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A rendition of a song written by Alf Wold (1971-2003). I contributed with this recording on the Sleepwalking CD released in November 2004 (10 years ago!!!). The tracks on Sleepwalking was composed by Alf Vold who died of cancer in 2003, and the profits went to Kreftforeningen (the Norwegian Cancer…
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I have sent the RHETORIC master and artwork to manufacturing. Been struggling all week with the sequencing of this album, sometimes a tough nut to crack. After exchanging views on this with my good friend Egil Olsen and my girlfriend, who’s occasionally been working as a DJ and therefor has this natural…
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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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Happy New Year to y’all! I hope you are as excited about the new year as I am. And that Christmastide have been treating you very well! For me it’s been a rollercoaster ride since I began recording new songs on the 23rd of Dec (not a very good idea)…
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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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The sun is killing all creativity and running away with my time. Since postponing the release of the now infamous album Disarm & Let Go I have been sat at my desk trying to figure out a plan. Now the summer is here with temperatures rising and the sea outside…
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I was more into filming the audience than the band this time it seems, or was it just my laziness that kept me from getting out there with my camera and place it at the sound board. The latter is more likely to be the matter and the fact. But…
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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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Hi friends, we are working on a new website incorporating this blog. I hope we’ll have it launched just in time for next week’s shows with Jason Mraz. I have also gotten a designer to do some T-shirts for me exclusively for the Mraz dates (June 22, 23). I will…
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A month of touring kept me away from too many drunken nights.. London being kind to me. Even though cheap beer at local off-license… Always came home with me. Miles are laid dead behind me… The body getting used to the driving. Even though… The car’s engine coughing for a…
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The tour is over. I have so many shows that I haven’t written about. And so much material taped on video and so many pictures taken. So many people to thank. I will have to sit down when home in my flat in Ålesund and edit it all. Then post…
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I was asked to do an interview with a local music blogger just a couple of weeks before I left the country to tour the United Kingdom. A great location and beautiful weather made it the perfect day for a chat. David Pollen ( davidpollen.blogg.no ) who interviewed me is…
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THE GRAIN BARGE, BRISTOL After four hours of sleep on a hotel room floor in Brighton I woke up to take Harald to load-in at some venue I can’t recall the name of. The Alexandria Quartet was doing a showcase at Nettwerk record label’s party at The Great Escape. It…
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It was so comfortable staying in a hotel bed last night. After a gig of which I really enjoyed a lot I went straight to my hotel for a cold pint of lager, then twittering about it, off to bed and a good nights sleep. I woke up just in…
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For you Norwegians or people fluent in Norwegian. Have a listen to this radio interview that I did with Norwegian radio broadcaster NRK P3 and the program Banden. It’s a nice little chat about my newest single Beirut and a few words on the music industry! http://www.nrk.no/banden/lata-ingen-vil-spille/ -r
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Today, feeling like one of those Sixties troubadours travelling around with their guitars on their backs, I am going by train down to Brighton for my gig at the Western Front. Right now at the Apple Store, Regents Street, I am listening to this guy’s master class in Numbers. It…
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Last night was great. I even managed to play most of my recorded songs to date during that show. Something that I found quite exhausting as a lot of them I hadn’t played in a long long time. People even came all the way from Birmingham to see me play.…
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Finally I got off that tourist thing that we’ve been doing the last couple of days. We literally walked all over London looking for great monuments and museums. So I guess I’ve seen a lot that I didn’t bother to visit when being a resident of the city. We were…
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It was August 2007 last time I was here. On a spontaneous trip to catch a show by fellow musicians The Margarets, I went here two summers ago. I remember getting in in the afternoon. They were playing the Notting Hill Arts Club and I didn’t tell them I was…
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I have so far travelled without my phone. I left it in the car just before I boarded the Hurtigruten, voted the `Best Niche Cruise Line´… And I tell you – you should try it! It is said that the Lofoten ferry, the vessel I took, has a classic charm that many find irresistible. Built in 1964…
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Come see me play at my favorite bar Ta Det Piano at ten o’clock tonight. I have tuned my mandolin, guitar and piano… and have put up a fuzzed-out microphone so that I can sing the guitar solos… -r
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Hi, it’s me again. Just to let you know… I have packed my bag. Now, just a little note about a “secret” gig tomorrow. CITY: Ålesund VENUE: I’ll let you know tomorrow at noon TIME: 21:00 It’s just me warming up! PS! Watch out for another “secret” gig this Friday……
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In a matter of days I will pack my bag and wander off into the unknown. This time around I depend on a paper map and a little help from Google Earth every now and then. I have not hired a tour manager whose job would be to get me…
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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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