lørdag, april 28, 2007

torsdag, april 19, 2007

Christianshavn med svaneæg




Rune Lykke tog dette fine foto i forgårs.

Marchbloggen opdateret 19 APR

Nu er der lagt tekst på, og så meget, at jeg godt vil nævne det også her på herlighederne. Det er endt med at være en decideret reportage.

mvh

Thorbjørn

www.gemcee.blogspot.com

onsdag, april 18, 2007

Marchbloggen opdateret 18 APR

I den forgangne weekend gik jeg for tredje gang Hærvejsmarch. Jeg har ikke skrevet en lille reportage endnu, men der er billeder at se - MAKONI-samling 1 (fredag-søndag). www.gemcee.blogspot.com.

Update: Jævnfør ovenfor er der nu vittig og velskreven tekst!


fredag, april 13, 2007

Marchbloggen opdateret 13 APR

Endnu engang er der playlist med - måske det mest interessante for en Hr Heins Herligheder-læser. Selvom man også kunne kalde det dybt irrelevant, naturligvis!

Gardermarch.

tirsdag, april 10, 2007

Få mail, når der postes på Herlighederne!

Jeg vil påstå, at denne min blog er en af de ganske aktive af slagsen - så at komme forbi jævnligt og se, om der er et nyt indlæg, kan man jo sagtens gøre.

Du kan imidlertid også vælge at få en mail, hver gang der rent faktisk sker noget! Du finder boksen, hvor man kan tilmelde sig denne mailservice, som nederste punkt i kolonnen til højre på siden.

De bedste hilsner

Hr. Hein




Sådan ser boksen ud - dette er blot et billede, gå til kolonnen i højre side, nederst.
P.S.
I øvrigt er det seneste på marchbloggen, at jeg offentliggør, hvad det var for noget musik, jeg vandrede af sted til i høj fart. Se det som en slags servicemeddelse, eller noget ...

Marchbloggen opdateret 10 APR

Danmark besat.

fredag, april 06, 2007

Feeling like a schoolboy


Baz og Thorbjørn! Foto: Jens Ulrik Jørgensen

Sååå sejt! Koncert med megafaveband BOLT THROWER i april 2006. Saftsuseme om ikke lead guitarist Barry Thomson selv stod i bandets T-shirt-bod imens opvarmningsbandene var på?! Meget længere nede på jorden kan man ikke komme - og det skal siges, at inden for genren dødsmetal er Bolt Thrower et af de store, klassiske navne. De er blevet kendt over hele verden, siden de som teenage-kidfaces begyndte som et punkhardcoremetal-band med begrænsede musikalske evner i 1986. Skillz har de masser af nu. Fedt band. Og der stod jeg så med 'Baz'. For sygt nice, dér.

Det var også den aften, jeg købte en tom demo-cd, og dermed kom til at kende opvarmningsbandets growler, Dave Ingram. Tjek denne post.

BOLT THROWER LIVE, Maundy Thursday 2006

Impressions of a Death Metal concert

One Easter ago, on Maundy Thursday, April 13 2006, Bolt Thrower, Downlord, and something called Slow Death Factory (I think they're from Jutland ...) performed at The Rock in downtown Copenhagen.

Below are some of the not-so-pro photos yours truly snapped that evening, beginning ...


... at my former girlfriend's, drinking a fine bottle of wine!


"Look, it's fine!"


Wupti-doo, now Jens (mate and former brother-in-law) and I are ready to queue up in Skindergade, along with the rest of the of the audience *tries to avoid writing "metal heads"*


Well, they are all queueing up ... In a line, see?


I can see Jens frem here!


Downlord at it!


Donovan ripping it up on his costum-made - by himself, that is - axe.


Some more ripping!


And they're about done ripping ... Check out the Downlord debut album "Random Dictionary of the Damned", out February 2007. It's worth a buy, definately. Damn cool, pure, brutal Oldschool Death Metal.


"'Eeeey!" Jens and the writer posing.


The crowd.


And yes, the crowd is still there.


One audience member, apparently, does not mind his occasional bit of Napalm Death, and who can blame him? Well, certainly not I, for sure!


And the Århusinians (or whatever) enter the stage.


Here's one the two guitarists (lead - maybe? Dunno). Notice the T-shirt.


"Thor" is - among many other things - a Jutlandic beer brewery. As we shall see, this musician likes his beer.


This is the so-called act of headbanging. An action here combined with performing on a musical instrument - no small feat.


The growler is really mad about something. In the case of Slow Death Factory I think maybe it has to do with the fact that they had priced their merchandise and demos too high. I didn't buy anything, anyway.


But! He does have his beer, luckily. No telling how pissed he would've been otherwise!


What!? Isn't that? Yes, it is, that's Michael Poulsen (formerly of Dominus) from highly succesful Danish metal'n'roll band Volbeat.


And Michael Poulsen quickly snatches the opportunity to brand his band.

It looks as is if that branding-thing should actually be taken literally - that man is suffering from something, clearly, and why not a searing pain on his chest and forearm!?!

And that's all about SDF for now.

[Insert witty commentary about any given or several member(s) of the audience, making up a story to go with any given facial expression of said one or more audience member(s)]

The Bolt Thrower set-list!!! Yeah!

And there goes Barry "Baz" Thompson, lead guitarist of headlining Bolt Thrower!

"Wuu-huuuuu, Karl (Willets, growler) is drinking a beer with his gut protuding!" Nice profile shot, hehe, as the band enters the stage.

Gavin Ward, in the shaky stile of my rather primitive camera.
The man is one cool, oldschool trooper, no question about it!
There it is again, genuine headbanging!

"WAAAUURGGG!"

Intense.

And Karl Willets, truly one of the all-time best growlers of the Death Metal genre, happily working the crowd. And it was a full house, by the way.
'Twas a great gig. I think it was the fourth time I saw a Bolt concert, and they have never been better. "Those Once Loyal" is an excellent - really excellent! - album and the live performance lived up to all my high expectations
AND they are so down-to-earth, in spite of the fact that Bolt Thrower is a huge, almost legendary name in the annals of Death Metal. Chech this photo and see what I mean.
A wacked picture from the same Bolt Thrower tour.

Marchbloggen opdateret 06 APR

Ingen fancy billeder. Jeg blærer mig bare med, at jeg gik 22,3 kilometer på 2:54 timer, det vil sige med 7,7 km/t. Så, nu behøver du egentlig ikke tjekke marchbloggen ...

onsdag, april 04, 2007

Nej, okay ...

Jævnfør indlægget længere nede: Hehe, tro på, at jeg ville have turdet at køre offpiste?! Til gengæld turde jeg tage et lille bump, så man kunne hoppe. Det kræver ikke de store kendskaber til fysik at regne ud, at jeg sekundet efter det af kameraet fangede øjeblik lavede et styrt af den anden verden. Ski, stave, hue, sågar solbriller, var spredt rundt om et fladt udstrakt T. Hein i en radius af tre meter. Ganske sårende, men kun for værdigheden, og med en større bule i baghovedet som ekstra bonus.

Det var dog ikke noget, der ikke kunne kureres med en gang hjerterfri og medfølgende rigelige mængder øl med skruelåg hjemme i lejligheden!

Glade dage ...

søndag, april 01, 2007

Der var det nær gået galt for alvor



Uha, uha, uha ... Det kan ikke ses her, men der var - lykkeligvis! - en kæmpesnedrive et par meter under kanten af fotoet. Så kan jeg lære ikke at gabe over for stor en mundfuld. Jeg var en ganske grøn skiløber, der vovede en offpisteoplevelse på tur med Statskundskab i februar 2001. Sindssygt ...