Category: Music

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  • I Am Pretty Pretty, Pretty Pretty Speechless And Numb Numb The Numbers Are Vast And I Can Only Cry ‘Cause We All Are On The Other Side Of The World As We Say I Wonder Why Why Why Can’t We Even Try? Try Trying Is A Sport Everyone Can Be…

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  • Well, the remainder of our journey was a train ride back to London and then see what would be coming our way. Dead tired of moving along by putting one foot in front of the other we went for the solution of staying in. Staying in discussing philosophically interesting ways…

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  • We were supposed to pick up a rental car, that was what I’d planned and then out of a sudden there was no car to pick up. Who screwed up? Well, I am not meaning to say that I am among the greatest of tour managers so I guess I…

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  • I had a meeting with a music lawyer. Discussing future plans… and me moving back to the UK at some point. The meeting was basically about having to build a new team around me that’ll help move things forward… (upwards and onwards) I popped by Fopp in Covent Garden to…

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  • We had those few beers. We went to Waganama in Camden. It’s one of my favorite restaurants, ’cause even though it’s a chain of restaurants they make good food and good food is what we like. I had my regular course of chili chicken and nudles and a Asahi beer.…

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  • I was hoping to have my regular coffee and bread this morning. Bread with chocolate toppings or whatever you Englishmen call it. I prefer the Norwegian made Nugatti, whilst a Danish friend of mine say Nutella is the thing, I couldn’t disagree more. But most importantly when it comes to…

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  • Before leaving my home in Aalesund I wrote down lyrics for three new songs on my typewriter. I can’t remember the last time I sat down to see ink in real life take form of meaningfulness on paper like it used to do back in the old days when I…

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  • Videos, pics and a story from the road soon to be updated at this post. Tags: no sleep, endless driving, no soundcheck, no backstage drinks, parking tickets, mobile safety camera flashing, hot dogs, smiles, happiness. -r & the band

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  • Hello everybody watching this space, It’s a new year full of expectations and opportunities. I didn’t wanna wait too long before you guys got to hear some new music this time, so I uploaded my new single for a limited period. I suppose it will be sent out to radio…

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  • I woke up to sunny Bergen. We packed our gear, picked up sleepy sound guy Harald and drove to the deep forests of Os. Inside snow covered hills and icy roads we were to play the Kongshaugen Festival early in the morning. One o’clock in the afternoon…
 We had a great time playing for a superb…

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  • Hello, Just got home from London. Wembley Arena. Avril Lavigne. Great show. Nice girl. Met her backstage. Beer. Baileys & Coffee. Guitar. Drunken harmonies. Empty corridors. Cold shower. No flush. New clothes. Brush. Out. Bar. No girls. Taxi. Bar. No girls. Taxi. Long conversation about football. Food. Bed. Thirst. Thirst. Thirst. -robert

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  • Hey, Why does it always rain in Bergen when I least want it to? Well, it’s not until tomorrow I need sunshine. Anyway. Hey. It’s been one hell of a progressive week. Rehearsing new songs. Playing live on National Radio. Doing interviews here and there. And we’re gonna top it with…

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  • Good Morning Sunshine, It’s a beautiful day in Bergen and I’ve just had my breakfast. Burger and a coke. I played a show yesterday and got totally wasted. Fight fire with fire. The only thing that works on a day like this. Eat a lot of junk-food, take a walk…

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  • Hello, It’s been a long time… It’s summer and I’ve been playing a lot of festivals. Like always it’s been great fun. What makes festivals cool is that I get to see other bands that I usually just meet on the ferries from one place to another, as well as the fact that…

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  • It’s my sister’s birthday today. Congratulations:)!!! -robert

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  • Aalesund/Langevaag (June 3,4): It only takes some good music, good company and of course nice weather to survive a seven-hour trip from Bergen to Aalesund. Karin Park and I rented car, small but comfy, to take us to two sold out shows in my hometown area. After a long sunny day sightseeing the fjords and the…

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  • London (June 1, 2): Got up early. Watched the sunset. Took the bus to the airport Bergen Flesland. Radio. Airport breakfast. Boring. Expensive. Almost forgot to go to gate. Take-off, blue sky and landing. Stansted, London. Hank picking me up. Traffic jam. Chicken for lunch. Meeting with Patrick (Nettwerk Management). Checking in at…

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  • Hi and Oh my God, It’s been a few weeks with a lot of happenings. We have been in Fredrikstad playing a festival and in London to talk. I was in my hometown with Karin Park playing two sold out shows and the band and I won local rock prize of 50 000,…

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  • Hello and Thank You! After a long nights drive from Aalesund to Bergen where we almost crashed off the road ten times and had to take a nap several times we arrived Bergen early Saturday morning. The band and I had a scheduled rehearsal for tonight’s competition, but back in my flat I…

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  • Hello good fellows, It’s been two weeks with a lot of fun. It all started when this Ottestad guy cancelled all his shows because he was not feeling well about his voice and we had to step in and do our thing. That’s always fun. So we flew over to Oslo to…

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  • Hi, The sun is visiting Bergen today. It’s been a long time since that happened. I’ve had the feeling of autumn for a long time now, but I shouldn’t complain, I haven’t been out licking the sun anyway. -robert

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  • Hey, Finally back in Norway we’ve spent the two last days rehearsing our new show. We put up our gear in a local pub and had some good hours on stage in front of nobody, except for our sound engineer. Iceland was great with its nature and non-closing bars. We…

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  • Hello everybody, Just another weekend is over and a lot of headache is about to leave the apartment. We’ve been busy having a few meetings about this and that. And I’ve also spent the last days re-writing the lyrics of twelve potential album songs. The first thing I will do…

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  • Hey hey, It’s like the more that happens the less I write. Ok, maybe it’s because of the things happening now is not official and/or confirmed stuff. It’s like we’re just walking around in the city waiting for somebody saying – Let’s do it! …it’s a bit frustrating. But it…

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  • Hello, I just landed after three days on a flying carpet. So did my drummer Tor Bjarne, and no one knows about the bass-player Alf who is visiting my hometown Aalesund this weekend to have a gig with “Tennis”, the other band of his. Anyway, it’s Sunday tomorrow and I guess we’re all…

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  • Hi and how are you? I am fine. I have the reason to be. And I hope you have a good time around… The by:Larm Festival is over and we are almost sober. We began recording a couple of new songs on Wednesday so new demos are soon to be…

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  • Hello dear fellows, by:Larm is finally here and the first day was so fucking great you wouldn’t believe it. We arrived stage from our new bought US helicopter on Logen somewhere between eleven and twelve. And it was amazing. I didn’t expect people to show up on our gig in…

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  • Hoi, Just had a tasty glass of chocolate milk. Have starved myself through eight hours on the road from Kongsberg to Bergen. My friend JP and I spent our last coins on fuel and a pair of sunglasses, which led to; no money left for food. I’ve been playing two shows this weekend and both…

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  • “All you need is love”. A wise person once wrote this line. My opinion is that that’s Utopian. Still, I’m really working on believing in it. It’s not the worst thing that can happen. I mean, if we really believed in it I guess we’d get one step closer. “All I need is love” At…

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  • Ugg ugg, Is it so that every little lie can make huge differences with time? I just got home from, guess what, another three days in a car and a lot of ferries. It’s been a lot of fruit and booze, which causes earthquakes in my belly. And I met Kurt…

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  • Hi, I’m back in Bergen after spending days in a car touring the Eastern part of Norway with Karin Park. It’s nice to be finally breathing the air of the West coast again. The problem with the weather on the other side of the mountain is that it is so dry that I have to borrow…

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  • Hi, I’m really exhausted today. It seems like Christmas is all about after parties and sleeping in cars or on floors. To be honest, I haven’t really slept in my own bed for days. Last nights gig was amazingly fun. I hadn’t planned anything before I got on stage, so I was a bit concerned…

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  • Merry Christmas, After having spent the last days on rehearsing a Nirvana Tribute I woke up the day after the show in a car parked outside my sisters apartment. I didn’t have the guts to wake her up at six o’clock in the morning so I rather slept in this frozen car. The show went great and…

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  • Hello hello, Well I just got home from a football tournament and am pretty upset because we lost even before we got to the finals. We played against a team that rather wanted to play boring football than entertaining, so they won 1-0. We, on the other hand, won our three…

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  • Hi, We just found a way to pass the problem with the uploading of songs. Now there’s an acoustic version of a song called “Give” which I recorded last week and if everything goes with the plan I’ll hopefully release the entire session from last Tuesday, including 7 new songs, by the end of this week.…

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  • Hello, Today I added a few more pictures of me posing with the guitar (dah). There’s one of Øyvind, the drummer of Fist First, not yet had his morning coffee and one of Ned Nederlender who’s recording some new songs in Lydriket for his forthcoming album. Well, for those of you who…

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  • Hi, Well these two pictures I added today are pretty boring huh? I’m gonna do something about it. I promised to have something new happening here every day. The truth is that this site is still under construction and isn’t quite finished yet. So I guess when it is we’re going…

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  • I’m planning on making this house a very interactive place for you to visit. The idea is to create a nice and cozy atmosphere where you can read my diary and my lyrics, listen to my music and maybe learn the songs as well, leave a message in my guestbook,…

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