And here's the translation of the interview about the fishing trip with Mew:
Fishing luck with Mew
Danish Mew, a tour manager, three technicians and two divers. Welcome to a weird fishing trip.
Arranged by Helgeland Diving Center, Mew got to experience something else than a hotel room and the backstage area when they visited the Vika festival. The band with crew was transported in a boat with fishing rod, tinbait and two experienced fishers.
The boys in Mew took the challenge. Fishing time! (Haha, what a horrible translation :lol:) Even though some of them never or seldom had even touched a fishing rod.
- I think I’ve fished before, but it wasn’t very good. Maybe I was too drunk, Kasper Fizk wonders.
Ove Windseth from Helgeland Diving Center helps him with the tinbait and shows him a couple of ”throws”. Then Kasper is on his own. After Kasper has gotten the day’s first catch; tour manager Jonas Jakonsen’s tinbait in the line, Ove <something> (I almost don’t know what that word means in Norwegian :P). Kasper tries again. When he has tried to catch a boat and a Dane or two, he’s starting to get the hang of it. He’s smiling from ear to ear. Jonas is not so lucky. Encouraged by Kasper’s success, he tries a throw which sends half the fishing rod in the sea. Jonas scratches his head and pulls the fishing rod in again. He just gotta try again.
While Kasper thinks he’s got bite a couple of times, the light technician Michael Radl experiences “the real thing”. He has gotten a small coalfish. After well deserved brag, he’s wondering:
- What am I going to do with the fish?
- You don’t want it?, Ove asks.
- Are you insane? Kasper shakes his head.
At the same time sound technician Dyre Gormsen catches something. He looks surprised at the little coalfish.
- I don’t want it. I feel sorry for it.
With trained hands, Ove Winseth sets the coalfish free. When it has swimmed a bit on the surface, it swims down in the sea again.
- Sorry, fishy, Jonas Jakobsen waves while the fish returns to its shoal.
It looks like they won’t get too much fish.
Large catch
After catching five small coalfishes, two sea-WHAT?! (haha, have no idea) and something which looks like seaweed, Ola Berg decides that Straumbotn isn’t the place to fish today.
- If we want to catch any fish, we have to go to Ranskjæret. It’s always fish at Ranskjæret, he promises.
Ten minutes later the echo something (I don’t know the word) shows that he’s speaking the truth. On 8 metres deep, they can see large shoals of fish. Mew is throwing out the lines again.
Vocalist Jonas Bjerre has got troubles with the throwing, but suddenly it’s stuck.
- Now it’s stuck in the bottom, Ove Windseth sighs and takes Jonas’ fishing rod.
When he has pulled it a bit, he proclaims:
- It’s not stuck! You’ve got a big fish.
The other guys are running towards the couple while Ove tries to pull the line up. Bo manages to get a photo of the fish with his cell phone, before the line bursts and the fish disappears in the deep.
- NO! Shit!
Ove <blabla something> in the water.
- If I had a <something (sorry :oops:)> I would have caught him. That was sad. Really sad! That fish weighed between 8 and 10 kilos. It would’ve been dinner for the whole hotell.
Ove is annoyed.
Russian submarine?
After that, everyone wants the ”yellow orange ones” - the tinbait Jonas used. Then there’s silence. 8 tinbaits in the water, but the fish is gone. While the boys are discussing the disappeared fish, it grows till a man size. Within they’ve caught the next fish, the fish has grown to half a metre in size.
- Oh, shit, he’s got a bite! He has learned from his mistakes, so Ove runs towards sound technician Mads Nørgaard at once when he’s got bite.
Shortly afterwards Ola pulls a coalfish up in the boat.
Then it’s Bo’s turn. The rod bends towards the water.
- I’ve got a fish, Bo yells.
With despair he’s trying to get the fish up in the boat.
- It’s not a fish. It’s a Russian submarine.
Bo struggles. It’s hard. Before help arrives, the line bursts.
- I said it was a submarine, Bo says.
- Or a <ugly fish with ugly tooth>. KAPP! Ola closes his mouth fast to show what he means.
Then they get plenty of fish. Kasper pulls a 15 cm long coalfish and sadly realises it’s not a sensation anymore.
- What are we going to do with all this fish?, Michael wonders.
- We’ll take it with us back home. It sure will taste as good when we arrive in Denmark, Kasper says.
- With seven large <type of fish> and two coalfishes, the boys are pleased with the catch. It’s time to go back to the city.
- Can’t we just stay here, Kasper jokes.
- Call and say we’re not coming.
(thanks so much to Heidi on the Mew forums for this translation btw)