[Dixielandjazz] Bohemian Rhapsody

[Eric Holroyd]

At the end of this stunning performance the band troops off the stage to a 
wonderful – and almost never ending – round of applause, which develops into 
the rhythmic clapping and foot stomping which is the European way of calling 
for ‘More!’

So the band returns and, although I don’t speak Austrian my schoolboy German 
allowed me to understand the odd few words here and there of Thomas Gansch’s 
chat with the audience in which he thanked them for the applause.

Then he tried to set up a ‘world record for the longest laughing’, which 
fails miserably, so he tries again with ‘tittering’ or ‘high pitched 
laughter’ – which also fails, but the band cracks up at the audience 
antics - whereupon Thomas tells them ‘Das was sooper’, which of course is 
easily understood.

Perhaps some kind Austrian DJMLer could translate Thomas’s joking around for 
the rest of us?

Eric Holroyd
Sydney, Australia