Yesterday was a cool day, that Magnus Betnér dude was a great performer – one of the best I’ve seen in years. He pulled off a fantastic performance and the laughs coming out from the fully crowded place painted the place with joyous wallpapers. An awesome night.

( Magnus Betnér before going on stage )

In case you don’t have the slightest idea of what I’m talking about, well let me brief you very very quickly.. The great Swedish comedian Magnus Betnér know from various tv-shows and performances visited Wasa yesterday with his nearly 2 hour stand up show. I was hired by FTW productions, his booking agency in Stockholm, to take some shots of the Magnus day in Wasa.

In this small publication I won’t give you guys anymore than 2 shots and a video clip, I got home too late yesterday, and I have to leave too early today to find the time to edit a lot of shots from the comic yesterday.. But in a near future I’ll post an insert fully loaded with Betnér screaming at your retina.. Anyway, a shot..? Yes.

( Magnus Betnér at the hotel )

The show he pulled off yesterday was a close-to-perfection-kinda-act, he had the audience in his palm of humor and it really felt like the guy was able to say whatever pleased him.. Many parts of this show was not very “housetrained” or how should I put it, it was downright dirty as hell right.. And it was awesome!

The Betnérian stage presence was of a very high class folks. He completely owned the room, kinda like Bruce Dickinson or Till Lindeman style, it was that good.. He has been doing stand up for 12 years, so maybe that has something to do with it..? Haha. I asked him a few minutes before the show if he was nervous – he just looked at me, said nothing..

If you ever get the chance to go see the man, please do, he really is a fantastic performer. He came, he talked and he conquered.

( Hello Wasa! )

Well, this is enough for now.. More pics and stories from the Magnus Betnér day later next week when I finish the editing of the frames from a night I will remember for a long time. Thank you Magnus for a splendid show and for a fantabulous day!

// Tage – The comedy framer

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This afternoon I’m on my way to the airport in Wasa to meet and greet with the Swedish stand up comedian Magnus Betnér and my good friend Sam Jansson from FTW productions.

This evening Mr. Betnér will perform at Ritz in Wasa, I’m gonna gonna try be very much around today, and I will hopefully collect a whole bunch of good shots from the Magnus Betnér day in Wasa. If I’m lucky I might even get some video blogging material… But that’s a gigantic maybe.

I can’t promise anything, but at least I’ll try to post some shots and maybe some video stuff from today during this upcoming night – hopefully! Wish me luck folks – I bet this night will be fun.

If you don’t know Magnus Betnér, you can at least have a peek at his webby place (www.magnusbetner.com) or check out a small clip of him performing. (I stole the clip from youtube – and it’s in Swedish).

( Magnus Betnér doin’ some stand up )

Have a great Friday people – and just to remind you guys who want to see Magnus Betnér tonight, no can do, it’s sold out..

// Tage – framing funny ones again

..And now I’ll present to you the twelve best shots from that very evening.. Oh, you don’t know what I’m on about..? Ok, well, there is something called Royal Comedy Club arranged by FTW productions, this was the first of many and the Tage was invited to take some live shots from the evening.

During the evening the audience were able to glance at Aron Flam, Soran Ismail and Fredrik Andersson.. A pack of great stand up artists from our western neighbor country called Sweden. It was a cold Thursday, but still, there was a great amount of eager souls in front of the funny speakers. Way to go for a first club, hopefully FTW will return with more great artists in some weeks from now.. And if you by any chance have the possibility to visit this event, do it.

It all takes place at the Royal Night Club in Wasa, if you don’t know where it is, well, use the awesome Google street view! What more? Uh-hum.. I enjoyed the evening very much and the following day I took a bunch of promo shots of the hilarious Aron Flam, in a few days I’ll post an insert with the promo shots, so stay tuned…

As for now I’ll let the pics do the talking and I’ll mind my own business, which is, a fabulous Paloma Faith concert this evening! No camera though..

So enjoy these shots, my very first shooting of live stand up acts! And let me just tell you, it was funny, hilarious and, and what? I can’t come up with any superlatives, nor adjectives..

( Aron Flam )

( Aron with drink.. )

( Aron )

( The black and white comedy man )

( Fredrik Andersson )

( The black and white Fredrik Andersson )

( Fredrik )

( Soran Ismail on stage )

( Soran gives Wasa some funny lines )

( Soran Ismail )

And yes, that was that.. And if you by any chance want to visit these guys on the web, well give the following links a go!

Soran Ismail —>>> ( www.soranismail.se )

Aron Flam —>>> ( www.aronflam.com )

Fredrik Andersson —>>> ( not official Fredrik page )

And if you wanna see who’s booking the gigs, well hit the link.

FTW productions —>>> ( www.ftwproductions.se )

And yes, you folks have a great night now you hear! Peace up A-town down.

//Tage – the funny shooter

Where am I going? I’m going to shop around alot before christmas, today I got several gifts added to santa’s case of hella goods. So what else is new.. Yes, I got myself a new profile picture to my site this fine Saturday evening, the shot is found on the bottom of this insert aswell as on the “contact” page. Vaihtelu virkistää right?

Stand-up, yes, stand-up, fucking stand-up.. Yesterday, or was it the day before that, I don’t know, but anyway.. I got a call from Stockholm, that’s located in Norway right? Or was it Sweden, anyway, a company called FTW Productions ( http://www.ftwproductions.se/ ) called me up, they wanted me to shoot some live shots of different Swedish stand-up comedians who are headed to Finland in February, so it is indeed in a distant future, but I thought I’d share it with you ( at least 11 readers ) now, since I don’t have any new shots to brag about.

Yes, the comedians who I will be shooting are Soran Ismail, Aron Flam and Fredrik Andersson. I’m shooting some live stuff of them all, during their Finland-tour and some promos of the up n’ comin Aron Flam. This will be an interesting case, and I’m told that if I do good in these tasks I’m welcome to Stockholm for some more jobs, so I guess I will have to put in some effort this time..

Check out their websites if you have a second left over…

Soran Ismail —>>> ( http://www.soranismail.se/ )

Aron Flam —>>> ( http://www.aronflam.com/ )

Fredrik Andersson —>>> ( http://www.myspace.com/fredrik_andersson )

So, I’m really looking forward to February now, but hey, that’s very many days from now, ahh, but hopefully there is something else coming my way in the photo department before that, at least some cats or dogs .

And in other stand-up news, this upcoming Wednesday I’m going with a few friends to see Eddie Izzard here in Helsinki, yes! Now that’s a funny dude, as you might have noticed I quote him a lot, and that must mean that I fucking like the dude! Very excited to see him live for the first time, it’s a shame he hasn’t called me for some live shots, I could use some shots of him – or is it supposed to be the other way around?

Anyway, here goes nothing, my new profile shot!

( Photo and make-up Sara Dahlback )

Thank you and good night – and even good luck!

PS.

Yes, almost forgot – The winner of the “Tage’s painting competition” was and still is PIA from Vaasa. Congratulations!

//Tage – “So, tell me Don Miguel, tell me of El Diablo”