Next thing…

André: Next thing was a photosession… ( believe it or not but we recently met the photographer who took our pictures 25 years ago – Christian Nørgaard (thanks Facebook!). We decided to pay him a visit and were quite surprised to discover that he actually had all the negatives from that day – what were the chances?!

Now to the point WHY he kept these negatives for so long:

As I wrote in the previous update – we were pretty much broke at the time, playing clubs for some change – so hiring a professional photographer wasn?t easy…

To make a long story short: Steen called a few guys up and told them upfront that we needed photos but had no cash and – just like every other band – promised to pay in full when the record deal would be secured (not very original by any standards but hey… at least he tried 🙂 Anyway, Christian was the only one who – for the reason he still can’t explain today – agreed and in a few days we had our mugs immortalized professionally.

As Christian recently told me he wasn’t expecting to see us again – ever – so off he went with his day-to-day activities, gradually forgetting the episode only to be mighty surprised a few months later, when Steen called him up again and asked what time he could drop by to pay the bill.

In Christian’s own words that kind of thing never happened to him in his entire professional carrier, so he kept these pictures for 25 years simply as a souvenir of sorts… thanks to him and good for us as now we can use them all for our vinyl edition of LOBH.