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

parapluie

Hi ya!
We had a good night at Parapluie's 2 years anniversary party yesterday. Great music and nice people! We rehearsed the worm yesterday evening for quite a while before we went to Parapluie's. We tried a new chorus (lyrics and melody), but It´s so hard to make it stand out!Anyway, this afternoon will also be our third lyrical aftornoon in a row and we will also spend the evening in our concrete bunker practicing for the Frizon festival next weekend. Lot of work, great fun.

El Markish

Helsingborg at 9 pm.

ok, first gig for a rather long time tonight. We´re going to Helsingborg and the city festival to play at "pilgrimstältet". We´ve been rehearsing a couple of times this week for the first time since we recored the same songs earlier in june and it felt really good I must say! We can't wait to get up on the stage tonight! Unfortunately we haven't finnished the lyrics for 'the worm' yet, but we will give you a brand new version of 'like a lily' -shorter and grittier!

btw, don't miss our booking agency Parapluie's 2 year anniversary at Pustervik in Gothenburgh on the first of August.

hej då,
Markus

Rain

What happened to our summer?
Warum regnet es so viel?
stäng av kranen tack.

umpah!

...or in the words of the genious Tomas Öberg: "trallalla lilla molntuss".
We've now been thinking our selves sleepy (to be honest we were all tired allready from the beginning...) after a solid evening of lyrical compositions. Today's work has been a brand new song that we cal "the worm". If things go as we plan we will atleast try it for the first time at one of our festival gigs this summer.

Oh, and regarding the beard; it's still there! ...and it smells delicious...

We took a little break while Erik and Joel W are still working with the lyrics. In the background I just heard Erik ask a question: -Why do we die?...

We almost forgot the list markus mentioned earlier. Here it is -All the recorded songs:
The worm ---The botanist ---I want this night to be over ---Fire--- 26--- the oasis--- bullet in the air--- Tell the time--- Breath my way--- Pinetree--- "that summery love song we don´t have a name for yet"--- Simbaza--- Sometimes I´m afraid
and three oldies dressed in new clothes:
Like a lily--- Revelations in a cold season--- Stop

We have also recorded a few demo songs at kamelen and probably one of them will be rerecorded for the album.

This will leave us with about 20 songs to choose between.

Good night and enjoy your breakfast.
Joel G and Markus (the one looking like a drunk clown)

5th time to night

Those lyric nigths/mornings has been really good so far. It´s our 5th time tonight. Some of the songs has been totally rewritten, at least regarding the lyrics. I don´t think that we´ve really written down all the recorded songs yet, I think I only mentioned 12 of them earlier in june. Anyway, we will write down a list of all the recorded songs later today, gotta go now.
/Markus

refinement night

hey'ya all! for 2 solid evenings we've been having cosy tea and coffee meetings refining our lyrics and friendship. everyone has been tired as usual but it was a good experience to actually talk to eachother without really playing.. hmm.. to be honest the guitars were present from time to time anyway. it was a good time having a poetry-slam! for the first time in out of clouds' history we've been writing and banging our heads together to squeeze out all lyric ideas. it has been some results so far, but of course we won't share them with you yet. U'll have to buy the album later... so no "free" downloading tonight fellows!

Another thing we've been doing is discussing whether joel g should shave off his beard, or let it grow until the release of the album. What do you think? Let us know what u'd prefer!
Over and out.. Take care ladies and gents!

/Jo El W, Jo El G, Mart in, El Markish (Erik is practising with his guitar)