Yes!
I've known it for a while, but it's actually daunted on me a few days ago - I'm actually going (with my band SIR REG) on tour with The Misfits. 18 days in a nightliner across Europe. 13 shows. Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway and Finland. We're gonna die from exhaustion, but it's gonna be fun...I think..I hope.

Three weeks from now it all starts. Is it too late to get in shape? :)

The idea of not seeing my six month old girl and my gf for three weeks is a bit wrecking. I'm currently stressing with merch design, album cover design/changes, mixing of backingtracks, tour gear (optimizing my pedalboard as I type this).

If you want to follow us, check out these links (we don't have an official bandsite as of now):
http://www.myspace.com/sirregband
http://www.twitter.com/sirregband
http://sirregband.wordpress.com/

Damn!
It's been soo fucking hot today. I'm not joking. One of the hottest days since 1994 in Sweden...and we decided to shoot a music video today (had planned it for weeks though).
Nightmare, sweat-wise. But sweat brings a visual look that suits the music (also, I wore a suit..kinda...tie, shirt, vest and suspenders/braces. And jeans! I will never wear jeans on stage again).

Here is a short snippet that Erik, the drummer, filmed at the end of the day. You can see (if you look hard) that everyone has sweat pearls in their face.
http://yfrog.com/6fjhdz

//Palle

Things are moving along pretty good with upcoming European Misfits-tour, video shoot, photosession, recording session, etc. As of now I'm starting to run low on cash so I've made a list of things that I own (musicstudio-wise), in the hopes that I can sell some of it (and keep most of it, haha) to get some cash rolling. Probably not much, but enough to get through. Here's the list:

Homestudio:
Host - Jeskola Buzz, Cubase, MAXmsp
Audio interfaces - RME Multiface
Amp - Custom made 30W amp
Monitors - Custom made speakers, by my dad's company (Audax woofers and tweets)
Crappy/cheap center monitor for mono reference
Headphone amp - modified Trends PA10
Headphones - AKG k270s
Controllers - Fatar Studio 900, Korg PadKontrol, Monome (built from a 40h kit), modified Kenton Spindoctor
VSTi - Vember Surge and shitloads of freeware
VST - ApEq, Sonalksis bundle, Sonnox bundle, Waves bundle and shitloads of freeware

Fender telecaster MIM (car),
Fender telecaster MIJ (blk)
Squier Hank Marvin Stratocaster (Japan) - modified beyond recognition
Pearl Hummingbird copy acoustic guitar (japan)
Levin acoustic guitar model 123 with John Pearse folk strings
Levin Mandolin
Unknown banjo (german?)
Santana nylon acoustic (japan)

Custom made 50W tube amp built by my dad
Laney 30w VC30 guitar amp combo
Home made speaker cabinet with 2x10" Alnico speakers
Laney GS212IE - 2x12" cabinet

Pedalboard: Boss CS-2 compressor, Proco RAT dist (led version), Boss VB-2 vibrato, Ibanez GE-10 eq, Ibanez AD-9 delay, Whirlwind A/B box, Arion HU8500 tuner
Extra pedals(currently not used much): Maestro Phaser, Ibanez SD-9 distortion, Eurotech (Colorsound) phaser, Dunlop 535QC wahwah, Coron Distortion 11, Lovetone Meat Ball filter envelope


Pearl World series 5-piece drumkit (piano white), 22" kick, 14x7" snare, toms 13", 14" and 16". DW hardware and UFIP/paiste cymbals.
1960's 14"x5" Tacton snare, modified by Spunky Drums
Pearl world series piccolo snare - 13"x3"
Arbiter Flats 22" kickdrum (for cramped club gigs)

Upright piano, black (Swedish)
Pedal organ (Swedish)
Sony DAT deck
Akai GXC-36D tape deck
Sony tapedeck (for metal-tapes)
African kalimba
darbuka, shakers, tin whistles, harmonica, pop-killers, bunch of mic stands, bags and bags of cables
Yamaha PSS780 FM-synth

Allen & Heath MixWizard 16:2
Soundcraft live 16:4:2
SM TB101 single channel preamp
Mics: CAD Equitek E200 condenser, Telefunken TD20, Milab condenser, Line Audio Design CM-3 (stereo pair), Primo condenser, SM57, Sm58, Audio-Technicas, Sennheisers, AKGs, Beyerdynamics, etc
Really Nice compressor RNC1773
DOD 15band stereo EQ
Aphex Aural Exciter - Type C2
Behringer de-esser
Symetrix 544 Quad Gate
DBX 266 compressor
Lexicon LXP-5
DIY spring-reverb ripped from an old electric organ

A picture of me, right after a sweaty rehearsal with SIR REG.
I should shave.

Bought a(nother) Japan Fender Telecaster (made in 1989) for a great buck. Lovely instrument. It really sings!


Still haven't put on new strings, since the previous owner had broken a few.

Being a dad takes up most of my time, but just before Evelina was born I joined the band SIR REG on guitar. We are getting more and more gigs and hopefully we will head out to play europe. We are also rehearsing with my band Dwine and I'm keeping busy with my own electronic music/experimentations.
"Times, they are a-changin'..."

http://www.myspace.com/sirregband
http://www.dwine.se

Evelina is sleeping in the crib and Sabine is out taking a sunny spring walk with her mp3-player.

I've been taking a few photos lately, and here they are:

Me and Sabine got a healthy daughter on the 27th of january. She weighed in at 3745 gram and measured 53 cm. Everything went really good and we went home the day after the delivery. She's the cutest thing I have ever seen, and experience her birth was probably the most intense moment ever.

Her name will be Evelina Moa Marodafne Olivi.

There will be pictures of her here soon. Will post them when I get to my computer (I'm at Sabine's laptop now).

Took this while walking home from work today:



I also got a really weird pain/stiffness in my neck today. Horrible. I can't figure out what could have caused it. Maybe I got it from seeing the Mosambiquan goal-keeper landing on his head yesterday.

Bästaste grammatiken.

It's been cold lately. I don't mind, even if I work outside part of the day. From what I can remember I've never had any problem with getting dry skin, but these past few days my fingers, face and the side of my belly (yeah, minimalistic love-handles) have been dry due to the fact that I'm part inside, part outside quite alot.

Took this photo the other day when we had -25 C.

Ok. So I haven't updated this in a while. Here are a few shots I've taken.











Happy new year, folks!

I tried to take some photos that included the technique of light-stencils. You basically put a flash in a cardboardbox and cut out some figure in the box...and long enough shuttertime to fire off a few. Here is my first test from the livingroom.

Sorry for the slow updates around here.

Thought I'd throw in a picture of me:



and also a cover I did for the IDMf Continuum compilation album that I made along with Yibbon:

Spend a day on the countryside. Great weather, company, food and surroundings.


Picture taken from our livingroom.

Bought an AKAI tapedeck for $10



75 SEK. Pretty cheap for a 1970-something tapedeck. I put on a grounded jack, cleaned it up and used isopropanol on the glass-covered head (That's what the G in GXC-36D stands for). Now it's as good as new.

A week ago I had the pleasure to go with my gf, mother, stepdad and brothers to Kopparberg where we all learned how to pan for gold. Awesome experience. I have been wanting to pan for gold since I was a kid. Let's just say I've gotten the gold-fever. Bought a pan, borrowed books, read articles, watched movies and documentaries about panning, mining, sluicing, dredging..and the Klondike goldrush at the end of 19th century.

Tomorrow we will go to our friends Johan Hultman and Elina Forss wedding. Will be fun. Just gotta find something nice to wear.

//Palle