Thomas and I will be playing live somewhere in Konstanz next Sunday! Unless it rains, then we stay at his place and get drunk. Just kiddin’! But we are going to play some songs, we just don’t know where. Since it’s going to be kind of an open air rehearsal I won’t be telling you, anyway. We’re playing folk songs, most of them of Irish origin.
A while ago I made a sensational discovery I’m now going to share with you: There is a Johannes-Schult-Weg somewhere in Hamburg! I’m famous!
On Thursday I saw Eläkeläiset live in Munich playing an awesome concert.
There’s nothing to report. So enjoy yourself, get some coffee, relax, get some more coffee, stay at home and watch the rain from your window, have another cup of coffee, think for a while about having a little nap, then dismiss this idea and drink a cup of coffee instead, then watch some quiet, slow movie like Matrix and then go to bed and think how beautiful sleep can be.
This morning I published the first version of http://www.anglagard.net – a homepage about the Swedish band Änglagård (1991-1994). It’s a rather small site, but I hope it will persist. Time will tell. Anyway, I won’t promote its birth, at least not yet. Mainly because the site navigation might still be improved and also, because I don’t want to push the page into the spotlight of the progressive rock world. I hope it can develop a little bit instead, as its popularity grows. Well, that’s it – I suggest you go there, have a look at it and check out Änglagård’s music.
I watched The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring two times last Sunday and it was awesome. I can’t wait to see it again!
From Thy Ashes have disbanded after a good farewell-concert last Saturday in Schorndorf. We played most of the Amberland-songs but also a bunch of old tracks. Boris and Jan joined us on stage each for one song and I left the stage with mixed feelings.
On Friday, December 22nd, From Thy Ashes will be playing at the Hammerschlag in Schorndorf. Since this might just be my last concert with the band, I suggest all you get there. I spent Halloween at a local pub where a really entertaining Police-Coverband played. They even played “Shape of My Heart”!
First of all let me say that I arrived safely here in Constance. I spend the last ten days furnishing my new room, playing a gig with From Thy Ashes in Sulzheim (in the middle of nowhere) and meeting my fellow students on a three day excursion to the Black Forest.
The From Thy Ashes-concert was really funny, although the audience was somewhere in between lethargic and apparently dead. We played lots of new songs from the upcoming Amberland-album and they worked pretty good, even though we left out a complete chorus during “A Million Eyes” due to Daniel’s failing memory. For those who care, here are the songs we played:
The three days with about 80 aspiring psychologists was fun, too. It was neither boring nor chaotic. There were even some people who liked Roxette and one guy who had heard of From Thy Ashes before. And there was Nils who is the first person I know who upset sheep. You see, some folks were pretty crazy, but hey, we’re studying psychology!
Last night I saw Roxette live in Stuttgart. It was a great concert. On Sunday I played my first solo-gig! It was swell. Some people insisted on Monoton’s “Intelligenzkapazität”. I had intended to play only English songs. Fortunately I remembered the lyrics even though I hadn’t rehearsed the song.
Yesterday I saw Josie and the Pussycats – it rocks! It’s really funny, really nice and good-hearted. It made me realize how much violence there is in movies these days, because there are only few fighting scenes in it, and nobody gets killed. Just wanted to tell you.