Category: Thoughts
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I was awarded Spellemannprisen for Best Male (Robert Post) and Best Video (Got None) on January 28, 2006. Later this year I will release my 5th studio album… I am not sure what to call it… as for now, I call it Broken Mirror Memory. Follow me on a new…
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It’s been 10 years since my eponymous debut. So it’s an anniversary! I will celebrate. I will update old posts with memorabilia. And I will write new posts – heck of a lot more often then in recent years. I am recording a new studio album – “Without A Shield”…
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UPDATE: My sophomore album DISARM & LET GO has finally hit the digital shelves again! It was taken down a few years ago. Now I have put it out on my own label. Go get it! iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/no/album/disarm-let-go/id564499230 Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/4fU2xHxzGpzJZbpF5qY5lB WIMP http://wimp.no/album/17311130 You’ll find it in most major…
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I am at my family’s cabin writing and recording songs for my two upcoming albums. I shower outdoors and catch my own fish for dinner. It’s very quiet – it’s only me deep in the woods in the middle of Norway. The songs are all coming together very nicely… Best,…
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Norwegian streaming service WIMP has exclusively made available The Shins’ new album. So I thought I’d have a listen. I am disappointed. Should I deepen my thoughts? I just think it’s too much focus on the production and not so many good songs. Sounds like they’ve had comfortable chairs sitting…
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I’ve spent all of September recording and mixing my new album Rhetoric. Even though I have only spent about 15 days in the studio it has been in creation and in my head 24/7 all month. It’s a lot of music to come up with, consume, develop, ennoble and strengthen…
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SADNESS IS A BLESSING (lykke li cover) It’s strange how few cover songs I have managed to put in my shows the last 5 years. I am more and more attracted to the idea that I will always have one or two of my favorite songs in my set list…
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So all I see around me is illusion Built to trick us all into consumption And the branches are hanging from the ceiling And the trees are growing out of plastic soil And the flowers give me no real feelings It’s just dead empty and cold I see people like…
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All these houses I visit I wonder how can they still stand? Built on candlelights and flowers By defenseless men It is worrying but I can’t intrude ‘Cause the women of the house would call me rude Like… “Don’t you see we’re content and this was heaven sent? I was…
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So, here I am again. Writing to reach you. Few worries today. Had a great time with my band yesterday. Played 6 new songs. Never played these songs with band before. Hell of a lot of fun. Energy boost. A kick. Like being born on new, sorta. Because it was…
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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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The summer moved out and I thought I moved on. Now they say it is coming back. August always seem to surprise us here as far as the weather is concerned. I remember going back to school after the summer holidays, we were always sat on the sunny side of…
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Hi, rain is pouring down. There’s an island called Iceland where a bed is quilt and a quilt is mattress. I’m not falling asleep because my bed is a wooden floor and there are people knocking on my door. It makes me dream funny dreams. And when I wake up I am…
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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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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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Ciao boys and girls, Oh how drunken man can get… It’s Sunday morning after too many days of drinking, dancing and playing. The only right thing to do is to walk the mountain and let out the demons. And eat junk food… FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE! Friday in Trondheim was fun. A…
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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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Hello 2004, This is my 25th year on this planet and I hope it will bring me luck. At least it has started out great, except from the everlasting problem money. Who cares anyway…? There’s so much else to worry about like; why doesn’t fathers learn their sons or daughters to play bass-guitar? At…
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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’s greatest topic has been the snow in Bergen. It makes the wintertime seem so much brighter. I love it; still I know it’s going to be washed away by the rain by tomorrow morning. Anyway, I spoke to my photographer earlier today and we discussed several locations for a photo-session. But it’s…
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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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So, this is the first day of this diary. I hope to write as often as there is something exciting happening with my music or me. I’m not sure if you’re all interested in the same things, but I’m going to do my best to not write about boring stuff.…
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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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