The Winter Delay

Cuir Ainm: Thanks for having me, Mark. Usually Klinte won’t allow band members talk to the press for citation. 

Mark Meiwords:  Well, he is busy, isn’t he. 

Q: First, it is in order to state, that neither of us are real. I am a fictional journalist and you are a fictional band member of Klinte & The Klintells where you among other instruments play the saxophone. 

A: Year, he is not very good at making us famous, so we have to invent a lot of stories to get content. 

Q: Are you OK with that?

A: Art is art, I guess. 

Q: We haven’t heard from Klinte & The Klintells in a long time. Why is that?

A: Oh, we got three or more numbers in the production line, but we can not get into to the damn studio. It has been so for months now.

Q:Why is that? Is it broken?

A: Something like that. It is Klinte that insist on learning the banjo for his Clifstreamers project. That is top priority for him and  - he is the boss. Sort of. We and Aandssløw will have to wait. 

Q: What is that screaming noise? Someone needing our help you think?

A: It is from the studio. Either he is rehearsing Sailors Hornpipe or trying to tune up the banjo. Could not tell the different honestly. 

Q: You are wellknown for disliking banjos. It is after all a modernised traditional widespread instrument brought in by the enslaved people from Africa. 

A: We got a lot of good stuff from that place, blues, jazz, lot of lovely and talented people … but this one is a miss … or even a mess. The banjo make no sense. Is it a drum, a cheese cutter or a mandolin and why does it have to sound like crab? To illustrate here are som banjo jokes:

What is the difference between a trampoline and a banjo?

- You are expected to take off your shoes when you jump on the trampoline. 

What is the difference between a tennis racket and a banjo?

- With the racket you can be a winner. 

Q: I get that. But why do you think it is so important to him to plunk on that thing?

A: He is either insane or getting old. Old folks got a lot of stuff they need to achieve before dying. Maybe both. 

Q: But did you not state once that to be a brilliant artist you need to be either crazy, insane or depressive? 

A: Yeah. I am a bit crazy myself. So what? 

Q: Following your own logic, Klinte being insane, won’t that also mean he is a brilliant artist?

A: Are you serious? ... I will go with old then. When you think about it he may even be too deaf to hear the damn thing. 

Q: It stopped. Do you think he will come out and I can talk to him?

A: What? No! Absolutely bad idea. He is in a … elevated state. Take no prisoners - I mean guests. We better get out of here. Care for a beer somewhere?

Q: Yes thank you. Always. 

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The image was created by use of Midjourney generative AI. 

No AI used for the text. The story is real but the persons are fictional.