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

In November we remember...

Hey guys. Here are some pictures from the tour a couple weeks back. Mia Möllberg is the photographer and we are the band.

Cottbus:



Berlin:

German interview...

... with Anton and Johnny. Check it: http://www.unruhr.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2175&Itemid=3

Home sweet home

Ladies and gentlemen. We are back home. Tour is over for this time around. It feels so weird. I've been around the guys for 24 h a day for almost a month. And now it's just quiet. This happens always after a long run like this, 20 shows in 22 days, but you never really get used to it. But let me tell you some of the stuff we've been up to in the last days.



We had such a great night in Berlin. Best show of the tour. Thanks to everyone of you who came around. The afterparty lasted til 6 am in the rowdy halls of White Trash Fast Food. Pumpkin throwing and table dancing among other deeds. And the next day in Kassel we squeesed the last drops of energy out of our bodies. Great crowd, great show aswell. Roadie Anton Toorell joined on additional lead guitar when The Luck You Got turned into a guitar battle in the encore.



A thing I've been really happy about is to see so many more men on the shows this time around. The crowd is now almost 50/50 genderwise. It's no secret we were very tired of only attracting a young female audience. And to see this changing in front of your weary eyes is a great feeling. Don't get me wrong now, we love our whole audience, girls and boys, men and women, elders and youngsters, but a diverse crowd is the best.



Anowho... On the way back, after 10 000 km of road, with 2 little hours left we were pulled over by civilian police. They weighed us and checked everything about everything. And apparently we were 46% to heavy. This meant fines of 1000 a pop. It's great that the swedish law enforcement shows such dedication catching villians and vigilantes on a sunday night. Makes me sleep well at night.

Now we're gonna have a little one week vacation. Then we are gonna kick start something really exciting. Production rehearsals kids!

XO Anton A

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

U2 are playing for free in Berlin today. At the same time as we are. They are here to celebrate the fall of the wall 20 years ago. Fucking U2. Always trying to mess things up for new up and comers. See you in the Bang Bang tonight. We're gonna be loud! Love / AA

Bono making our life difficult

Live blog from Munich

Thank you everybody for tonight. It was a blast I have to say. Hot stage(even I got sweat drops in my face), dancing, amplifiers on 11, screaming and shouting. This is what it's all about and I don't like it at all....I love it!!
//Oskar

59-1 Tonight!

First I really have to say that I´m sorry that we didn't had more time in Vienna, then we would have visited one of the occupied university, we support you students!

4 gigs to go and as you know we are now in Munich at 59-1, on the way here we watched Top Gun on the TV (once again) mean while Oskar was at the wheel trying to give him self the biggest sugar rush ever. I think tonight is gonna be good one, it´s a great sound in here and already some swedes turned to watch the show.

// Johnny

First snow

We are in Vienna right now. Had a great show at this place called Chelsea witch is situated under the railways tracks for the metro. After the show a couple of beers went down our throats with some Austrian dudes. Vienna really represented from her good side. Well almost anyway. We woke up an hour ago with snow outside our window! SNOW!? Let's hope there will be snowball showdown on the way to Munich today. The bus is departing in five minutes, see you at 59:1 tonight! //MJ

Sauna & Steam Bath In Regensburg

Oy!
2 weeks of carrying amps and drums, 5000km in the car, late nights, 15 shows... Yes it felt good with a day at the spa.
Yesterday i went to bed at 10 instead of 4, I slept like a baby after a hot sauna and steambath. Regensburg you make me relax and i like to visit you again.
Today we´re heading to Wienna wich we ofcourse look forward to, last time we played there it was a real blast. Oskar really wants to climb all the way up on Grossglockner but unfortunately we dont have the time.

See you tonight

// Johnny