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Wednesday 15/11/00 - We left Turin Sandro Pertini
Airport at 7 o'c., we arrived at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
at 8.30, at 11.30 we had to fly to Stockholm but there was
about 40 min of delay and we arrived to Arlanda Airport at
14.50. As Swedish transport is very well organised we took
a bus from Arlanda to the City Terminal in Stock town and
from here a taxi to our flat in Orlby Slott in the South of
Stock. Here we met our hostess Leena a very good hostess and
her flat is very nice... little but very confortable and practical...
IN SHAPES OF BLUE! After dinner we left the apartment and
we went immediately to Gamla Stan (The Old Town) searching
for the Stampen Jazzpub
where Andreas worked when he was 18. We found a Jazzpub
after 10 min. Mystery remembered a bit the name, but we weren't
sure it was the right one.. we decided to enter the same!
Little, nice and with a very good jazz band playing on the
little stage, we were drinking beer and Irish café
when a woman started to sing... the sound involved us and
Unbreakable said to Mystery that probably they should have
been the parents of Andreas... Mystery, not sure, said they
couldn't be his parents... but that woman??? After their performance
we decided to go out and come back home, but fortunately Unbreakable
wanted to ask to the girl of the pub if that was the right
pub where Andreas worked some years before... the girl said
yes and she said also that the group was the Marie Johnson
Quintet his parents group and that after some min. of break
they should be returned to play... OH MY GOD! We asked: "COSA?"
in Italian and then in English "WHAT?".. that woman
was really the mom of our POET! Obviously we decided to stay
there and ask for some autographs. They arrived after some
min. and we asked to her if she was the mom of Andreas Johnson,
she said yes and she presented us her husband Gigge and the
other son Olof. We told them about our purpose of putting
our banner in front of the cameras of MTV and that we were
there only for Andreas, also if we hadn't EMAS tics. She asked
us if we had the tics but we said no, so she understood we
had to stay out of the Globen Arena waiting for him. We spoke
about our site and our love for his lyrics that are true poetry
and they were very happy for this. Than they started to play
again and we stay there till after 1 o'c. cos our last bus
was about at 2 o'c. During a little break, we are gone to
her telling that we had to go, we asked if we could put their
pics on our site and she told us: "Yes, you can use the
pictures for your site without problem". Than, Unbreakable
said her that there are many journalists who pretend Andreas
to want to imitate Bono or U2 etc.. but this is not true "HE
IS LIKE HIS MOM" the same passion, the same way of singing,
the same way of holding the mic, the same position of the
left lag... we repeat: he is like his mother! She was very
touched from these words, so she took in her hands our faces
and asked our names telling us that she should have said everything
to Andreas and we thanked her heartily for this, telling also
our nicknames for the internet and when she listen to the
Unbreakable nickname, she told us that this song is her favourite
one. At home we called Cosmic One to give her the news to
be able to write all in our guestbook. To sleep that night
was very difficult, but the day after was the EMAS day and
we had to be ready for it.
16/11/00 - We waked up at 8 o'c. and we
prepared for going out; shops open at 10 o'c. in Sweden so
we took all our time. First of all we went to the Globen Arena
to see the place of the EMAS 2000. It was a very foggy day
and we wasn't able to see the Globen eheheh... we met a boy
who searched for it too and he asked to some girls who answered
the Globen was there in front of us... in fact it was there,
the only problem is that the Globen is a white building! We
saw a big round in the fog and we could see it! The other
step was Sankt Eriksgatan: the record shop street ... do you
know what we were searched for? We found some Cotton albums,
but no copies of Brutal. In one record shop the boy told us
that he could try to order some copies.. so we gave him our
e-mail to keep in touch. Some Mc Donald's hamburgers and we
were ready for MTV TRL ITALY in the Kulturhuset (a big place
near the subway station). On air at 15 o'c. VJs asked to Unbreakable
to be a VJ for a minute with them, she said yes but instead
of to be a VJ they asked also for a boy to have a run competition
and win a tick for EMAS 2000... They had 2 ticks and they
gave a tic to Unbreakable and one to the other boy too. We
were so excited cos she could see Andreas in the Globen, but
this tick was also our defeat: going to prepare ourselves
for the night show, we didn't see him playing in the Kulturhuset
after TRL for SELECT NORDIC... grrrr nooooo!!!! Terrible!
We asked if someone knew if Andreas played there, but nobody
was able to answered us and we decided to come back to our
flat!!! 20.00 - Unbreakable was ready to enter in the Globen
Arena and Mystery to see him outside the Globe... nothing
was so boring like to wait for him 2 h. when you are not interested
in other artists!!! 5 min. of Andy and nothing else! Fortunately
we asked to our parents to record all... the Globen is very
big and also if Unbreakable was in VIP Zone near the boy of
the clip of Bomfunk Mc's, she was so far from the stage, as
you can see form our pics!!! After the show Unbreakable went
to the Berns Hotel for the MTV Official After-Show Party,
but Andreas wasn't there! She asked to some people inside
but nobody knew something about Andy! In the mean time Mystery
is gone to the Opera Café to see if Andy was there,
she asked but people said that night there were only Madonna
and Ricky Martin, so we decided to come back to our flat!
17/11/00 - Awaked at 10 o'c. we prepared
for going out and search for some other CDs. Found some Cotton
and Liebling for the other girls, we returned home at 14.30.
TRL was at 15.00 but we preferred to go to SELECT NORDIC that
started at 16.00, infect here the VJs saw our Andreas THE
POET Johnson banner and they immediately interviewed us. We
said we came form Italy only for him and that the day before
we won a tick for the EMAS, the VJ was very happy and he presented
Andreas as THEIR ROCK STAR "ANDREAS THE POET JOHNSON"
and he gave to Unbreakable a t-shirt of SELECT. After this
we waited for Master Of Intelligence who arrived form Motala
and we met in the Kulturhuset place. Immediately we went to
her flat and than we had a very good dinner in our flat: some
tarts, pasta and banana flambé. We went out at 21 o'c.
and we met some friends of Master in a Irish Pub where we
drank cocktails, beers, Irish café and Cider. The night
was very fun, after the pub we walked in the rain till a Disco
where we danced till 5 o'c., music was good and the DJ was
happy to see us dancing with joy. We were at home at 6 o'c.
and we awaked at 12 o'c.
18/11/00 - Saturday, we didn't do so much,
we were very tired, we had a meeting with Master in the subway
near the Globen at 15.00 and we took some pics in the Old
Town, near the Parliament and the Stampen Pub where we bought
also some t-shirt. Here we saw that Wedenesday night it was
the only concert of Marie Johnson Quintet!!! We was very lucky.
We decided to eat a very good pizza for dinner and we went
to Pizzeria Lilla Susanne near Sankt Eriksgatan... a very
good BIG pizza... Master said us that in Motala pizza is bigger
than there... in Italy there aren't so big pizza! At 21.00
we decided to come back home cos the day after we had to fly
and a taxi, booked from our hostess, was ready at 8 o'c. We
kissed and said bye to Master with a big sadness.
19/11/00 We arrived home at 19.00 and during the
travel we took some pics to us, to the airports and to the
clouds riding over them as our POET loves to say!
Unbreakable, Mystery, Master of Intelligence
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