Gyllene Tider – Hux Flux – Skövde – 19th July 2023 – #8

The welcoming sign to Skövde was a Gyllene Tider LED screen with their old pic from the ’80s. There were also quite some posters in town to promote the event at Boulognerskogen. The band played here in 2019 too and that was a rainy show. This time there was no rain, but it was windy. So windy that for Uno Svenningsson’s session the technicians tried to set up the backdrop, but it was moving too much, so they decided to take it off.

Uno started at 20:00 and GT got on stage at 21:15. The LED wall was back after Lysekil and also the sidedrops were used, as well as the Hux Flux sign on top of the stage.

Because of the cold, ginger tea was brought to Per more times than usual. The mix Micke Syd prepares for PG each night tasted as strawberry again, Per said. It was a Töreboda special, Micke Syd said. While they were talking about this, Micke N-S, who already brought Per his next guitar, sat down in front of the drums and waited until Mr. G finished his talking.

Windy gigs mean plectrum-licking gigs. Haha. Both Per and Anders licked their picks several times, to make them stick to their fingers while playing. Regarding Per’s in-ear system, of which the cable is fixed on his back, something was wrong or at least uncomfortable. He was touching it on his neck many times and made some funny moves.

Before Tuffa tider, Per said the ukulele is the world’s sexiest instrument and if in winter you are on Costa del Sol, you might bump into Micke Syd playing ukulele there. Micke Syd said yes, he plays „una paloma blanca” and some GT hits. They sound very good in Spain.

When the band presentation started, Micke Syd disappeared for a little time – you’ll read it later, why – and Per started with the two fantasic ladies, who are singing divinely. Then came Halmstad’s own boogie king, MP. No party without Göran, PG said. When introducing Anders, he only said „Anders Herrlin on bass”, but Micke Syd added „he’s damn handsome”. Anders reacted with an „eh” in the mic. Micke Syd was introduced as GT’s spine and Micke introduced Per as the man, the myth, the legend and sports car fan. Haha.

Before Min tjej och jag, Micke said he would hang out in the front a bit more. He would sing a song. Per wrote it for him to sing in 1981 and back then Micke asked PG if it was something like the Yellow Submarine with Ringo. Ehm. Haha. Here it turned out why Micke disappeared. He opened his jacket and showed his T-shirt with a picture of him and his wife, Helena. He said they would have their 18th wedding anniversary tomorrow, so he dedicated the song to her. How sweet! Happy anniversary! After MTOJ – as Micke Syd usually does during the past few concerts – he threw the mic to his technician, Albin, who caught it.

After the gang went off stage, the audience was clapping and screaming „en gång till”. Before the first encore, BoJo came up on stage and while standing on the side, he was checking if the crowd was loud enough. He put his hand to his ear to listen, so the crowd got louder. Haha. Unfortunately, it seems that Billy is on sick leave, so he didn’t appear in the first encore. We hope he gets well soon and will shine on stage again one of these days.

Before the second encore, the crowd started singing Sommartider. When the guys and girls came back on stage and the audience was still singing Sommartider, Per said they thought they would skip this song. Haha. „We play this one instead!” And they played När vi två blir en, which I think was the highlight of the gig. The audience got into it very much, singing along loudly.

PG thanked for a fantastic evening and said he hopes the audience had as much fun as they did. He wished everyone a fantastic summer and said he hopes we meet again and everyone takes care of each other.

Next stop is Kalmar on Friday.

Setlist

1. Gyllene Tider igen
2. Juni, juli, augusti
3. Det hjärta som brinner
4. Skicka ett vykort, älskling
5. Gammal kärlek rostar aldrig
6. Flickorna på TV2
7. Chrissie, hur mår du?
8. (Hon vill ha) Puls
9. En sten vid en sjö i en skog
10. Flickan i en Cole Porter-sång
11. Tuffa tider

Band presentation

12. Min tjej och jag
13. Kung av sand
14. Ljudet av ett annat hjärta
15. Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly
16. (Kom så ska vi) Leva livet / (Dansar inte lika bra som) Sjömän / Tylö Sun medley

Encore 1

17. Det är över nu
18. Gå & fiska!

Encore 2

19. När vi två blir en
20. Sommartider
21. När alla vännerna gått hem

 

 

 

   

 

 

All photos in the article by Patrícia Peres

Per after the show:

Amazing Wednesday in Skövde. Thx for stopping by and singing along!!!!

Gyllene Tider – GT40 – Skövde – 12th July 2019 – #5

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

  1. Skicka ett vykort, älskling
  2. Juni, juli, augusti
  3. Det hjärta som brinner
  4. (Hon vill ha) Puls
  5. Flickorna på TV2
  6. Vandrar i ett sommarregn
  7. (Dansar inte lika bra som) Sjömän
  8. Det kändes inte som maj
  9. Flickan i en Cole Porter-sång
  10. Tuffa tider

BAND PRESENTATION

  1. Låt denna trumslagarpojke sjunga!
  2. Kung av sand
  3. En sten vid en sjö i en skog
  4. Ljudet av ett annat hjärta
  5. Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly
  6. (Kom så ska vi) Leva livet
  7. Tylö Sun

Encore 1

  1. Det är över nu
  2. Gå & fiska!

Encore 2

  1. När vi två blir en
  2. Sommartider
  3. När alla vännerna gått hem

 

 

 

 

All pics in the article are taken by Patrícia Peres.

GT after the gig:

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