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Jan wrote:

Gareth wrote:Never been to Denmark - might be worth a visit

I've been to the Smukfest Festival some years ago to see Suede. Except for a lot of beer as of 7AM (and Suede of course), no special reasons to go there

OI!!

I actually think its a really nice festival, quite well organised, in a forrest and usually the weather is good

TIckets are expensive thats unfortunately typically Denmark!
Hope to see some of you there! And / or hope for more dates to see you other places

it's like a romance with your country, flash girl... the Copenhagen brett solo rocked!

flash_girl wrote: OI!!

In fact I enjoyed Smukfest a lot in 2002 !!

ahhh that picture brings back memories
Im glad you had a good time, come back! hehe

flash_girl wrote:ahhh that picture brings back memories

I really didn't like Brett in his 'rolled-up sleeve muscle shirt' phase of 2002... He looks sooooo much better now, and his stage antics at RAH were again a thousand times better than when I saw them in 2002... I thought back then he'd gone a bit 'stadium band'... It hurts me to say these horrible things, but I feel I can, because their comeback last week was beyond my wildest dreams and expectations!

Oh I used to like his pumped up muscle shaking mic swinging thrusting antics - looks a bit too girly and poofy these days with his stage antics - even more than the early days lol!!!!! All that shuffling was a bit weird - at least he still managed to boot a bottle of water into the crowd...!!!!

haha... I thought about that too. I wonder if he had trained for that!

Maybe he got the shuffling from a bullfighter sun???!!! Looked like how they move to me - perhaps he was honing his performance ready for his spanish show???!! Óle...!!!

looks a bit too fragile for all the old stage antics lol - ok i guess people would say he's moved on and got older and of course we still have occasional hand clapping and pogoing and jumping but I used to like the insanity of the cu, hm and anm eras - oh and the dms era was one of my favs for his performance....!!

anyway again i am now saying no more about performance before i get accused of being frivolous!!!!

No talk of hair, style, performance here - must all be about substance - songwriting, guitar chords, amps, effects pedals etc...!!!

Oh btw - I guess the interview never happened Jan??? maybe u can try and bring that back to the forefront some point in the future??? Thought some of the questions we came up with were quite good...!

And there wasn't even a hint of a question like "which do you think works best to keep your hair so shiny and manageable?? - 'wash and go' (with its natural plant extracts) or 'head & shoulders' (with its mild anti-dandruff formula)"!!!!

a lot of eye-rolling needed today!!!! me being a try hard lol!!!! for reference see the other place....!!

kats_d wrote:

flash_girl wrote:ahhh that picture brings back memories

I really didn't like Brett in his 'rolled-up sleeve muscle shirt' phase of 2002... He looks sooooo much better now, and his stage antics at RAH were again a thousand times better than when I saw them in 2002... I thought back then he'd gone a bit 'stadium band'... It hurts me to say these horrible things, but I feel I can, because their comeback last week was beyond my wildest dreams and expectations!

Well the festival and the gig was still pretty good imo.. hence the good memories I agree the reunion i RAH was much better than I ever thought as well, I hope the smuk fest gig will be better than the 2002 one too, eventhough every gig with them now is like a fairytale after not thinking they would ever come back..

Are there flights going directly there?

from where? not direct, but close

close with transit? i've bought my ticket now and am worrying about it now as i can't drive/know no one in denmark etc. TYPICAL ME.

have you tried this?
http://www.smukfest.dk/index.asp?id1=22 ... rans/da/en

there is a forum there too where I am sure that the lovely danish people will help you!

jarvizcocker wrote:close with transit? i've bought my ticket now and am worrying about it now as i can't drive/know no one in denmark etc. TYPICAL ME.

It won't be that bad, they do speak English there (:

Back to the subject: you have to fly to Aarhus, and from there take a train/coach to Skanderborg. Unfortunately the airport is on the other side of town, but I'm sure there's some kind of shuttle service.

I bought my ticket for Smukfest 2 weeks ago, so I'll be going too this year

I live in Århus, so I'll be going to Skanderborg by car with my girlfriend. I can bring 2 or 3 people along if the timing is right


Some practical information and links:

The airport closest to Skanderborg is Århus/Tirstrup Airport. The airport is located about 35 km North-East of Århus. The airport website is http://www.aar.dk/default.asp?id=87

To go from the airport to Skanderborg, you need to take the airport shuttle bus to Århus. For more info click here: http://www.aar.dk/default.asp?id=83 The ticket is about £9 one-way.

The bus will arrive in Århus right outside the trainstation. From here you can either take the train or the bus. The train takes about 15-20 minutes, and the bus takes about 1 hour. The bus you can take is no. 107. I don't know the prices for the train or the bus, but Skanderborg is only about 30 km away from Århus, so I guess it will be about £6-8 one-way.

In Skanderborg, the festival is within walking distance from the train-station (as far as I remember), but I'm sure there'll be shuttle-busses aswell.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask


/Thomas