Reminder´s story aboute the Riga tripp
The trip to Riga was interesting in a number of ways. Playing to a completely new audience is often interesting but to play in front of an audience whos´s perception of popular music and culture is vastly different from your own poses interesting and stimulating situations.
During the trip the band met a russian boyband, a guide who poured his
heart and soul into his task of showing the band a good time, several
journalists and musicians. It is hard to imagine a country were an
original album by an artist costs 5 % of your monthly salary. A
bootlegged copy about a tenth of that price. According to our new
friends in the boyband Prime-minister the only way to make money is to
tour constantly. It feels a bit odd to hear someone saying seriously
that the audiences are a lot better in Kazachstan than in Siberia.
Hopefully the band will find that out for themselves.
During the trip the band appeared on a russian TV-show playing live for
acouple 100 million viewers, quite mindboggling isn´t it.
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