Marit On The Road�


She has won the record buyers over. Now Marit Larsen is about to embark on her first solo tour.

Last time she toured was the infamous M2M-tour in the USA. That tour came to an abrupt ending when it became clear that Marit was out of the duo, and that Marion Ravn was about to become a solo-artist.

This time around there is a bigger chance of completing the tour. �Don�t save me� is the best-selling song of this week too, while the album �Under the Surface� is at number five on the VG-charts.

- I have been looking forward to this a long time, this is what I love to do. My current band is really happening live. And for the first time in my career I�m about to perform full-length concerts. We didn�t do that in M2M.

Larsen tells us that the album will be performed in its entirety. In addition the audience will hear a bunch of unreleased songs plus a cover song. M2M-songs are not on the repertoire.

- I will not rule out the possibility of playing them in the future. But right now I have them at such a distance that it would not feel right.

Rewarding
She looks forward to playing clubs where there�s not room for too many people.

- It�s both rewarding and brutal to play when you got the audience up close. It's the only place where you can get real feedback about what works and what does not.

When she held her release-party in Oslo on the 8th of March she forgot to put her harmonica on before she was about to play the monster-hit �Don�t save me�.

- The same thing happened on a radio broadcast too! I had to hum where there was supposed to be harmonica, and it did not turn out that good, she laughs.

Of all the shows, she is looking forward to the shows in Oslo and Lillestr�m the most. There she will be joined by eight people on strings � among them her own father, who plays at the Philharmonic Orchestra.

- Now I�m old enough to think it�s nice to have him join me, she says
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