Gott nytt.

Dear Friends. Just like Johnny I also wanted to sum up 09 for us all with a few words. Even though he beat me to it. I'm just not able to keep up with him sometimes.
When I look back on year nine I quickly realize it carried a lot for all of us. While the world might remember this year as a year of financial crisis or the year Obama became president, I will always think of it as the year when we released SONGS FOR THE FALLEN APART. Our best album to date by far. To the sound of both fantastic and horrific reviews we released our new baby into first Scandinavia and then Mainland Europe. And we did the greatest tours we ever done this year. And grew a lot more confident in our own ability. For me, the best shows were this springs outdoor headline gig at the Get-A-Gig Festival in our native Karlstad, the Peace And Love show in 28 degree heat and the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. All very different but equally fabulous.

On a personal level it has been a year of change during these last months. Sometimes hard to adapt to and sometimes the kind of change that makes you wanna dive into it, head first, without thinking twice. I wanna thank my brothers Anders, Oskar and Johnny for all we did this year.
For 2010 I will try to write more and drink less. What are your promises?
XO ANTON

Happy New Year!

We want to wish you a happy new year and thank you for twelve great months filled with awesome shows and the release of "Songs For The Fallen Apart"

1010 will bring much I hope, I´ll bet it wont take to long before we get out on the road again.
By the way we just finished yet another demo on a new song, I like it much and it is something between Phantom Of The Opera and Dirty Harry.

Happy New Year // Johnny!

list of a decade

At the end of every year it's kind a tradition to make a top 10 list of "records of the year". But this time me and my friends are gonna make it over the whole decade, and now I'm sitting here... having a hard time remembering and seed all great albums.
I have decide to only choose one album per artist/band to make it a little more exciting. The ones I have come up with so far is: the strokes, glasvegas, håkan hellström, kent, arctic monkeys. razorlight, the killers and kings of leon.

Feel free to help me remember...
//anders

Back home

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Hope y'all have had a great Christmas. I just got back home from Värmland, where I have spent my Christmas with family and friends. I'm really really really tired right now. It's always fun to be in Värmland, especially when all your friend from the old days also are there. The rest of the boys in the band are coming back on Monday. Then we will get back to working on our new album again. Can't wait... //Oskar

poem

Put your issues on probation
Run your problems off the track
Throw your worries out your window
Get that monkey off your back
Silence all your inner critics
With your own conscience make amends
Allow yourself some happiness
Cos it's that time of year again

xo Anton

Todays soundtrack

Chris Rea is going to tell you what me and Johnny's day is about.
:

Have god day!
//anders

Flashback

I just found this photo from last time we were in Berlin. I had almost forgot about it. We stood outside a photo machine in the middle of the night in Berlin and everything was so intense. Suddenly Johan screams to us that we have to squeeze us in the machine all at once! And the result is this great picture. //Oskar

A Christmas greeting from all of us to all of you!

Dark times Equals creativity

Anton seems to spit out song after song like fireworks bursts into the sky, I am now sitting in the kitchen listen to a new one even thou it´s late. Anton don´t want to take any credits and says: "it wrote it self" I like what I hear

I will sum up the day for you with a list:

Track of the day:
Heroin - The Velvet Underground

Movie of the day:
Inglourious Basterds

Blog of the day:
http://svrta.org/

Topic of the day:
Global warming Vs Christmas tree or not.

Thumbs down for:
Summer tyres

Thumbs up for:
Spandau Ballet, 80´s band who will attempt to be the first band to play in space according to Toronto Sun.

Sleep Tight You All // Johnny

Blog schedule

We know that we had our ups and downs when it comes to this blog, to avoid this in the future we created a blog schedule last week. So far it has worked perfectly except Oskar forgot his day and then Anton forgot his, but we're getting there. I think...
Tomorrow we're going to see our record label here in Stockholm and have a meeting about album number 3. Talk about producers and stuff like that.
We'll keep you updated. Today Stockholm looks like this...
//anders

Natten går tunga fjät...

Today we are recording two new songs. The problem is the three of us who sing in this band are so hung over I am not sure if I'm gonna be able to teach Anders and Johnny the lyrics I've written. Anders hosted a spectacular event at Östermalm last night you see. Also Oskar hasn't bothered to show up yet so this production day has come to a bit of a halt.

Oh, remember this?

We're thinking of doing a Christmas song for ya'll this year. Which song would you like us to do?


Anders struggling with memorizing lines...

Glad Lucia allihopa/ Anton A

9th december 2009

Hey you!

Hope you all have stayed far away from the flue, at least we have. We have just arranged two new songs and will make our best to get them down to some kind of digital format the next days, we´ll see if we can share something with you.

Congratulations to the two of you who won the "Song For The Fallen Apart" Album at musicstage.se. they have a Christmas calendar competition every day, Check it! yes it´s in Swedish.

Tomorrow we´ll have some meetings & party all night long.

Made In Spain

Last week the four of us spend two hours cleaning our rehearsal. It's now shining and smells like flowers. The reason why I tell you this is because when doing this I found an old CD thrown in the middle of Johnnys old drumkit. When we put it in the stereo for a listening we were all surprised about the techno beat that filled up the room. Don't know how many of you who remembers (we had forgotten) but a British guy called Cat Burglar made a remix of Made in Spain a couple of years ago. You can listen to it on his myspace site here.
//anders

Pete represent

We have just had i Friday night rehearsal. It's something special about rehearsing on weekend nights. There is a kind of vibe in the air witch doesn't exist when you play during the weeks. Some of us had planned to go to see Pete Doherty at Debaser after the rehearsal but he did what he does best - Cancelled the show. This time it was because of "transport problems"... That's "cookie talk" as Cosmo Kramer would have said. Well well, at least we haven't cancelled any shows yet and we are planning to keep it that way.

Stay true in the night//Oskar & MJ

Teaser

What is going on? Why am I in a weelchair? You will see soon enough. Interesting things are happening.

Today I got a mail from a swedish magazine called veckorevyn who asked me to judge outfits in their Valentines Day issue. Maybe this is beacuase of our song "Valentines Day", I don't know. I was a bit flattered that they would let me rule judgement over peoples way to dress. Did they perhaps think of me as kind of a fashion guru? Tempting thought indeed. But I had to tell them no in the end. I'm a musician. It's not my place to say yay or nay.

Record of the day for Anton (I) is Neon Bible by Arcade Fire. Fantastic!

faster than the speed of night

We should write here more often. Once a day at least. Or do you want this to be more of a news feed? I attended music industry meetings today. It's fun plus it gives you free lunch at restaurant paid by publisher! Try it. Carl visited us in rehearsal. We tried to get him to take home the Spf guitar but he didn't want it. I will now sell it on ebay and make mucho dinero.



This is the only record I listen to these days. Go Bonnie!

// Anton