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- Now I'm standing here with Ola Salo from The Ark, you've just performed a few songs.
It sounded awesome. How did it feel to perform at Rockbjörnen 2010?
- It felt good, but it was a hard audience, since we were the first band to play
and the atmosphere is kinda chilly and people haven't got drunk yet and so...
It sure was a challenge. But I think it went well.
- It sounded good.
- Thank you very much. We tried to shorten our setlist,
that's usually one and a half hour long, to twelve minutes.
And I think that went pretty well actually.
We started like we used to start and ended like we used to end.
We tried to do the most out of our fifteen minutes.
- But about the audience, do you prefer a lightly drunk audience?
- No, it doesn't have to be drunk but of course it's...
No offence to the Rockbjörnen Live-festival, but...
The audience we usually perform for is more... responsive to the concert.
But one could expect... There are many business people and journalists here.
And one knows that journalists like to watch other people do things
rather than doing it themselves.
- What do you think about it [Rockbjörnen] in general then?
How do you feel about the tent, I mean we are in the middle of Stockholm city after all.
- I think that you've managed to recreate the special festival feeling.
It's a little bit chilly, the damp grass, you don't know where to go... You know.
- Everybody is a little bit confused. Yeah, I see.
- Of course you are missing the camping area, but...
- We could fix that.
- But on the other hand, it's quite nice to be without it.
- But, are you a guy who usually goes to festivals?
- Well, I don't know...
I was rather bad at being a festival visitor when I was younger...
I always became so tired when I visited festivals and so...
So I was usually just sleeping in a tent.
- How has The Ark's live Summer been?
- It's been fantastic.
We've been in the whole country and performed.
The shows have been great, the audience have been great,
it's been rocking and fun, we got great reviews...
Yeah, it's been a fantastic Summer.
- And you have a baby now.
- Yes.
- A daughter, has she been with you on the tour?
- Yes, she has, actually. On some short distances and so.
She has even been to some concerts but she is very interested in vegetation.
You know, shrubs and trees and stuff like that.
So she often looks at some tree or a shrug
instead of looking at daddy when he's on stage.
I don't know why, but she thinks it's more interesting...
Maybe a landscape gardener-to-be?
- Maybe, maybe... But would you want her to become an artist?
- Nah... If that is what she is passionate about, then I won't stop her.
- And how about the future of The Ark?
- Well, you see that next year it's 2011
and then it's exactly 20 years since we started the band.
- But seriously, how old are you?!
- 21.
We were very young when we started the band.
No, but seriously, it's 20 years since we started,
that's amazing,
and we want to celebrate it with some kind of year of celebration.
Next year is going to be like a year of celebration for Ark.
You know, like Love2010, but Ark2011.
- Maybe with some new music?
- Yeah, we'll see.
I don't think we can manage to not give you any new music.
- And how about tonight? Will Ola go out and party?
- Definitely.
We had our last show on the tour last Saturday
but this also was like a concert
so we count this as the final show on our Summer tour.
So now we're going to have some tour wind-up.
- But what are you doing in the Winter time?
- Well, then we live, we lay...
It's kind of hard to explain,
but we sleep.
In a caverns.
- I've heard about this phenomenon.
- For about three, four months we sleep in a coffins, in a caverns.
Sometimes we claw at and hang down from a ceiling beams.
- I hope you get a super cozy winter.
I hope you sleep in.
Thank you very much. See you later.
- Yeah, see you.