Catching our first glimpses of Moscow
Norse, Lenin, Ola and Max, waiting for our Moscow hosts
Big Anton, still quiet and sober.
Moscow subway, DAMN it's good looking!
Ola tests the air outside the apartment balcony.
Zebrabrallan och smurfen - the two femaile (as they say in Russia) members of our apartment crew.
Lesha - our host, sips a giant vodka
Our hero! This is the guy who saved us during the night. Thanks buddy!
Big Anton, downing mead like a real man
Sasha (I think) and Lesha. There was great debate within the band whether these two were together or not.
Dapper Dan-man Norse is very happy with having his hair in order once again
Never in too much of a hurry to pose for a band photo
Max (when I took this photo): Don't you have painted cars in Sweden?
Me: Yeah, just not this ugly ones
Max: ...
Max, looking sharp for a blurry photo
Nothing is what it used to be. Spongebob Squarepants (and Homer Simpson) in front of the gatehouse to the red square.
Red square, looking very non-red. Apparently the name comes from it's former use as a meat market or something (this is where I started tuning out Anton, so I may have misunderstood).
Religion, religion
With the wind of change in his beard: Ola
The mandatory band photo in front of St Basils church. For some reason, we had pictured ourselves looking like Scorpions in this photo. We don't.
Following the Moskva (river) down to Gorkij park, we passed this gargantuan new church, wich - according to Max - has underground parking and bars built in.
This behemoth actually looks smaller in the photo, it's massive! Some sort of tribute to Peter the great.
Ola, trying to look like a bouncer.
Padlock bridge. When getting married in Moscow, you stop here and put up a padlock with both your names on it.
This monument of weirdness is apparently a Ukranian restaurant or something.
Sasha mush have really loved these glasses. There's nothing wrong with her eyes and no glass in them, she only wears them for looks.
Lesha and Norse, outside Leshas house
The fact that we protect our ears when playing surprised the hell out of the Russian - this is not considered very manly.
Norse, getting ready to dazzle the crowd
Mr sound-man, struggling hard to understand what we were saying
Vad har du under blusen, Rut?
Here are the people that distracted Ove when he got lost. Matze, Olga and friends.
Looking for food in the Moscow night, defying the INCREDIBLY dangerous soccer hooligans
Russian kiosks rule the world! You can buy beer, food, smokes, whatever, around the clock!
These people are working hard to supply people like Ove with veg. food. Thanks!
Ok, bad photo but this is sooo weird! In the back of Leshas building, there was a few steps up to a window, with a small roof over it, but there is no opening so it's not a kiosk or anything like that. This guy was just standing there, looking in. Why? Next day, someone - maybe the same guy, who knows - was still standing there, just looking in.
Ove, being mesmerized by the smooth hockey hair our trave companion sported
Hungover Norse, puking on the floor of the train
Train station diner
Moscow subway, DAMN it's good looking!
The subway was crawling with cops, makes you nervous...
VERY Russian kiosk
Apparently, this is a look many Russian ladies go for
Unfortunately (?) most of them end up with this.
Lesha's house, staircase
Breakfast of Russian champions - Max's food sure looks mouth watering
Big Anton with his very very cool oldschool camera. Makes you feel special when someone wastes actual film on you.
Ove, falling asleep like always. As soon as Ove sits down, he falls asleep
Finally, a chance to fix his hair, Norse is happy
For the longest time, Max tried to get us to send the merch to Russia by mail. Seing Lesha's mailbox, we were happy we didn't.
Next door farmers market
This reconstruction of tram rails went on around the clock. Midnight Saturday night - check! Sunday morning early - check!
Another goldmine, selling stuff.
This is our stop
For every escalator in the russian subway, there's a person sitting in a small small kiosk, making sure nothing goes wrong. Great job.
These pants... what the hell are they!?
`Hey, you're in the red square - why not have your picture taken with a monkey in a leather jacket?'
Museum of state history
GUM - the mega long department store we couldn't be assed to check out. Most likely they wouldn't have let Anton in
Massgrav - sober and somber
Anton - going for in a grand style
Turning japanese
Yeah yeah, whatever, let's have another photo of their damn church
Limos everywhere! Ok, so we visited two places that are mandatory for a Moscow wedding, but never in my life have I seen so many limos!
The Kremlin. This place is HUGE!
Russian wedding, not the one Anton attacked though, this is by the padlock bridge
Grind-Ove
Another limo. We tried telling Max we needed to arrive at the gig in this but he wouldn't budge
Taking a nap the Swedish way with S'Barro's version of Ronald McDonald
Taking a nap the Russian way
Take note!
Work safety is not a big hype in Russia, these guys were everywhere.
Walking to the gig, Moscow sunset
Very handy! Aren't we all sick to death of having mirrors ruined by water?
Matze and Sasha by the merch table
Hard at work doing interviews. Life on the road - it's hell!
The singer of the first opening act has obviously studied Ruwe in Makabert Fynd very carefully
For those who wanted to stay in the lounge, there was a handy monitor for watching the onstage action - just like at Alcazar in Stokholm!
Mo money
Tiptoeing for the Russian audience
Circle pit, ftw
The infamous sofa-bed. Note our saviour, fast asleep behind the bass case
Ove does the Hammerfall 'sign of the hammer' to get the crowd going
Trying to impress people with playing far down the neck
Scream, Dracula, scream!
Leatherneck
Bloodstained dreams
Vi gillar hårda killar
Vi gillar killar hårt
Yeah yeah.... whatever
Those legs are in a weird place!