Rocking Toronto!

We had a great gig in Toronto last night. We played at Bread & Circus in Kensington Market, a lovely area that reminded me alot of Ashbury Heights in San Fransisco. Lots of organic food and alternative clothing.
At first we were a bit dissapointed, after the last band had soundchecked for like two hours, we were told to hurry up and got a 10 minute soundcheck. Luckily we’re pretty few and pretty well prepaired so we were ok anyway. The show was great, Jonas played the iPhone, Jocke descended to an old piano in the midst of the audience for “Will you call me when you’re sober” and “Jonestown and Christian was brilliant as always.

The best thing though was to meet so many nice people. Some that I have had contact with via myspace and facebook and a Norweigan artist called Ingrid Olava and her band. I really liked their gig, so check them out! At midnight jetlag set in on me and I had to go back to the studio for some sleep. Not surprisingly the band stayed behind… I really must get better at this rock’n’roll lifestyle!

Here’s a small vid from last nights gig, as Jonas is on stage with us most of the time now, there’s not a lot of live videos but I hope you enjoy this short piece from “Running out of you”.

2nd highest building in the world

We’ve just been up in the CN tower in Toronto. Pretty high up. they even had a glass floor that you could walk on, nothing for people who are afraid of hights I tell you. My drummer Joakim and I jumped on it, though our instincts did scream noooo! Tonight we’re showcasing on Bread&Circus, 9pm. I feel like I’m coming down with a cold, the worst possible scenario, but I do have like the worst immune system in the world. I’ve been fed with echinaguard and esberitox by my band so hopefully it will pass quickly.


Vlog from CN tower

CN tower
CN Tower fom the outside
Tourists
Being tourists!
View 1
View from the tower
Glass floor
Like standing on thin air
view 2
Massive shadow from the tower
posing
Joakim taking a photo of Christian
View from the tower

Tour blog begins today!

On the Lollapalooza tour I blogged on Aftonbladet.se but this time I thought I’d give all my non-swedish friends and fans an opportunity to follow me on tour, so my tour blog this time will be in english here on my own website.


Flight trip

I’ve just arrived in Canada for Canadian Music week and am exploiting the free wifi on the Fairmont to write this. The trip yesterday was about 14 hours long and we were very happy to have some pizza and get some rest on an inflatable bed at my friend Gary Taxali’s house here in Toronto when we arrived. Gary is the most talented artist, he designed the stunning coverart for Aimee Mann’s latest album and when he heard we were coming here he invited us to stay with him. Check out Gary’s work here: http://www.garytaxali.com

At Gary Taxali’s

Today’s mission is to check out Toronto, pick up some lotion (I realized I was allergic to the one I brought from home) and to check out my favourite store “Forever 21”.

flight
Going to Canada
flight2
View from my window
gary's
Gary's cool artwork
breakfast in Toronto
No refill on the coffe in Canada
blogging
Blogging at the fairmont this minute!