Sussi and leo’s fully booked calendar was with a cleared, as Mette Frederiksen 11. march Denmark closed down.
The musical duo should have run the country thin in their motorhome and have entertained with benspjæt and harmonikaspil, but like all other musicians in Denmark, they have had to take an involuntary break from the scene due to corona.
The many lack of jobs has of course had major economic consequences for the Sussi and Leo Nielsen, tells the 64-year-old singer to Ekstra Bladet.
– It has probably cost us 700,000 in pure revenue. It is really a lot of money. Of course, we have not had the expenses to be on the road, but anyway, she says.
The colourful couple has been saved by the stimulus packages, the government has knitted together because of coronakrisen.
– The tools do, that we can survive, says Sussi and continues.
– But the economy is one thing. Something else that we really lack to get out to people. We miss performing, she says.
Just for the time being you can follow the Sussi and Leo in the DR3 program ‘Suddenly I stayed at Sussi and Leo’. Here follows one 16-year-old Luke, who with his mother moved in with the couple on their farm in Saltum.
– It is leo’s niece and her son, who is living with us now. And I will say that it has been great that they’ve been there. It has certainly done, that it has been less lonely during the corona for Leo and me, says Sussi.
the Time without the musician has Sussi and Leo – or in fact, most Sussi – utilized to upgrade their home.
Ussi can not sit quietly and work loose, so Leo can not follow. Private
That have been pulled wallpaper of and put new on, dug faskiner down, harvested wild vegetation around the yard and ordered garden.
– There is not a blade of grass, there are wrong now, notes Leo Nielsen dry.
He is not the big havemenneske and do not have the same needs that all the time there must be something, as his wife.
– She is Denmark’s oldest dampbarn. And the other, who lives here now is just such. But just let them on it. I have had the time to be creative and have been written a whole lot. I also think it’s wonderful, he says.
Sussi is adept with both brush, hammer and drill. Private
Fortunately for Sussi and Leo brightens the now.
In the next weekend they have their first spillejob in many many months.
– We will be playing in a gallery in Charlottenlund, and we’re very exited. It is our first job, since coronaen came to Denmark, says Sussi.
– Yes, finally, says Leo, who welcomes the fact that the corona has meant some cancellations for the couple.
– No one has fortunately cancelled their bookings, but only postponed them. So we are a furiously busy autumn meeting. Next year promises to be really good, and the best part is almost that there are starting to get new bookings. There is a couple of pieces of the past week, and it is really great that the organizers dare to begin to arrange something again, he says.
Sussi also got fixed regnvandstøden on site. She hopped down into the depths. Private
When the Sussi and Leo again on the road, being with Sussi behind the wheel of the mobile home.
Leo is lost for four years the sight in the left eye, when he, after his serious illness with a broken hip, staphylococci and kidney failure got retinal detachment on the eye.
– I must really good run, but I do not do it, for I do not actually on it. It is something mentally, it would easily be possible, says Leo, and continues.
– We used to share it, but now she drives. Fortunately, it is indeed a motorhome, we have, so if we’re going far, and she gets tired, she can quickly lay out and get a nap, he says.
