Unmistakably Nordic in flavor, Sofia Talvik somehow still conforms to American interpretations of her own original music, a North Sea siren blending sparkle and melancholy, creating a special niche of folk music.
I just landed in LA. It’s kind of a bit cooler here than in Texas, I didn’t really count on that but I did bring a sweater so I’ll be fine. I just checked in to the Saharan Motor Hotel, and Warren from Worldsound who is with me reluctantly checked in to the same hotel although he refered to his room as “creepy”. Mine is ok, it’s your average motel room.
Tomorrow I’m meeting with the guys at the Swedish Consulate, and then I’ll be playing at their dinner. I probably won’t have any time to do anything else which is good because then time will fly until I get back to Jonas in Stockholm.
Yes, weird isn’t it. It’s been really hectic the last few days and I haven’t found any time to blog but I’ll try to make up for it now. Friday we had a morning gig at Sweden goes South by Southwest. It was really nice on an outside patio, but unfortunatley Sweden has sooo many talanted bands that we only got to play four songs each.
Christian is trying to catch a lift back to Sweden.Sweden goes SXSW!Hurrying through our songs...
As they only served vegan food on the party, we decided to go and have a real Texas BBQ dinner that night. I had the junior portion but still couldn’t finish it. The guys had the regular portion and DID finish it all, just check out the evidence here:
Yummy!
Saturday we played our last gig at the Sheraton Hotel, which was really nice. We also signed with the American record label Worldsound which we’ve hung out with for the last few days. It’s really exciting and I hope it means you all will see more of me in the US in the future. We finished Saturday night a bit diffrently in the band. I sang a duet with Austrian singer/songwriter Florian Horwath on his set, the guys had some Jack Daniels and Joakim lost his wallet on the snack machine on the hotel (he got it back though, 50 bucks poorer).
This morning the guys packed their things and left early to the airport. I’m feeling very lonely, especially since Jonas left too. I know it’s silly but I already miss him terribly. Tomorrow I’m off to LA to play at a dinner party set up by the Swedish Consulate so that’s why I’m still here in Austin. So my dear friends, more updates to come from LA next!
We had a pretty awful gig last night. It was one of those gigs where you just want to kill yourself the entire time, but try to keep smiling and having a good time anyways. But today the sun is shining and we started fresh with a nice gig on Red Gorilla Fest on 6 street and are now setting up for a private party for the Swedish chamber of commerce. Tomorrow, we’re playing at “Sweden goes SXSW” it’s an open gig so swing by if you’re in the neighbourhood. We’re playing at noon.
This is how fun we had AFTER our gig last night (especially Joakim) I’ll put up some more clips later:
Last tour we visited Pittsburgh and met a band called Social Stitch. They took the guys out for Wendy’s. Anyways, to make a long story short, this gave birth to the Baconator-joke. All the guys in the band were suddenly talking about nothing but the baconator at Wendy’s. But when we returned to Sweden, noone had yet tasted it. So for Johan and Marcus who unfortunately aren’t with us at this tour, these pics are for you:
Careful, it can sense fear!Finally - the baconator!
Even though we have 6 gigs this tour, several of them are twice a day, which means we have much more free time than the last tour. This is why we decided to take a daytrip to the Niagara falls. It was really wonderful and I’m so glad I went there. I happen to love a tv-show called “Wonderfalls” so it was awsome to see the falls in real life and I visited the souvenir shop in search of a yellow lion for my friend Jenny.
Me in front of the falls.It's actually hard to imagine how big they really are...
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”.
Going to CanadaView from my windowGary's cool artworkNo refill on the coffe in CanadaBlogging at the fairmont this minute!
