Wow, they gave it back to me! Now we may enjoy several years of my wit and great humour! There's no point in posting it all tho', because there's a lot of "nice review - here (dead link)" going on, but here are two lists, one from 2010 and one from 2008.
From 17.09.2010
Soda Fountain Rag Gigography, with my comments
07.09.06 –
Phonofestivalen, Café Opera (Bergen, Norway) – The only gig with a banjo!
06.10.06 – Bergen
Bandstand, Kvarteret (Bergen) – We won! Still waiting for quite a lot of the prize.
30.11.06 –
support for Rough Bunnies, Spasibar (Oslo, Norway) – With the “band” on CD,
hehe, great to meet Frida and Anna.
01.02.07 –
Kvarteret (Bergen) – At this gig Anders went off stage, through the crowd, over
to the sound engineer and yelled at him because he was doing a really bad job, then
he went back on stage. In the meantime I did an Alx Rose-dance.
14.02.07 –
Morya (Brescia, Italy ) – Almost dead from the flu.
15.02.07 –
Lego (Cesena, Italy) – I felt like a star! First time we met Zonda.
16.02.07 –
Capannone sociale (Vicenza, Italy) – hohoholy shit, really bad gig.
17.02.07 –
Ponterotto (Firenze, Italy) – One of the best days in my whole life.
18.02.07 –
Zuni (Ferrara, Italy) – Lots and lots of people.
Driving all night and being very sad (“Driving in your car” is related to this night).
03.03.07 –
With Montt Mardie and Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, Kvarteret (Bergen) – Great night,
playing with heroes.
19.04.07 –
Torsdagsrock, Hulen (Bergen) – Why oh why did I say yes to this gig?
19.07.07 –
Loco Squad (Milano Marittima) – My mum and dad and my best friend were all there!
20.07.07 –
Bagno Moderno (Marina di Grosseto) – Haha, SFR on a beach! Now that’s ridiculous!
21.07.07 –
Nosilenz Festival (Brescia) – It smelled very much like a farm, and featured a great puppy called Molly.
22.07.07 –
Castello dei Pico (Mirandola, Modena) – Playing at the castle of an old comparative religion-hero, not bad.
25.08.07 – Support for Pelle Carlberg, Hulen (Bergen) – Nicko’s first gig! Hurra!
15.09.07 –
Kaninkanon V (København, Denmark) – Indie/DIY-party de-luxe, we stayed in
the best room with lots of cartoons, and we went to the Tivoli.
29.09.07 –
Hard Working Class Heroes Festival (Dublin, Ireland) – 15 minutes of pain.
09.10.07 –
Uka, Knaus/Samfundet (Trondheim, Norway) – 2/3 of the band had pretty poor health, some very drunk girls from Molde danced on stage and shared a cigar with us backstage.
04.01.08 –
Morya (Brescia, Italy) – A cold and Christmas-esque evening.
05.01.08 –
Mattatoio (Carpi, Italy) – Someone knew the lyrics to “The Fall”.
10.01.08 –
Relè Café Bistro (San Giovanni Teatino, Italy) – We slept in a truly beautiful apartment with 5 cats.
11.01.08 –
Traffic (Roma, Italy) – My only impression of Rome is that it is very, very dirty.
28.03.08 –
Buffalo Bar (London, England) – oh, no.
31.03.08 –
Whelan’s (Dublin) – Some videos from this gig is on youtube. A bit sad that I chose that moment
to be 10kg too much.
05.04.08 –
Din Nye Ven (København) – Always great in Copenhagen, and a really nice place too.
14.06.08 –
Fincken (Bergen) – Yes! Best gig in Norway ever! Best place to play in Norway ever!
31.08.08 –
Support for Fanfarlo, Mono (Oslo) – hmmm, but there was chocolate on the pillows.
05.09.08 –
NG2 (Bergen) – I felt bullied, but people said it was good.
24.10.08 –
Support for My Little Pony, Hulen (Bergen) – I passed out the night before, so this was a Solo and smågodt-gig.
09.07.09 –
Support for Shugo Tokumaru, Landmark (Bergen) – Wow! What a year for SFR!
27.02.10 –
London Popfest, 100 club (London) – Yes!
12.05.10 –
Astra Stube (Hamburg, Germany) – Yes, Yes!
07.08.10 –
Cosy Den 2010, Gula Villan (Haninge, Sweden) – Yes, Yes, Yes! Also this was Nicko’s last gig with Soda Fountain Rag.
From 08.10.2008
(Regarding It's Rag Time! red.anm.)
I’m a bit confused as people seem to think the theme of the album is «childhood». So, as a part of my ongoing quest to not do anything proper I went through my album, song by song, to see if this is correct:
Is it really about childhood?
1. Army of silent kids – definitively
2. The Saddest Boy in Town – yes, but in retrospect
3. You Sit and Wait for Life – nope, this is early/mid-20s angst
4. I laugh myself to sleep – not at all
5. Escalator – well, it’s all about falling, which can happen at any age I guess…
6. Go! – definitively not, it’s very childish tho’, but that’s another thing
7. Driving in your Car – nonononono
8. Angry Girl – the use of words like «boy» or «girl» does not mean it’s a song about young people. This is a very personal song. I have however moved since the song was written (twice actually), so I don’t hate my neighbours anymore.
9. The Saddest Boy Again – This is about a gay relationship that ends. So, no.
10. Oh, Brother! – Again a very personal song, about wanting brothers. Not age-specific.
11. I was Reborn – Being uncomfortable with ones gender, is not age-specific, wanting to be a toy-boy however suggests that the «I» of this song is at least older than, what, 15?
12. Monkey Girl – The «I» of monkey girl is old enough to go on a train ride to Italy on her own.
13. Don’t Kill the Clowns – Yes! It’s a song about childhood/growing up!
14. Everything Ends (Baby, that’s a fact) – This kind of madness is early 20-ish I think, so no.
That makes 3 out of 14! Haha, this was fun!
fredag 6. mai 2016
mandag 11. april 2016
SFR spring/summer-gigs update
28.04.16
Bologna @ Zoo [ITA]
29.04.16
Vittorio Veneto @ Spazio Mavv [ITA]
01.05.16
DIY POPFEST - London @ Shacklewell Arms [UK]
09/10.07.16 Indiefjord 2016 - Bjørke [Norway]
29/31.07.16 Indietracks Festival - Ripley [UK]
fredag 4. mars 2016
I'm back
After some years highly involuntary hiatus Soda Fountain Rag is returning for real this year.
Here's how that happened:
Frida & Ale were going to play Indietracks last summer, and asked if I wanted to play drums. We practiced once before the gig, and it was super fun. But most of all it was great to see Ale again. It sounds like a cliché, but it felt like no time had past since we last met in December 2010(!).
After this we started talking about maybe recording some songs, with him on guitar and Fabio on the bass. And so we did in Brescia in October 2015. Four songs were done in some days, and being in Italy again felt a bit like coming home. Those people are my family, after all.
This January I went back and did five more songs, and together with one song recorded in 2010 which I thought was too good to throw away, this will be an album called Extra Life. Release will be later this spring, through WWNBB.
There was a lot of percussion going on. Ale took these pictures:
Here's a sneak preview of one song from the album
There will even be concerts again:
28.04 - Somewhere in Rome
01.05 - DIY Popfest (London)
9.-10.07 - Indiefjord (Bjørke)
29.-31.07 - Indietracks (Derbyshire)
This will be great!
Be nice,
Soda
Here's how that happened:
Frida & Ale were going to play Indietracks last summer, and asked if I wanted to play drums. We practiced once before the gig, and it was super fun. But most of all it was great to see Ale again. It sounds like a cliché, but it felt like no time had past since we last met in December 2010(!).
After this we started talking about maybe recording some songs, with him on guitar and Fabio on the bass. And so we did in Brescia in October 2015. Four songs were done in some days, and being in Italy again felt a bit like coming home. Those people are my family, after all.
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| Fabio |
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| Ale |
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| Me |
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| A perfect drum kit |
This January I went back and did five more songs, and together with one song recorded in 2010 which I thought was too good to throw away, this will be an album called Extra Life. Release will be later this spring, through WWNBB.
There was a lot of percussion going on. Ale took these pictures:
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| GONG! |
Here's a sneak preview of one song from the album
There will even be concerts again:
28.04 - Somewhere in Rome
01.05 - DIY Popfest (London)
9.-10.07 - Indiefjord (Bjørke)
29.-31.07 - Indietracks (Derbyshire)
This will be great!
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| ONWARD! |
Be nice,
Soda
torsdag 11. juni 2015
It Fell Apart
Made it yesterday evening/night, and recorded it then and today.
This one was a bit hard to do. "The island" is Osterøy. The letters refer to people.
This one was a bit hard to do. "The island" is Osterøy. The letters refer to people.
It fell
apart
Some months
had passed, I moved away
To another
place, another pace
And I tried
to make it go away
But then we
were broken
I didn’t
eat, I wished I could
Get the
time to stop, to turn it back
And I
disappeared, and never saw
The ghost I
became, but
The island,
the grass, and the water
The ferry,
the cat, and the cows and
R and K and
Y and K and T kept me safe from the
Dark
thoughts and the endless cold silence
The holes,
and the years – all the years
That vanished
fast, and left a vast
Desert of
nothing
I didn’t
vanish, though I tried so hard
And I’m
still around, ‘cause I tried so hard
But a big
part died, I think I cried it
Out in the
soil
Where some
flowers grow, the silent kind
And the
endless nights, the stars that shine
And I start
to see another me
Not broken
and shallow
***
There are
days where nights used to be
There are
mornings fair and aimless
There’s a
hand that’s searching for me
Will you
lift me out of darkness?
There are
moons where wounds used to be
There are
craters, plumes, and fountains
There are
worlds just waiting for me
There are
rivers, paths, and mountains
There are
roads I’ve never yet seen
There are
deserts, forests, waters
There’s a
hand that’s searching for me
Will you
lift me out of darkness?
fredag 9. mai 2014
Something old that was on the myspace blog back in the olden days
So this is what, a reblog? Found this on my computer, from january 2008:
"Italia III:
"Italia III:
Back again
from the third trip to bella Italia. This is what happened:
The evening
of the 3rd of January we (that’s me, Anders and Nicko) took the plane from Bergen 6-ish
the next day we flew to Italy Bergamo
The first
gig was on the 4th. After some sleeping and eating (this is by the
way two of my all time favourite things to do) we went to Morya, a bar just
outside of Brescia
The next
day we went to Carpi Modena
This night
we slept in a nice hotel. Nice nice nice.
The 5th
we went back to Brescia
As we
finished all 9 songs in only 3 days, we had one extra day off, and went for a
little road trip to the Garda lake. Also we went to a mall, and I bought some
silver adidas superstars shoes, a ski hat and a pair of fat pants. And Coffee,
and Nutella, of course.
The two
last gigs was in Chieti Rome Chieti Rome Norway
This night
we slept in an apartment that was Manuelas grandmothers. It’s one of the nicest
places I’ve ever slept! Also she has five (!) cats, and I got to say hi to a
couple! For me this is perfect.
Then it was
time for Rome Rome
The
evenings gig was at a very dirty place called traffic. Quite a lot of people,
and some seemed to quite like it. A pretty girl danced in front of the stage. I
had a little bit of a cold, so after the show my voice was very “sexy”… This
night we slept at the most shitty place ever.
Back in Brescia
The worst
with these trips is always having to say goodbye to Ale. This summer it was
easier, ‘cause I knew I’d see him again in Copenhagen
The flight
home was boring, and there were stupid people all around us. I feel that no
matter where I’m going, or what kind of public transportation I’m on, I’m
always stuck with some sort of people that are either annoying or stupid or
evil (or a combination of these). On the train home there were two guys that,
at best, would work as living adverts for contraception.
I can’t
wait to go back!
Forresten: ble omtalt i urørt-panelet den 9. jan. Om noen
skulle være interessert i å høre hva en litt muggen dame og en kul fyr syntes
om ”I wanna be your cat”. Egentlig ble jeg i litt dårlig humør av det (ikke pga
den kule duden), men så fant jeg ut at nevnte fyr var med i reprise, og da steg
hans vurdering så jævla mye sånn verdimessig (for meg) at nevnte dame kan hate
på meg så mye hun vil, og mer til! Haha!"
fredag 6. desember 2013
Through the Night
So, after last years hiatus Soda Fountain Rag has in fact recorded a song for christmas this year. Made it this morning in bed, and recorded the rest of the day.
Lyrics:
Lyrics:
Through the
night you’re sitting in your window sill
Staring,
your eyes end up dry and red
True, the
night might reveal some secrets, but
All in all,
all that you knew is dead
And you’ve
been lonely for days now
Do you
still recall how the snow
Melts when
it lands on your nose and on your cheeks and
The cold
wind blows you home
Through the
night staring into darkness
The mountains
behind you are strangers now
Seven seas
lie around your cottage
They’re
hidden beneath 100 tons of snow
And you’ve
been lonely for weeks now
Do you see
how this year will end?
The snow is
the lock on your door now
In the
spring you might open it again
But you’ve
already moved
a 1000 meters towards the
Heaven you
never could see
a 1000
meters towards the
end. And through the night you are dreaming
Of evenings
long gone, you can see them now
Close your
eyes can you smell the way
That it
used to be endlessly long from now
And you’ve
been lonely for years now
But the
darkness is closing in
Still you
are closer to heaven
To the ones
that you never thought would win.
tirsdag 3. september 2013
Work
This is a new old song. New for you, old for me. It's in...hmmm... 7/8, that's a bit weird, and probably something I'll do only once. It was thought as a sort of sequel to "Army of Silent Kids" and a prequel to "Revenge". Needless to say, I was not a happy camper whilst writing this song - probably dreaming of the job I actually have now, thinking it would never happen. So, basically, I'm living the dream now.
All jobs mentioned are things I wanted to be when I grew up, at one time or another.
It goes a little smthg like this:
All jobs mentioned are things I wanted to be when I grew up, at one time or another.
It goes a little smthg like this:
Work
Dreams,
where did you go?
Work, what
did I know?
All I
wanted was to live OK
Dreams,
where did you go?
Work, who
could have known?
Should have
kept the dream of
Becoming a
Carpenter,
dancer,
A professor
of astronomy,
Writer,
Egyptologist
Carpenter,
dancer
A professor
of astronomy,
Writer,
archaeologist
Home, where
did you go?
Peace, how
could I know?
All I
wanted was to live OK
How fast
can I run far?
There’s no
more fun
Time erased
the dream of
Becoming a
Carpenter,
dancer,
A professor
of astronomy,
Writer,
Egyptologist
Carpenter,
dancer,
A professor
of astronomy,
Writer,
archaeologist
Teachers
please read my lips
‘Cause you
thought me NOTHING!
Always an
empty stare
Always
overlooking
Torture for
little kids
A playground
A minefield
Gave your
silent support
To some
vulgar Darwinism
Dreams,
where did you go?
Work, what
did I know?
All I
wanted was to live OK
Dreams,
where did you go?
Work, who
could have known?
Should have
kept the dream of
Becoming
someone
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