Geert Heijnen’s Weblog

Sing a long

Before the Japanese got Karaoke, the Norwegians invented Allsang. Allsang is a typical nordic activity: consisting of a group of people singing songs together, and this time striding against every norwegian social law there is no alcohol involved. Now that we talked about allsang, let’s talk about a more local activity: allsang på grensen. Allsang på grensen is the local variety on the allsang concept, located here in Halden. It’s a huge tv-show with people (about 5000) going to the fredriksten fortress to sing along with their favourite artists, every wednesday (televised on thursday) during the whole summer.  When I agreed to go along with Linda to Allsang på grensen, I was expecting a concert. I couldn’t have been more wrong. This is a tv-show, you are there to clap your hands and have to act happy and look like you are enjoying yourself. This isn’t THAT bad, the bad thing is that there are actually retakes, where singers have to sing again, or even worse the audience has to more enthusiastic but this time without the artist actually playing. Got to see Katie Melua and that made it all worth it, was fun to go there and perhaps go another time when there are some good artists.

Now short bulletin news:

- I’m having vacation in the middle of august so will in all likelihood take a week vacation in the Netherlands

- Got my contract elongated to the end of 2010

- Got myself a swedish™ haircut because me and Linda are going to Goteborg for the weekend and I wanted to blend in.