Songwoman & Performer – Berlin May 15 and 17 – events
Jeg er ydmyg over tyngdekraften. På mange planer.
At se cirkusprinsessen med rebet firet nedad og med en stærk tillid til den mandlige akrobat ovenover.
Ydmyg over at opleve det arbejde, det kræver at nå dette niveau.
Og over at disse akrobater står i Scenens rum så frivilligt tæt på det farlige og dog så nær i det evige og levende nu, for de kender deres højder.
Tak for denne oplevelse.
Og tak til min kollega Bjarne Lisby for at tage mig med:-)
Memory Mile – a song that reminds us of what we have lost was played last night on Montana Public radio.
You’re like a memory Mile to me, coming back to me, I am singing these words on my song Memory Mile co-written with legendary songwriter Kostas Lazarides from Montana, who recently was named in the Nashville songwriters Hall of Fame.
It was a pleasure last night hearing two of my songs from my Austin-Montana-album on Montana Public Radio. Memory Mile and Heaven. I will later be featured in the upcoming musician´s spotlight in John Floridis´Montana Folk radio program. I will talk about my songwriting with Kostas Lazarides from Montana. I went to visit him in Montana, and originally met him in The House of Songs, Austin, Texas.
John Floridis, radio host of the Montana Folk music program on mtpr.org played two of my songs, Heaven, and Memory Mile.
Memory Mile was the second song co-written with Kostas. The first song was called “Simple Matters”, later as well the album title.
It is a song that reminds us of what we´ve lost.
Memory Mile is the picture of the family member you´ve lost, and no longer being there. It is the memory of generosity, longing for a new situation, of getting one’s life back.
You can hear the tune ”Memory Mile” on my album ”Simple Matters”. It was recorded in Austin, Texas in producer Patrick Herzfeld´s studio, the album features my songs and songs co-written in Austin and Montana with J. Wagner and Kostas Lazarides from Montana, also named in the Nashville songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Many songwriters have been inspired by wheels, roads and driving to express love, feelings and situation in their songs:
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Katie Melua introduces us in 2005 to the nine million bycycles in Beijing in
“That’s a fact,
It’s a thing we can’t deny,
Like the fact that I will love you ’til I die.”
Hotel California is a place you can never leave, after driving there, and its even though you can check out any time you like – Eagles performs this longstanding hit in 1976.
Diplo “wanna ride with you ´till the wheels fall off” on coworked song Diplo/Thomas Wesley/Jonas Brothers
“Until we’re running out of road
Wanna dance with you ’til the music stops
‘Til we got no place to go”
Fast Car expressing the trouble old man and hard life while driving – the song hits us as a second hit after Talking about a Revolution when Tracy Chapman has her breakthrough in 1988 – and various artists continue to cover her work – here with Joan Blue, Dakota in 2018.
Black Rider, Bob Dylans on the legends latest album 2020. Dylan sings about “the road that you’re on, same road that you know. Just not the same as it was a minute ago”
Lana Del Rey sings in 2012 about the big life road, her father’s life and herself hung in:
“Dying young and I’m playing hard
That’s the way my father made his life an art
Drink all day and we talk ’til dark
That’s the way the road doves do it, ride ’til dark”
Mette Kirkegaard – a songwriter myself – sings about a train trip from New York to Arizona on my song Train 2011 from the Ep Dry Wood.
“Hey you with that big fat smile do you still remember, when we crossed that extra mile to catch a train to Arizona”.
Daryl Braithwaite on the album Edge from 1988 encourages us to get on that Sugartrain.
“I took the time to count the miles on my face
It’s funny how the towns go by
I was standin’ on a dream long ago
I don’t know how I survived
Get on that sugar train…”
And finally The Eye of the Tiger leaves us with a feeling that the street builds up the soul of a strong man,
1982, it was featured on Rocky III and sung by the American rock band Survivor
Risin’ up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I’m back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
Tak til alle jer publikummer samt værterne Signe og Joakim samt Low-Fi, som gjorde dette skønne arrangement muligt.
Det var dejligt at vi kunne mødes i solen denne sommer!
I fik lejlighed til at høre disse 16 sange:
In a Cafe
Stjernen
Foreign Pines
Angie
Love is To Blame
Dry Wood
Free
The Ferry
Norskehavet
Heaven
Memory Mile
Im Still Alive
Simple Matters
Memory Mile
Calling from New Orleans-Kalder fra New Orleans
Notting Hill
Frie Fyr
Tak for de positive tilbagemeldinger❤️😘🙏 glæder mig, til vi atter ses derude🎼🙏🦋 Stay safe and sound!
Dejligt med positive anmeldelser af min koncert ❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😀
Joakim C.:
Til koncerten med Mette Kirkegaard, blev aftenen fyldt med musik og sang der på en gang var både simpel og kompleks. Mettes optræden var helt sin egen og med solen som spotlight skinnede hun igennem fra start til slut.
DDyrner: Super skøn musik, dybe og poetiske tekster.
Carsten B.:
Mange tak til Mette og de gæstfrie værter. Det var en skøn koncert 🍀
Familie Journalens sektion “Fra Thule til Gedser” omtaler i dag uge 23 min nyeste single “Im Alive” – “det nye udspil viser Mette fra sin mest følsomme side i en smuk kærlighedssang, der er forløber for et helt album i oktober”, skriver reporter Johan Isbrand bl.a. Tak for det! I kan høre sangen “Im Alive” på digitale medier som Spotify.
Mette Kirkegaard 