Ocean Sound Recordings

This last week we have been making ocean sounds with Nick Terry on a small island outside of Ålesund. In this great and fresh Giske Studio on the west coast of Norway we're adding the last tracks for the forthcoming album.

The Great scenery, cool people and good food makes it a perfect experience. A tiny island surrounded by the fjords and mountains tops really makes you push the ambience to scenic levels. The darkness of the north sea at night brings out the distortion of screaming guitars (and thundering bass Rolf points out... so OK, dark tribal viking drums as well?)... all in all we're heading back to Oslo Tomorrow ready for the January mixing with Nick, a London Showcase and some Christmas festivities.

Last week we took a break from the christmas preparing and played on TV2, Norway's biggest commercial TV station. Our national TV debut. Yeah!

http://webtv.tv2.no/webtv/?progId=366445&itemId=358790

Simon´s final no!

Our names goes back to the day when Ruben challenged Simon to go solo. Simon's answer was clear, but named the band formed in the days to come.

We're now sad to announce that one of the founding members of SSN, after several years in the band, has decided to leave. Simon felt the need to focus on other things than music for while. So yeah… Simon Says No! and all that.

There's no hard feelings within the band, and it's with a heavy heart our musically paths now part.

Thanks for all the great moments we've shared together as a band through the last years Simon! We all look forward to new moments of greatness, off the stage.

Ruben, Rolf and Even.

September Tour

And then we were back on the road for a good two week roam in Scandinavia. Starting out as most bands do with loading the van in exitement and figuring out gear, merchandise, highways and all. Our first stop Kristiansand is always a treat, thanks to our good friend Louis who always take great care of us when we visit. Stavanger had their Nu music festival the day we arrived, unfortunately we couldn make the festival program this year, but heck, why not use a day off to hang out with people we havent seen in a while and play em' some new songs? We even got some krautrock questions answered by Faust who was at the venue. Then on to Bergen, Back to good ol' Hulen. Always fun to play for our home crowd. Exiting to meet and play with the legendary Telescopes. After a short break we went on to Sweden to play with our good time buddies in Blackstrap. Of course the van broke down when we travelled back from Bergen so our backline got stuck in Oslo. Fortunately Blackstrap, well endowed gearwise as they are, let us use theirs. A couple of shows with them did us really great! Hope to see em' again soon.

We were on our own again, on a bus to Copenhagen trying to figure out how to sort out our backline situation. Frenetically calling friends who live there and make them call their friends to try to muster up some amps and a drumkit we could use. We got the amps sorted out relatively quick, but what is a rock concert without drums?! The ours went by and no luck. What do we do? program some computer drums? Not play the show at all? No way! After a good falling out with the sound engineer and a few more calling of favours, we figured we´ll do a final desperate attemt to get ahold of something for Even to beat on. Send Simon out on the street to scout for a drumkit. Godspeed and not a chance in hell he would find one. But what happens; Half an hour later he shows up with a grin on his face and a bass drum in his hands, "I met some guy at a bar down the road who had these drums we could borrow, I put him on the guest list". Fab! Simon saved the night. Read the story here. So we ended up playing a great show and had a good night out with long lost friends and old SSN! band members, before we wrapped up the tour and headed back home to Norway. Thanks to all the people that came to see us and the folks who made the tour happen. Hope to see you next time around!

Love

Ruben Even Simon Rolf

Simon Says No!

What gives

Summer is over and fall has arrived in all it's mindnumbing, rainy, depressive glory. And we are taking the opportunity the weather brings to shack up indoors at Harrys Gym studios, collaborating with the the briliant sonic wizard Bjarne Stensli and maybe some professional british guy (well get back to all the details as they evolve) to start the process of recording the album that y'all cool cats have been waiting for. So far we have been kicking around some 12 new songs, and maybe in the end of the process we can get around to re- record and improve some old SSN! evergreens. Anyway in the end we are probably looking at a master reel containing between 10 and 15 songs. So if label stuff and the buisness part works out the way it should, you will most likely around spring/summer 2010 have a reason to go down to the record store to make your purchase of the first SSN! full lengt rekkid.. ever made. We are aware of having said something like this before and probably disappointed a couple of people, but do not despair, your patience will be rewarded.

Before the recording is done with, we are planning on having some breaks from the studio tinkering to do some touring. So do make shure you check in on our tour schedule on myspace or where ever you find our tourdates posted these days, and see if we are coming through your town. More dates will be added as they get confirmed continuously. On some shows we have the opportunity to share the stage with our friends Blackstrap. Make shure you catch one of their shows with or without SSN! Seeing them live in concert will make you able to justify coming in late for work or school from having a phenomenal "how about last night, huh? that was somethin.. else..!". Check em out at www.myspace.com/blackstrap001

Finally we appologize for coming across as boring and lazy fucktards who never get around to update their myspace/twitter/facebook profiles. That is because we probably are, and still learning.BUT we will get better at these things eventually, promise! Maybe not at Twitter, but everything else.

All the best

Ruben Simon Even Rolf

Simon Says No!

www.simonsaysno.com

At last you can visit us at www.simonsaysno.com

A simple portal to the world of ssn.

Right now ssn is enjoying the norwegian summer after some hard songwriting. Øya festival is coming up soon. We are really looking forward to playing this year. Be shure to se our show and dont miss Lecter featuring ssn members. It´s their first show!

In august we´ll be soaking in studio(Harrys Gym) with Bjarne. The recording is for our first album.