{"id":566,"date":"2020-07-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/?p=566"},"modified":"2020-07-17T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:02:41","slug":"episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 2 &#8211; The Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"566\" class=\"elementor elementor-566\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5090b3a8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5090b3a8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5b2f3e9d\" data-id=\"5b2f3e9d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cdc54a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3cdc54a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><iframe title=\"The Hole\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/436834564?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><h4><b>Malmberget, <\/b>known as <em>&#8220;The Ore Mountain<\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0 is a locality and mining town situated in Norrbotten, with 5,590 inhabitants in 2010.<\/h4><p>Malmberget is known as a major site for the extraction of iron ore from deep mines. The iron ore mining started in 1741 at the Illuvaara mountain, later known as Gellivare malmberg and eventually just Malmberget. The first train which transported iron ore was loaded in 1888 &#8211; this was the beginning of the great iron ore rush which would change the entire area of Northern Lapland. In Malmberget there was plentiful employment, but no dwellings &#8211; a striking resemblance to the conditions during some of the gold rushes in North America. During the first years, workers lived in shacks built from wasted dynamite crates.<\/p><p>Right down the centre of Malmberget, the deep mine has reached daylight and thus created a huge hole called <i>Kaptensgropen<\/i> -&#8220;The Captain&#8217;s Pit&#8221;. In March 2012, <i>Kaptensgropen<\/i> was joined with a new pit resulting from the &#8216;Fabian&#8217;-deposit caving in as planned, and has grown southwards as the deep mining continues, and thus divided the town while making the old town centre uninhabitable and forcing people out their homes.<\/p><p>Today <i>Kaptensgropen<\/i> is being filled up with stone which is dug up as a by-product from the underground mines. <i>Kaptensgropen<\/i> will eventually be filled in, but the uninhabitable area is continually growing as underground mining undermines the area and seismic events caused by the mining regularly shake the remaining parts of Malmberget.<\/p><p>The future of Malmberget is currently uncertain, but prospecting by LKAB indicates that even more of Malmberget may have to move in the future. The moving of several large residential houses owned by the mining company, as well as private villas, has been a major issue locally for the past few years.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556 size-large\" title=\"Andreas Fernandez\" src=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/P6110160-Pano-1024x546.jpg\" alt=\"View of the massive crate\" width=\"800\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/P6110160-Pano-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/P6110160-Pano-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/P6110160-Pano-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/P6110160-Pano-1536x818.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/P6110160-Pano.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p><p><span class=\"_5yl5\">My name is Rickard Johansson. I was born in Malmberget. I&#8217;m thankful and proud for the time and upbringing I got to have there. I\u2019ve now been living in Pite\u00e5 studying music for a couple of years, currently at Lule\u00e5 tekniska universitet. <\/span>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I&#8217;m one of two songwriters in the band <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/0BptQvCM3OfnV79OYLY4wQ?si=JreMtFklS9ORTLURO-7_4w\">RIKE<\/a> and we released our debut album in the end of May. <strong>\u201dThe Hole\u201d<\/strong> is a song on the album I wrote about Malmberget. I wrote what was on my mind one night and the song pretty much wrote itself. <\/span><\/p><blockquote><div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><div class=\"section\"><div class=\"layoutArea\"><div class=\"column\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/arts-news-1\/the-hole-rike\">THE HOLE<\/a><\/p><p>My family tree was planted there It has gone so long since then But we still see each other when There is the ringing of the bell<\/p><p>I remember days of old,<br \/>when I was young and I was home Seems so distant and now I dream of a place that I can\u2019t go<\/p><p>To be back is unreal<br \/>The old Happy town lack of feel<br \/>No more kids just running around And no smiling teens can\u2019t be found<\/p><p>Ooh, it all has been taken by the hole Ooh and no one seems to care anymore Ooh, we have to go, back into that hole<\/p><p>Just thinking bout makes me sad After all this Time it\u2019s still that bad You don\u2019t know, what you\u2019ve had Until it\u2019s taken away and you go mad.<\/p><p>Ooh, it all has been taken by the hole Ooh and no one seems to care anymore Ooh, we have to go, back into that hole.<\/p><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-786 size-full\" title=\"\u00a9Andreas Fernandez\" src=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0054T01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0054T01.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0054T01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0054T01-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0054T01-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><p><span class=\"_5yl5\">My childhood in Malmberget is something I think alot about. I have so many great memories from that Time. We lived in a lovely neighbourhood that is now behind the fence and torn down. This neighbourhood was the best thing I knew. <\/span><span class=\"_5yl5\">We always had family and friends around. Seems like we always did fun things.\u00a0 My friends and my familys dearest friends lived on the same street, some of them just a block away. We threw these great neighbourhood partys where everybody joined and had a great time. <br \/><\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-558 size-large\" title=\"\u00a9Andreas Fernandez\" src=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0095T01-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0095T01-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0095T01-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0095T01-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0095T01.jpg 1094w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p><p><span class=\"_5yl5\">In my older days I\u2019ve been up there a couple of times. I remember one time i slept over at friends house in Malmberget and in the morning I went behind the fence where it is a risk of collapse to try to map out where our street once was. I think I was just trying to cling on to something that\u2019s clearly not there anymore, get some closure.. <\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-559 size-large\" title=\"\u00a9Andreas Fernandez\" src=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0035T01-1024x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0035T01-1024x582.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0035T01-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0035T01-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/driftingnarratives.net\/midnightsun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Clip0035T01.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p><p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I have so much to say about Malmberget, this is the short version. <\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Rickard Johansson <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lived in a lovely neighbourhood that is now behind the fence and torn down. This neighbourhood was the best thing I knew. 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