Birthday in Toronto

Saturday, 28 April

Hey, today is my birthday and I'm driving around in Toronto on my way to a College radio station. I guess the plan is to go in there and convince them to let us play a few tunes on air. Otherwise they'll at least plug the show at Journo 327 tonight. Toronto is cool and there are trams everywhere, although I don't get why the trams and the cars are on the same road...traffic is terrible.

This morning I got a coffee and a wrap with a candle in it from Helena and Christian. Isn't that nice...and they sang to me in Swedish. Christian gt a couple of words right, especially the hurra part.

I can't believe we're back east again..Sealess is the best car ever. The last show we played was in Winnipeg. We didn't have anything booked but we arrived and thought we could get a show so we split up and finally we went in to this place called Mondragon where a cool band called Paperboxes were playing. These guys were kind enough to let us play the last 40 minutes of their set and the venue that was closing decided to stay open longer. Unbelievable. And if that wasn't enough, we met this gorgeous people, Chris and Christa. Chris was housing his friends beautiful house and he let us stay there too. Later that night we went with our new friends to a bonfire and had a great, slow night with a couple of beers by the fire.

Tomorrow we're crossing the border to USA again, hopefully they will let us cross it. Probably we're playing Syracuse before we head for our Home away from home again, Clinton.

/G

Currently listening : Heart Full of Wine By Angus and Julia Stone Release date: 08 March, 2007

Hardcore, Ghosttown and the last dates of the tour!

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

So here I am in the ghost town of Lethbridge. No it's not that bad but when we pulled in yesterday there was no one on the streets and we could only see signs of Liquor Stores, quite depressing. Another glorious night in the car. We have a show at the Slice tonight but since we found out that if you play hotel bars you get hotel rooms we're probably gonna play another show tonight as well. The guy said that if Calgary would win yesterday it would be no use for us to play since everyone would be celebrating but if they lost he thought we would fit right in! Haha, I guess he found our shoe gazing depressing. Hopefully we'll get a show there tonight as well since Calgary actually lost the game, the hotel seemed great with a BIG water slide!

After Duncan we played the Cambie in Nanaimo and The Superior in Victoria. Both shows were great and we had to say goodbye to Thereza, Felicity and Melody, our Victoria friends. Oh yeah, at the Superior I actually forgot my artificial pic thing but they found it for me. Kind of cool since I only have one and I can't make a copy of it...

Then we had to leave Vancouver and its islands and head for Calgary, long winding roads up in the glorious mountains where terrifying truckers tried to pass us in 130km/h. In Calgary we played a really funny show at The Stetson. It used to be a country/western bar but it had become a rock n roll bar. On the bill was one popband, one metalband and one band playing german pop..then there was us: Two acoustic guitars and a cello. It turned out great though and even the heavy metal rockers liked us.

The day after we played in China town with a big picture of the Chinese president as backdrop. This time we performed together with Hardcore bands - of course. After the show we went home to Colin's place - the guitar player of the great band GÜNTHER (http://www.myspace.com/guunther) and had a great GIN-party.

This is the rest of the tour:

April 23 LETHBRIDGE The Slice
April 28 TORONTO Journo 297
April 30 SYRACUSE tba
May 1 SYRACUSE tba
May 2 CLINTON Melodic Revolution
May 3 NYC Matchless (Greenpoint, Brooklyn - 'goodbye USA show')

We'd love to see you there,
If you have any suggestions to venues we could play in Toronto area between 26, 27, please let us know.

/G

We made the drive.

So we made our drive, unbelievable. We all said to each other that we were going to make it but none of us really thought we would. 3300 miles in 2,5 days. The first day we hadn't even left North Carolina when a tire exploded on the highway. Two new tires later we were off again. We had a mattress in the back, one drove, one kept the driver awake and one slept - then we rotated. South Dakota was not very fun, one straight road with two turns but Wyoming and Montana was really beautiful up in the mountains.

We had some issues by the border, they seemed to think that Christian was smuggling 2 Swedes over the border. They questioned us for a long time, three different persons were staring me in the eye before they gave up.

We arrived in Vancouver Thursday morning and we got a place to stay at this great house where Mark the bass player took really good care of us. Thanks Mark.

The 2 shows we did at Rime was awesome and I couldn't have had a better time in Vancouver. Thanks to all of you who came out and to Ben and his crew. We'll miss you.

From Vancouver we went on this beautiful boat ride to Nanaimo before we took the next one over to Denman Island. On Denman we met up with Kevin Mitchell and the venue was amazing, wooden floors, fireplace etc. Kevin also got us a place to stay at this gorgeous house on the beach, everything was just perfect, Canadians surely know how to treat their foreign roadrunners!

The next day we headed south again to reach Victoria where we met our good friend Theresa and her two daughters Felicity and Melody. We played that night at Ocean Island Lounge at Backpackers Inn. I ever did a show at a hostel before. We showed up and no one seemed to be there but after everything was set up and Helena started playing her first song, the little room was packed.

Yesterday we played at one of the coolest venues I've ever seen, Duncan Garage Showroom run by John Longevity. It's a mix between an old theatre and a cinema and they are serving Coffee combined with popcorn. John has eleven dogs and we got to meet all of them, now I'm writing from a pull out coach in his rehearsing room.

Life is good although it's too bad this tour is about to end. It seems like we are just getting started. Although I just extended it with 10 more days because we want to have a little bit more time to drive back to NYC from here. Right now we are looking tfor shows in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Lethbridge, Regina, Montreal and Toronto. If someone has suggestions please let us know.

I just uploaded two Swedish festivals on the tour schedule that me and The Seasick Sailors will visit this summer.

Much love / G

Wilmington NC to Vancouver BC in 2,5 days!

Wilmington NC to Vancouver BC in 3 days!

We got stuck in Wilmington, NC over easter since we needed to repair the breaks on Sealess, our van.. we've played a bunch of shows here, 7 actually and hopefully today our car will be ready..our next show is in Vancouver BC, that's 3300 miles that we're going to complete in 3 days..we are 3 drivers with one mattress, it could work right?

Last night we had an awesome show at this gaybar and I sold a lot of cd's after saying that my song Sweden Slow is about Swedish Intercourse,,,they loved that!

I've been sick with a fever and stuff but I'm feeling better now..

/G

Wilmington NC to Vancouver BC in 3 days!

We got stuck in Wilmington, NC over easter since we needed to repair the breaks on Sealess, our van.. we've played a bunch of shows here, 7 actually and hopefully today our car will be ready..our next show is in Vancouver BC, that's 3300 miles that we're going to complete in 3 days..we are 3 drivers with one mattress, it could work right?

Last night we had an awesome show at this gaybar and I sold a lot of cd's after saying that my song Sweden Slow is about Swedish Intercourse,,,they loved that!

I've been sick with a fever and stuff but I'm feeling better now..

/G