I will be playing music at Pavilion in Oslo one Thursday every month. The downbeat/leftfield/crackleblues ‘club’ will be called Flunkschool, and will take place one Thursday every month. Should be good fun, not Donna Summer and Lipp’s Inc. – but good music. Probably some new Flunk tracks every now and then, too.
The remix album ‘Democracy’ still has November 12 as official digital release. It will be out on CD as well, it turns out. Stay posted for release date.
More pics from our Bydgoszcz gig here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KBgo5un-zc&html5=True
Someone obviously had a camera on their mobile on our gig in Bydgoszcz on Saturday.
Enjoy – I wouldn’t know the quality, since I tend not to have great enjoyment in watching myself in motion.
The concert was great, though. 700+ people and good fun. Thanks a lot to all our Polish fans. We were really, really impressed!
Sorry about the silence, we’re still here.
Or rather, right now we are in Bydgoszcz in Poland to play at the Low-fi Festival. We play tonight at 9 pm. Should be good fun – it’s been while since we’ve been touring. And we’re excited about playing some of the ‘Personal Stereo’ songs for the first time.
Setlist tonight will be:
Personal Stereo
If We Kiss
Heavenly
Morning Star
Miss World
Play
Sit Down
See You
Diet of Water and Love
Six Seven Times
Haldi
See Thru You
Blind My Mind
Blue Monday
True Faith
We’re playing at the Hala Astoria, details here if you should be interested.
Of other news: The remix album is officially out on November 12.
But you can download the lot on our website.
We’re working on some new tracks as well, going in a quite different direction than before. But it’s hard so say where they’ll end up and when they wil be out.
(Click on photos for high resolution version)
Flunk played live in Belgrade last weekend. Good fun, even did a radio show on Sunday.
Here are pictures from the show. Support band was the very amusing Swedish singer/songwriter Karl-Jonas Winqvist and his band. MySpace site here. He’s also in a band called First Flower Power – in fact the band all looked like the cast of brilliant Swedish director Lukas Moodysson‘s hippie movie Tilsammans (Together).
Other news? Well, we’re working on the album. Hopefully it’s finished by christmas. And it will – if all goes as planned – be out on April 30th next year. It’s going to be called Common Sense.
And oh, apparently See Thru You (off the For Sleepyheads Only album) appeared in a love scene in an episode of the ABC series Brothers & Sisters (Sally Field, Rachael Griffiths, Calista Flockhart…) this week. According to our best friend in the US, Beth Sereni.
And Blue Monday will be featured in the upcoming Nancy Drew movie, to be released next year.
Remember to check out our MySpace site.
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 home in England for 11 days. Read the full Agatha Christie/Pera Palas story here.
Pera Palas is a famous hotel, with tourists pouring into the lobby on Sunday mornings. And the hotel bar had an atmosphere that made you feel you were back in the hotel’s early days, built in 1891.
The photos from the show are taken by I˙lker Kopan. He is a photographer and a Flunk fan. Thanks a lot for sending them to us! (high solution versions available if you click the photos!)
Click here for quite a lot of photos from the Flunk gig in Bratislava Wednesday June 7th.
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 hot and crowded – and I think we beat our record in writing autographs after the show!
Tonight we head back home to the summer of Oslo, World Cup on the TV and continued work on the next album.
The large photo is from the soundcheck on Roxy, the small one is me in front of the house where Franz Kafka lived…
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 this week), where he tells about the ‘politics’ of recording, the chemistry you need – quite interesting and very true! While you’re at it – check out The Observer reporter Paul Morley‘s piece on the Manchester and Liverpool music scenes following the punk revolution of summer 1976. They were all there – from Morrissey of The Smiths to Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Joy Division…
Oh, and do keep an eye on our MySpace site, we might soon upload one or two live recordings from the US shows.