Photo: Johan Kindbom

Last Saturday was a pretty interesting one for us. Having played more or less the same basic set of songs for the past two years, things tend to be done on routine and due to that we have always tried to squeeze in some minor changes to the songs to keep them interesting to play. In this aspect, Saturday was really different.

Our original intention when we were asked to play at Teater Scenario (a really cool place btw! It used to be a movie theater and now they have all sorts of things going on there, including music, poetry, theater plays etc.) was to play the songs we still like to play from Tid är ljud and a few new ones. Like Tog du med dig naturen? , Ljud från stan, Helgamarktz and a few more. However, as we got closer and closer to the date of the initial recording session (which is next Friday) we thought that we could as well give all of the new songs a go since we had to practice them anyway. Which for the first time in quite a while made us all both excited and nervous about the whole thing. A well needed injection to say the least.

Luckily, we were free to choose an opening act ourselves, which we did by inviting Trummor & Orgel to play their great psychedelic Hammond and drum driven stuff. These two brothers are really good at what they do and they gave the audience a perfect starter mind set for the evening. We also got to pick our own DJs for the night which first of all was Emma from the club Groddar & Gräsrötter and a friend of hers who played some great progressive and folky tunes. They were followed by Jon Person aka Levande död aka Black Hitler aka DJ CDr who played a slightly darker and more kraut focused set. A perfect match!

Well, what about our show then? Things went just fine; a few minor, hopefully inaudible, mistakes at some places but still something to be really proud of. The hall looked pretty much full and for the second time we had a sitting audience which suited us very well that night. We played a total of seven songs for about one hour and one of the highlights was when Trummor & Orgel joined us during the last song for a lengthy and psychedelic jam based on one of the more folk sounding songs from the upcoming album. The whole thing was filmed with two cameras so hopefully we’ll get something up on youtube or something.

If any of you who attended the show took any nice pictures, please send them to us! It would be really interesting to see what the whole spectacle looked like and of course we’ll give you credit for it if we put it on our website.

That’s all for now, take care.

/Alex