Back from the gig of the summer!!

Yes!

We´re back from Frizon and an amazing gig at Magasinet. The day started of fine with Joel and I singing the Turkish national anthem at the “soccer stadium” for the annual festival soccer tournament. It all started with a few people from the Frizon Crew walking in to the backstage area saying –oh, do we know anyone who can sing any national anthem except “du gamla du fria”, “the star spangled banner” and “god save the queen”? I sort of replied that I think our singer knows the Turkish one! Good, they said, We´ll meet you and Joel at the soccer ground in 20 minutes. Hehe. I had to learn the anthem in 20 minutes (Haven´t heard it before). I didn´t learn it by heart though, Joel put the words down on a note for me. Anyway, It was great fun singing that anthem in a Caruso-sort-of-hairy-strong-manly-style. I think it was a success…

Later we got interviewed by Wilhelm Blixt from Dagen regarding music, faith and genres. Thank you Kim who practically set up that interview for us!

The gig was amazing like I said. Martin was in fact at a wedding nearby, so he missed the sound check and Joel had to play bass and sing. Martin almost gave us a heart attack when he phoned us saying –I´m late!!! He finally showed up half an hour before the show and we all could calm downJ! One cool thing with playing at the Magasinet was that they open the big doors only minutes before the show actually starts, which also makes one rather nervous since you couldn´t tell how many people there were until a few minutes before it was time to enter the stage. Frankly we were rather nervous because we didn´t know if we were to expect 50 or 500 people. It showed later that it was the latter!!

Here is the set list with some comments:

Intro –Joel W:s psycadelic 9 guitar layer intro for the first time

I want this night to be over

Pinetree

The worm –first time live, what a rocket!!!!!!!! (click here for a clip from frizon, not that good soundquality though...)

Oasis –first time with the new chorus

Botanisten –This is one of the strongest songs playing live for me

Sometimes –A new intro that we tried with Botansten that came out great

Like a lily –The new punkier version of like a lily

Fire –I got to do my nervous “at the drive in”-feedback things on my guitar in the end of the song. Hehe, me like ;-).

A few of the songs has still their old “work names” and will be named different on the record. We will tell you later exactly what songs will be renamed.

I big thank you to all of you who showed up and made our gig so special!!! It was really the best gig with out of clouds for me and I think that you could tell that by looking at me during the show!!!

Big thanks to Mia, Kristin and Edla for your loving support, Emmanuel from olive shoots for the pictures, Kim for the interview and for reading our blog ;-), Mattias for the ride to Frizon and Olive shoots for the ride back home! Thanks Frizon for being so easy to work with! A great arrangement!!

Take care,

Markus and the rest of the clouds