Elements Of Rock

Awesome finally being at this metal festival in Switzerland! It's the 5th year they're doing this and the fellowship was great! Lot's of cool metal concerts, teachings by Pastor Bob and worship by Jim LaVerde..!

Picture above: Drottnar (phycotic black metal from Norway) who'll also be playing at the Green Light District Festival in a month!

There's was a very good crowd of black-clothed folks from all over the world! MANY people I've met before at other festivals and MANY new heads I got to know! Some of the most friendly people who'd meet (though a lot of people had a hard time understanding English here, and my German isn't too good..!).It would be hard to find a better fellowship than at these Christian Metal Festivals!

I totally enjoyed meeting so many new fellow metalheads/-Christians + getting to know a whole bunch of people from the bands.
The picture above is two new friends whom I hung out with at the festival; Manu and Miika from Deuteronomium (death metal from Finland).

It was an honor when they from the stage dedicated one of their songs "To Die And Gain" to me.


THANKS for an awesome weekend at Elements Of Rock!!

Kinder Garden Story #2

"
"Are you a wizard?", a 4 year old boy asked. And all I was doing was walking into the childrens restroom to wipe a few butts. "Hmm..." I answered, and grabbed thoughtfull around my 10 cm long beard. "But ARE you a wizard?", one of the 5 year old boys asked. "You think I am?", I asked. "ARE you!!?" 4 boys yelled at me, and now they really wanted an answer!
"

How I love that crazy imagination!

Oldies but goodies

18 years ago when I was 7 at age something pretty cool happened..!

In the early days my lovely parents dragged us kids around to all kinds of Christian rock concerts like Jerusalem, Newsboys, PFR and this well-aged Norwegian dude:

Hans Inge Fagervik is his name, and he's a pretty cool guy and a reason for many good things. When I was 7 years old I pointed at the man on the stage and told my mom that I wanted to be him. That was Mr.Fagervik. After the concert we walked up to him. He toke my little hand and walked me through the crowds to get a free poster for me, oh YEAH, that was the beginning..!

Next Christmas my parents bought me a little guitar, and today I'm playing a Kirk Hammett Signature with skull and bones printed in the guitar neck. Thank you Hans Inge. And GOD!

So yesterday it was my turn to take my parents hands and bring them to a concert. It was an in memory of LARRY NORMAN tour with something like 10 bands performing. Andraé Crouch did a great gig, and then H.I.Fagervik played as well. After the show my mom and I (like 18 years ago) went over to have a chat with him.

As a musician I can only respect passionated musicians, and wheather I like or dislike the genres and tunes I'm thankfull for what the oldies/goodies created with mind, heart and soul. A big respect to people like Larry Norman, Keith Green, Glenn Kaiser and Andraé Crouch!

Kinder Garden Story #1

I'm now working 4 days a week in an idyllically little kinder garden with 30-40 kids in age 0-6.

For the next few month I'll be living here at my parents house, which is 3 minutes walk from the kinder garden.

Story of the day:

Kids are sometimes so weird and funny which always cheers me up. Sometimes they're also insainly loud, and that's what this tory is about.

"Once upon a time in a little country in Scandinavia a dread head got himself some work in a little kinder garden in a very little village. Let's call him "Dude". Dude liked hanging out with the little people, but he also liked insects and reptiles very much. Unfortunately there were no reptiles to be found in the garden of the kinder garden. But insects is something you can find in every garden; Dude knew that! Therefor he and some of his little people friends decided to go on an adventure, finding insects. They found a lot of obscure insects and they all enjoyed them very much. There were happiness and laughter all around. But then one of the 5 year old little people found another funny one:

Dude told him that it would role itself together like a hard ball, if it got scared. Everyone were very excited, which became the end of that idyllic day. ...And the beginning of little people screaming and making scary faces for hours, all for the sake of seeing the new insect becoming a hard ball."

...to be continued.

GLDFestival ticket sale and HEAVY METAL bus

The ticket sale has now started, and maaan it's gonna be a GREAT festival!!
myspace.com/greenlightdistrictfestival
I'm REALLY excited about doing this 3 days festival again this year!
It's a whole lot of work, but it serves an amazing purpose which is ALL effort worth!
Because it's all about the metal fellowship and the fellowship we have in Christ, we've booked two HEAVY METAL BUSSES that's runs from Aarhus to GLDF Friday and back again on Sunday. It's a 65 minutes drive through small Danish villages, forest areas and open fields!

Keep it metal :-p

In His grip;

Andreas