We finished up some guitars and vocals in the studio, it starting to sound really good, looking forward to the mix! Then we had our last night out on the Hollywood Blv together with Michael Patterson and had alot of fun!
On Saturday we started our trip home flying via New York for a night first. We will finally be back in Oslo on Monday morning and we all really looking forward to that.
We had a great time on this 3 week US-tour and we hope we will be back soon. We would like to thank all you readers for being patient with are blogging, Dany & Beth, Adam & Katie, Janne & Audun, Michael Patterson, Nick and Norsk Kulturråd for making this tour great!
The next day we got up early to get breakfast and headed down to Mission to meet up with Evens brother, that nice fella, Stian. We got some nice Mexican food and went treasure hunting in the many pawnshops in the area. And sure enough we found a Fender Bassman 1970s head, in great condition, for the price of only 4000 NOK and some neat guitars. But with a car already full of stuff, we had to leave at Mission Thrift Store. We also found a record store that had our friends in The Low Frequency in Stereo’s newest album on their monthly-recommended albums stand. Sweet!
Downtown shopping was next in line. At the Apple store a grinning Rolf Bought himself a new iPod Touch, kind of made of for the bassman Rolf? Not really.... Even and Simon decided to get back to the hotel to do some work and relax while Ruben and Rolf roamed around San Francisco as bonafide tourists. In the evening we met up to have dinner and went out and have a couple of beers with Stian before going back to the hotel.
The Harlot
The next day was gig day. But of course it would be ridiculous for a rock band to leave San Francisco without visiting the legendary Haight Ashbury. We got up early to take our time there and to spend as much money as possible in all the thrift, vintage clothing and record stores we could come by. We could have stayed there for a week but eventually we had to get to the venue. Nice people, nice venue, but to be honest... this was not our best gig. We got to hang out with some cool people, some more family time for Even, but that’s pretty much it. You win some and you loose some. A lot of technical problems and some frustrated guys... yeah. Punky, noisy, but nothing to be bragging about.
3 of Clubs, Last show on tour
Another day, another gig, and what a gig it was! Driving back from San Fran we decided to bring all our frustration out, in a good way, at our second Hollywood show. The 3 of Clubs was more our type of venue. Dark, more rocky and people really into music, listening, appreciating, giving a good interaction between the stage and the crowd, ending up with our best show of the entire tour! A perfect ending! Hopefully our next time in California we’ll bring more shows liker this one.
Before we head home, we’re finishing up Captcha (working title) with Nick and Michael. It’s really starting to sound good. Can’t wait to put the finishing touch on it. We’ll have to wait for a mix though, but we’re sure that the guys will do a great job with us Norwegians hanging over their shoulder!
On Saturday we got to the studio to continue the recording. Using more than one day on recording one song is new to us and it looks like were gonna be using five. Feels kinda ineffective, but the results sounds way better. Done with drums, bass and basic guitars and its exiting to hear the song take form. Doing things over and over, trying different guitars with different amps in different rooms with different mikes. Even use three amps at the same time. Kickass, dude! Then night came and we got out to get some food and se our engineer Nick play with his band The Morlocks. It was a great great show! And Ruben found a new idol in their lead singer.
Then came Sunday. Studio work and gig today. We got just about done with recording the guitars. Then came time for laying down vocals and percussion. It takes a bit more time to get these things right, so we are going back next week to get it done properly. Then on to the show we was to play at a club called CinaSpace. A terribly classy place crawling with hipsters in The middle of Holywood, on the walk of fame. Nick and Michael were nice enough to lend us their amps from the studio, our backline situation solved once again. The show went well and we got a night out in with the Holywood hipsters. David Koizumi took some great photos from the show, see them here.
Monday: Travel day. Got up to find that Evens cardholder had gone missing, so we had to find another car rental to get the vehichle to take us to San Fransisco. We eventually got a car, packed our gear and headed out on the road again. Stopped on a gas station where the counter wanted to buy our EP signed, the fans is popping up everywhere. Lookin forward to hang out and play in San Fran for a couple of days. Here is a live-set and interview we did wit Break Thru Radio in New York.
"...these guys are ferocious, loud, and energetic, yet they still manage to keep their music raw and interesting." - Filter Magazine «This is a definitely a band to watch in 2009.» - Rock Insider
«This is bold and quite brilliant and in many ways somewhat reassuring.» - Mp3 Hugger
«This band appears ready for the next big stage!» - Ryans Smashing Life
