The situation is like this: It’s close to midnight, and it’s actually pleasant to sit on the balcony in shorts. Summer has come to Norway, the real thing, with 25 degrees plus, even close to 20 during the night. And we’ve been waiting for this for seven or eight months. Sometimes I can’t believe we’re [...]
I tend to think that music shouldn’t be explained, just felt. But I reckon we’re among friends here, so here are some notes on the tracks on our Personal Stereo album: PERSONAL STEREO This opens with a obviously shameless robbery from R.E.M. – but the words are not exactly registered trademarks, and we hope Mr. [...]
Happy new year! We were supposed to be finished with the new album by christmas, but it’s still not finished. Things take time, which is OK – it takes time to make good music, and we want it to be absolutely right. Most of the tracks are more or less written and recorded. Anja got [...]
Above is a some photos from our trip to Istanbul a couple of weeks ago. The interior photo is from our hotel, Pera Palas, a hotel often used by passangers on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie stayed there several times, including – many believe – during a spell in 1926, when she disappeared from her [...]
I guess all artists work on inspiration from others, some do it all the time, some do it every now and then. Some know it, some people haven’t got a clue that they do it. Dylan knows it, his career is more or less built on the inspiration of traditional, American (and Irish) folk tunes. [...]
Regular readers, please excuse us for a week or two of nothingness. The blog was down due to a change of server (blablabla…). Some Flunk news to tell you about, if you haven’t already checked out our ‘official Flunk site’: We’re playing the Chill Out Festival 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday September 10. Really, [...]
A quick note from the beautiful city of Prague. We played the main stage of theRoxy in Prague last night – part of their 14th birthday celebration. Good fun, fantastic venue in an old cinema hall. Wednesday we played a pretty packed Babylon Club in Bratislava (Slovakia). That was great, 200 people and really, really [...]
Just a word or two from up north: Received a review of our show at Chop Suey in Seattle this week, published by webzine Glide Magazine. Some more reading while you wait for more news on the new album in progress: Read this Guardian interview with Brian Eno(he produced the new Paul Simon album out [...]
OK, so we’re making an album again. I love it, because Flunk is honestly the most beautiful thing I’ve ever been involved in (except my girlfriend and our daughter and the the first ray of sunshine through the kitchen window when winter has kept it out for four or five months). And this album will [...]
