After the gig in Lysekil it would have been Ronneby’s turn, but as everyone knows, Per got sick and Ronneby and Kalmar have been postponed to later dates. Thank God those gigs were not cancelled, so we can still see GT in those 2 towns.
We’d been worried about Mr. G since it barely happened during his 40-year-long career that he had to cancel shows. So it must have been more serious than just man flu. We were expecting news any minute to see if the planned gig in Piteå would happen. Fortunately, 2 days before the show Per felt himself strong enough to share the info he felt much better and he confirmed the gig on Wednesday would happen. More than that, on Tuesday we got the news that the gang even decided for a last show in Halmstad on August 10th, which is awesome.
The venue in Piteå I knew from Per’s 2017 tour. Pite Havsbad is a beautiful place at the seaside. Many arrived by boats and watched the concert from the sea. This time Pite Havsbad beat their record, because now there were 13491 people in the audience. The latest record was from 2006 and then there were appr. 11600 people for a concert (John Fogerty). Not bad! Per mentioned that the last time GT played Piteå was August 1981, but then they performed at another venue.
There was no new song added to the setlist and on top of it, it was 2 songs less vs. the usual one. The guys and girls skipped Tylö Sun and the first song in the first encore. For this first gig after Per’s sickness I can understand that. One could hear that he is still not 100% healthy. He kept his voice low and saved it also on those songs on which otherwise there is more power in his singing. He didn’t save energy on his moves though. The whole band supported him very well and the crowd was very active. They were singing along loudly and clapping all the time. Before the encores they were singing mainly Sommartider, but tried out other loud vocals too. Per changed a few lines in 2-3 songs to nana lala singing, which was cute, but found the correct lines quickly. As I heard, this was the first crowd that knew most of the lyrics to Låt denna trumslagarpojke sjunga! Nice. The new songs worked very cool on this audience.
Now a day off and tomorrow the gang plays at another beautiful venue, Dalhalla!
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
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.
Underbara PITEÅ, tack för att vi fick komma till ert fantastiska Havsbad och dessutom få sätta PUBLIKREKORD!!! Tjohooo, Micke blev så glad att han tog en ostmacka! Och vädret var på vår sida också. Nu styr kosan imorgon mot Dalhalla. Syns vi där?