2011-08-02, The Winter Insomnia-album and the Far Away From Home - video

The album Winter Insomnia is finally released. The work to get this a album started in november 2010. But in fact... On the album you'll be able to get a grip on several years of work. Some of the songs you might recognize from earlier demorecordings. The album is avalible on iTunes and Spotify . Please make sure that you stop by and listen. I would love to get a comment and to do so, just "like" my facebooksite!

We also shoot a video on the song Far Away From Home in July 2011. The video is directed by Fredrik Bergström. The official release of the video will be on the 27:th of august 2011. Please check it out on youtube.com




2011-01-09, Me, myself and you

I'm just posting a note here about my latest work: I've recorded an old song called "Me, myself and you". You can check it out on Youtube.com


2009-08-15, Inbgofestivalen 2009

This beautyful day we took the car down to the countryside, to Ingbo/Tärnsjö to play at this nice festival. The food was great and the weather was super 'til after we had played. The rain tortured all fellows who didn't manage to bring a raincoat. Kalle lost his bass, but it turned out that the guitar had went to the town Sala. Once the guitarstack worked the pinkdressed hardrocker swallowed all white cancersticks. The beer tasted like water, we drank and sung all night long. Also we got the chance to drink with some local bands. Great staff and a very nice evening ended up when we arrived safely home around 4am. The setlist this evening was 1) Praise Your Prayers, 2) Let It Out, 3) One Poem Is Left Until Goodbye, 4) Children Of Tomorrow, 5) My Friends.


From left to right: Viktor, Fredrik, Karin, Daniel and Kalle.


2008-07-27, Summer, Festival, Countryside 2008

The first and only gig this summer was to be on Countrysidefestivalen in a small village called Stråssa far out on the countryside in the beautyful landscape of Västermanland, Sweden. The trip started of pretty bad when we first realized that our car had been robbed on all gasoline the night before the gig. When we had managed to locate two liter gas in Jannes store we took off on a trip that I will remember for a long time. The landscape was amazing, so beutyful with all the blue lakes and the green forest. We got to the festival in time and the sun had sunk below the treelines when we got started. We delivered six songs this evening: 1) children of tomorrow 2) chris, turn the page 3) heartbeats 4) let it out 5) her memories in a safe 6) my friends.


The sound-tech-guys really knew their job and delivered good solid sound, atleast up on stage! Nice people, lord calvet, lapin, op and g&t all the way through the forests back to Västerås, where we met Hanna from Talking To Drake. On the way I open one bottle of Xider that exploded, leaving a mark on my chest, but hey, the stereo cried out "United, united, united we stand.." so things couldn't be much better after all. Well, Stråssa and Countrysidefestivalen 2008 has, from this day, a very special place in my heart.


2007-11-22, I will take you back to Berlin!

I got this clip from me performing live at Schokoladen, in Berlin 12-09-2007. I hope you enjoy the clip! Thx you danish boy! Please keep on sending me videoclip or upload them on various sites! Bless



2007-11-19 Rockfesten, Uppsala

I played at Rockfesten in Uppsala this weekend (saturday). It was a really nice evening with alot of good music and very friendly people. Thx Gabriella for asking me to play. Thx Jan, Karin and Calle for sharing the time on stage this time. A big bless to everyone listening. If you got any pictures from the show, please feel free to mail me them on booking@danielseestrand.com and will put them up here on my page. This evening i played 6 songs. (1)when the orchestra plays (2)one image i couldnt be (3)heartbeats (4)her memories in a safe (5)an hour away (6) masquerade. Hope to see you all at Göteborgs Nation / Uppsala on next friday! That will be the 30th of november. time on stage will be up later. bless


2007-11-12 Uppsala



Yes.. Winter has arrived now. World is painted in white. I have booked the studio first weekend in December. Fredrik Bergström will merge the drums & Jan Martens will handle the bass. Looking forward.


2007-09-30 Stenungsund

Time is late. The traffic home from the westcoast/Stenungsund was horrible. We also missed the ride the last couple of kilometers. Anyhow... I really enjoyed being in Stenungsund this weekend. The weather was awful but me, Jan and Karin made it comfortable anyway. The audience in Stenungsund was pretty old but they enjoyed the music alot. It's always nice to play for a type of audience that you never would get the chance to play for if you're having this gig at a club. We drank class-II beers in a traditional swedishway until the very late hour and talked about the twp gigs we made this weekend. Extra big thanks to Annika at Kulturhuset Fregatten. I hope we met again!


2007-09-27 Café String

I played at Café String in Stockholm(sthlm) the other night and got some help with the first shooting for the video. Thx Inge, the guys at swedish showcase and all people who listened to me playing. For you who didn't got the chance to be in Sthlm this evening I just give you the playlist: (1)ignorance is bliss(2)masquerade(3)one image i couldn't be(4)heartbeats(5)her memories in a safe(6)sad boys play games(7)an hour away


2007-09-16 The German-Austria Tour!

We are back in Sweden after a very nice trip down Europe. First of all i want to say thanks to Karin Holmberg and Calle Colliander who supported me on this trip playing at there best level. i want to take the opportunity to say cheers and thanks to all bookers and people showing up at our concerts. You were really great! The audience in Germany and Austria is so much different than we are used to, here in Sweden.
All locations/venues were we have been playing proved to be really nice, all staff great and the accomodations were really super. The support on the tour was great and we manage together to solve anything that could be a problem.

i've got alot of nice pictures from the trip and they will be up here on my homepage as soon as i have had the time to got through all of them. Everyone showing up at the concerts (with a camera) could please send their pictures to this mail. if anyone got any press-stuff from newspapers or anything like that, fell free to send this ones over too. To my streetadress daniel Seestrand, Salagatan 12a, 75330 uppsala, Schweden or in *.PDF / *.HTML / *.DOC / *.TXT to this mail.
Finally a BIG thanks again to everyone we met on this trip! Feel free to visit me on myspace: myspace.com/danielseestrand and send me a message. See you in 2008!
bless -d

TOURMEMORiES / Some words from us:

Daniel Seestrand

Best tour-memory: There are so many, but when Calle made the Darth Vader voice in Berlin was really funny
Worst tour-memory: When joy at the Austrian border turn to hell. "Cash or credit"
Best overall concert: Schokoladen in Berlin
My worst concert memory: When i forgot the lyrics on "Her memories in a safe" at Antje Öklesund in Berlin
Estimated beerconsumption: ~70 beers
Coolest venue: Noch Besser Leben in Leipzig
Less sleep: 3h in the car at Rödby, Denmark
Best bed: They are all the same when you crash, But I felt good when i woke up in Kassel!
Best food: The snack at Noch Besser Leben in Leipzig
Best beer: Berliner
Where i drank most beer/liquer: Vienna and Berlin was the ultimate tournights (Becks 'til the end)
Coolest dude: Willi in Cologne
Biggest crush: The district Kreuzberg, Berlin
Strangest person encounted: The drunkheart with the robotlook who was repeating everything i said for almost one hour and stopped when he fell into a wall

Calle Colliander

Best tour-memory: All free beer, and that you get bonemuscle while walking in stairs
Worst tour-memory: When we where leaving austria and had to pay 120 euro cause we didn´t have a ticket for road-taxes
Best overall concert: This is a hard one, but Leipzig was awsome and even schokoladen in Berlin
My worst concert memory: i don´t like untuned pianos.
Estimated beerconsumption: ~7-9/day x 9 days =60-80
Coolest venue: Leipzig i believe
Less sleep: Don´t know but i would guess about 3-4 hours
Best bed: Kassel, no doubt!
Best food: Maybe the soup in Vienna, Austria
Best beer: The Vienna special beer, don´t remember the name though, what a pity
Where i drank most beer/liquer: Paderborn!!! Becks I think
Coolest dude: if I must choose one, I choose Cat (Missincat) she was a very cool dude
Biggest crush: In Vienna, don´t remeber her name! oups, sorry
Strangest person encounted: In a shop in Berlin, there was a crazy person who asked me if I could buy a kinder chockolate-bar to him

Karin Holmberg

Best tour-memory: When I almost told the booker that I just screwed up the element
Worst tour-memory: Sleeping sitting straight up in the backseat of the Saab in Rödby. And ofcourse the fucking böter we had to pay when we crossed the border from Austria to Germany.
Best overall concert: Last show at Schokoladen / Berlin :)
My worst concert memory: When I lost my harmonica on stage! But it ended up greatas I was forced to talk to the audience!
Estimated beerconsumption: 25! But i drank alot of wine too!
Coolest venue: Noch Besser Leben in Leipzig
Less sleep: Last night at Schokoladen! The thing is that we had to drive all the way back to Sweden the day after.
Best bed: Best sleep in Liepzig at Anjas place or at Katja in Berlin
Best food: Somekind of Chickensoup with salad and bread at Café Stadtbahn in Vienna
Best beer: The beer at Café Stadtbahn in Vienna that I don't remember the name of
Most beer: Second night in Berlin!
Coolest dude: Calle behind the piano, smoking beneath the klav, while playing
Biggest crush: Berlin!
Strangest person encounted: The guy in Paderborn who pretended he couldnt speak English and served Ravioli for dinner

We pressed in all our gear in the car, said goodbye to the other band, the booker and Berlin. i guess we saw some tourist-stuff as we left Berlin too. Nothing that really interesting though... The trip up to Puttgarden and the boat over to Denamrk was nice. We all felt kinda tired after this intense weeks we had been out on the road. Somehow it felt good leaving Germany. I knew I was going to come back soon cos' Berlin really made it all the way to my heart. We tried to summerize the tour but everyone except the driver was falling asleep all the time. Somehow everything seemed to be more expensive here. The road from the north down to Berlin that is.

We had our heads filled with great memories when we crossed the border to Denmark and drove all the way up to the north-east part of Denmark to catch the boat over to Sweden. We missed the Bordershop and returned home without any beer or wine but we returned home to cold Sweden with our hearts filled with love!

Kreuzberg... So cool! We took the U-bahn, S-bahn, b42 and .. I don't even know the name of all the trains and finally we arrived in Kreuzberg. We made a walk and visited some churches, looked at the eastern part of Berlin and took a lick on the wall. The recordshops was awsome and the toilets as spectacular as the people. Even the dogs were cool! The shoppingguide really made it easy for us. Thx alot! ;) This was the first time I realized what a great place Berlin is if you are into music and wants to go to concerts. it seems like there was a good band playing in evry corner of every street. The trip to Berlin Mitte and Schokoladen was preety easy. Calle had now been driving in both Berlin and Vienna (cred!) and he didnt stop for any luxrious bmw's. Acoustic Moon was the name of the club located at Schokoladen and it was so cool. The whole club was like nothing you ever see in Sweden (but everywhere in Germany). The colours were black and red, as it was at Noch Besser Leben in Liepzig. We traded card with fast cars with eachother and they later turned into beer. Sarah, the booker was such a lovely person who had move to Berlin 15 years ago, from Australia and now got children here and felt kinda stuck. She really made us fell great being at Schokoladen/Acoustic Moon. The band who opened for us was Lost Alma from Denmark. They really made the stage warm for us and when we finally got the chance to deliver our music we really did. I believe that i many ways this was the best show on this tour. Maybe because we knew that this was it. Finally chance to play infront of a great audience this year! Also, we all got this unique feeling for all of the songs. There was some swedes screaming in the audience, I bellieve that i had started to even think in english so, it felt like a foreign language to me. Strange... We hooked up with a friend and her friend :) Visited some cool clubs in the eastern part of Berlin and bought fresh bread form the bakery. The last night in Berlin was really great as we hide the booze on the railway, killed some sailors, scaned the history-knowledge of the local rockers and when we finally arrived to the room where we should spend the night none of us really remember what happen. It was atleast +10 celcius inside. Lucky Calle had a sleepingbag! i remember thinking last night that this was the second time on this tour i really had to us my muscles cos' it was atleast 6 stairs up to the room where we slept. it's strange. People i know always lives far up in houses, or.. maybe it's not true. Better, I'm good at remembering that some of my people live far up.

2007.09.11 Berlin (in our hearts)


Morning rose.. As I looked out the window i found that we lived close to alot on old industrialbuildings. Hadn't got the time to check it out though since we wanted to met up Bernhard and Vera who we met in Kassel. Prenzlauer was a very nice area! The sun found its way and reached us through the clouds. We hang out all day watching grafiti and nice paintings on walls. Drank some German coffee and ate good tasting food. We pretty much enjoyed being in Berlin as we all fell in love! Later we discovered that our car was open in the parkingspot. Well, the door was open! But nothing where missing(!) Time ran like it always does when you're on tour and we tried to find the venue where we were supposed to play later that night. We knew it was called Antje Öklesund and alot of friends have been playing there and they all told me good things about the place. We did find it, well their mailbox! it looked like someone had dropped a bomb at the courtyard and it was impossible to find the entrance even though we knew the adress and located the right house! Very cool. When the booker Sasha arrived he showed us the entrance. No-one could guess that the entrance was located where it was. inside someone had dropped another bomb! Amazing look!! Very cool indeed! The people at the place was really nice fellows. The weared my tshirt and really made us feel welcomed. We got the chance to play Richard Kapp on the stereo and saw some familiar faces after the show. The robotman was present and Karin really documented the WC. i tried to work as a bartender with some success and discovered that its hard to serve drunkhearts who drinks the liquer before you even have filled up their glasses. THey had a cool exhibition at the venue and we inspected it... maybe to detailed! i believe it was some kind of woman who got undressed all the time. Well, things started to get blured as we hang out with the soundtechniq-guy. By the way, he was a funny man. 1hour before the show a big swedish crowd came to the club too see my show. Arriving there, they were told by this guy that we had already played the show and they left! lol! We crashed at Katjas place after play some scenarios from familiar movies. Calle was darth vader. I was johnny rotten. Karin was..... robert wells?

2007.09.10 To the east again!


The rain stroke Kassel and we had to walk to our car. Calle found a fruitpenis but we got lost anyway. "Wet as dogs" we somehow got this motorcycledude with funny thrash-look to guide us to the right location and from there we took cover in the car and started to drive for Berlin. The east again! The windmalls rose to the gloomy sky and it came to my mind that i hadn't spend a single thoughts on my flowers back home. After some light lager we arrived in Friedrichshain and located Katjas place. The apartment was very nice (as all apartments we had visited so far). I took a walk and checked out the district. After hanging out with some local punkrockers we stubbled into a bar filled with cigarettsmoke. it was strange, no-one noticed me and i didnt see a single face on anyone. After I'd talked to the barowner I realized that this wasnt a regular bar. A guy with a tattoo in the face wanted to buy me a beer but I ran "home" to get some sleep before the show tomorrow at Antje Öklesund.

2007.09.09 Kassel


in the early hour we left Austria, still pissed on the stereo and I lost 2 euro when I bet that the stereo should work. Stupied me since I somehow realized that the steroe wasn't going to work. I kinda "kasta pengarna i sjön". Anyhow, the trip back through Austria to the border (to Germany) wasnt as nice as the trip back. We had had one day of and that makes you loose the touch. I remember thinking to myself, somethings good must happen since the trip was o boring. When we saw the border-staff we went crazy, hoping that they should stop us and something cool could happen. The "police" looked kinda funny in his big hat and we laughed alot when he told us to stop. The staff wasn't that pleased to notice that we hadn't paid our tax to enter the roads in Austria and therefor we had to pay him/them 120 Euro.

Officer: "Cash or credit?"

The trip up to Kassel wasnt very good and the jokes that was funny yesterday was like thrown out the window today. This was not a problem though, after some food and a few minutes with a working stereo the swedish saab drove S's on the road and when we finally arrived in Kassel some very nice things was about to happen! We met MissinCat and Behnard Eder, two great musicans and friends, who also played the very same night as we. The feeling was odd, performing in someones livingroom but we enjoyed it and the un-tuned piano made the show very special. We played two sets and the audience was really nice. The cameraman looked pretty odd as he was trying to get a focus on our faces! (I would love to see more of the result...). The booker Elena Brückner proved to be a really nice person with a truthful smile and a honest look. The wine was expensive and red, the beer kinda exclusive but all warm hearts made us wanna explore the great surroundings. As the rain poured down i remember picking up some old tunes for the second set and the logé was filled with some paderborn-beers. Vera, a very nice girl performing with Bernhard played the violin very gently. i fell in love with the sound of strings to one deep, steady voice! Everything was so different from all other venues. Even the food tasted exclusive! As the dark embraced us we left for rainy downtown well-armed with booze and cigarettes. It was hard to find to our guesthouse but finally arriving there we enjoy the time there. German tv proved to have alot of channels filled with music and naked women. Somehow that inspired us to get to know eachother even more! The beers ofcourse helped us alot and some objects went down in wrong spots. Calle fell asleep in the jaquzzi as the guitarpicking man on the tv played even faster (than i thought was impossible). We really drank until we fell asleep but before that we dicovered that we were living next to ..::..::..::.. The guesthouse was really fancy and the catering was delicious!

2007.09.08 Vienna


We got the chance to be tourists! Drinking tourists! We had a really good time in "the ring" and "the belt" even if we missed out on the chance to get Kasia as our guide. We really wanted to get the chance to be guided around in Vienna by her but somehow we managed to missed it. A pity! Anyhow, Vienna proved to be a really nice town, someone told me that it might be the new Berlin (who got the award capitol of Europe from London). The pope was in town this weekend which meant that the whole town was full of people. The buildings here was fantastic and the archtecture amazing. We all was really impressed by the whole town and this big churches and small cafés was something to remember. The first day off on the tour was to be a total hit! We all really needed to keep our heads on something different that music and performing. We spent sometime in Kasia's photostudio trying to pose for the camera, atleast in our dreams. Tobad time had run so fast and that we hadn't the time to crawl on the clean floor. Some posing beside the yellow door had been a really nice picture to bring back from Vienna. The streets didnt look the same now as the night before. We walk past alot of the pubs where was had been last night and everything seemed different. it was like a new town! As the day turned to evening the evening turned to night and we managed to get our hands on some nice pubs. On our way home we met a funny cabdriver who told us some great stories. One of them was about when he drive a custumer who invite him over for sex with his wife. We laught until late our to this crazy stories and sleep well this night. Tomorrow we should head all the way back to Germany again to perform at Live in the living in Kassel. But when we fell asleep our thoughts was on this lovely city with all friendly people.

2007.09.07 Passau + Vienna


A long drive ahead and a gig at Cafe Stadtbahn on that evening. One could thought that the trip all the way down to Austria would be awful but that was not the case. None of us had ever been to Vienna before this trip so we were all kinda thrilled. Also Calle proved that he is the joker number 1. (Det finns inget torrt vin - När det regnade i närheten av Österrikes huvudstad). After we had unloaded the gear at Cafe Stadtbahn and met the support Richerd Kapp we headed for Kasias place to get our hands on a shower and something to eat. The Vienna pasta was a hit, the red wine as well and we managed to get down to the beautyful location where we should play. Richard Kapp turned out to be a-hell-of-a-good person and his opening for us was super. All people at Cafe Stadtbahn was really nice and the food was delicious. We got the chance to taste the local beer as well and together with the people at the pub we drank, sang and talk for hours. The toilet was a mystery for me though and I did not only managed to get important stuff get stuck in the zipper, I also managed to drop my money into i hole behind(!) the toilet. When i finally got it up we continued to drink beer with the locals until Bart took us for a great tour through the nightlife of Vienna. The Austrian girl Monica spoke swedish again and we had a great time until the very late hour. The people of Vienna seemed to enjoy our staying at the pub and the drinks was abit to cheep. We explored the Austrian girls and the guards to the clubs. The pulse went up for some of us as we danced the hell out of the people and the clubs. Calle really made the dancefloor filled with crazy people as he made his best moves! The Austrian hamburger tasted like ours i think but the price is always low when you pay in Euro. We managed to get home in different cabs and how we got into bed none of us remember!

2007.09.06 Leipzig


After one night in the red haven it was time for the rain to arrive. Somehow it felt great. We had had two rough days and nights and really need to breath fresh air. Calle had been staying on the floor all night and was pretty torn. Well, we all was abit tired since we spent so much time in the car the last days. We got some records from local musicans and got some really nice offers about another tour in 2008. The bar was empty as well as our coffins. it proved that Paderborn was a really nice town after all. As we didn't had the time to check it out we headed even further east, into what used to be the eastern germany. Somewhere on the way we stop for a coffee. We look happy?



The windmall rose up to the air as we entered the fog. It was a cool experince to see long fields of big machines, working to get people their electricity. This was maybe the first time we got really upset on our stereo. Until this point i believe that we could cope pretty good with our anger cos the damn machine would work properly. "Nu var måttet rågat"! What happen after that is confidentional. Leipzig and Noch Besser Leben was a fantastic experience! We really liked the old style of the buildings and the good tasting beer. It felt kinda scary arriving and waiting for the booker to arrive to the venue. But when the staff finally arrived it was all joy. Those warmth hearted souls really made us feel confortable. The room where we played was so extra fantastic. All red and black (my favorite colors) and the shape of the room was amazing. We ate and drank good (we did every day on every venue but this was something really special). We got the chance to hang out with really nice people after the show and gave away some gifts from Sweden. The most expensive stuff was a lighter from "Pressbyrån". Much love until late night and a faboulus apartment to spend the night at. The tea at Anjas place was a nice experince and she turn out to be a woman that i respect alot! All dizzy...

2007.09.05 Paderborn


Woke up this morning to a beautyful sound of the band Lingby and the song "seek". Some people showed up from the show last night and we had some really nice breakfest at Judiths place. I haden't really got the time to think about things yesterday yet. The taste of beer was still in my mouth as i got my morning coffee. Calle and Karin proved to have brought their english to germany, me on the otherhand was doin' this 4th grad english, invented some new words like "bone-muscle" (ofcourse i meant that power of the muscles in my legs). We took another look at motoki wohnzimmer where we played last night and this time you could really see how nice the place was. They hade kept the orginal wall (tegel) and the height to the ceiling was impressive. Small details in this overall very nice venue, look even better. The staff was very serious about their work and they had planed some exhibitions in the near future. We took goodbye to dear Willi and Judith and drove to Paderborn, some kilometers east of Cologne. The trip was easy since three hours in the car is nothing compared to what it took us from Uppsala/sweden to Cologne/Germany. We had some really problems finding our way to the club Wunderbar mostly because i had the wrong adress. People really tried to help us finding the right adress. The crazy guy in military outfit was so desperate tryin' to tell us the right way. He couldnt speak a single word in english. That was fun! It was kinda hard to get him understand that we would make it by our own (since we got the right adress after some researching). Wunderbar was a small little venue. But the PA was great and we managed to get a good sound here. Calle started to tell stories and he kinda couldn't stop. With more beers the stories went even more crazy. At the venue everyone were really friendly, tryin' their best to make us feel comfortable. And it work! Met some really cool dudes and got plenty of records from local musicans. Someone thought that I made cover of a guy called Ecker(?), never heard of him but obviously my songs reminded alot of his. Better check it up! After a great performance and some sing-along we tried the local pubs in Paderborn. Calle played dart with the locals and won all the time, making him so very drunk. The Jägermeister was strong and the pub had this wall built with jägermeisterbottles glued together. That was really cool! The tequilarace ended late and we fell asleep sitting and layin' on the floor. Calle got his cheek stuck to the wall while sleeping. That odd, really odd and typically swedish I've heard!

2007.09.04 Cologne


Feels kinda strange. I slept in a car tonight, in Denmark. The thing was that we missed the last ferry from Rödby to Puttgarden and there was not a single motel or hostel in sight so. Hehe, what a great start on the tour. After a few beers i think we slept kinda good even if my legs where hurting pretty bad when I woke up with this scary figure sneeking outside of our car. Because we had parked infront of a house there was very easy to look into the car and notices these sleeping swedes. Coffee and the trip over to Germany was nice. Wheater was nice and the fat truckers was present. On German soil I started to get this free feeling that you get when you're on tour. The landscape was inspiring me to write a song about traveling. Maybe you get the chance to hear it some day. After some great homemade salat, alot of sleep and several hours later we finally made it to the club motoki wohnzimmer in Cologne. Willi from met us up and showed as the impressive club that he and his friend had built. After some soundchecking we started to taste the German beer, I believe that the first beer to touch my troat in germany was a BECKS. The guy who opened for us was "surrender the stars", a great singer- & songwriter. Tired as hell we made our entrance on this tour by giving the people the song "ignorance is bliss". The show was great, we invited Willi up on stage to sing along on the german volksong "sieben tage lang". Some extranumbers later and alot on fresh fruit and drinks later me and Calle found ourself at a local pub. The warmth was present in everyones heart. We saw some great architecture and even on the toilets impressed us alot. Free sight from the womens WC to the men's seemed pretty strange though. This western part of Cologne proved to be a hell of a nice place. Even the backyards were nice, atleast the one where I found this big collection of condoms. Karin went to sleep early as me and Calle drank until the very late hour. Alot of cool people from the gig showed up and we disgussed life and music-climate until the bar closed(?). As the bar closed down someone forgot to pay and the locals lay a couple of cents each to cover for this "mistake". That's Cologne..

2007.09.03 Uppsala


Wheater is great in Sweden and we have packed the car totally full. I believe that we might have brought to much.. as always. The merch didnt arrive in time so i decided to spent the last nights up, pressing some limited t-shirts by myself. They are kinda nice I think. First there is my name on it (ofcourse) and then there is two figures. They look kinda different from eachother. I spent atleast 45min / tshirts and I am almost willing to give them away at the concerts. Maybe I just take a few Euro so i can pay for the shirts! We have about 700km to drive today, maybe more. it will be some boattrips today and tomorrow. i like going by boat, it's as exciting as flying but much more nice to the nature. We have rehearsed a setlist of 9 songs: ignorance is bliss, masquerade, an hour away, one image i couldnt be, when the orchestra plays, heartbeats, her memories in a safe, sieben tage lang and sad boys play games. if there are people who wants to hear some other songs I'll be prepared. Well, I am off Uppsala.

SRF and Salafestivalen, the to festivals i played this summer was a success. I'd like to thank Jan, Karin, Fredrik & Martin who played with me on the shows and dealing with me on the trips. Also roodie Jonas, Andreas "da crew" and Sis + J-E. Ofcourse a big thanks to all who showed up on the concerts and I hope that you enjoyed the live performances. Now I will prepare for the trip down to Germany in early september. it seems like it wont be any shows in Austria this time but I'll make it the next time. I will put up some photos from the trip here soon. Some backstage pics and somehow personal photos. Until then: bless /d



2007-07-20: A time for reflection...

Summer, beer, sun, all green, flowers, bath...
What should a real summer include? Really... I think that this time since my trip to Gula Villan / Pre-pop dakar has been awful.. I was postive sure that the recordings should have been all done at this point but things went bad, again. Well, i believe that i should have foreseen this happen and i believe i did! ;) Now i am stuck with songs taken on "take 1" and this session will be done.. now. i've decided to let it stay in this chaotic touch. it describes the last 6 months pretty good. I wont feel down since I believe that I have manage to get over far more different stories than this one. Anyhow, I am off to the westcoast soon, i know it's going to be a blower :) Puh.. I like to think about Inge sometimes.. He is a good fellow.


See you soon, bless -d



2007-05-17: Sun, horses, red apples and a wellknown culture



Big thanks to jan, karin, pap-pappa, svenska musikklubben and all staff at gula villan (extra big thanks goes to big man who made the bird taste so nice).
World has become greener, people are getting prettier and life is getting more pleasent day by day. My troat was hurting like hell when we left hometown to go south for the show at gula villan/universitetet in Stockholm this evening. Before we even passed the gates of Uppsala we had to help a poor man, standing helpless by the side of the road. His car had broke down and we gave a helping hand. i believe that one hour late to soundcheck paid off in the end. I really do.. Well, this sunny evening we saddled up and took you all away for a trip through one aucustic setlist. Jan Martens (bass) and Karin Holmberg (harmonica & melodica) backed me up to the sound of drunk students. For you who missed the show, here's the list of the songs: (1) when the orchestra plays (2) her memories in a safe (3) heartbeats (4) one image i couldn't be (5) ignorence is bliss (6) one poem is left until goodbye (7) sad boys play games

Lovely that we could get the chance to know the place even better then we had in mind before leaving ;)



2007-05-10: Crazy Monday wasn't that crazy...



Grand in Uppsala is a wellknown place. That stage has been visited by big and small bands over the years and has a reputation... I am not sure but i have heard that the hall is built in the same proportion as Abbey Road. Well.. I wasn't on that stage this night since i visited the Café and the Club Crazy Monday. They had made a fine arrangement for us and i really enjoyed playin'. We arrived 10min before the club opened due to some technical problems. However, the evening was calm, just some rain earlier on that day. I decided to play some alternative songs this evening and i think that some of you who have known me for a while recognized some of the tunes.
(1) when the orchestra plays (2) her memories in a safe (3) heartbeats (4) one image i couldn't be (5) n/a (6) ignorence is bliss

Nice to see the other band Snowfall tooo. The singer sounded like that maniac singing in the band called Muse :)



2007-05-01: Spring on the westcoast



First of all i would like to say thanks to Björn, Johan, Johannes, Linda, Karin, inge, Filip and Frida for making this trip a good one!
The journey down through Sweden was nice, really nice. It all began on Friday night when we took a good solid fylla in Uppsala, to get ready for the journey down to Vänersborg & Göteborg early Saturday morning. When we finelly got everything down in the "takbox" the wheels turned fast. Vänersborg and Café Mic was the first stop and when discovered that people down there were truly friendly. Also the landscape was a beauty. i enjoyed feeling the fresh salty taste of the wind. We delivered 7 songs this night: (1) chris, turn the page (2) i am over you and you are all over me (3) children of tomorrow (4) ignorence is bliss (5) praise your prayers (6) one image i couldn't be (7) my friends
Some drinks later in a town nearby we slept to Filips voice, a voice of a true storyteller.
Coffee & a smoke and we where heading for marvellous Göteborg. Really nice weather and great hospitality met us when we arrived and good tasting coffee... Me and Björn had booked Resturang Jord this evening and i must say that the place was really nice. We opened for Björn this evening too and when we left Götet for the long trip home we all were pretty fucked up. The songs this night was the same as the night before, with some small changes.. ;) (1) chris, turn the page (2) children of tomorrow (3) i am over you and you are all over me (4) ignorence is bliss (5) praise your prayers (6) one image i couldn't be (7) my friends. Big smiles on our lips. Hjärta er!



2007-03-24: The concrete again..


I hit the road to Stockholm this friday. The trip made just horrible echos in my head. Well, in place the walls made me stiff, since surrounded by concrete isn't any favorite of mine. Sound was good i think and I hope you enjoy the two set we delivered tonight! The playlist wasn't to be deciced until a discussion at the "kebebhak", me switching songs right at the last minute, or atleast I thought that was the case. The journey started in the end of november -06 but this evening did start with a salute to one small person with a even smaller heart. As he made the world spin faster Fredrik kept the pace. Love is just words until you made something out of it and there is always ways to translate thoughts into action. People tend to write lovesongs over and over again, so i gave you one way of thinking regarding getting rid of people that tend to suck you dry, feeding on your creativity. So much for prayers, none of us like 'em anyway and I really think it's better to stay in a state of ignorence. Short break, aucustic power and in the end we were back were it all started, with me, inge strömgren (guitar), karin holmberg (harmonica & melodica), filip arnberg (bass), linda fridén (piano/keyboard) and fredrik bergström (drums), on stage. Here are the song we delivered this evening. (1) chris, turn the page (2) children of tomorrow (3) i am over you and you are all over me (4) praise your prayers (5) ignorence is bliss (30min break) (6) n/a (7) sad boys play games (8) heartbeats (9) one image i couldn't be (*) my friends . And remember that I promised to play the extra number on next gig. Catch ya then and thanks Moccazine & Stockholm! /d



2007-03-18: I entered the studio 10th of March to record some songs. Work went smooth and I really thank Carl for great drums. You might hear the result in a couple of months, i really hope.




2007-02-18: Winter has arrived now.. below zero degrees celsius.. Last night I visited PG to play some songs and to celebrate a very close friend. My choices of songs were kinda odd. Anyhow, the gig was nice. Hot as hell on stage and my new black hairdress wasnt much of help for me. Karin Holmberg joined me this evening to play the harmonica & melodica. /d (1) chris, turn the page (2) n/a (3) ignorence is bliss (4) sad boys play games (5) heartbeats



I don't know the name of the red wine that made me feel warm. I was glad to see Johan showing up, toooo late but hey, you were there! And now; take a look at me and karin performing the song "n/a" by a simple click on this window below. :)

I really enjoy the trip to PG. Best wishes for him :)





2007-01-07: I got back from Dalarna/Leksand yesterday after a nice trip to the home of hockey, bigtime boozers and friendly Dan. Took the trip 200km up to play on Brandmannen this weekend. i enjoyed the trip to the northern part of Dalarna. The road was dark but when we finelly arrived the snow fall down from the sky. Beloved paradise... The show was great and I was backed up by Karin Holmberg (organ / melodica) and Anders Nilsson (guitar). I played aucustic and after the intro we delivered 6 songs. (1) n/a (2) chris, turn the page (3) ignorence is bliss (4) one poem is left until goodbye (5) one image i couldn't be (6) dry my eyes

Thx for the show Dan, and all people who came to support and listen to the bands this evening. <3 from d





2006-12-11: Well, i am back home again after some shows in sthlm. After som coffee with friends i started to summerize these performences I managed last week. it's pretty funny how this whole thing effected me. Stockholm is a very beautyful town, the capitol in many ways. First of all people tend to be some restricted but at the same time they're kindful and nice. I made an aucustic gig on the friday. Playing together with Karin Holmberg on mouth-organ. The songs this evening was: (1) ignorence is bliss (2) chris, turn the page (3) n/a (4) dry my eyes (5) sad boys play games (6) one poem is left until goodbye (7) her memories in a safe (8) we're in the same world with different stories! We really had a good time and enjoyed playin' alot. Hopefully all you who visit the show this evening got hold of the words. I sang for Chris and the guy in trance




4 nights later I took the train to Gamla Stan to visit Fight Club/Stampen. Late soundcheck and five other bands later we got stuck at some old familiar bar with alot of odd and funny people. The piano by the tables gave us many jokes this evening. Backed up by inge Strömgren, Karin Holmberg, Carl Karlsson, Filip Arnberg and Linda Fridén 4 songs was there for you. (1) chris, turn the page (2) i'm over you and you are all over me (3) ignorence is bliss (4) my friends. A really good show and a very nice crowd! Thx for showing up and next time I promise i'll bring some records for you. Hans made us company when Carl flew back for some great mission! :) Passion for us - Passion for you?