As some of you might already know, I will be doing a series of in-house shows in the summer. The tour will take me to Hungary, through a part of Romania, Austria (in August), Italy and hopefully Finland somewhere in the end of the summer. I have a few shows set up already, but am looking for more volunteers who are willing to host a private gig in their house, garage, cabin, whatever. I thought about making this tour as intimate as possible, so I am willing to perform for an audience of 10 people and up. Let me know if you are willing to host an event of this type, contact me for more information on the subject or if you’re totally up for it.

P.S.: I will be selling my CD-s at the event, so you got to be alright with that.

Make sure to check back later next week for the new video we are about to produce in our humble environment here in the suburbs. It’ll be a live version of Down Slow, with just one guitar and a voice. Hope you’ll like it as we are doing our best with the equipment we have. It’s great! We are finally producing something.

Not because it’s so difficult to do, but I was bitching way too much when it came to the design of what was to become my new Myspace Indie Folker Profile Page. We’ve set most of the things up already so it should be good to go – also, I am happy with the results now.

And before anyone asks about Facebook: I haven’t moved in yet. Once I do, I’ll be sure to announce.

The week after I got back from our last tour in Hungary with Jokerman and SzER I lost a lot of control over my voice because of the constant strain I unwillingly subjected myself to. We were up quite a lot and I was driving the whole way there and back which, for me, is quite a lot. So against all my efforts and willingness to record, it looked like I had to abandon everything and crawl away in shame until my voice recovered.

People in the studio thought I was a joke, they’ve never heard me before so this was our first encounter, and I hadn’t prepared for things to go this badly. Also, I hadn’t prepared for the amount they were going to charge me even though I hadn’t recorded a single note. I immediately called a few good friends to help me lay down some tracks and get things moving without my voice. I decided to re-arrange everything, going from a one guitar+voice arrangement to an entire ensemble of instruments, which I never intended for at the beginning. At least I was getting my money’s worth, I thought. Plus the opportunity to jam with some good friends again. So we just kept on going until my voice recovered enough to let me sing again.

A few weeks later the tracks were done, but I still couldn’t record a single vocal line the way I intended to. I could sing, but my sore throat made everything seem out of place and messy at the time. I got used to it ever since, and now most of the songs feature my voice from exactly that period. Also, the finished material ended up being much more “produced” than I originally hoped for it to be, and it had all those flavors of diferent people on it – which was great! I almost forgot how good it feels to get something done in a team…