Munich February 11th: Only 8 shows left, we're playing Munich tonight. We've had some cool shows during the last few weeks, Zagreb and Belgrade were maybe the best so far. The other day, Pratteln was sold out - first time for me (my 5th visit there). In a few days we'll play Warszaw where we'll also record the show. One thing that's become apparent during this tour is that many of the stages have been too small for our production. In my opinion, Therion should start playing a bit fewer shows but bigger venues instead. The overall impression would be better for the fans. So far, we've only had full production at 2-3 shows.During the time off, I've worked a lot with my Powerbook/Logic on new songs and also on lyrics for other artists. In the next few days, me & Snowy will sit down and sort out all our song ideas and make plans for when/what to record this year. /M.
Madrid January 26th: As some of you might know, we had to cancel the sold-out show in Tolouse because of a snowstorm. The police had shut down the roads, so we never had a chance to make it. The Barcelona show went fine, I've been sick a couple of days but hopefully noone could tell...
Tonight we play Madrid and tomorrow Bergara. Therion didn't play Madrid on the last tour, pre-sales have been pretty good and everyone's looking forward to tonight's show./M.
Paris January 23rd: Just arrived at Elysée Montmartre, we had our first day off yesterday at a hotel outside of Paris. Tonight's show is no. 6 on the tour, it took a couple of shows before we had a setlist that worked. We've only been able to use the whole production at 2-3 venues so far.
I think Antwerp felt best last week, London was good too (small stage though).
I'll try to visit the Picasso museum today, maybe Sacre Ceur as well.../M.
January 23rd 2007
