Water into Wine

One good thing about releasing albums (maybe the best) is if you get the chance to swap your massfabricated piece of plastic into sweet signed books of great people. Luckily I've been able to do that a couple of times recently.

Brit/Canadian Crime novelist Peter Robinson earlier wrote some good things about my music on his website and a week ago I got his newest book in the mail along with a very friendly note. Thanks! I was earlier more into the crime genre, but still after widening my book diet, Peter's books are still among my favorites. Great stuff.

I befriended Swedish author Emma Adbåge a couple of year's ago, and since I'm releasing something only once in a blue moon and Emma's keeping a furious productive pace, the balance is in her favour... or mine since I've got all of her fantastic children's book and some comic offerings, and she has only got one or two cds of mine.

Kristiansand's finest, the comic author Roy Söbstad. I got his amazing collected works-book while being on tour in Norway. We met a couple of times and I always have enjoyed. I became hugely impressed when seeing his work.

Photos from the tour

>>European Tour Autumn 2008 (UK/Netherlands/Sweden/Norway)
17 Sep - 23 Oct 2008 (more will be uploaded)



LIVE @ VORTEX JAZZ CLUB, LONDON (w Richard Neuberg on second guitar)




BACKSTAGE @ ST BONAVENTURE, BRISTOL




ON TOP OF THE WORLD. Above Edinburgh.




NAME IN LIGHT @ PUSTERVIKSBAREN, Göteborg, Sweden.




NO STRINGS ATTACHED. Guitar maintaining in the hotel room
in Leicester.




THEY'RE ALIVE! Morning after the last show. Recording with
the side project Topeka Twins to follow up 2003's mini album
I Never Heard Her Sing




ANNOUNCING the show in Kristiansand, Norway.






BACKSTAGE View & rehearsing, York (UK)




LOADING after show @ Vortex, London (UK)




THE MUSICIAN, Leicester (UK)




MISTY AFTERNOON, Den Haag (NL)




INTERIOR, De Rode Pimpernel, S' Hertogenbosch (NL)




WARMING UP @ GET BACK MUSIC, Dordrecht (NL)




LOKAAL VREEDEBREUK, Den Haag (NL)




CHARLEE PORTER, Support for the 9 shows of the
Netherlands leg of the tour In Lokaal Vredebreuk, Den Haag (NL)




BEFORE THE SESSION IN MIDVLIET (radio & local tv), Leidschendam (NL)




BOEKHORSSTRAAT FESTIVAL




CROSSING BORDER SALON, DEN HAAG




ONE CUP OF COFFEE @ Cul De Sac, Tilburg (NL)




MORE FROM THE TOPEKA TWIN SESSION. Björn Kleinhenz.




BACKSTAGE @ PUSTERVIKSBAREN, GÖTEBORG




FRIENDS Eva (middle) & Vanessa Peters (right)

Ground Control To Mayor Rob

One of my fav upcoming UK-acts is without doubt the lofi/flaming-lipesque/electronic-indiepop-act Spaceships Are Cool. Behind the name is Rob Maddison who I've came to know during the last years. We did a show together in Nottingham in 2007 and only a week ago we shared the bill again. Since last year Rob has been through some dramatical times and it was really good to see him back on the stage again.


1) Rob, I was worrying sick about you when you got into an accident earlier this year. So glad to have you on board again and I'm so proud to do a show together with you in Nottingham. What can we expect from the venue, The Golden Fleece?

this will be my first live show as spaceships are cool since the injury to my spine in february this year. the injury means that i've had to learn how to play again nowi'm in a wheelchair. the golden fleece in nottingham is a really nice intimate venue that has a good track record for putting on acoustic gigs and dj/mc nights. i've not been in since my injury, so i'm hoping that the wheelchair access is ok!


2) I absolutely love your songs with Spaceships are Cool. What's the nearest plans? Do you have much new ideas? I know you're also a frequent contributor to Yunioshi. What's going on there?

i'm currently working on a 'sampler' lp of spaceships are cool instrumental work. the lp is aimed at some of the tv advertising agencies i am in contact with. so hopefully you'll be hearing spaceships tunes on a mobile advert soon! there is an ep comin out this month, and that should be up on itunes soon too. as for YUNIOSHI, i'm now a full time band member as their drummer, i go under the name of HAKUSHI YUNIOSHI. we are doing loadsa shows in the uk at the moment and then we will be off to iceland early next year to play some gigs with icelandic electro band BLOODGROUP.


3) What's your favorite album of 2008?

i think it has to be 'seventh tree' by goldfrapp. i had this on my ipod and played it constantly during my 6 months in hospital. it's an incredible lp full of beautiful layers that really take you places.


4) You also have a connection my home parts in Wermland in Sweden. You were staying here, right? When, for how long and why? I remember I've seen a picture of you with the road sign Torsby.

I was producing an lp for a uk singer songwriter at the time and we recorded all the tracks in the uk & iceland, then i contacted a friend of mine who worked in a small studio in torsby and he suggested going out there to mix it. we spent about 2 months in total in the studio in torsby, doing loadsa edits and even re-tracking a few vocal dubs. I loved every minute of it, and we went to some good parties out there too!

5) And please let me know the story again when you were touring in Spain and had the chance to eat dinner with the "city's mayor".

My partner Helen and I used to play in a nottingham indie band that had a small deal in madrid, so we wnet out there to do a 6 day mini tour. we played one night at the civic centre in a town called adra. after the show we went to a party on some boat nearby. a few of us got talkin to this guy at the end of the table who we thought was the mayor of the town. so after about ann hour of sayin 'what a cool town you've got' etc. it turned out that this guy was just someone off the street who had just gate crashed the party and couldnt really understand any english either!

so thats how we didn't meet the mayor of adra! the really funny bit was when me & helen left the band about a month later we even got airbrushed out of the press photos!