Here’s the link to Swedish TV4:s nyhetsmorgon where I played with Patrick El-Hag.

It was very nice playing there, interesting to see how the studio looks like and how everything is done. The breakfast buffet that I had heard so much about really stood up to the expectations, and the reception from the personnel from the moment you stepped in through the door was very professional. Hard not to like it when everything works and is the way you want it to be!

The early morning was pretty heavy though, I managed to sleep for two hours before the taxi arrived at 03.30. After the broadcast I jumped straight into the next taxi to get to a three hour rehearsal with Jerry the Cupboard at 08.45, which I missed with two minutes. It was hard keeping the concentration up during the whole rehearsal considering my absent of beauty-sleep. Also a bit unusual that when the rehearsal started around 9, I had already been up for around six hours. When did that happen at a morning rehearsal before? Answer: Never.

Straight after the rehearsal I went home, had a sushi, put on the TV, and fell asleep in the couch before I even had chosen a channel.

Tomorrow I’m playing with Patrick El-Hag on Swedish TV4:s nyhetsmorgon (the morning news) on one of two songs. To all swedes: Set the alarm and skip the Christmas calendar, tomorrow the action is on another channel!

I really don’t look forward to the taxi pick up right after 3 in the morning, but people have done this before, so I guess I will survive that too! Straight after the broadcast I have a rehearsal with Jerry the Cupboard for the gig at Hotel Hellsten on Thursday, that might be heavier. I guess I can catch up on the sleep next night!

Last Friday we played with Fabulous Five in Grünewaldsalen (the Grünewald hall) at Stockholm Concert Hall (Stockholms Konserthus). The concert series is called soppkonserter, soup concerts, and is a very nice event. The audience arrives, have a soup, and for dessert a concert is served, this time the very tasty Fabulous Five (Ooh, I’m clever today). All seats for eating guests were sold out, and also lot’s of people were sitting on the balcony, where you could sit if you didn’t want to eat.

We had a blast playing this gig, and it felt like a really good concert. As a bonus, the acoustics were amazing! We never had better sound, everyone heard each other exceptionally well, and this without any monitors or micing except for the concert grand piano, which by the way was the best instrument that Rasmus ever had the pleasure of playing on.

We only had 5 records left from the last pressing, and they were sold immediately. Sadly enough, there were many more who wanted to buy a record, that had to go home empty-handed. Of course this was a bit unfortunate, but still a good review for us!

It really was a pleasure to meet and play with the band again, last time was in the end of May I think. Since then I have, which you may have noticed, moved to Vienna and Ludwig to Los Angeles, so it really was great seeing everyone again!

Now I’m soon home in Sweden again, I’m really looking forward to it! On Friday we play with Fabulous Five at Stockholm Concert Hall (Stockholms Konserthus). The concert series is called soppkonserter, soup concerts, and are lunch concerts where you can enjoy some nice music together with a soup if I have understood everything correctly. Will whatsoever be very nice to meet and play with these guys again!

On Thursday the week after we’re playing with Jerry the Cupboard at hotel Hellsten, which I’m also looking forward to! Also nice that I get a little more than a week in Stockholm in between the gigs, plenty of time to meet friends, do some jam sessions and say hello to the city again.

I’m flying cheap with Ryanair from Bratislava tomorrow at 16.35, I hope I will manage to take the right bus here in Vienna. Vienna is undeniable very well located in Europe, it is very easy to travel to many nice city’s from here. Suits me very well tomorrow, since Ryanair don’t fly directly from Vienna, at least not to Stockholm (Read Skavsta, 90 min with bus from Stockholm).

Yesterday I were out shopping Christmas gifts. My plan was to have that done and bring some presents to the family from here, but I only managed to find some stuff for Julia. I guess I have to go shopping some in Stockholm too. Julia and I decided to have our Christmas gift distribution yesterday evening, today we don’t have any time for that. We had a really nice time, eating Christmas-sushi (regular sushi but on the Christmas gift distribution-evening) and giving each other presents. Really nice!

Now I have to work a little before my last school day before Christmas. I’ll get back to ya.

First of all: I’ve had a real pain in the ass infection in my wrist. Because of this I have tried not to sit to much at the computer, why I haven’t been writing in the blog for a while. It’s getting better now, and I will start writing again.

Have in periods over a longer time been working on a new version of the site. and now it’s up! Technically I have built it completely in Wordpress, which gives me the possibility to update all content from one place, and have a much bigger overlook and control over the site. Perfect!

There are several news, for instance the music player located to the right of all pages (except for the blog page). The reason to why it opens in a pop-up window is the ability to have the music in the background while surfing.

I still have some details in the content and the layout left to do, but this will be fixed part by part. I’m also thinking about translating the page to English, since I’m getting more and more not Swedish-speaking friends, considering where I live right now (Vienna). I’m not sure if I would like to blog in English though, but maybe I can call it Swedish blog and the problem is solved! What do you think? Give me some advice here!

Anyway, I hope the looks and content will be appreciated. Feel free to comment, give me tips and critique. Or tell me how nice it is.