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Today I passed by the place where I will be living starting next week. I’m really looking forward to hanging out with my new awesome housemate and to be living 10 minutes by foot from work. Also, I am looking forward to really exploring Copenhagen and to live in these incredibly cool 200 year old houses. My room will be the smallest I have ever stayed in, but that will just give me more reason to hang out more with people. Another thing to be happy about is that the first number of my Guardian Weekly subscription arrives on Friday. All is good. :)

Amadou et Mariam

After work today I met with my lovely colleagues and boss and we went to see Amadou et Mariam live at Malmö Festivalen. They are a blind musical duo from Mali and the music is something defined as afro-blues or afro-rock. They mix different styles and the result doesn’t allow you to stand still for a second! The show was great, we danced and had a really good time.. and Amadou & Mariam are WFP ambassadors that our boss in a way knows so we actually got to meet them after the concert! So nice.


Amadou et Mariam – Je Pense A Toi
Sou Ni Tilé (1998)

Good night darlings!

Photos: Way Out West day 2

The second (or third if you count thursday) and last day of the Way Out West festival was great in terms of fundraising, people were really open to contributing and to have a chat so the team had a great time and I got a lot of video material for my little WFP-project. There weren’t as many must-see artists but Wiz Khalifa did a very energetic show and it was good fun to watch all the indie hipsters go all-in-gangsta, Jarvis Cocker from Pulp invited the whole audience for a beer “if you just take a sip and pass it on it will be enough for everybody, right?” and Kanye West was… well, he entered the show on a skylift and with a very dramatic expression on his face.. there was smoke.. golden rain.. insane fans fainting because they would be crushed in the crowd.. very violent dancers.. “I’ma need to see your fucking hands at the concert“.. and a lot of auto-tune. A very entertaining and good show indeed, but I can’t imagine anybody loving Kanye as much as Kanye loves himself.