Packing/washing

Getting ready to leave. Last preparations tomorrow and then off to Göteborg to rehearse like crazy with my brother. Been talking over the phone about how we want it to sound, and it will be such a weight off my sholders when we can finally meet and try stuff out.

Going through some bags still unpacked after the move and coming out with cstuff I´d almost forgot about. Quite nice actually. If you don´t count dirty washing from the last tour in October that is still packed into plastic bags.






















Found a huge pile of strings in a bag from a music store in Köln today and humle fine tuned the last little bit. I must say, the guitar has never sounded better. Look how carefully he has placed his big ear on the fretboard to get the exact pitch. He is just amazing!

Well. The 10" have arrived and look awesome. Very excited about that.
I´ll go on about my business and hope to see you soon in Hannover or maybe Hamburg. Good start!

Love B

TOURING, PLUS/MINUS

Having trouble sleeping. Happens every time I am getting ready to leave. Excitement it is. In a good way. So I shouldn´t complain at all really. Got up from bed and sat down at the kitchen table doing a quick graph of what touring is to me. And what I came out with was just that: I shouldn´t complain.

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Travelling around Europe.
Meeting friends and hanging out.
Playing shows every night.
Eating great food I don´t have to neither pay for nor prepare.
Driving my Audi90, which I love.
Hopefully earning a little bit of money.

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Sleeping too little.
Not having clean underwear.
Getting in trouble beacause I don´t pay my bills in Sweden.

So, as you can all see, it is very benefitial to me.

Starting to write again. I have a few really good things going on.
Moving slow however and feel pretty good about letting it take some time with the songwriting. I have put out alot of stuff the last year and this time I will try to do things a different way.
I also have some plans for a 7" project that might happen in the fall. Hope that will come true. Plans, plans, plans.

Now I should really sleep. /B

Spring

The igloo is melting. A tiny bit of snow in the garden it is.
I leave in about a week. Feel very good about it. As always I am excited.
Excited about playing, excited about meeting people.
Going to spain and Poland to play for the first time. Yes, very excited indeed.

Got my car through the annnual check up yesterday after an extensive fix up of the back brakes. How discouraging is it not to have to spend 300 Euros on brakes. Anyway it is now a very fit Audi90 I am taking with me. And both fingers crossed Andi, the stereo should be put in finally by the end of this week! No more touring without music!

Ok. Bedtime. Sleep tight! B

Spring house cleaning party

It´s been an eventful day I must tell you.
Woke up early and drank a cup off coffee and then clean clean clean. The house is shining!
I even polished the roof of the shower! Please tell me that´s is a sane thing to do.



The neighbour lady came by to tell us that they will collect the trash tomorrow so we´re awfully excited about that since they haven´t been here in four week because of the snow and the garbage situation is getting out of control.

We wrote an awesome spring song for the childrens song album we´re working on. It is really quite nice. I don´t like to boast but it is fucking awesome. Will be a great record!

Sonson Pickelhaupt came by with some cabbage. Amazing the way you can harvest cabbage this time of year. In this country. Under snow and everything. A true survivor the caggabe I must say.
He then got a few shots of whisky and started talking about the "legal definition of intercourse". It was all very strange, and we were both happy when he had to go home to watch "Vem vet mest".

10" testpress arrived today.
Sounds awesome!
Look how happy I am.

Slow days

Hey hey, my my.

Slow day here today. Mainly domestic work.
Going through some merch, emailing like crazy, baking bread and washing.
We seriously need to get a washing machine.
I think that is my goal with this tour speaking in economical terms.
I wanna make 80 euros so I can buy a used washing machine. That should be doable I think.

Out of everything bad comes something good, right? I noticed when rinsing out the washing in the shower that my feet are amazing. They look like shit and Yrsa thinks they look creepy. But they look as if they were designed for crushing grapes. I will try to get a grape crushing job on my days off in Spain in May I think. I would like to know just how those job interviews really work.

Humle liked the bread alot. And he looked really nice next to it. And took a big bite of one loaf. They´re practically the same size. Can you imagine being the size of a loaf of bread, sitting next to it and wondering, if even for just one second, if you´re the same species? He´s great. Took him out to comb out some of his winter fur today since it´s coming off anyway, and his little baby hair was flying in the wind.

Bedtime now.
Best B

Preparations

Good evening.

It´s been a really good Sunday.
Been sitting at the kitchen table all day listening to radio and drawing.
Drinking cup after cup of coffee and smoking under the fan of the stove.
White trash style putting out the cigarettes in an empty coke bottle.

What I´ve come up with is a new little button series for the tour.
I know I am probably one of the very few people who care at all, but one great part
of touring is the fact I am allowed to produce stupid little artefact I can put on the merch table.

Preparations are taking place. Christian was here over the weekend and we went through
the songs we´ll be playing. We might even have a little song in swedish with us as a treat!
Show info piling up. The liger is standing guard.
!B

Getting ready...for bed.

Start. Press go.
It´s 4 am and I can´t really sleep.
So I did something I have been thinking about for a while. Starting a tour blog.
I have previously only used kleinhenz.se for updates,
but a tour is something else and I think it´d be real fun if I could get some interaction going here.
I am way to conservative to even think about facebook, so this is what it´s going to be.

Since the last tour in September/October me and Yrsa have moved from Fårö to a little house just two hours east of Göteborg. The house is about as swedish as it can get. Red and white on a hill overlooking the lake Vättern. It is actually close to rediculous the way it looks. That´ll be our base for a while now and if just spring would show itself I think it could be really nice here.

In about three weeks time we leave.
I say we because the first week of the trip my brother Christian will be travelling with me.
I am very excited about this since he hasn´t been with me since 2007 if I am not misremembering.
We did a tour just like this one in december of 2005 and it was amazing.
It´ll be nice to have some time together again.
We´re living about two hours away from eachother so naturally we don´t see
as much of one another as we would have wished.

Christian is coming here to stay over the weekend now and
we´re gonna do some rehersing.
He´s bringing his awesome new little mini rhodes, so I expect things to be great!

Also travlling with us will be Ray from lovely folk act Pink Moth out of Toronto.
We played a couple of shows together last year and decided we wanted to do more of that.
Very excited about getting to know Ray better and also see what the deal is with north-americans and driving a stick. We´ll see.

Alright. A fun first post this was. I am going to bed. Since Spain is part of the tour route I have started re-reading Hemingways "The sun also rises". Excellent stuff. Also I can really recommend his biographical "A movable feast" that I read recently. I love reading about Paris during that time!