Procol Harum at Brønnøysund, Norway

Events before the gig • 17 July 2009

Norwegian  TV had got hold of the idea that fans were coming to the Procol Harum concert, which was half-way up Norway, a very long drive even from the capital, Oslo

Titti captures the TV interview, in the car park directly opposite the hotel where both interviewees, and the band, were to stay.

Jens was asked whether Procol would indeed be 'rusty' as Gary Brooker had self-deprecatingly told the same interviewer earlier.

Roland, from Bristol, was asked how many times he'd seen the band (he had no notion) and why it was that he considered it to be worth travelling all that way

Both interviewees wore Procol-related tee-shirts, neither of which was really visible in the final broadcast

Nor did it emerge that one was the proprietor of a website devoted to Procol Harum, nor that the other was instrumental in preparing content for it.

Immediately after the above conversations, Jens and Roland were filmed walking back to the hotel ... at which point the bus bearing Procol Harum arrived.
The TV reporter was thus able to capture a great number of handshakes and hallos, which were used in the edit that was broadcast: click here to view it

Arrival of Al 'One-Eye' Edelist from Los Angeles in America

After the filming: webmaster Jens on the left; Gary Brooker on the right, sitting in the fresh air to compile the evening's setlist

Al reacquaints himself with bass-player Matt Pegg. Presumably there is a story behind the egregious choice of garments ...