me and my band

Arabaki Rock fest!!

2009-04-26T09:46:00.001-07:00

Last night we went to Sendai, north-west of Japan. And today we drove 1 h more to the festival area. Arabaki Rock Fest here we go!

The festival. We saw Ogre You Asshole before it was time to go to the stage.

Yuya

Kono!

On our way to the stage.

Hatahata, in Sweden it means hate hate, but in Japan it's a fish.

On stage, the rain took a break so we thought it was a nice time to start...

After the show we ate a traditional Japanese meal. It started to rain again and soon it was time for us to go back to Tokyo. Tomorrow is the last show here in Japan for us. It's been great, we hope to go back here very soon. Arigato to everyone who came to the shows!

Day Off in Tokyo

2009-04-26T09:29:00.001-07:00

A very rainy day Shibuya

Yen + Shibuya = new shoes

mmm, soy icecream with rice in honey!

Hamamatsu

2009-04-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

Before leaving Nagoya we went to this beautful park, Tokugawaen, it is a Japanese garden and in the brochure I read that it's symbolically condenses the landscape of Japanese nature.

Flowers hanging loose...

Ola in the Park.

Emelie vs Rebecka

Dinner at this place, the food was very good, I ordered a big fresh Tofu sallad!

Nagoya

2009-04-26T08:57:00.000-07:00

23/4 Nagoya
We arrives to Nagoya after only 2 h in the van from Osaka.

We played at a beautiful venue, the Apollo Teather.

Yeah here we are in Japan!

Osaka

2009-04-23T04:23:00.001-07:00

At the airport Kansai in Osaka 22/4.

We had some time after the arrival and we went to the Osaka Castle.
A little bit tired after the 15 h traveling but very excited to be here!

Osaka Castle

The tiger inside the castle.

Osaka City the view from the top of the Castle.

Our first lunch, nudels nudels nudels!

Live at Shangri - La in Osaka.

People In The Box and Yuya at the after party.

JAPAN OH OH OH!

2009-04-22T09:27:00.000-07:00

We arrived, finally after loosing passport in Frankfurt and 24 h drive from Toulouse to Sweden the day before. We did our first show this night in Osaka at Shangri-La. Very nice venue. I will post pictures from Osaka here as soon as my power transformer is working.. We also went to Osaka Castle from the 16th century, it was very beautiful. The weaher is very nice and we are all happy to be here. Tomorrow we go to Nagoya!

And the tour looks like this:

* 04.22(wed) at 大阪 Shangri-La
* 04.23(thu) at 名古屋 APOLLO THEATER
* 04.24(fri) at 浜松 FORCE
* 04.26(sun) at 宮城エコキャンプみちのく
* 04.27(mon) at 渋谷 O-nest

Toulouse

2009-04-20T17:33:00.000-07:00

18/4 Toulouse

Sara Lov at Les Femmes S'en Melent Festival.

The crew

Manuok!

In the van home to Sweden with out Sara Lov. They continued their
tour in England and we are going to Japan tomorrow! We had a really really nice tour with them and their music is fantastic, you should check her music, listen at saralov.com. We wish them
the best today and in the future. Next post is from Japan!

Zaragoza

2009-04-16T10:07:00.001-07:00

16/4 Zaragoza
Ok here we come go from Madrid to Zaragoza.

We passed this place, it looked cool but we're did all the people go?

This is the place we will rock out tonight.
Check out Sara Lov's EU tour video here ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAcumiMn6iQ

Madrid Rocks!

2009-04-15T15:27:00.000-07:00

Finally we came to Madrid after two days of driving from Switzerland. We had a good time though! A lot of movies, popcorn and good company makes you want to drive forever. Ok, not true, but this people are the best!
We played at Moby Dick here in Madrid. We're happy to be back in Spain again. Tomorrow we go north again to Zaragoza, see you there!

Basel

2009-04-13T17:26:00.001-07:00

13/4 Basel

Hi, we're heading for Basel. Here we did a stop to get some lunch at truckers paradise.
Here is Buffi, Rebecka and Scott.

Our second time here at 1.Stock, we're happy to be back again.

The back seat in big old blue.

See you in Spain!

Freiburg

2009-04-13T16:56:00.000-07:00

11/4 Freiburg

Hi we're in Freiburg! In the very south of Germany.

After the soundcheck we went for a walk to see the town.

Emelie, Rebecka and Ola.

We went up with the elevator to see the view over the city center. It was beautiful. We heard that Freiburg is the "sustainable capital" in Germany, wow, thumbs up! The show was great and the venue was really cool too. Thanks to all of you that came even though it's easter time, holidays and everything. Thumbs up again!

Luzern

2009-04-10T09:14:00.000-07:00

9/4 Luzern
It's 23° here! Switzerland is taking good care of us.

Tour poster

The view from the band apartment.

Scott saying "good morning USA I have a feeling that it's going to be a wonderful day.."

The Alps

Audrey and the birds

Audrey + Sara Lov tour

2009-04-08T16:53:00.000-07:00

Hi!
We are away on tour together with Sara Lov from the US. We started the tour in Hamburg and we will travel together for almost two weeks, we will do Germany, Switzerland, Spain and France. Today we played in Duisburg, it's our second time here, and it was great this time as well. Thank you again. Tomorrow we have a long drive down to Luzern (CH), it will be our first time there. See you tomorrow!

7/4 Hamburg
Dinner in Hamburg with our new friends.

8/4 Duisburg
Sara, Scott and Buffi as Sara Lov.

Dresden

2008-11-18T16:23:00.000-08:00

We're in Dresden and it's also Olas birthday today!

The fruit bar and my band.

This shows was confirmed only five days ago but the theater was full.
We didn't expect this much people, thanks to all of you!

Tanned Tin - Spain

2008-11-16T15:19:00.000-08:00

Our first time in Spain!

13/10 Good bye Scandinavia!

13/10 At the airport Barajas in Madrid

13/10 - 19.01

14/10 Soundcheck at Tanned Tin in Castellion.

14/10 Outside the beautiful Teatro Principal. We're on our way
trying to find something to eat during the siesta.

14/10 on stage, time to play.

15/10 Breakfast at the beach in Castellion.

16/10 On our way back home.

16/10 Bye bye Spain, see you in the spring again!

Wroclaw - Bezsennosc

2008-11-04T04:36:00.000-08:00

The venue in Wroclaw was like from an episode of Twin Peaks.
This place was beautiful and one of the best venues I ever been to.

A cup of tea at the "The Great Northern".

"Laura Palmer" - band. Haha, no enough of bad Twin Peaks comparisons. Andy crew are here as well and they were rocking our heads off! There were a lot of people at the show, Wroclaw was a beautiful town. This is a place I like to spend more time in.
Next time!

Poznan pictures

2008-11-04T03:46:00.000-08:00

Pictures from Poznan:

Andy live, they spread so much energy, thanks for a great show!

More Andy, we were so glad to meet and to play with them.
The name of the venue is Piwnica 21.

Me and Emelie did an tv interview and we freaked out a little bit.
It was a lot of fun, the entire day was perfect we
had so much fun, high 5 Poland!

POZNAN

2008-10-29T04:04:00.000-07:00

28/10 Poznan / Poland

We're in Poland now, and we had a great start here in Poznan yesterday.
We played with Andy, they're great. We'll play with them the rest of the shows here as well.
After the show we went to a cool bar/club and had a nice chill. Poznan is a lovely city, reminds me a little of Leeds in a way. I will put up some photos from here tomorrow. Talk soon!

27/10 BERLIN - BASSY

2008-10-28T02:26:00.000-07:00

The first stop, and a common stop, the Bio market!

We're at Bassy, it's a lovely venue in an old bank.

We played together with I Might Be Wrong, oh they we're great.

At the show we heard Swedish voices, it turned out to be the Stockholm band Nervous Nelly.
It's funny how many Swedish bands there are on the roads in Europe.
Thank you for having us here!

Berlin plus Poland

2008-10-23T02:37:00.000-07:00

Hey! The tour blog is up! New tours coming up, the first one is a four day tour, the dates are:

27.10.08 DE - Berlin / Bassy
28.10.08 PL - Poznan / Piwnica 21
29.10.08 PL - Wroclaw / Bezsennosc
30.10.08 PL - Warszawa / Jadlodajnia Filozoficzna

The Berlin show is together with the Berlin based band I Might Be Wrong, pepp!
We will do the Poland shows together with the band Andy, coolers!

We have some merchandise up at the Tenderversion store, go to tenderversion.com/store2008 to find out more!

See you soon!

2008-07-25T23:38:00.000-07:00

22/7 Esslingen
We played at a gallery called Villa Merkel. They made a stage out of the terrace, which was a part of the house. It was really cool. It was a lot of people there. Thanks for showing up!

23/7 Day off in Esslingen
We had a day off here and had the chance to see a little more of Esslingen. Which was a really nice town. Lot of old houses and areas. We stayed at Jörgs house, and we eat a great meal there, and met his room mates. They were sweet!
Yeah, they took really good care off us. You are the best! Esslingen is a new favorite, for sure.

Tirol

2008-07-23T04:27:00.000-07:00

21/7 Le Fortezza de la Donne - Festival, Italia
We're driving from Innsbruck to Italy through the Alps.
Beautiful drive. No thunder here, but it will soon come...

Soundcheck.

Fantastic dinner!

The show. We played on a terrace at a fortress in Mirandola.
No rain, we were lucky!

Merch.

The morning after. There were a big thunder this night, it was lovely, I think.
Samuele giving us Italian wine, thank you for everything!

When I was out in the morning this lady was watching me the hole time.
She was garding their wine jards. She was afraid that I would steel some grapes..

PMK

2008-07-23T03:47:00.000-07:00

20/7 Innsbruck

We arrived at PMK with a hell of a thunder and loads of rain.
It has been bad weather since Denmark to here. It keeps following us.

Ah, we got the best homemade spreads ever!

We played with Majmoon from München.
They we're cool!

Hey, back again!

2008-07-15T09:41:00.000-07:00

Lovely days are back, i'm looking forward to these shows:

20.07.08 Innsbruck (A), PMK
21.07.08 Mirandola (MO) (I), La Fortezza Delle Donne - Festival
22.07.08 Esslingen (D), Villa Merkel
24.07.08 Leipzig (D), Cafe Panam
25.07.08 Duisburg (D), Steinbruch
26.07.08 Hauptmannsgrün (D), L*Abore Festival

Back home...

2008-06-21T03:58:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone who made this tour to a wonderful month for us!

We are back in Sweden, and it feels a little bit strange..but we'll be out touring again in July, see you then!

Hugs from Audrey

In the rain

2008-06-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

Day 25, Würzburg

It was a nice festival even though we had some problems with the power, not THE power as in rocking your assess, it was the power that didn't want to power my pedals and the piano. But we did it and it was a nice set. We stayed at a nice hotel outside the city, it was raining a lot while we were driving there, we did listen to Fredrik on our way there and it was like a perfect soundtrack and a summary for that day..

Lagerhaus

2008-06-16T09:11:00.000-07:00

Day 24, Bremen

Motown moves....

Ola at the dance floor....

The Lagerhaus

We played at Lagerhaus, and Sweden played against Spain in the football EM and they did loose, even though Zlatan did a fantastic goal! Fuck that game. I'm still angry about it.
The Lagerhaus was a really cool place. We did dance again afterwards, there was a motown party after and we were pepped, oh yeah!

Cats at Amp

2008-06-16T08:41:00.000-07:00

Day 23, Münster

It was our third show at Amp and we love this place. Thanks to Ivo for having us.
After the show they have a big dance party, some of us dances..and I was joking a little bit, Its a pillow for sure!! I tried out how it feels to have baby-belly or a maybe more a fat life style..

LUX

2008-06-12T16:18:00.000-07:00

Day 22, Luxembourg

In the woods between Siegen and Marburg

Day 21, Marburg

We are in Luxembourg right now, we just played at d:qliq again and it was amazing tonight. We did a punk-set, I enjoyed it really much. Everything was played really really fast. We played with Khale from the US, they were great. We'll play with them in Dresden as well.
We were in Marburg yesterday and I really like that city. It was a great turn up, thanks to you all that came. We were out for a walk after the show in the city and we went to a bar where we had a dart competition. Me and Emelie won, ha!

Woohoo we won!

2008-06-10T18:10:00.000-07:00

Day 20, Siegen

What a good start for us in the match in EM today! We are so happy and I was so glad while we were playing in Siegen tonight. Thanks to you all that came, you were great. The venue was cool! We had a great after dance party again. Im happy to be on tour. I don't wanna think about that we actually only have one week left on the tour... But we'll soon be out again, in July! Woohoo! We have such a good time with the Southerly guys, they are great and their music kicks ass too! Tomorrow we will try to find a lake to swim in our way to Marburg. Talk soon.

Namur

2008-06-09T05:37:00.000-07:00

The crew

Day 18 Namur

Its the morning after the Namur show, it was nice yesterday. We went out for a really nice walk around the venue. This town is really sweet. The venue was in a old part of a wall that protected the city long time ago. A really rare place to have a venue at, really cool! The show that was supposed to be in Braunschweig today is cancelled.. we dont know way, sorry!

au revoir

2008-06-09T04:51:00.000-07:00

Day 17, Paris

View from Sacre Coeur

The show in Paris was cool, we played together with a band from New Zeeland called Over the Atlantic, they were really nice. Cool sound. We made up some plans that Audrey should come to NZ soon. We love that idea. We slept at a flat in Montmartre and had a breakfast at the stairs up at Sacre Coeur, when we finally got up there, puh! Oh what a nice view over the town!
Au revoir Paris. Next up is Namur, Belgium.

The Dome

2008-06-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

Day 16, Köln

We played at Blue Shell, and we have nice memories from this area. Last time was with our lovely friends in Scraps of Tape. Thanks to you all that came to the show, lot of old faces and friends. And we did receive the vinyl album today from Timo, Denovali Records. Oh and how nice they were! Nothing smells better than new vinyl, for sure! We will put them up on our merchandise site at the homepage very soon, and all the other merch.. We were out to see the Dome after the show, as you can see these smart asses were in the way for a nice picture.. hehe.

Scandinavia rock!

2008-06-07T10:13:00.000-07:00

Day 14, München
with Ólafur Arnalds

Partaj in the back of their big bus

It was nice coming back to München, it's our 3rd time here. It was raining a lot on the way here but it felt good. The first half of the tour was really warm so we needed some fresh cold air. It was a big thunder that night as well. I got sick in the rain, but I guess we all have to get the tour cold in some way. We (Audrey + Southerly) played together with Ólafur Arnalds, they we're great. I tried to practice on my Islandic but I guess I forgot it all...

Day 15, Frankfurt

WE LOVE NUN

2008-06-04T00:55:00.000-07:00

Day 13, Café Nun. It's morning and time for breakfast. We slept at Matthias place, which we did last time as well, it's really nice. I was talking to Chris last night and he had to remind me how many times we've played in this town, the first was at Carambolage 2004. We love this town, it's so fun everytime we go here! See you soon again yo!
Southerly did their best set so far, and the crowed was packed. Thank's for coming!
We'll soon leave for München. Last time we played there Emelie's cello got hurt, so they are a little bit affraid. But as we learned the first days of the tour, "you have to face your fears".

Day 12, Lyon was great, we played on a boat and we did a good set I think. We had the chance to walk around the city, It's a really nice town, it looked beautiful in the night. Then town was separated between the two rivers Seine and Rhône.
We had the time to wash our clothes there. So we are fresh and back on track.

Time to go!

Billy the kid did what he did and he died...

2008-06-01T02:27:00.000-07:00

Long time since.. We had a really fun time here in Italy, the days have gone really fast, we met a lot of beautiful people, wonderful places, good food..lot of pizza...
Day off today, and my birthday. I woke up by a nice happy birthday song from my sweet sweet band mates!

I will summary these days like this:

Day 7, Padova

Day 8, Roma

Day 9, Marina di Massa (Pisa cancelled)

Day 10, swimming Audrey!

Day 10, Carpi
After the show dance party

Zagreb oh Zagreb

2008-05-27T15:01:00.001-07:00

Zagreb is a really nice city! It was a great time playing at Teatar & TD. We played outside under openair. Thanks to you all that came to the show, we had a really nice time!
Tomorrow it's Italy-time!

Ciao

Chelsea, pepper and hey ho!

2008-05-27T10:46:00.000-07:00

Day 5, Wien. We have such a good time on tour. Southerly are great, such a good guys.
On our way back to the hotel after the show yesterday, me, Rebecka and Krist got into a pepper-spray-fight. We couldn't see any for a wile. But we're back on track now. Lets go to Zagreb yo!

Bydgoszcz

2008-05-25T11:40:00.000-07:00

Day 4, we're in Poland! My first time over here, I'm excited! Tonight we play at Mozg in Bydgoszcz together with our Swedish friends Jeniferever and with Southerly and Mehico, sweet.

pop it up..

2008-05-24T11:25:00.001-07:00

Day 3, we're in Leipzig now. We're playing at the Pop-Up showcase. But before we left Berlin this morning we met up with the beautiful Scraps of Tape guys. You're the best!
The show last night (nr2) was great, after our show we danced to Björn Kleinhenz and I did get some nice flashbacks from our years in Gothenburg.

4 x shit!

2008-05-22T18:13:00.000-07:00

Here we are at the boat unwitting what will happen next..
Today we found out that we forgot a passport, stroke into another car, broke somebody elses violin into 1000 pieces, had 4 beds less to sleep at.
Come on we love touring!

May and June will rock!

2008-05-22T02:35:00.000-07:00

Time to leave! We're playing in Hamburg to night. Looking forward to go there again!
The tour looks like this:

22.05.08 Hamburg (D), Knust
23.05.08 Berlin (D), Magnet
24.05.08 Leipzig (D), Dial-Booking Showcase @ Moritzbastei
25.05.08 Bydgoszcz (PL), Mozg
26.05.08 Wien (A), Chelsea***
27.05.08 Zagrab (HR), SC - Teatar & TD
28.05.08 Padova (I), Banale*** NEW!
29.05.08 Rome (I), Circolo Degli Artisti
30.05.08 Pisa (I), Caracol
31.05.08 Capri (MO) (I), Mattatoio
02.06.08 Lyon (F), Sonic
03.06.08 Karlsruhe (D), Café NUN
04.06.08 München (D), Orangehouse (Feierwerk)
05.06.08 Frankfurt (D), Brotfabrik
06.06.08 Köln (D), Blue Shell
07.06.08 Paris (F), Mains d'Oeuvres
08.06.08 Namur (F), Belvedere
11.06.08 Marburg (D), KFZ
12.06.08 Luxembourg (LUX), D:Qliq
13.06.08 Münster (D), Amp
14.06.08 Bremen (D), Lagerhaus
15.06.08 Würzburg (D), Umsonst & Draussen Festival
16.06.08 Dresden (D), Beatpol
17.06.08 Kiel (D), Schaubude
19.07.08 Siegen (D), Vortex
20.07.08 Innsbruck (A), PMK
22.07.08 Esslingen (D), Villa Merkel
25.07.08 Duisburg (D), Steinbruch
26.07.08 Hauptmannsgrün (D), L*Abore Festival