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@RF – Thanks. Fantastic little interview. Great to see Bent wearing a Magma T-shirt . And I love what he says about the new music – "getting weirder somehow … less choruses".

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Can't see these videos Have they been posted anywhere else?

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@ JERO – I'm looking forward to Alkmaar too. Starting to get pretty excited

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@ Juergen. Thanks UFO!! I was never a fan, even though I did see them at Hammersmith Odeon back in the early-mid 80s. I've probably even heard this song. Must check it out.

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I don't know Rock Bottom. Where is that from?

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@ Tomcat lol I nearly did the same thing. I even started writing a post here. But before posting I went to the Sziget website, looked through the band listing, but no MP. I still checked the details of price, location etc. Then I went back to Facebook and suddenly noticed the date on the ad. 2017. Ha ha.

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Are you sure about Sziget? Someone posted that on Facebook but it was an ad from last year. It fooled me until I suddenly noticed it said 2017 on it.

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Interesting stats and info there. Now I'm just waiting to wake up tomorrow to read tonight's setlist! And to see if Kristoffer joined them.

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@ Johnny – Aha! This is where my lack of experience gives way to your more extensive knowledge. My main intention here is just to speculate on the type of set it might be. The tracks were simply ones I thought might make up a 75 min setlist for such an event. I could just have easily suggested K9, The Tower, Demon Box and Lacuna/Sunrise … or K9, HBM and Taifun. My hope is for a space jam type of set, but who knows. This is just speculation for fun.

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That would be sweet. Trust Us is easily among my favourite MP albums. I've been thinking the last couple of days of starting an appreciation thread. But also hoping there's an anniversary boxset like those released so far…

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So I've finished this book now. What a great read. My appreciation of the album Blissard had already changed before I read the book. When I first listened to it, I was not that impressed. Then one day, walking down the road with headphones on, the sonic brilliance and songwriting suddenly came to life. There are some tracks I prefer over others – my favourites being "Drug Thing" (which is just superb to these ears), Greener, S.T.G. and Manmower.

So I was ripe for reading this book, which just added so much more to my appreciation of the album, in particular in its place in the band's early history, as well as from the perspective of someone who has been listening to the band from a much earlier age than me and from an earlier period in the band's life.

A great fan book.

PS. As I don't yet have a physical copy of the album (I bought it as a download), I was unaware of the fact that it has "Into the void we have to travel" on the spine of the CD. As a long-time Hawkwind fan, to find this out really tickled me

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Another show announced:

2018-03-09 Serbia, Belgrade, Dom omladine

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Btw, I bumped into Bent at a jazz concert last week – so I assume the next album will be an accoustic jazz trio album

And it'll be one of the best accoustic jazz trio albums you ever heard. ☺

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I wrote above that I think it's a bit overpriced. Then again, so is Konsert For Folk Flest but I bought that because the music is awesome and so is the whole package. I'm not such a fan of Demon Box but any time the band make a good profit on something I won't complain because it seems to me they put way more of that back into the music than most bands would. So if a bit of extra cash leads to another album and another tour then I'm happy.

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Yep. This seems overpriced. But they made the funding in quick time so congratulations. Hopefully they'll make enough from the funding to consider releasing the CDs and BluRay as standard releases for those of us who are neither collectors/completists, nor Norwegian-speaking.

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