The guys and girls had a day off after Helsingborg and the tour continued last night in Skövde. On our way to the venue, entering the town, we saw a huge digital screen that promoted different concerts, Gyllene Tider among them.
It might sound stupid that I always mention what the weather was like before or during the show, but Swedish summer can really have an effect on the concert experience. While we were waiting outside the venue, it was sunny and the rain visited us for only a few minutes every now and then. We hoped for no rain during the concert, but unfortunately, the weather forecast turned out to be correct…
While we were still outside, waiting for the gates to open, we saw the band arriving to the venue and they entered the catering area just next to us, where we were lining up. Nice ending to our waiting time. Haha.
The setting was a bit similar to Helsingborg, except for the fact that in Skövde the side screens were used again. On one of them, a tiny little part of the lighting didn’t work, so a technician came and like Spiderman, climbed up on the back of the side panel and fixed it. He got an applause from the audience.
A big part of the entering people went to the venue early to have the best picnic spots. This happens only in Sweden. Haha. Already during Chris Kläfford, the support act, it was clear to me that this crowd is loud and very much into having a great night out. And they proved I was right. What an awesome, loud sing-along audience it was! They were singing along all songs and jumping and dancing and clapping and all!
The band was in absolute top shape! Probably, the crowd’s great mood added much to the guys’ and girls’ mood too. They were smiling constantly and rocked Skövde! MP was even more active than on the previous shows. He even threw many guitar picks of his to the crowd. Regarding Anders I can say he arrived to the GT40 tour. I think he needed these few first gigs to really get into it all. Last night he was even coming to the front part of the stage and smiled a lot and looked to the crowd too. Now only Göran needs to be a bit more at ease and bounce a bit more behind his Farfisa. Micke Syd was on a high when he could get closer to the crowd on his song and his drumming ruled on all the other songs. Per interacted even more with MP and Malin-My on stage, as well as his technician, Micke N-S and he was bouncing around all the time. Dea and Malin-My changed their stage clothes to black ones. They looked even better than in the red and pink clothes before. And they were of course dancing a lot and doing the backing vocals, animating the crowd, plus Malin-My played a number of instruments too, as usual.
The setlist changed a bit vs. Helsingborg, which means the Golden Guys skipped Chrissie, hur mår du? and Billy, and they played 22 songs this way. Actually, they planned to play 23 songs according to MP’s setlist and in the first encore the first song would have been Skrot och korn again, not Billy. It was most probably cut due to the extremely heavy rain. It started with showers at Vandrar i ett sommarregn (Weather God took the title too seriously) then stopped and started again, until after Låt denna trumslagarpojke sjunga! when the ponchos had to be taken on. Well… it didn’t matter. Despite wearing a poncho we still got soaking wet, it was such a heavy rain. But the crowd was full of really enthusiastic people and one could see how the band appreciated our perseverance. It was lovely! During the closing song, Micke Syd chose to be sitting on the edge of the upper stage, because the rain didn’t let him come down, closer to us.
According to Micke Syd, the gig was sold out and according to Per there were appr. 10,000 people in the audience.
This was the first show where Anders Roos wasn’t there to take photos. Åsa also didn’t travel to Skövde with the gang, but Micke Syd’s wife, Helena was there.
It’s usually the actual gig that seems to be the best so far and I dare to say that it was a fantastic concert, really the best so far. If I want to quote Per, it’s hard to top, but not impossible. Next stop is Linköping, so let’s see what happens there!
Setlist
- Skicka ett vykort, älskling
- Juni, juli, augusti
- Det hjärta som brinner
- (Hon vill ha) Puls
- Flickorna på TV2
- Vandrar i ett sommarregn
- (Dansar inte lika bra som) Sjömän
- Det kändes inte som maj
- Flickan i en Cole Porter-sång
- Tuffa tider
BAND PRESENTATION
- Låt denna trumslagarpojke sjunga!
- Kung av sand
- En sten vid en sjö i en skog
- Ljudet av ett annat hjärta
- Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly
- (Kom så ska vi) Leva livet
- Tylö Sun
Encore 1
- Det är över nu
- Gå & fiska!
Encore 2
- När vi två blir en
- Sommartider
- När alla vännerna gått hem
All pics in the article are taken by Patrícia Peres.
GIG#5 Skövde. Wow! Magisk kväll, ofattbart härligt att höra alla sjunga med i 120dB hela tiden!!! Och extra medalj för att ni pallade med HÄLLREGNET (rain from hell?) sista halvan av konserten. Love you all. Tack för allt. /GT