Hi everybody!
It's been a month of moving, visiting Sweden over Christmas and writing new songs since I last posted on this blog. 2011 seems like a good year, at least January is so far a good beginning. I relocated to Kreuzberg in mid-December, but now I've found a collective in south Neukölln where I'm good for another five months. Also, the long distance courses in graphic design and masculinity studies I'm doing this semester are due to start in a week.
These things fixed, it's time to work on the whole musician-thing again. Last week old friend William moved to Berlin. We were both very keen on getting together and playing, and some new ideas (which need thorough evaluation) are starting to occur. I'll keep you updated on our progress.
I really should be focusing more on trying to get gigs. I've got some kind of phobia when it comes to this kind of efforts, I just really have to force myself to send e-mails and hand out CD-R:s. And every time I've played so far, I've changed the set, i.e. song order, song structure, amount of effects on voice. Finally, it seems I've rushed about to quickly, not practiced my songs enough, not working the live performance through as good as I should.
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| This is the poster for Vorspiel Vol. III |
Friday the 28th, the doors open for a third Vorspiel mit Frans at Kristiania Espressobar, and this time, I hope everything will fit in better, myself included. There are some new, never-before-performed songs which I'm looking forward to trying out (if I can just finish writing the lyrics). I'm trying out an overall new approach to complexity, changing my classic multi-layering for thick minimalism, the timbre of a handful of instruments taking the focus from the afore-used plentitude of voices and melodies. This is partially because I feel I've focused way to little on my own part of the performance, hiding behind a wall of backtrack sound. Guitar and voice should be guiding you, not fifteen synthesizers! I hope these changes will become clear to whoever sees me playing. I don't want to get away from the sound that I've worked for years to define, but simply try a new method for evoking similar feelings, now in subtler ways.
Anyway, I hope people residing in die Hauptstadt will consider coming. There will be some posters out in the next few days, and I guess you never know what they may bring. Tell your friends, your parents, your colleagues to come help turn the air thick at Kristiania, to the sound of the gems of my mind. What I now prefer to refer to as Crunch Music.
Thanks for reading! All of you not able to jump on the U2-line and attend, I hope I'll get to see you soon!
