SONGS FOR MY FATHER
Michael Poulsen was in his hotel room when the phone rang and he was told his partner had gone into labour. The snag was that Poulsen was in New York and she was back home in Denmark. His initial reaction was: “What the fuck? This wasn’t supposed to be happening for another two months.”
Poulsen was in the US with his band Volbeat, as the main support on Metallica’s World Wired Live tour. It was a big deal for them, but not such a big deal that the singer couldn’t cancel that evening’s show in order to get the next available flight home.
“I flew back, saw my girlfriend and my little daughter for one day,” he says. “Then I flew straight back to America.”
As soon as he touched down, Poulsen was bundled into a waiting van and driven to the venue where Volbeat were playing that night, arriving 15 minutes before they were due to go on stage.
“Honestly, I don’t remember that show at all,” says the singer, after the time of her birth, for his band’s new album, . “I was jet-lagged, I was emotional, I was so up in the air because of the whole situation at home. That whole period was fucking crazy.”
