It was right before or right after Filter released their first album that they played one of the smaller stages at Hultsfred. The place was less then half-full, the sun was still shining and it was the band for me to see that year. Since the audience was so small I got right up front in the middle by the fence. The band came out in a bad mood, you could tell right away, there was some serious tension in the air. Before the first cord the guitarist had pushed the bassplayer of the stage, the intro hits and that first guitar and it is LOUD. In the first song the singer and guitarist run into eachother hard, it is obvious the band have been fighting. But it just helps the show, and it is good, it is an amzing show, loud, violent and the small audience is loving it. The band members keep pushing eachother of the stage, throwing things at eachother and in general trying to hurt eachother. After 35 minutes the drummer has had enough, he stands up, grabs the bassdrum and throws it at the singer and leaves the stage. The bassplayer trashes the rest of the drumkit while the singer on unsteady legs gets up, pushes the guitarist of the stage and leaves.
Definitely one of the best shows I have ever seen.
Shortly after this the drummer leaves the band to join Smashing Pumpkins, the basplayer leaves soon after and guitarist is fired. All but the drummer comes back later and they record a second album that is horrible, opens for Counting Crowes and that is the end of their career.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Cyber Insect
Blasting The Fall on maximum volume while I vacuum my laptop.
Yes, you heard me right, I finally got sick enough of my computer turning itself if all the time, that I did some research online. Well, that is not entirely true, I have done that before, but for some reason never found any good answers. Last night I found one that said that I could take a normal vacuum and just clean the places on the outside that the fan uses.
So that is what I just did, and now it actually works properly. I started with trying all those things that did not work before; watching videos on YouTube, downloading one of my CD's to my iTunes, then downloading two more. And it is still running. Amazing.
The Fall's Interim is worth the price just hear the fire-alarm go of at the end of Bococtosis alarum. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in their rehersal space.
Yes, you heard me right, I finally got sick enough of my computer turning itself if all the time, that I did some research online. Well, that is not entirely true, I have done that before, but for some reason never found any good answers. Last night I found one that said that I could take a normal vacuum and just clean the places on the outside that the fan uses.
So that is what I just did, and now it actually works properly. I started with trying all those things that did not work before; watching videos on YouTube, downloading one of my CD's to my iTunes, then downloading two more. And it is still running. Amazing.
The Fall's Interim is worth the price just hear the fire-alarm go of at the end of Bococtosis alarum. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in their rehersal space.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
FeelingPulledApartByHorses
Last friday I went and saw the NHL premiere in Stockholm. Detroit played against St Louis and even though Detroit lost it was a great game and St Louis played fantastic. It is pretty scary how much faster NHL hockey is compared to Swedish. It really is about time that we get the smaller rinks over here. We have everything to win and nothing to lose.
Saw The Spirit last night, which was a thouroughly crappy movie. There really is not anything good to say about it. Too bad, because when i was younger I loved the comics.
I think that is it for now. I need to get some food in me.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Dreams Burn Down.
Juliette Lewis finally called me last night.
I have been about to interview her for a long time now, but somehow she always manages to cancel in the absolute last second. But yesterday, right after Superstars on TV, while I put the dishes away she called me. Five minutes early!
I have talked to her before, the last time she was in Stockholm, but to hear that wellknown drawl over the phone was pretty surreal. The interview went pretty good, she is a 100% professional and I did not really have to do much. She talked and told me what she wanted me to know about the new album and when it was time for me to finally ask some questions the interview was over. I am getting used to it by now. There are very few bands out there that do not have prepared answers and feeds you with latest sellingpoints. More and more interviews are also done by phone, which makes them even harder, you have no person to feed of, and you never really get that connection. Instead what you get is a not very focused star that usually is doing something different.
I have interviewed a rappar that was driving around northern London looking for a parkingspace, I have called a singer that had lunch in a loud pub with friends and I have talked to a guitarplayer eating at McDonalds after a show. The hardest one was probably still the death metal guitarist I called in the tourbus going through a desert. I could hardly hear him because the transmission was so bad and after 5 minutes he disapeared and did not get out of the radio-shadow until 8 hours later, when I was slepping. Tough conversation to pick up again.
But then again, the funniest was probably when Al Jourgensen from Ministry called me 10 minutes early and I was in the bathroom. Anna answered and I am not sure she has forgiven me yet.
His opening lines when I got on the phone are classic material.
-Hello, where are you calling from?
-I am naked in bed looking out over the Mexican border.
I have been about to interview her for a long time now, but somehow she always manages to cancel in the absolute last second. But yesterday, right after Superstars on TV, while I put the dishes away she called me. Five minutes early!
I have talked to her before, the last time she was in Stockholm, but to hear that wellknown drawl over the phone was pretty surreal. The interview went pretty good, she is a 100% professional and I did not really have to do much. She talked and told me what she wanted me to know about the new album and when it was time for me to finally ask some questions the interview was over. I am getting used to it by now. There are very few bands out there that do not have prepared answers and feeds you with latest sellingpoints. More and more interviews are also done by phone, which makes them even harder, you have no person to feed of, and you never really get that connection. Instead what you get is a not very focused star that usually is doing something different.
I have interviewed a rappar that was driving around northern London looking for a parkingspace, I have called a singer that had lunch in a loud pub with friends and I have talked to a guitarplayer eating at McDonalds after a show. The hardest one was probably still the death metal guitarist I called in the tourbus going through a desert. I could hardly hear him because the transmission was so bad and after 5 minutes he disapeared and did not get out of the radio-shadow until 8 hours later, when I was slepping. Tough conversation to pick up again.
But then again, the funniest was probably when Al Jourgensen from Ministry called me 10 minutes early and I was in the bathroom. Anna answered and I am not sure she has forgiven me yet.
His opening lines when I got on the phone are classic material.
-Hello, where are you calling from?
-I am naked in bed looking out over the Mexican border.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Love Begins To Write a Book Across My Face
Welcome to my sick journal.
Today I went to the doctor who told me that I have to stay home from work for yet another week, since I seem to have coughed myself to some Bronchitis. So now I am eating anitbiotics and drinking cough medicine. Life's a beach.
So that pretty much means back to the book and the movies.
Todays playlist (so far):
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Baxter Dury - Lee Parrot's Memorial Lift
Pan Sonic - Kesto
Blue For Two - Songs From a Pale and Bitter Moon
Today I went to the doctor who told me that I have to stay home from work for yet another week, since I seem to have coughed myself to some Bronchitis. So now I am eating anitbiotics and drinking cough medicine. Life's a beach.
So that pretty much means back to the book and the movies.
Todays playlist (so far):
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Baxter Dury - Lee Parrot's Memorial Lift
Pan Sonic - Kesto
Blue For Two - Songs From a Pale and Bitter Moon
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tight Pants.
Still sick.
Still bored.
Still reading the same book.
This means that I really do not have anything to say at all. I have not left the apartment since Friday night last week. I am feeling better but am still sick, and my cough is still pretty bad.
So, here is what I have listened to so far today (and I have been up since 7:30AM):
Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Kill City
The Stooges - Olympic Studios 1972
Final - Reading All the Right Signals Wrong
Ministry - The Last Dubber
Grandpaboy - Mono
Still bored.
Still reading the same book.
This means that I really do not have anything to say at all. I have not left the apartment since Friday night last week. I am feeling better but am still sick, and my cough is still pretty bad.
So, here is what I have listened to so far today (and I have been up since 7:30AM):
Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Kill City
The Stooges - Olympic Studios 1972
Final - Reading All the Right Signals Wrong
Ministry - The Last Dubber
Grandpaboy - Mono
Thursday, September 24, 2009
What I listened to today.
Iggy Pop - Live At the Channel Boston 1988
Iggy Pop - Zombie Birdhouse
Iggy Pop - Soldier
Bailter Space - Vortura
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Beak> - Recordings
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Iggy Pop - Zombie Birdhouse
Iggy Pop - Soldier
Bailter Space - Vortura
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Beak> - Recordings
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Nothing much new here in the apartment of swineflu.
Saw Jumper yesterday, and that was not very good at all.
Saw K2 and that was not very good either. BUT the climbing and the views were amazing and made it worth the whole thing. But, jesus, the plot and the acting. Oh no.
Today I have lined-up Enemy of the State and Enigma.
And yes, you have all guessed right, I am just seeing a bunch of old movies I have allready seen. The reason for this is that I can not concentrate very well, I really feel like shit and I do not want to waste a good movie I have not seen.
Having said that though, I am really looking forward to both Enemy and Enigma, two movies I remember liking a lot.
Listened to the new Shrinebuilder yesterday and that sounded pretty good. I need to give it some more time though.
Right now I am watching different shows on You Tube from the Flaming Lips curated ATP earlier this year. Man, that was a good line-up.
Over and out.
Saw Jumper yesterday, and that was not very good at all.
Saw K2 and that was not very good either. BUT the climbing and the views were amazing and made it worth the whole thing. But, jesus, the plot and the acting. Oh no.
Today I have lined-up Enemy of the State and Enigma.
And yes, you have all guessed right, I am just seeing a bunch of old movies I have allready seen. The reason for this is that I can not concentrate very well, I really feel like shit and I do not want to waste a good movie I have not seen.
Having said that though, I am really looking forward to both Enemy and Enigma, two movies I remember liking a lot.
Listened to the new Shrinebuilder yesterday and that sounded pretty good. I need to give it some more time though.
Right now I am watching different shows on You Tube from the Flaming Lips curated ATP earlier this year. Man, that was a good line-up.
Over and out.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Take it outside, Godboy!
Went and saw The Jesus Lizard on friday and I can easily say that that was one of the best shows I have ever seen. It might help that they are one of my favorite bands and that I had never seen them before. But still, they were so insanely tight and the setlist was just perfect.
In other sadly more boring news it seems like I have gotten the swineflu. I am spending all my awake time in the sofa watching movies, Scrubs and reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. So far the book is pretty great, but it is hard to read when you can not really concentrate like you are used to.
This means that I am home from work for a couple of days or at least until the fever is gone and I can get out a entire sentence without coughing up my lungs. Which on the other hand is pretty nice for Anna because it means that I am mostly quiet.
Anyway, I do not have time for this writing blog thing right now, so much to do, so little time.
I need to blow my nose, drink some water, watch some TV......
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Radioaktivität.
No, still no way of fixing my ringtone problem, so I am deserting that project for now. It feels like I should have better things to do.
Like getting excited about the fact that I will see The Jesus Lizard tomorrow, one of my absolute favorite bands. And more importantly, one of the few bands I still have not seen. By the time I discovered them they were on a big label, made lackluster albums and broke-up. But from what I have read, heard and seen on YouTube indicates that they are in rare form right now. So cross your fingers for a great show tomorrow.
Listening to: Kratftwerk.
Oh, one more thing.
The new Rammstein single is a great, great disappointment. How come that band has the potential to such greatness and at the same time sinks to such low, low depths? They really can suck when they want to.
Like getting excited about the fact that I will see The Jesus Lizard tomorrow, one of my absolute favorite bands. And more importantly, one of the few bands I still have not seen. By the time I discovered them they were on a big label, made lackluster albums and broke-up. But from what I have read, heard and seen on YouTube indicates that they are in rare form right now. So cross your fingers for a great show tomorrow.
Listening to: Kratftwerk.
Oh, one more thing.
The new Rammstein single is a great, great disappointment. How come that band has the potential to such greatness and at the same time sinks to such low, low depths? They really can suck when they want to.
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