Freya accepted to play without getting any payment at the charity concert at Park Café, arranged by Ungdommen's Røde Kors in order to raise money for the work for vulnerable children and youngsters in Copenhagen. Other artist were Kira & The Kindred Spirits, Marvellous, The Night, Allinacen, Campsite and Bombay Rockers.

This was the most exciting Freya concert I've attended since the one-off Christmas Concert at Christians Kirke in 2001 (see here). Freya gave an all acoustic set of 7 songs, and except for two covers they were all newly written and still unrecorded songs. To back her on acoustic guitar she had Jonas Hansen, who joined her at the most recent trip to Camp Danevang in Iraq.

The opening song Run is a kind of warning to a guy against a perfidious girl, utilizing him ruthlessly. Can't you see it / She's a fake ... / She's got you where she wants you ... And the piece of advice is: Run as fast as you can ... / You don't need her at all.
In fact Freya is warning against the kind of (man-eating) woman that she described in her 2002 hit-song, Tiger.

Lucky Star, I believe, is about always having a little superstitiously belief that special objects will bring you luck. And that a guy is her lucky star. Had a good-luck charm / To keep me safe from harm ... / and to keep you here / Forever in my arm.

Falling To Pieces is about looking back on a lost relationship, realizing that you only have yourself to blame that it didn't work. Oh, everything is falling to pieces / I've got myself to blame / Everything is falling to pieces / Nothing stayes the same to me.

Shake That Fear could be about escapism, -about getting out of town in a fast car to get rid of boredom and inner demons. Come and pick me up in your daddy's car / And drive ... real fast / To places I've never been before ... / And let us shake, shake, shake this fear / And you take, take, take me out of here / and you make, make make the bastard disappear.

All these songs were played for the very first time in public by Freya. But the closing song, the beautiful and catchy song, Love Me Today, was played at the Tønder concert in March (see here) and at one of the Iraq-shows in April.
It's about imploring a lover to stay in a fading relationship and wishing to keep feelings from the past. You swore you'll never fall out of love / And I'm gonna hold you to your words ... / You should love me today, like you promised yesterday / You should kiss me the way, you did back in the days / When I was still sure you were mine, oh mine.
(Please note that the quotations are transcripted from audio, and are not confirmed by Freya, and the interpretations are all mine, and could be completely wrong!)

An encore song, Tiger, was prepared, but unfortunately Freya wasn't able to hear the strong applause and shouts for more after her set, so she didn't return on stage. The applause only stopped when DJ Noise started his playback on the grammophone.

I met this wonderful girl after the show. She looked heathy and suntanned from the one week stay in Iraq and Kuwait two weeks earlier. Close-up backstage portraits of Freya can be viewed at the bottom of this page.
(I hope to be able to show more pics from Freya's Park performance taken by people from Ungdommen's Røde Kors). Also photos from the other performers can soon be viewed on this site)

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