Last Thursday I went to see Tristania at the Garage. There are no words to describe how excited I was. They've been one of my favourite bands for years, and I very rarely get the chance to see them live (only managed it once before at a festival when they played a pitifully short set). I'd listened the new album to death - I love it now, by the way, you just have to look at things from different angles occasionally :) - and I was all ready to sing and scream and whatever else.
Standing at the barrier in front of the stage while everyone else crowded round the bar - I'm sensing a theme here - it was all I could do not to lose my dinner. It was like almost fainting just before Florence + the Machine all over again, except I'd have felt a lot more stupid because no one else was nearly as excited.
Didn't have to wait as long as usual considering it was a Norwegian gig. They played 12 songs, a mixture from all their albums, and it was all over wayyyy too soon.
Mariangela Demurtas - little woman, big voice
Mariangela and Kjetil Nordhus - huge man, voice of an angel
Mariangela joined the band three years ago. To do this she had to move to Norway from Sardinia. She's learning how to speak Norwegian, and I'm very jealous because she's a lot more confident with it than I am, even though I think I probably have a better grasp of the grammer and a slightly bigger vocabulary. The most intelligent thing I could think to say to her on my way out the door, where she insisted on standing and saying goodbye to all of us, was something along the lines of 'wibble'. She said 'Takk for å komme', which was a lot more coherent even though it translates as 'Thanks for to come' - so cute! :D
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