Perkele!
“The day after the Stockholm podcast was posted on the Afterword, the Swedish contingent discovered that all of their passwords to the blog had mysteriously stopped working…it was a full and final […]

Thanks guys…but no. 🙂
Don’t be sad, I’d sound like a mix between the Muppet chef and Peter Sellers in The Party (I only get to actually speak English with our many Indian customers at the store…)

I got the album for Christmas and played it to death. To this day it isn’t truly Chrtistmas in my house until I play it while laying a new jigsaw puzzle (=another Christmas present in -79…)

That dog with the […]

Twang:
All together:
“we want Locust!”

The Afterword:

*crickets*

😀

Prince did a particularly great set of encores when I saw him at the Stockholm Music & Arts festival a few years ago. The first, “proper”, part of the gig was spent playing the new material with his new band; it […]

Not keen to find global fame through the Afterword Podcast, then? 😉
I can’t say I blame you, I wouldn’t do it either, but I thought it would make an interesting episode…we’ll make that mingle happen at some […]

Ha ha – Bobbie Gillespie, the unknown son of Svenne Hedlund! 😀

Which was a huge hit in Sweden in -65 covered by the no 1 band at the time, Hep Stars, with one Benny Andersson on organ and songwriting duties; later one of the B:s in ABBA, of course… Here’s their version, odd p […]

My classical musician father practices for hours every day, at 92 and long retired from performing. His hands are arthritic and his instrument (the contrabass) is old and falling apart, but according to him he’s […]

The year I turned 50 I made a playlist of my favourite tunes from every year of my life so far, and the rule was that each year should be represented by one or two tracks. A few years got a couple of extra tracks, […]

One of my favourite tunes; “Too Many Mondays” – Barry Mann:

And how about some Doris?

Read:
If you haven’t already; do yourself a favour and read The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir (that’s the clunky English title; I prefer the Swedish title “Brev från min barndom” – Letters From My Childhood )! […]

It’s also fun to read the reviews and every now and then be able to spot what a track is, even when the reviewer doesn’t have a clue! 🙂

Thankfully I’m single and childless, so I can indulge in “collecting” without arguments about space and finances. And when I kick the bucket I’ll leave an expensive flat in a nice neighbourhood and an art […]

The benefits of joining in the AW swap! 🙂
Glad you like her, @vulpes-vulpes.

Hm, one of my picks got lost from my post somehow! I’ll try again.
The best kept secret (=good luck finding her albums) of Sofie Livebrant; here with a track from her Emily Dickinson album Emily and I:

And the […]

From one of last year’s best albums; Haley Heynderickx:

And one of my favourite tracks from one of my favourite female duos; Freakwater:

@Kaisfatdad; watching literary TV show Babel this Sunday, as an aside an author mentioned that his book had been illustrated by “graphic designer and artist Love Antell”, so that’s a good side career to have (the […]

I don’t know about bigger countries, but here in Sweden a lot of musicians from different bands seems to work a lot as studio musicians on other artists’ albums – the same (fairly “big”) names comes up in liner […]

Oh, and having read this book will give an extra layer to the album (“Warm”) that he released around the same time as well.