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General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: Rusco on August 16, 2014, 08:58:05 PM
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Ok, it's quite early to put up a thread for a Swedish part of the October tour, but here it goes!
Anything concerning Stockholm / Malmö / Gothengurg (Göteborg) gigs is welcome here.
We travelled to Stockholm last time on March when the gig should have been there. Found some exciting places; cheap hotel, excellent restaurants and easy travel routes via underground or by a walk. The best part of Stockholm is for sure Södermalm (southern city area under the "old town"). We also met some great Family friends like jsyirish and his friend there.
It's gonna be great days then in October! Anyone joining?? Fransson, Mia, others...? :)
The Sweden's tour part is gonna be like this:
14th Göteborg, Sticky Fingers (SE)
15th Oslo, John Dee (NO)
16th Stockholm, Göta källar (SE)
17th Malmo, Babel (SE)
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All i know is the websites selling tickets only accepts money from people from EU nations. No paypal and set back ten years ago in the past. I would like to go though and may have to chance a sellout and buy tickets at the door.
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Hi there!
Me and my wife are going to Gothenburg (Göteborg).
I'll follow this thread to see if there will be info about a pre gig meeting somewhere.
We're not from Göteborg though, so we don't know about any places to meet.
Looking forward to the gig!
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Hej,
currently living in Uppsala, I can offer a few seats in my car going from Uppsala to Göteborg, Oslo and Stockholm (as roundtrip, sleeping on campsites).
So, if anyone needs a ride, let me know :)
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Some links to good places to go in Stockholm:
Göta Källare (http://www.gotakallare.com/site/index.php) The place where the gig is going to be!
Here (https://www.google.com/maps/place/G%C3%B6ta+K%C3%A4llare/@59.314284,18.073126,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xe9506bdbd051599b?hl=fi-FI) is a map. The club resides in a corner of Götgatan which is sort of a main avenue of many pubs and restaurants. There's a hotel on the other side of the street of the gig place as well. Götgatan is mostly a centre of action in good ways. Södermalm resides near to that and it takes only 15 minutes walk through Folkungagatan and Renstiernas Gata to Skonegatan near to the park you could see in the map above. The park area is a lively, beautiful and humane place where people and families tend to spend their time on weekends in Summer. Some good footie pubs near to that too.
Sound Pollution (https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Sound+Pollution+Songs+AB/@59.324697,18.068361,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x86f3d9579455bf38)
This is a great metal/rock/punk record shop in Stora Nygatan in the centre of the (very) Old Town in the middle of Stockholm. There are lots of old buildings and tight avenues. Better watch out you don't loose your money to tourist shops here...
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Hermitage (http://www.happycow.net/reviews/hermitage-stockholm-16018)
This is a nice vegetarian restaurant at Stora Nygatan where you can get heeps of delicious food for a good price. Tasty...
Saluhall (https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Tysta+Mari/@59.335842,18.078193,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x184150fe6e72404c)
Östermalm's Saluhall residing in northern Stockholm. If you're looking for some special delicacy on you plate and your not a veggie, then this might be for you. It's a hall full of special shops.
Edit: I updated the link text above. It's Saluhall, not Tysta Mari.
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Hermitage (http://www.happycow.net/reviews/hermitage-stockholm-16018)
This is a nice vegetarian restaurant at Stora Nygatan where you can get heeps of delicious food for a good price. Tasty...
Thanks for the veggie tip-off, I was not expecting to fare too well in that respect!
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Btw, does any of you know if the tickets bought for the orginal march shows are still valid as they are? Or do I need to exchange them somehow?
Btw, if you have some time in Stockholm, the Wasa museum is quite worth a visit. You´ll get quite immediate why this ship didn´t go very far ;) It´s really impressive though, a beautiful piece of art!
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Yes, the tickets are still valid.
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Does anyone know if there is an alternative site to buy tickets?
They don't like foreign debit or credit cards. I hate buying at the venue.
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Good to know Viv, thanks :)
Amandistan, oh crap! Sorry to hear that. Have you tried "Tickster"? I just quickly read on their website that you can contact the customer service when you have problems paying.
support@tickster.com
http://www.tickster.com/sv/support/5
http://www.tickster.com/sv/support/7
It´s in swedish, but contact them with your question, most swedish speak excellent english :)
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I have and it seems that they can not accept my card due to it not having a micro-chip and being secure enough.
It simply because American cards are behind. You still have to sign to buy anything. I am getting someone to get them for me so it will work out fine.
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I am getting [...] someone to get them for me so it will work out fine.
Hope you will get your ticket, Amandistan! Great to know people are coming there. :)
Ava Enturin, as a local you might be a person who knows the best places to have a pre-gig meeting or something? In the case if there's something you would like to recommend to us.
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Hej Rusco,
I´d be delighted to recommend something - but I never was in Göteborg, actually. Living in Sweden nearly 4 years now, and now making my first trip down south!
However, I can try to investigate and ask around here if someone knows a nice pub :)
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I know that there are pubs and restaurants close to the venue (Sticky Fingers) in Gothenburg. Can't recall any names though!
Just a quick search on the web gave me this: https://www.google.se/maps/search/pub+n%C3%A4ra+sticky+fingers+g%C3%B6teborg/@57.7014014,11.9639544,15z
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Does anyone know of any cheap places to get food in any of the cities in Sweden? I don't drink so not worried about that. I keep hearing about how expensive Sweden is.
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Rusco, I asked a friend who knows Göteborg, and she said "Andra långgatan" (which means basically "second longest road") has a lot of pubs. :)
Just now quickly checked, and there seem to be some options, like
Publik: http://cafepublik.blogspot.se/
or
Sejdeln: http://sejdelnpub.webs.com/
It seems not too far to walk over to the venue from there :)
Amandistan, we have some supermarkets here, and in all of them you can get some bargains (if you´re flexible), but for a generally cheaper supermarket look out for "Willys".
Food in restaurants is usually quite expensive (good you didn´t start me on the beer prices...). But there is a swedish burger brand (Max), which is presumably the most affordable source of ready-to-eat food, perhaps with "Sybilla" (<-- but I´ve never eaten there).
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I plan on fasting for a few days then. Or bringing a large bag of food from Germany. I don't understand why they have to make everything so expensive. How do the poor and unemployed even survive?
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"Carmen" for cheaper beer (Tjärhovsgatan 14) and local to the venue.
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If you live in an country and you are poor or unemployed - you have a place to stay, not forced to buy meals and drinks in a restaurant (because you don`t have enough money to travel or tickets for x gigs a month, but enough money to buy food)
A lot of germans are travellingwitha large bag of food in their cars - and a lot of scandinavins come to the north of germany only for some hours to buy as much beer or other drinks as they can affort or is allowed ;)
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It's not that expensive....have you been to London recently?
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Here's a tip for you, eat at lunchtime, look out for places advertising "Dagens Lunch" which normally includes a hot main meal (a choice of 4 or 5 dishes), a drink, a salad buffet, bread and butter and Tea or Coffee...sorted.
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Oh yes, "Dagens lunch", totally forgot about that! That´s usually really a good bargain :)
And don´t forget to refill you coffee cup, which is usually included.
I am sorry, Amandistan, if my post sounded that you´d have to starve for a few days - I intended the opposite, actually. You´ll find for instance ready-made salads with pasta or bulgur or such in the supermarkets for round 60 SEK. Personally, I buy my food for the whole week for around 300 SEK, which are round 33 €.
So, food is really not the most expensive part here in Sweden. Just don´t bring your car to a garage or ask the vet to attend to your animal after 17h (or such). Some stuff is even cheaper to buy here than in Middle Europe - used cars, for instance.
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Rusco, I asked a friend who knows Göteborg, and she said "Andra långgatan" (which means basically "second longest road") has a lot of pubs. :)
Oh, A. Enturin, thanks a lot! But unfortunately I have to tell ya we are doing just the Stockholm's Göta Källare gig. Me & Minna are spending 3 days there. You come over with a car from Uppsala and spend a night somewhere? I think that we will meet with Jsyirish and his friend somewhere before the gig.
For everyone joining the gig and possibly looking for a hotel from Stockholm; I have to recommend a sailing ship hotel called Ånedin Hostel which resides in Old Town at the coast/harbour. Their morning breakfast is quite good and a price for a night for two is nearly half to that compared what it costs in "real" hotels - even if you book a deluxe room. The area of the coast is also quite peaceful and there's not so much noise from the streets. It's only 25 minutes walk to Gota Källare.
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Hej, too bad you´re not going to make it to Göteborg! It´s really quiet here regarding this gig, wonder if I´ll see any familiar faces?
Will be going by car to the outskirts of Stockholm and from there via Tunnelbanan / Pendeltåg and driving home after the gig, it´s only round an hour north were I live.
Hope to meet you in Stockholm then :)
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Hej, too bad you´re not going to make it to Göteborg! It´s really quiet here regarding this gig, wonder if I´ll see any familiar faces?
There used to be some Swedes here too like Magnus, Fransson & Mia. Would be nice to seem them at the gigs too.
Maybe we should organise some meet-up for somewhere at Thursday?
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Hey Rusco
How about Brother Tucks for a few beers before the gig
I will send you a PM
D
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That sounds good, Rusco!
To the Stockholm gig I´ll bring a lovely irish friend of mine along, for her first NMA gig ever, so it would be great to meet up before for a full flavour of NMA gig-ing :)
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Hej, too bad you´re not going to make it to Göteborg! It´s really quiet here regarding this gig, wonder if I´ll see any familiar faces?
There used to be some Swedes here too like Magnus, Fransson & Mia. Would be nice to seem them at the gigs too.
Maybe we should organise some meet-up for somewhere at Thursday?
We're still here... sometimes!
And we will certainly be at the Malmö gig.
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Me and a couple of Gothenburg locals have been discussing a meet up place for Tuesday, so have had a look round and have decided on a good option. "Jerntorgets Brygghus" - at Järntorget. Meeting from 18:30hrs. Good beer and food, there's also plenty of eating places around here and on neighbouring Andra Långatan. If you're short on cash there's some chain places like Burger King and Netto close by. It's 5 minutes walk from the venue. Hope to see some of you there, it's a really good city to spend time in :)
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Coming to Stockholm show from Finland, on a boat obviously :) Any idea at what time the show starts?
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Doors seems to be opened at 20:00 to Göta Källare.
Brother Tucks would be good for couple of beers before the gig. It's just five minutes walk to the gig place.
Oh Fransson hope you're doing ok, mate. Cheers!
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Thanks for that muninn. I will be at the pub in about an hour. I will even try to drag my sleeping travel companion out of bed to come along. May not be an easy task. :D
Hope to see everyone who posted in this thread sometime over the next few days. I am actually finding some fairly not so expensive food. It basically costs about the dame as London in Sweden.
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I'm waiting for the gig so much. I hope it would be an awesome opportunity maybe to reconstruate a year past release of Between Dog & Wolf which is still in my memories so strongly.
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I would suggest either Carmen, Tjärhovsgatan 14 or
Kvarnen, Tjärhovsgatan 4
They are both just minutes away from the venue, Carmen is a cheapish place with mostly students as an audience
Kvarnen is where we went after the last show in stockholm with the band, but it's not a cheap place.
I would not recommend to have a meet up at Brother Tuck, that pub have been known to be a hangout for criminals, lowlifes and drug addicts. There have been 2 murders in the premises or just outside.
See you tomorrow :)
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Doors seems to be opened at 20:00 to Göta Källare.
Brother Tucks would be good for couple of beers before the gig. It's just five minutes walk to the gig place.
Oh Fransson hope you're doing ok, mate. Cheers!
Cheers!
I'm ******* sick at the moment, sinusitis and no voice. Hopefully not ebola. Trying hard to recover 'til Friday!
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Malmö....any nice place there having a beer or two?(or orangejuice and hot tea fighting a cold...)
maybe see you there
Stephan
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Malmö....any nice place there having a beer or two?(or orangejuice and hot tea fighting a cold...)
maybe see you there
Stephan
There will be a pre- and after gathering at Häng Bar, 10 minutes walk from the venue.
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Set List From Tonights show in Stockholm
GUESSING
NO REST
MARCH IN SEPTEMBER
STATES RADIO
DEVILS BARGAIN
ANGRY PLANET
NO MIRROR NO SHADOW
WHITE COATS
KNIEVEL
NO PAIN
STORMCLOUDS
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY
BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF
PURITY
FAMILY
225
HEADLIGHTS
GET ME OUT
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We would like to extend our apologies to anyone who was roughly ejected from the Göta Källare in Stockholm last night. We were very disappointed by the behaviour of the bouncers at the club and have made a complaint especially as the same discourtesy was meted out to the band and crew afterwards.
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Sorry to hear that. Bouncers with more muscles than brains often like to show what little power they have with shove and shout >:(
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Luckily it didn't spoil the great performance...thanks for travelling up here. There will be a better venue to choose in 2020 I'm sure. Shame the show got moved from the more friendly Dieselverkstaden venue.
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It's sad to hear if there were problems at Stockholm. At first I was a bit nervous about the "old" tickets if the bouncers don't accept them but everything was ok. We liked the show very much. All of the group seemed to be in a very good mood despite the thick touring. And they rocked!
It was nice to see many of you there too; welsh_beard, John, jsyirish, Tom, Toni and co. and others from Finland too! Big hugs to all of you and hope you have a pleasant journey at the forthcoming gigs too.
From,
crazy bald headed grey bearded whirlwind ;)