In a cyclone of stones

Moving...

2010-10-07T11:48:00.000-07:00

I'll be moving over here: http://boomboxhearts.blogspot.com/

The reason? Well, it's what I do most of the time anyway, so... And I'll still rant about crap football teams as Brøndby, Roma and Liverpool (though at the moment I'm loving St. Pauli), show videos and perhaps even reintroduce the concept of the erratic behaviour of a drunken man, 'cos it was kinda fun.

I'll also be drumming a bit here: http://tempomatador.blogspot.com/

See you on the other side :-).

Ok, November...

2010-10-05T09:55:00.000-07:00

You just made my day. First The Walkmen, and now this, sweet momma, it's cool!!!:

X sessions and more...

2010-09-17T08:50:00.000-07:00

Damn, I'm tired. Rehearsing + a few beers apparently ain't no good on a Thursday. But good news:

And we'll be playing a semi-acoustic concert next Thursday on Nørrebro Bryghus, too.

But tonight: Doing stuff on Facebook, having a bit of red wine and writing some lyrics. And relaxing. And tomorrow just finishing the crap novel I'm reading now.

False Priest...

2010-09-06T10:39:00.001-07:00

of Montreal streaming here. Naturally, I love it, funky shit, weird/cool lyrics and all that!

Tempomatador

2010-08-31T01:26:00.000-07:00

Yay, first "real" concert last Friday! And it went well, everyone was happy, we had beers and ended at Jolene's for a dance or two. Pictures here.

On Saturday we went to another party, had beers and a dance or two, too.

And forget about Broken Social Scene, this is what I'm gonna do on the 22nd of November!!!:

Old tuna...

2010-08-18T22:58:00.000-07:00

Phew, I've been busy. Applications, rehearsing, filming, recording, rehearsing etc. etc. So have a look at this extremely funky site:

http://www.gammel-tun-paa-nye-flasker.dk/

And watch this very, very, very sad video :-):

Farvel min Kjeld from Ærlige Manja on Vimeo.

Drums...

2010-08-12T03:55:00.000-07:00

Off to record drums for two Boombox songs! And Tempomatador rehearsing tomorrow and Saturday (and then some dancing on Rust afterwards). Speaking of drums, check this song out (thanks Soundvenue):

Dungen - Skit I Allt from Mexican Summer on Vimeo.

Concert for the van...

2010-08-08T08:34:00.000-07:00

That was fun, Boombox and Tempomatador both played 4 songs and it was such a nice party with a load of nice people. And check this out, it's the promo video for the Paper Planes Festival, yay!:

Paper Planes Festival 2010 - Promo Video. from Catching Paper Planes on Vimeo.

The Walkmen

2010-08-06T07:51:00.000-07:00

This band is cool beyond belief, Lisbon out on September 14th (it's been leaked btw and it's brilliant!).

July

2010-08-03T05:49:00.000-07:00

Has been pretty busy. Holidays. Recordings. Rehearsing. Writing lyrics. Drinking Italian Mojitos. Seeking jobs. So with the lyrics done and the holidays over, it's back to recording, rehearsing and seeking jobs only :-).

AND: Vega the 22nd of November, oh yeah, I'm sooooo there!:

AND:

Tempomatador is the new band name. First concert on the 27th. And small concert with both Boombox and Tempo on Saturday the 7th.

Roskilde!

2010-07-06T01:30:00.000-07:00

That was fun! Beautiful people, beautiful music, beautiful whatnot. Best concerts: Beach House, Pavement, Prince. Saw pretty cool stuff from Gonjasufi, Kellermensch and LCD Soundsystem too. Titus Andronicus and Motörhead played the same song 20 times. And C.V. Jørgensen was nice and comfy and just what you needed at the time.
Apart from that just hanging out and having huge amounts of fun! And thanks to CJ for the late, late, late mixtape ;-):

Roskilde!

2010-06-30T03:29:00.000-07:00

Off tomorrow! Nothing much planned, just:

I'll be bringing shorts this year, as it seems it'll hit 30 degrees.

I'll try to drink less beer and more water :-).

And I'll start here:

And end here:

World Cup Special 1994

2010-06-27T12:36:00.000-07:00

Oh, the misery! Baggio played a beautiful tournament and Italy reached the final. And lost!

(I actually had to go powder my nose / cry a bit in the bathroom after Baggio's missed penalty :-)).

World Cup Special 1990

2010-06-18T01:36:00.000-07:00

Oh yeah! Here starts my fascination for the Italian team. Or rather, it actually started two years earlier, when my father invited me to Germany to see the European Championships and Italy beat Denmark 2-0 (jpg-manja-Jesper and CJ will hate this, but I also won 800,- guessing the result ;-)). Anywho, in 1990 I understood tactics and since I'd always been a defender, I really liked the Italian cool defence, the technically skilled midfield and especially the role of the trequartista or number 10. Or in this case the number 15, here's a tribute to my all time favourite player, he was kinda strange, a Buddhist and had the weirdest haircut (hence his nickname "The Divine Ponytail").

Apart from Baggio the tournament was crap, though. Boring as hell and Germany won. And here's the sad story of the English exit:

World Cup Special 1986

2010-06-16T23:26:00.001-07:00

This is fun :-). 1986 was the first "real" World Cup for me. I watched most of the games or at least saw the sports news and read the papers, so I was able to make my own statistics. Yup, it's slightly insane, but I just located 10 pages with my tournament facts:

1: I had my own grading system ranging from 1 ("bad") to 9 ("super fantastic world class").
2: I really liked Careca, so he became the best player of the tournament, ahead of Maradona :-).
3: Because of Careca, Brazil was my team (when they lost the game against France, my notes say: "ooooooooh noooooooo. SHIT"). Here's the game in question:

Naturally, I was also a fan of Denmark. And was really, really pleased that Germany didn't win (despite making a pretty amazing comeback like in 82). Here's the final:

World Cup Special 1982

2010-06-16T00:36:00.001-07:00

Well, I looooove the World Cup, so I've decided to make a Special series of all the World Cups I've seen. Here's the first match I vividly remember watching:

It's well known for the German comeback and the insane Schumacher tackle on Battiston. Other facts from that year:
My favourite team was Argentina, because they had the coolest jerseys (I had a large poster from BP with all teams hanging in my room).
I watched the first part of the tournament in Denmark and the rest in Norway. And I really liked that Italy (now that Argentina didn't) took the trophy, as my father was a fan of Germany and you sort of never like the same stuff as your parents.
My Norwegian uncle named his dog Rossi after the topscorer of the tournament. Here he is in another classic from that year (and I'm pretty sure that I saw the game in Skive on my way to Norway, but I might be wrong on that one :-)):

Oh yeah!

2010-06-13T10:04:00.001-07:00

Brilliant week! Distortion was nice, the recording's been nice and even the jobseeking's been nice. And other things too :-). And according to some you're old, if you like Creedence, but I really like it, and check the guitar in this one, that's goddamn hot shit!:

Ten Feet Up...

2010-06-03T09:59:00.000-07:00

And Norway was nice, indeed! Now I'm back to finding jobs that I'd like to have. And writing lyrics. While I've been doing that I've been spending a bit of time in here. It's Copenhagen X Sessions and it's pretty goddamn cool, check this out for instance:

And yay, Boombox did one too, which will be up later (and I'm very, very much looking forward to the Monkey Cup Dress session!!!).

And Distortion tomorrow, ooooooh yeah!

Norway...

2010-05-28T00:25:00.000-07:00

Soooooo busy writing mails to radios, writing applications, writing lyrics! And off to Norway tomorrow:

Wee bit tired...

2010-05-16T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a recap, to busy to write:
Today: Yay bronze to Brøndby! Sending out new Boombox track "Gold".
Yesterday: Monkey Cup Dress had photo shoot at my house.
Friday: Uploading "Gold". Etc.
Thursday: Mixing and mastering "Gold" at Baby Factory.
Wednesday: Writing applications.
Tuesday: Rehearsing with Drømmenes Bodega.
Monday: Practising ukulele :-).

And been listening quite a bit to John Mogensen this week:

AUFSTIEG!

2010-05-03T02:55:00.000-07:00

Birthday...

2010-04-25T04:05:00.000-07:00

Yup, turned 35 on Friday. Wonderful evening with friends, beer and dancing! Saturday on the other hand was spent with friends, beer, art stuff and crap telly! Today I've steered clear of the beer and instead written a near perfect pop song and had a long walk in the sun :-). And been listening to this:

Thanks NPR!

2010-04-20T09:51:00.000-07:00

The new Broken Social Scene!

And thanks Junip for a brilliant song, too!

Whopeeee....

2010-04-18T04:28:00.000-07:00

The Popfest was huge fun! We played pretty goddamn cool for a first concert, so we were very happy! And afterwards hanging out, drinking beers and for some reason Fernet Branca. And saying hi to Stytzer (always a pleasure!) and having fries with ooh ooh ooh ooh (always a pleasure, too :-)!).

Check this video btw, I'm guessing that the cameraman is, well a man :-):

And almost forgot...

2010-04-14T11:33:00.000-07:00

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah!:

Soundtrack of the summer...

2010-04-14T03:44:00.000-07:00

This one, no doubt about it!!!:

Holy cannoli

2010-04-09T09:27:00.000-07:00

That was one helluva Thursday! Eifel bar, then rehearsal, then Dyrehaven, McKluud, Jolene and Café Sommersted. So tonight=relaxation.

And check this out, that's the way to take a killer track and then just make it better, sweet momma:

Easter...

2010-04-05T07:33:00.000-07:00

Ain't it neat? Just hanging, coffee, playing guitar. And making mixtapes. Check them funky ass drums on track 3, please!

Drunk girls...

2010-03-27T03:59:00.000-07:00

New LCD Soundsystem. It's cool enough, but am I the only one thinking?:

And off to a wedding, yay!

KEXP...

2010-03-24T12:02:00.000-07:00

I've started listening to KEXP. And oh momma, that's nice. Today, for instance, I heard both this:

And this:

Plus a huge amount of other cool bands. Rather much cooler than Danish radio, if you ask me.

Hell yeah...

2010-03-22T12:12:00.000-07:00

New Boombox photos.

And stream the new Klaus&Kinski album on Myspace. Go! Go! Go!

P4...

2010-03-17T06:47:00.000-07:00

They played this one this morning:

Pretty much perfect, when you're having a day off to write applications (which means copy-pasting / drinking coffee / playing a bit of guitar / sitting and looking out the window).

Friday, please...

2010-03-11T10:13:00.000-08:00

Yup, we'll be having a combined dinner / rehearsal with The Boombox Hearts tomorrow. Much fun, I think.

Stream the new Serena Maneesh, btw.

And I'm thinking that this will be an indie disco floorfiller this year. Sounds like New Order meeting noise from hell meeting disco and a weird beat:

LCD Soundsystem

2010-03-09T09:58:00.000-08:00

Yup, there's a new one out. It's pretty goddamn cool, if you ask me, rather Beatles- / Lennon-ish in a good way!

And back to coffee and Orhan Pamuk. I really don't know, whether I find his novel "The Museum of Innocence" well written or appallingly badly written, but I'll give it a hundred or so more pages before deciding. Lazy Tuesday, oh yeah!

Chromatics...

2010-03-07T11:52:00.000-08:00

I've rediscovered Chromatics (the DJ played a song after the Beach House concert):

And done nothing this weekend. Just a bit of laundry, some coffee at Kalaset and writing lyrics for yet another sad song :-).

Rehearsing...

2010-03-03T01:41:00.000-08:00

Beach House, dancing, Grotten / mixing Boombox, 20ies party / Bang & Jensen, rehearsing, Props / job, rehearsing / job, rehearsing, Harbo Bar. That's my calendar since Friday, so just a wee bit tired today. So I've taken the day off just to relax and do some cleaning and that sort of thing around the house.

And I think I forgot to mention that I bought this mighty fine book by Sarah Bodil Hansen (very cool drawings, if you ask me).

Beach House

2010-02-25T10:47:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow. Loppen. It's gonna be sweet.

World sick etc.

2010-02-24T12:35:00.000-08:00

Broken Social Scene all over the net. And the new song here.

And two new songs by Klaus & Kinski. And a new album out in March, yay!

Now back to Champions League!

Charlotte Kalla...

2010-02-20T09:46:00.000-08:00

I love The Winter Olympics. Especially Cross Country Skiing and Ice Hockey. And I'm always hoping that the Swedish athletes will win. Like Charlotte Kalla (gold the other day). Or Anna Haag (silver yesterday). So I'm gonna skip Rust tonight and watch stuff from Vancouver, while sipping some wine and writing lyrics for a song with a Chinese / Morricone sort of theme.

Gårdshult...

2010-02-19T05:07:00.001-08:00

More pictures here. And the trip was cooler than cool. In more ways than one, as it was 3 degrees below inside, when we arrived. But after some initial technical problems, we played and played and etc.. And recorded quite a few pretty cool songs.

And the house and the surroundings were magnificent (and we made pizzas in the stone oven :-)). Oh, and Halmstad seems a nice city. And the trip was almost a complete fail, as the we were stopped by the police for driving a car without proper papers (fault of the rental company, though, so we were allowed to drive on). And Saturday started with a leaking gas oven, which was a bit scary, to say the least (and nauseating, too).

And for the last two days I've been recording bongos, tambourines, shakers and whatnot with Mikkel. And drinking beer while doing that, so completely knackered today. So apart from perhaps going to Rust din Røv tomorrow, I ain't gonna do nothing this weekend.

Tonight's the night...

2010-02-10T08:44:00.000-08:00

Or actually, no. But on Friday Mikkel Max & Drømmenes Bodega will be going to Sweden to record as many songs as possible! I can't believe how much I'm looking forward to that, it's gonna be splendid and then some. And right now, I'm making a cd for the trip. This one's on it:

Telstar...

2010-01-31T05:18:00.000-08:00

Yay! And double yay! I've been trying to find this song for ages (couldn't remember the title):

And what a beautiful night. Köttbullar at Kalaset, and then Props, Drone, Oak Room, Gefährlich, Understellet. And snow, snow, snow.

Submarine sessions...

2010-01-22T01:24:00.000-08:00

Ui. Mikkel Max og Drømmenes Bodega. Or 3 of us, anyway. Playing in a submarine. It's pretty nice, methinks :-).

Wow...

2010-01-20T05:39:00.000-08:00

Wild day. Due to the financial crisis I didn't get my contract renewed, so now I have until May to find out whether I should find a new job or work fulltime as a musician for the rest of the year. Hmmm, dunno.

And Boombox will be playing the first concert at the Copenhagen Popfest, yay!

And stream the new Beach House, pleeeeease! It's soooooo great!

1:18 and onwards...

2010-01-17T11:02:00.000-08:00

I would like to be the dude in the middle. And I might just keep on posting about Warpaint, it's a very, very, very cool EP (think Blonde Redhead, The Cure and psychedelia and then just buy it).

And momma, I'm tired. Beers on Friday. Rehearsing and beers yesterday.

I think I'm in love...

2010-01-09T06:41:00.000-08:00

Or, not really. But the bass player is pretty hot:

And the song is extremely cool, too!

Back again...

2010-01-08T12:06:00.000-08:00

New Year's was great. And then just recording. Soooo.... Two new Boombox Hearts songs via this blog.

And TIRED! Managed to make Pasta Puttanesca and now I'm just gonna relax. Read some P.D. James, perhaps. And sleep.

Oh, and watch this video (via It's a trap):

I hate myself when I'm alone...

2009-12-26T13:34:00.000-08:00

And no, everything's fine :-). It's just that last night we had sort of a break-up-songs-theme. And At Break of Day is, well, near to being perfect. So listen here.
And the pre-party was brilliant and The Banana Hold-Up, too. Lots of dancing. Lots of beer.
And do you remember this one?:

The name Urquhart came up, while watching Monty Python on DR K (great idea btw).

X-mas! Yay!

2009-12-25T06:10:00.000-08:00

Yay! X-mas has been brilliant. My aunt came to Copenhagen, and we had a not very x-masy x-mas. Kösk kebab on the 23rd and rabbit ragout yesterday. And then just some wine and presents. And I got the best present I've sort of ever got; A picture by Kirsten Klein (I get to pick the one I like the most among the 7 or 8 my aunt's got). Huge sentimental value + I really like them = large smiley.
Oh, and go via Stytzer and download the Fireflies cover EP! It's goddamn great (there's a cover of this one, CJ):

And now, relaxing, and then beer and dancing!

Forgetting...

2009-12-11T13:11:00.000-08:00

As pointed out by CJ and monsieur Lykkeager I forgot a few things about the trip. I also forgot that we saw Sonic Youth and Serena Maneesh btw.
And arcade and Stonehenge photos here.
And now,lyrics and red wine and bed.

ATP...

2009-12-07T13:26:00.000-08:00

Well, that was just excellent!
Friday: By some strange coincidence we ran into Stytzer on the plane. As always it was a pleasure and we had a good chat about music and favourite Mew-songs. Met up with the rest of the dudes in Gatwick, picked up our car and off we went. And here begins the legend of CJ :-). I'll leave out rather a lot of the details, but:
1: It took us 7(!) hours to get to Minehead, because he had to go to the bathroom every 20 minutes.
2: As that was mainly due to him drinking large amounts of beer and half a bottle of Scotch, we also had the pleasure of hearing him make the funniest rant about "people wearing Vibskov clothes and liking Townes Van Zandt" I've ever heard and
3: Missing most of Yo La Tengo. And a million other things! So we didn't hear that much music that night, but those of us who didn't get banned for "dancing badly :-)", danced a bit and had a few drinks, too. And here's an odd fact: Bartenders at Butlin's Minehead seem to believe that you can:
1: Make a Bloody Mary with ketchup and water. And
2: Make a White Russian with lemonade.
Then we went to bed.
Saturday: English breakfast, beer, cider. Hearing Harmony Rockets play one chord for 20 minutes. Hearing Spectrum play one chord for 20 minutes. Hearing J. Mascis & the Fog play a very nice concert. Hearing My Bloody Valentine play a not very nice concert. Dancing like devils to the coolest two DJs. Going to bed.
Sunday: Sunday roast. Beer. Cider. Watching weird ATP tv. Playing pool. Swervedriver, which was amazing! Playing air hockey. Beer. Múm, while we sat at Burger King. Dancing like devils to one of the two coolest DJs. Party at crazy Norwegians' place. Bed.
Monday: Going home (rather much faster :-)).
And wow! The combination: Holiday resort/Festival/Somerset is weird beyond belief. And brilliant. Go there, if you can. And a video:

Last night...

2009-12-02T10:48:00.000-08:00

Brilliant evening. Went to see Cody at Din Nye Ven. Mini concert, which was very cool. And then beers and hanging out with da Boombox boys and girl. And sweet-as-always cello-Line.

AND: I think I've written a rather catchy pop ballad. So that's cool, too.
AND: Off to ATP on Friday. Ooooooooh yeah!

Nightmare before Xmas...

2009-11-29T12:24:00.000-08:00

The stage times have been announced. And it seems that I'll only be missing Primal Scream, as I'll rather see Yo La Tengo (and I've seen Primal Scream before and their latest albums are crap anyway, so ...). So here's a video from back when they were cool:

Down with da flu...

2009-11-22T10:08:00.000-08:00

Well, that's just how it is. Spent my days in bed since Wednesday morning. But I'm finally gettting better (I'm now capable of sitting and even drinking coffee :-)). So tomorrow will be an off day too, and then back to work on Tuesday.

And wow! I'm thinking that My Evil Twin-Cecilie's first single will be a smash hit! Try it on Myspace, as it sounds like dreampop meeting Madness and a bass straight outta Boney M (and that's actually a compliment), goddamn, it's catchy!

I looooove...

2009-11-17T11:58:00.000-08:00

Election night! So I've bought a couple of beers and now I'm gonna watch tv for the rest of the evening.

And how the hell did I miss this song?! Or why didn't anyone tell me? And why isn't it a smash hit already? Or is it? Momma, it's catchy!

And thanks to imageyenation for posting it!

Mesmophone...

2009-11-13T12:11:00.000-08:00

Video. Bakers at Dawn. Brilliant.

Bakers at Dawn: Mesmophone from Cory Landels on Vimeo.

They're Belgian...

2009-11-11T12:08:00.000-08:00

Is there some sort of country/folk revolution going on? This band is Belgian. They're called Isbells. And it's very, very nice. Myspace.

Funky Jutland...

2009-11-06T12:11:00.000-08:00

Hehe, Thomas Treo thinks Thomas Helmig is "jydefunky" (and that's not a compliment :-)).

And a video of Klaus & Kinski playing an acustic version of "El Christo del perdón" right here.

And now a glass of red wine and then bed, going to the Club:Dox concert with Afrikan Boy tomorrow.

Auuuuuhhhhh...

2009-11-03T09:44:00.000-08:00

Hehe, just bought a Povl Dissing compilation. And that means that I spend my days at work listening to this while laughing at lines as: "Kan jeg ikke blive din rigtige mand, så lad mig blive din støder":

Oh, and the Mixtapes & Cellmates album is pretty much ok. Not fantastic, but I'll recommend songs as "All the lights", "Soft Eyes", "Soon" and "Sunday" (and the rest are like so-so). Check out "Soon" (with very cool Dinosaur Jr.-like drums and very catchy chorus) here:

"So perfumed that the winds were love-sick with him"

2009-10-30T12:47:00.000-07:00

I still very much like P.G. Wodehouse!
And oh. Check this out (thanks to It's A Trap):

I'm defo gonna buy that album soon.

That beat...

2009-10-27T11:34:00.000-07:00

...is fucking great! So screw that I'm tired. And that it's very much old news. Because "IRM" by Charlotte Gainsbourg is hefty as hell. Go listen!

Roslyn

2009-10-27T10:52:00.000-07:00

Still pretty tired. Out for a few beers and drinks on Saturday. And watching the brilliant Liverpool-Man Utd. game on Sunday. And Drømmenes Bodega rehearsing. And Boombox recording yesterday.
So "Roslyn" by Bon Iver & St. Vincent is rather nice in such a situation (via Soundvenue High 5).

ROFLMAO

2009-10-23T11:39:00.000-07:00

I want this as a t-shirt. "I now Ultraviolet Thunder, Immortal Master of Eagles", hahahahahaha.

And Søren's back blogging, yay!

And finally a great post-rock album again! Do Make Say Think's "Other Truths". 4 songs: "Do", "Make", "Say" and (surprisingly :-)) "Think". It's the Canadian sound, alright, but somehow at the same time simpler and more complex than what they usually do. It's jazzy without being crappy and noisy without being noisy? I can't really explain. But pheeeeew, it's great, I wanna grow up and play drums like that! And you can listen at 3voor12. And guess what? I really, really think that you should (I would seriously rate it 5.5 out of 6)!

This could do for a century...

2009-10-21T11:09:00.000-07:00

This is an order: Go check this band out!
They're Norwegian. They're called Sky Is A Roof. And they're brilliant. Think Mogwai playing like a folk band (while singing), if that makes any sense. And if you like bands that sound like "Mogwai playing like a folk band (while singing)" I really meant the thing about it being an order.

Coco...

2009-10-18T11:18:00.000-07:00

Cool thing about being in Jutland: You listen a lot to P4. So yesterday I heard "Coco" by Miss B. Haven and I suddenly remembered how much I actually liked the band in the late 80ies and early 90ies. Never bought an album, just listened to the radio and saw them play once at Kløften Festival. Anywho, "Coco" is still a wonderful song and so is "Kandis Karrusel" (and Lise Cabble has the best female voice ever in Danish rock). And you can get a lot of free mp3's here! And this song's cool, too (and notice the bass player, I kinda thought she was very hot at the time :-)):

Concert....

2009-10-11T12:14:00.000-07:00

Yay!
1: I'm feeling fine after a week of illness :-).
2: Yesterday we played our first concert with the second band we've started after the ONBC break up. And that also means that we've found a name for it. It's called Mikkel Max og Drømmenes Bodega. As the name suggests Mikkel's singing in Danish (while playing guitar and the occasional melodica or even flute) and the other five members (Ulrik, Søren, Torben, Jpg-manja-Jesper and moi) handle percussion, drums, synth, guitar and bass. We'll be making a Myspace profile or whatever shortly and upload a few songs, the style being folkpop with a hint of indie and country. I think. And the concert went super. We only fucked up a couple of times and the audience seemed to like it. But then again it was a private party and we knew quite a few of them, so....:-). But nice to know that we're capable of playing six songs, so we're expecting that we'll be able to play a "real" concert in a few months time. And thanks to the lovely, lovely, lovely Helle and Christina who let us play at their Birthday party!
3: And since I've been ill I didn't drink all that much, so no hangover today (but amazing evening, though, it even included a funky outdoor lapdancing of some sort :-)). So spent the day moving gear, eating at Halifax and having a beer at Plenum. Where they played this and I might have said it before, but that song is just so fucking great and the guitar solo is just so out of this world cool (and the sound quality is crap btw):

Ooooooooh....

2009-10-05T10:38:00.000-07:00

My god, I feel bad. I'm sneezing and coughing and what not. Goddamn! This is what happens, when you spend a Thursday evening standing outside and drinking beer at a Crunchy Frog housewarming (and then spend the weekend having fun with an old friend in stead of drinking tea). Cool party and cool weekend, though, but today is just hell.
But: 49ers are 3-1. Brøndby won. And some nice things will happen this week. So not all that bad. And The Rumour Said Fire's The Balcony is Ugens Uundgåelige this week, which is very nice, when you're ill and have to listen to it 5 times a day :-).

Whoa...

2009-09-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

Friday: We arrived. Discovered that we had booked the room Thursday and Friday, not Friday and Saturday. But that got solved. Had a few beers and some Teigtasche. Went to the Snake & Jet's concert (which was nice). Went to see Times New Viking (which was bad). Went to see Golden Kanine (by accident, but it was cool, still). Curry wurst (scharf, scharf, scharf). Molotow, dancing, Crazy Horst, drinking, Eldorado, Übel & Gefährlich, dancing, hotel.
Saturday: Wies'n Frühstück. Flohmarkt. A few beers. Looked at Millerntor, yay, bought souvenirs. Found cafe with cheese and cider. Found cafe that served the largest White Russian and some pretty cool Mojitos. Saw some bands which were kinda bad. Curry wurst (scharf, scharf, scharf). Boozing. Danced a bit at a punk club. Hotel.
Today: Brunch. Loooong walk to the immensely cool harbour. Going home. Met very cool girl on the train that gave us a lift in her car from Rødby to Copenhagen.
And basically. Hamburg is brilliant. I wanna live there at some point, I think.
And Rutschgefahr. And Gruselkomödie. German is brilliant too.

You could say she was attractively built....

2009-09-24T12:53:00.000-07:00

Oh and before I'll be dancing and boozing in Hamburg there's a bit more going on here. I just discovered that the readers of DR have decided upon their favourite Beatles songs. So I thought that I might as well make a top 10 of my own. So here goes:
10: We Can Work It Out (basically just a good tune).
9: Helter Skelter (well, noisy as hell and cool as whatnot).
8: Dear Prudence (it's just beautiful and the Siouxsie version is cool shit too).
7: Ticket To Ride (the guitar and the drums!).
6: I Want To Hold Your Hand (the chorus, goddammit!).
5: Sun King / Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (because I used to play the last 3 songs with Mikkel, when we were drunk).
4: Taxman (it's so raw, so tough and so in your face).
3: Something (well, being sentimental. And it's so beautiful).
2: Do You Want To Know A Secret (well, sentimental again, and the "uh-uh-uh-uh-uh". I'd very much like to do a cover version at some point).
1: A Day in the Life (the bass is like wild, the drums are like yay and it makes me wanna like dance and cry at the same time):

Un peu trop idealiste...

2009-09-24T10:18:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow we're off. To Hamburg and Reeperbahn Festival, that is. And it's gonna be smashing, smashing, smashing and then some.
And first Boombox pic.
And video (I have a kinda hot Birkin photo hanging in front of me at work :-)):

All dried up...

2009-09-21T10:11:00.000-07:00

Ui. Take a listen to Eyelied Movies by Phantogram. Very cool beats, synth, shoegaze, indie and even Blonde Redheadish at times. In other words: Recommendable.

And ui. Also check out Pinkunoizu. Dudes from Le Fiasko, Selvhenter and others. Lo-fi, country and somehow it also reminds me of the Yerself Is Steam by Mercury Rev. And that's a compliment :-). And a reason to find Carwash hair on Youtube :-):

Reperbahn Festival # 2

2009-09-17T11:00:00.000-07:00

Day 2.
Lunch.
Beer.
Hanging out.
Hello Saferide.
Friska Viljor.
Frittenbude.
Dancing.
Sleeeeeeep.

Reperbahn Festival...

2009-09-09T12:32:00.000-07:00

Just bought the tickets. Friday and Saturday.
So guide to day one:
Find hotel.
Eat curry wurst.
Drink beer.
Watch times new viking.
Watch Deichkind.
Watch Revolver.
Dance.
Hopefully find hotel once again.

Cody...

2009-09-07T10:52:00.001-07:00

Stream the new one on Bandbase. Yay!

Sundays...

2009-09-06T10:41:00.000-07:00

This has been a rather cool one. Been listening to the new Yo La Tengo (stream album here). And it's great, it's got the typical Yo La Tengo ballads, a bit of noise and some psych (and I haven't got the track list, but the third song is perhaps the prettiest/saddest song I've heard this year).
And then just relaxing after yesterday's football game (sweet jesus, lucky Danes) and the amazing Crunchy party (pictures via Soundvenue). And then writing lyrics for a song. And now, I'm gonna write some more. And drink some red wine.

Uiiiii...

2009-08-30T09:26:00.000-07:00

Smashing weekend!
Recording / recording / hanging out / and:

Number 1 :-):

And thanks to Jeff, I'm now the proud owner of a cool mixtape. Loads of cool bands on, here's one of them:

While my gitanes gently weep...

2009-08-26T11:11:00.000-07:00

Mikkel, Jpg-manja and I are planning a trip to the Reperbahn Festival. I'm gonna watch this here band for sure.

Brilliant....

2009-08-23T12:15:00.000-07:00

...week for Brøndby :-). And I actually saw the game on Danish tv today, wtf!

Apart from that? Not much. Trying to write some lyrics. Played a bit of football.

And when will they show this one again?:

Soon would be nice, please.

Masterpiece?

2009-08-19T10:44:00.000-07:00

The new Mew? I've been listening a few times on 3voor12. And I'm not really impressed. I really like "Beach", "Repeaterbeater", "Hawaii dream" and "Intermezzo 2", but that's not quite enough, when the rest is slightly boring or just too bloody pompous. It's sort of "you've-heard-it-all-before-just-better"? Cool, cool, cool drums, though! But masterpiece? I think not.
Or perhaps I'm just too old to understand, because I actually like the Timber Timbre album much better :-).

Purple rain...

2009-08-05T11:38:00.000-07:00

Band meeting, dancing, moving for Jeff, dancing, hanging out, work, rehearsing, work, rehearsing, work. My life from Friday to today. Now, I wanna sleep!

And thanks to Tora (Thoughts of a Viking), who told me about White Birch! So go here and listen to a sweet, sweet cover of Purple Rain!

Not to Be...

2009-07-28T12:31:00.000-07:00

Yup, bought the new Malcolm Middleton. And it's pretty much ok. Not the best record I've ever heard, but it's cool enough. Go for songs as Shadows, Box & Knife, Subset of the World and defo Not to Be, if you don't feel like buying an entire album. And generally it's sort of too well produced to my liking, but what the hell do I know? Here's an old video:

And whatever you do. Don't ever read Nelson DeMille's novel Spencerville! I just did and I can truly say that it's quite possibly the worst I've ever read.

Quiet...

2009-07-26T10:51:00.000-07:00

Yeah, a quiet weekend, it was. Company thing Friday, a few beers with Jpg-manja afterwards. And Saturday a small party at Jeff's, where people had drinks and played old arcade games. And I went home early as I was feeling tired. Jeff played his usual splendid music, so now I'm listening to Love's "Gather round", which is absolutely smashing!
Oh, and the new Yo La Tengo sounds smashing, too!

The Boombox Hearts

2009-07-22T11:52:00.000-07:00

Yay! We've got a name for the new band. And the recordings went splendid!

Watch this space tomorrow :-).

And boozing, dancing, work, other stuff and more other stuff, so now I'm knackered. And listening to blues cd from Uncut.

Boom...

2009-07-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

YAY!
Thunder is a comin'.
I just assembled my new drum kit.
I'm going to the studio to record alternative versions of two songs tomorrow.
Camera Obscura will be playing at Loppen!

I'm sorry...

2009-07-13T13:41:00.000-07:00

Or actually, no. Just tired. But you know how you sometimes forget that you like a band? Well, I just remembered that I'd forgotten that I really like R.E.M. (and that was mostly due to the fact that my son's been going on and on about how he has all R.E.M. albums, which he hasn't :-)). Anywho, here's a video:

And hehe, you know what? I just bought a digital drum kit, so I can keep in shape, now that I don't have time for football (one sweaty hour of practise every day ought to do the trick :-)).

Short's the word...

2009-07-12T10:52:00.000-07:00

For my holiday in Jutland. Back in Cph already, as my aunt's car broke down in England, so she couldn't get back home in time for a visit. But at least I managed to spend 7 hours getting from Langeland to Skærbæk and attend a party with family, the mandatory organ dude and the equally mandatory marching waitresses. Kinda fun, though, even if it sounds like something out of a 50ies movie.

On the road...

2009-07-08T10:13:00.000-07:00

I'm going to Langeland tomorrow. And then the South of Jutland. Oh yeah. Splendid, splendid, won't be doing anything. At all! And haven't done anything at all the last week either. Holidays. Oh yeah!
AND: Yo La Tengo will play Den Grå Hal in November! The World is a wonderful place, ain't it.

And weeks as this one...

2009-06-26T12:53:00.000-07:00

Well, not quite. Tired, out with a cold, and they're closing Stengade 30. Weird thing, that. I've been going there, ever since I moved to Copenhagen in 1996, so the place actually means something to me. So here's nostalgia for you:

Weekends as this one...

2009-06-21T10:05:00.000-07:00

Should never end. Thursday (which isn't really weekend, I know) Mikkel and I had a coordinating-music-meeting at Props. So we had a few beers and met Cecilie from My Evil Twin, Lasse from Jeremy Sparrow and our Spanish friend, Marta, and her friends. So kinda tired Friday.
And Friday I went to this company thing. And that ended at Bloomsday. So kinda tired Saturday.
And Saturday I went to this Russian thing at Utterslev Mose. And we had a huge party at Jeff's place, watching This Is Spinal Tap, drinking drinks and dancing. Slept at Mikkel's place and was back home at 12 today. So kinda tired again.
And Jeff, the walking encyclopedia when it comes to old American music, played this one (I want a band with bass lines as that one):

How strange...

2009-06-12T12:09:00.000-07:00

Being home, while your son's out having fun with his friends.
Did I just turn 50?
What's a man to do?
Dunno.
What I do?
Listening to the new Sunset Rubdown, drinking beer, and smoking cigarettes.
Then I'll watch some crime story or other on TV.
Did I actually turn 50?
The album's great, though, thank the lord.

Very nice...

2009-06-11T10:57:00.000-07:00

Sitting inside, while it's raining like hell.
Rehearsing with not-yet-named-band on Tuesday.
I didn't get fired yesterday either.
And new Dinosaur Jr. video:

Voting...

2009-06-07T03:50:00.000-07:00

Yes, going out to vote in just a few minutes. Slightly hung over. Friday PUJ and Distortion, yesterday DJ'ing at Dyrehaven. Huge fun, as we played anything from Blumentopf and Herman Düne to Røde Mor and Klaus & Kinski.

Blasted...

2009-06-02T07:22:00.000-07:00

When your son is ill, you tend to get ill afterwards. So that's what I did. And that meant that the Wooden Shjips concert wasn't exactly what I bargained for. Kinda feverish, saw the warm-up band (which was crap), drank two beers, got more feverish, saw 6 songs, went home (the 6 songs were pretty cool, but it's rather hard going all "yay, I'm into drone and the one chord-thing", when you just want to go home to your bed). Here's a vid, though:

A schoolgirl is denied...

2009-05-24T11:42:00.000-07:00

Wrong decision! 5 minutes in Russian about Meat is Murder ain't gonna fly well. This is apparently the Russian word for ordinary: Общепринятая. Aaaaaargh, is all I can say! On the other hand: I don't have a hangover despite being out last night (Dyrehaven, which was very cool). So today I've rehearsed bass, written lyrics AND done the laundry. So all's not bad. And now, I'm gonna think of something very intelligent to say about this song:

Broadway...

2009-05-18T11:10:00.000-07:00

New Robert Svensson video:

Robert Svensson - Broadway from Nomethod on Vimeo.

And for some reason our Russian teacher today decided that we have to prepare a 5-7 minutes talk about something which we find very interesting. So I'm thinking that the subject would be my favourite record, but how the hell do you explain the coolness of "Meat is Murder" in Russian!?. Well, I've got a week, so it might work out anyway :-).

Klaus & Kinski....

2009-05-16T07:22:00.000-07:00

Yay, new video (love that song):

And new 5 song mini cd out too (and one of the songs is their cover of "Shell for the mourning", yay again). So I'm thinking that I might need another trip to Murcia soon :-).

Apart from that the Boombox etc. recordings are going coolio. And tonight I'm off to a pretty cool birthday party!

Mistreated...

2009-05-11T04:47:00.000-07:00

Sweet Jesus, long week! Recording and dancing, so very much resting today!
And onbc-remix of Beta Satan (find the info here), which was so much fun doing (took four hours and a bit of red wine :-)).
And onbc-interview (in Japanese) + a song in this fine magazine (more info here):

Malcolm...

2009-05-03T12:47:00.000-07:00

Middleton. New song. Via Stereogum. And bought tickets to ATP! Yay, December will be smashing! And off to bed!

No sleep...

2009-04-28T12:32:00.000-07:00

Birds keeping you up from 4.45 aren't exactly my idea of fun.
And CORNY video!:

Well, what the Hell...

2009-04-25T06:58:00.000-07:00

Since I'm searching for videos anyway, I might as well post them here. So CJ, here goes:

"I was dreaming of the past / And my heart was beating fast" - Jealous Guy.

"And kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall / But you go on" - October.

"Oh, don't sorrow / Oh, don't weep / for tonight / at last / I am coming home / I am coming home" - A Sort Of Homecoming.

"Just don't let me fuck up, will you / Cos when I need a friend, it's still you" - Freak Scene.

"Now we've ended all who'd harm us / no one left here to alarm us / and we live just us alone / safely in our Holly home" - Just To See My Holly Home.

"I try to laugh about it / cover it all up with lies / I try to laugh about it / hiding the tears in my eyes / 'cause boys don't cry" - Boys Don't Cry.

That's it for today, if I have the time tomorrow, I'll post some more (and CJ would love suggestions, so please do comment, if you've got some :-)).