Phew! What a weekend! No pun intended….seriously.
We played a giant stage at Present Århus on friday, with Birk Storm and When Saints Go Machine, and during the general chaos of packing down, our new keyboard players macbook was stolen from the backstage area (volunteers are great, but lack of proper security and supervision sucks). Apart from all his personal stuff, the macbook contained Ableton Live set-ups not only for Turboweekend, but also for the three other bands that Anders plays with regularly, including Birk Storm and Non +.

Anders uses these Ableton setups to control such things as samples, program changes, effects, and a bunch of other stuff, and they are the result of many, many hours of concentrated work and creative consideration not easily recreated. On top of this, the Time Machine backup system that Anders had been running, has somehow failed and not backed up for the past 5 months!!! Besides his macbook, Anders also lost his 80 GB iPod with his entire collection of music, his custom molded In-Ear headphones, some nice clothes and a book, which where all in his suitcase, so he was naturally a bit beaten down.

Never the less he managed, with great self discipline, to muster up the strength to create a make shift setup in three hours, which made it possible for us to play most of the songs in Odense the day after. We were quite nervous when we went on stage saturday, but it turned out to be a great concert for a great audience, and we’re so happy we didn’t decide to cancel the show after all. I’d like to think we took it home on energy and raw skills

Thanks to everybody who helped look for the laptop, and to Hans for letting us borrow his macbook for the saturday show. And ofcourse, if you have any idea who the thief might be, please contact us – anonomously if you wish. The most important thing for Anders to get back is the Turboweekend, Birk Storm and Non + folders on the desktop.

On the brighter side, the new photo section is up today with pictures from Vega, apr. 3rd, and we’ll add more tour pictures soon. Enjoy!

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