From British motorcycles to DjursBluesland
to Basement Productions to MacData to BluesProductions
 
For those of you not already familiar with me, let me introduce myself.
Born in 1960, raised in the middle of Djursland, Denmark.
In 1979 I got my brand new Triumph Bonneville.

In 1982 did my friends and I start, "Mosten MC", in Allingåbro. From the very first year did we organize a British Bike Rally, where I was involved with booking the music. The rally is still running.
Through out the ‘80s did I play harmonica in various bands.

I founded Basement Productions in 1987 with the intention of promoting blues music.
Three thing changes my life completely these days.
After a tour with Angela Strehli, did she have Kim Wilson (Fab. T-Birds) to find me an original Fender Bassman from 1959 and got it shipped over from Austin TX.
Now I had the right equipment, the original Fender amp and an Astatic JT-30 Microphone, but it still did not sound quite the way George “Harmonica” Smith, Little Walter or Big Walter Horton did ;-(
I met Paul Lamb. The day after I stopped playing harmonica and decided to promote this extraordinary and unique player...

In the same period did I start the Danish festival, DJURS BLUESLAND, which quickly grew to be one of the biggest blues concert in Scandinavia. The festival ran from 1988-1995. It was held over 3 days with 5.500 blues enthusiasts in the biggest tent that could be booked in Denmark.
Until 1997 I booked nearly 1500 blues concerts all over the northern part of Europe. These days there was no flexible booking software available, so I developed a system for myself. Other people got to hear about this system and asked me to make them a similar system.
Suddenly, I found myself spending more time in the computer field and lost some of the energy I had for “the blues bizz”.
In late 1997, I started a company called MacData, which handles database development, Apple Macintosh sales and support.

Then in 2004 I met Paul Lamb again and he asked if I was interested to manage him world wide. I accepted and here I am again.
 
Peter Astrup