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The whole family! The Minds of 99, management, label, booker, crew, and Jada the fantastic warm-up act and her crew. And yours truly, behind the camera. I had to really quickly find a location for this picture and am amazed how many people fit into this tiny room!
“It takes a village” goes a saying. In this case, the massive The Minds of 99 Arena Tour 2019 took a whole “family” of band members, management, label, production crew, hands etc. to pull off these fantastic events. I was the “fly on the wall” documentarian on the entire tour and while I tend to save most of my energy for the actual show, I still have thousands of pictures of everything from the merchandise booth to shirts being steamed backstage to me shooting selfies in every backstage room mirror! Join me on a trip through my gallery of my favourite behind the scenes pictures from the incredible Arena tour, and I do recommend you read all the captions too.
More The Minds of 99 ressources
- The Best Of: The Minds of 99 Arena Tour 2019
- 2.433 pictures of The Minds of 99 at Royal Arena – Timelapse video
Gallery – behind the scenes on The Minds of 99 Arena tour
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Everyone is working, doing their jobs, while Jannik Jensen, light magician, has simply opened a portal to another world on stage!
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Jannik Jensen, probably my favourite lighting tech in Denmark, he just lights shows exactly the way I love to shoot them! Epic and creative!
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It is a privilege to be around for and hear the rehearsals. In this case, the brand new song, Big City Bright Lights, still unreleased. I heard it for the first time right this instant, and Søren Borkmann, tour manager, is totally loving it too!
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THIS. IS. MAD. This is the very first copy of the photobook, I am just about to have a heart attack, I am so excited. Manager Ole pulls it out of the box at the Aalborg event and hands it to me – and I still get goosebumps thinking about this. Dream come true.
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The book is out, and in 30 mins it is going on sale in the merch shop so gotta put that beast on Instagram right away!
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I am always amazed how something like this mess turns into a perfect concert about 6-7 hours later! Productions crew are wizards!
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Merch booth going up and that white long sleeve shirt is a special Arena tour shirt and I was on the entire tour and … forgot to get one for myself, doh!
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Did I mention the production crew are wizards? And mad mountaineers too! This is not for people afraid of heights. Or falling from heights!
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Odense and stage manager Mikkel gets to stretch his back and ensure the whole rig does not tilt forward I assume!
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3 x follow spot controls, I actually wish I had remembered to run around and take a picture during the show too.
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Franz Gottschalk, backliner, and also top awesome guy that has a new wicked haircut every time I see him!
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Jannik at the light controls in Odense. I love light, well, I spend every second at a show studying movement and light so light is important to me but also – look at that, gotta be so much fun to control all of that light!
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Søren Borkmann, Tour Manager. Total legend, and by far the best hats, and boots on tour. Although, my boots are custom made in Guatemala, beat that hehe!
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The reason the tour sounds so fantastic. Sound-jedis, Kristian Thomsen and Tor Bach Kristensen at Royal Arena.
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Louis the drummer setting up. I wish I could have stood here during the show hehe, what a view it would be!
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Mikkel Nielsen, stage manager, is in control of the scissor lift. When those lifts go up and down during the show, this is where you find Mikkel!
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Mad view from the B stage at front of house, where Niels plays the piano for one song. Mark Balstrup is on the left, video documentarian.
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The doors are open to the Royal Arena and the fans who have been waiting in line rush to the front to get a place close to the stage. I love the Minds fans, it is a real privilege to get to walk in the photo pit and meet you and take pictures of you.
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Did you know this Infinity Action shed had to be taken apart and reassembled at every gig – here it is in front of Royal Arena.
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Louis steams what is absolutely the coolest shirt in the world. A Close Encounters of the Third Kind shirt is just next level mad awesome!
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Band huddle, a very focused and concentrated band, just before the last final massive Royal Arena show in front of 16,000 people.
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I hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes look of the Arena Tour!
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