{"id":106,"date":"2018-12-14T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T19:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:29:40","slug":"19-once-in-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/14\/19-once-in-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"19. Once in a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When the First Cab album \u201cLittle Pieces\u201d was about to be released in 1985, we did a record label showcase concert in Stockholm at the Orion Theatre, together with stablemates Imperiet and Docenterna. First Cab were at the bottom of the bill and Imperiet at the top. Which puts Docenterna, hmm, firmly in the middle. We had borrowed an apartment from the record company for a couple of nights and the evening before the concert went out to celebrate the album release and the upcoming concert, which was perhaps the biggest gig we had done at that point and certainly the most important. The beer flowed freely during the evening and at least one of us threw up walking back to the apartment. Not naming any names, but I think it was the drummer. Initals BH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had to be at the\nvenue by early afternoon for the soundcheck, and standing in the centre of that\nhuge stage, pale-faced and shaking slightly, was not one of my proudest\nmoments. We were all very tired and badly hungover and struggled through the\nsoundcheck. Nobody was expecting any action from us and of course they didn\u2019t\nget any. We simply played through a few songs and that was that. The concert\nwas also to be filmed, adding to the stress, though the main focus for that was\nImperiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just before we went onstage, I was speaking to the label MD Peter, and asked him if I should talk in English or Swedish between the songs. \u201cEnglish\u201d was the reply, so that\u2019s what I did. The consequence of that was one of the daily newspapers (DN) in their concert review wondering why the First Cab singer spoke in \u201cbad English\u201d between the songs. What? My English isn\u2019t that bad! I\u2019ve always suspected that in fact it was his English that was crap and he simply didn\u2019t understand what I was saying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But we weren\u2019t as\nactive onstage as we normally would have been. We didn\u2019t have enough energy for\nthat. So, although our gig was also filmed, no-one ever bothered to edit it for\nuse in any way. Not worth the expense, most likely. There exists a video\ncassette (somewhere), taken from one of the three cameras which filmed the gig,\nthe one placed right at the back of the venue. I haven\u2019t seen the film for 30\nyears and to be honest I don\u2019t have any great desire to see it either. In fact I\nwatched a bit of it only once when I had it in my possession. The sound on the video\ncassette is from the microphone on that particular camera and though I can\u2019t actually\nremember what it sounded like, it had to be substandard, with the whole length\nof the venue between us and the microphone. \n\nWe were a good live band – sometimes very good \u2013 which is\nhow we got the record deal in the first place. We had the opportunity to make\nan impression on a crowd of two thousand in a classic Stockholm venue with all\nthe major newspapers there to see it, but we lost it in a cloud of alcoholic\nfumes. I can\u2019t even blame it on being young and stupid, as I was 31 at the\ntime. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the First Cab album \u201cLittle Pieces\u201d was about to be released in 1985, we did a record label showcase concert in Stockholm at the Orion Theatre, together with stablemates Imperiet and Docenterna. First Cab were at the bottom of the bill and Imperiet at the top. Which puts Docenterna, hmm, firmly in the middle. … <\/p>\n

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