's Sydney Opera House. The lighting engineer Mikkel thought it looked more like an egg dropped on the floor.
Last night we played a concert there.
The day started out as a perfect late summer day. We've had a couple of weeks of Indian summer here in the eastern part of Denmark, and this day was also shaping up to be hot. However, there was a cool breeze that made the work of setting up equipment a bit more pleasant. The dome is made of wood and plexiglass, which doesn't provide the best conditions for a good indoor climate. And the building also got hot quickly, so the breeze was welcome.
As darkness fell and the audience began to arrive, the first clouds began to gather and the first scattered drops began to fall. The concert was indoors, so luckily rain didn't matter much.
As always, Mikkel Møller Larsen had prepared a magnificent and atmospheric light show, but this time extra help came from the heavens when a thunderstorm passed over the venue. And as mentioned before, the Dome is partly made of plexiglass, so the lightning could be clearly seen.
A few minutes into the song 'Oscillations' I felt the first drips on stage, and within seconds the drips developed into a downpour. After about ten years without any further maintenance, the entire building was leaking, and where I was standing had developed into a drain. Sound engineer Jens had to rush onto the stage with a bucket, while I had to move my guitar pedals so they wouldn't short-circuit.
Apart from that and my guitar cable repeatedly getting stuck in the gap between the floorboards, the concert went off without a hitch.
At the request of several in the team, we played the same set as at the concert in Thingbæk Kalkminer earlier this year.
