Jamie Lidell

Tourtagebuch: Helsinki Is Hell

03.12.2008, 12:37, Text: Jamie Lidell, Foto: www.crackerfarm.com

Der Berliner Soulman Jamie Lidell ist immer noch mit Elton John unterwegs. Heute berichtet er aus Hamburg. Den ersten Teil des von ihm verfassten Tourtagebuchs lest ihr hier, den zweiten hier.

JAMIE LIDELL / Elton John / TOUR DIARY, #3.

Dec 1st, Helsinki, Finland.

It's hard not to feel a little sick passing the huge, lonely looking neon E in the corridor as a cold Helsinki wind whips through the arena… I'm blaming it on the sea legs and drumsticks… chicken legs and sea sticks that is. Yep…We're back in dry land and the warm glove of catering. There's something happening here… but we don't know what it is.

Something's different today.

Word is the clock is a bitch. The Elton crew has only 6 hours left before doors. In that time they have to build a wall, a tower and a spaceship. They tell us we won't even get a sound check … that's okay.

Right now, petty things like the way the soya milk is curdling in the coffee trouble me. Looks like breadcrumb soup as we read more of the bad news from Mumbai. The letter E is looking just as lost as ever. This really isn't such a big production we're told. Henry is the boss of production. He explains that this crew is a good size. Manageable. There are some shows that sprawl out of control. Madonna is mentioned. I think of Elton.

We've found food and a whole lot of hockey paraphernalia. It's pucking cold and we're all a little spun out after 16 hours on the Viking liner. As the coffee sets in, news hits that the big man won't be showing up tonight. It was off, then it was on … but this time it looks like that E is going back in the truck. Looks even more lonely now…

We don't know where we're going: certainly not on stage. Shame… we were gonna try something new tonight, too…

When a show is cancelled it's like the worker bees have readied the hive but the queen isn't coming home…no honey tonight...get well soon, Elton!!

Jamie Lidell berichtet weiterhin exklusiv von seinen Tourerlebnissen auf intro.de.