Scraps Of Tape Tour Diary

Münster

2009-10-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

AMP, Münster

Backstage, St. Gallen

Jerker Kaj in air

Miklo

We're hanging out at AMP in Münster. We just finished our soundcheck and Solander is on stage now. Today we had one hell of a drive from St.Gallen in Switzerland (9 hours in the van) and we spent the time watching some movies and listening to good music.

What we've been kicking back to in the van on this tour:

Music:

Smog/Bill Callahan

Doug Martsch

Vit Päls

Devendra Banhart

Bob Hund

A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (audiobook)

Movies:

Walk The Line

Spïnal Tap

Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Fortunate Events

Garth Marenghi's Dark Place

Wien = Vienna

2009-10-27T16:17:00.000-07:00

We're in Vienna, we've played and we're having a great time.

Tonight the show(s) were a little heavy...I don't know why but it felt a bit

like swimming towards the stream. I don't think it was the crowd (who was great!)

and it wasn't the bands, it just was one of those nights y'know?!

The drumkit kept breaking, I (johan) could not

hear one word of what the hell I was singing,

and that's ok if you can focus hard on the singing but I have to play the guitar at the same time...suddenly you're in one hell of a pickle...well, you win some and you lose some.

Last night at Immerhin in Würzburg was INCREDIBLE!

It was the last time Mamü/Marko/Arschnüsse org

anized a show at this incredible place. The place was packed and our gear was seriously soaking wet after 2 minutes in the room. The air was so heavy with water that breathing felt like drinking water.

Me and Fredrik from Solander doing "Filler".

No, we're not kissing...it's the angle.

It is...no it really is.

Part of the Würzburg-crowd!

"The Hotel" Vienna.

Today we travelled from Würzburg at about 9 in the morning. We spent the time in the van talking about extremely important things (midgets, philosophy and stuff in between) and watching "Walk The Line" which we collectively think is one of the greatest movies in the last couple of years. Wow. The hiphop-maybe-faux-mockumentary-thingy-ma-gogg-thing that Joaquin Phoenix got going right now is awesome and I'm not sure what's happening with that right now but I think I like it. Growing a huge beard will always score 10 points in my book.

Tonight we played with Slon for the 2nd time and I think they're a hugely underrated band. There should be 1000 people at their shows but that's life. True art never get's appreciated until after the death of it's originators...so...i guess...yes...scraps should be huge around 2058 or something.

"A taste of Vienna"

Solander delivered as usual. They're such a fantastic live-band and their songs are just made to be singing along to. The feeling and presence Solander provides live are just awe-inspiring.

Now it's off to bed and tomorrow we're gonna see some nice paintings and whatnot in Vienna.

Much much love!

j and scraps

just a quick note...

2009-10-25T11:20:00.001-07:00

1. Log on to Spotify.

2. Search for "Jag hade en gång en båt"

3. Click the version by CajsaStina Åkerström.

4. Hear one of the worst vocal-performances we've ever heard. Feeling is usually a good

thing when you sing a song, but this is so over the top we can't help but to comment it.

The best part is when Jack Vreeswijk comes in during the second verse...jesus.

(for the english-speaking readers: "Jag hade en gång en båt" = "I once had a boat")

Frankfurt

2009-10-25T10:35:00.000-07:00

Hey,

in Frankfurt now, at Ponyhof. Today we're playing with Lowstar and September Leaves, and they seem like awesome people and we're really looking forward to it. Right now tho, we're hungry as hell and just wanna eat.

Found some videofootage from the Malmö-gig:

Solander also has a tourblogg and you should head on over and see what the tour is like form their p.o.v.

More soon!

love love love

scraps

halle prt2

2009-10-24T12:50:00.001-07:00

SCRAPS OF TAPE/SOLANDER 2009 European Fall Tour

2009-10-24T11:45:00.001-07:00

Hello friends, foes and loved ones!

We're in Halle again! A long day of sailing/driving from Malmö (we got up at 05:00 in Malmö)

and we're finally here. Soundchecks are well under way and we're waiting for food.

Everything has been great so far except for our van. we ordered a 9-seat van but the "original" van got busted up in a car-accident before we had the chance to get it and we got another one.

This one has a DVD-player+TV in it (we already watched Edward Scissorhands and 2 episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) and that's kick-ass but there's one downer. It only has 8 seats.

It gets a bit crowded at times and we're working on a better solution as we speak and I'm sure it'll all work out great. The other thing with the van is that is has died on us two times so we've had to use all the muscles we have in this 9-people strong crew to push the goddamned van started.

We tried it a little while ago and it started again as if nothing ever happened but it's still a bit worrying. Well well...what would a tour without mishaps be? No, not a real tour at all, right Once We Were?

A funny thing is that the last time we had real trouble with a van it had the same green colour as the van we're using right now...so a word of advice, never book or use DARK-GREEN vans.

No pics yet...but soon soon!

Big BIG thank you to everyone who came out to the show in Malmö last night. We had a great great time and we're really thankful for everyone showing up and paying us and especially Mikael their respects. It means the world to us!!

And to everyone who's thinking about going to our shows on this tour and haven't decided yet. COME ON OUT! As announced before it's Mikaels last tour with us so if you want to see this amazing drummer and original member of Scraps Of Tape play with us this is your one shot!!!

He's off to thousands of other and better projects and we're honored to have had him as a member for all this time.

Fun fact: Micke started out as a bass-player in SoT, and then one day Marcus met Kenta at a left-wing-party meeting and asked him to join the band, and on the next rehearsal Micke shows up and get's the order: "Oh by the way, your the drummer now". So without ever having played the drums "for real" in a band he was suddenly our drummer. Well...he has made a GREAT fucking job...we're getting crippled here...it's like losing a limb.

Much much much love from all of us!

johan+scraps of tape

Home!

2009-09-24T07:51:00.001-07:00

Back home again!

We arrived back in Sweden around 16:00 hours local time last night, said goodbye and went to our separate dwellings with a super exciting amusement tour behind us.

Personally I had to get in a car and drive for 3 hours to Gothenburg before I could relax and I'm just back home after the first day back at work, dead-tired and already have my sights set on the sofa tonight.

We want to thank everyone who made this tour possible and so much fun. It was an honor to be back in Japan and play and BIG BIG thanks to everyone in the audience who came to the shows. We had some of the best ones ever!!

Extra big thanks to the Shapes-guys: Gav, Rich, Stevie.

You are amazing musicians and even better persons.

You made this tour 200% super exciting amusing! We miss you so much already.

Big picture-update soon!

TOKYO O-EAST!!!!!

2009-09-21T10:04:00.000-07:00

Live video:

We're wiped out, but here's a video from tonight. Enjoy. Thanks to everyone to who came out...tonight was pure magic!

/johan + scraps

Morning in Tokyo!

2009-09-20T20:23:00.000-07:00

Hey hey,

just woke up here in Tokyo and we still have some time before our taxi comes to pick us up for O-East. We just found out that the show is sold out and that means an audience of approximately 1500 people! Tonight is going to be crazy.

(Nagoya)

(Guitarmy madness Osaka)

(Guitarmy madness Nagoya)

(Té madness.

Kono-San in the middle!)

(Kajan madness.

A little walk and some coffee. PERFECT!)

(Shapes madness Nagoya)

(Junki + Kawai!)

(tour-bus madness)

(karaoke madness)

Japan 2009 Osaka, Nagoya

2009-09-20T12:32:00.000-07:00

Hello.

It's about 4 - 5 in the morning and we just arrived in Tokyo aft

er a all-night drive from Nagoya.

We played at Club Quattro last night and in my

book it was one of our best shows ever!

(above: Nagoya)

We've been in Japan since early friday where

we met up with the Shapes-guys and Junki at Nar

ita Airport. Felt good and strange to recognize the airport and also to not feel so lost and overwhelmed as we all did last time. We are much more prepared this time around and it is really making a big difference.

The shows this far has been really fantastic and the whole Zankyo Festival is such an impressive arrangement. Once again we're blown away by the many many great bands that is on Zankyo's rooster and it's just a pleasure to watch every band perform.

(Above:Osaka)

There has been about 12 bands each night and every band plays for about 30 mins, except Zankyo-leader Kono's band Té who finishes of every night with spectacular performances. Hands down one of the best live-bands I think I've ever seen.

SHAPES

Above:Before Live Mayhem

Below: After Live Mayhem

Shapes are also a fantastic band, technical, well-played, well-written balls-to-the-wall music from the first note to the last. Awesome guys too

! It feels really nice to have a fellow european band with us, since sometimes the language-barrier is too hard to cross.

Luckily we have our dear guide and tour-manager Junki who is doing and amazing job so we're not completely lost.

(above: Junki)

Tomorrow we're gonna play at the great O-East again and that is going to be massive!! Last time was crazy!

Here are some pictures, we'll upload more during (if we can find the time) and after the tour!

Lot's of love to everyone, loved and missed ones back home and to all the great fans who come to the shows!

(above: Nagoya)

/johan + scraps

Japan 2009!

2009-09-16T05:59:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone!

It's about 24 hours 'til we're in the air heading for Japan for the second time. We're super-fucking excited about this since last time was one of our best tours ever!

We've been a band for nearly 10 years now and we've had the luxury of travelling all over some parts of this great earth and meeting amazing people. We started out in a garage in a small small town in the south of Sweden and now we're spread across the land but still manage to meet up in Malmö to play and record. It's been one hell of a ride so far...we've gained and lost friends and we've hated each other at times but it's still about the most important things that our music centers; Expression, love, anxiety, jubilation, friendship.

Things are changing within the band and we'll make stuff official soon and we still have this Japan-tour and later this year a tour of Europe to blast through first before anything big occurs. You should really try to come out and see us this time tho...take that as a warning and a good advice!!!

Grand Letdown was released in Japan on 090909 and the japanese version contains 2 bonus tracks, "Drink Forever" and "Golden Times". You can get a hold of a copy through Zankyo Records.

We're so happy to be back on the road again, let's all make this fall, the fall of 2009, really count together. Show up and show your love...we will give 200% at all times. That's a promise!

Love /scraps

Merch-Table-Boredom=Lots and Lots of Blog-posts...

2009-05-23T15:09:00.001-07:00

The Halle Update part 403

2009-05-23T14:53:00.000-07:00

Uh-Oh...

Breakfast at Marko's

WE HAVE FUCKING VINYLS!!!! 3 DIFFERENT COLOURS!!!!! SILVER!!!!! BLACK!!!!! TRANSPARENT WITH GREY PATTERNS!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Live in Cairo

Easy Rider

ZOO-SPECIAL PART 2

2009-05-23T14:13:00.001-07:00

This Cat was named after a CAR!! Hahaha, that's so silly!

Käre Khan.

The Jesus Lizard

Slon-Ötzi, the five-legged elephant.

Jävla Påö-fågel.

ZOO Im Halle!!! ZOO-SPECIAL!!!

2009-05-23T13:42:00.001-07:00

this guy is cooler and more satisfied with life than you and me ever will be.

yeah, donkey's are sooooo funny.

Kenta the fearless, Jerker the careful one

see you later alligator

Halle

2009-05-23T13:26:00.000-07:00

SoT, Iona, Marko, Madeleine...kick ass.

would you go home with this man? No, neither would I...

Mr. Marko Arschenüsse

Halle

2009-05-23T12:52:00.000-07:00

Yes yes yes, here we are in Halle at Reilstrasse 78.

These last couple of days has really been something. We've played two awesome shows in Innsbruck and in Würzburg, had our van fucked up by persons unknown, talked to the gestapo/german police about that, done a CSI-sweep of a parkinglot looking for an alleged note from said persons unknown, driven through the alps once again, told the same horrible jokes 30 - 40 times more, gotten the rest of our beloved vinyl-copies of "Grand Letdown" AND visited a Zoo.

For the last 40 minutes we've tried to upload some pictures (a whole lot actually) to this blog but it's not working, we don't know what's wrong. We'll try to upload some soon. Sorry for this, all ye SOT - blog-followers of style and class. We know you all want more pictures of Mr. Kaj but you'll have to wait a little longer. A couple of hours until showtime here in Halle now, friggen psyched is what we are!!!!

/Scrap Soft Ape

2nd Spring Tour

2009-05-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

Hey Y'all.

back on the road again, tonight we're playing PMK in Innsbruck, Austria. We're sharing the bill with Sleepy Sun from San Fransisco and the shows will start within one hour or so. It's gonna be sweet to see Sleepy Sun, we're super-stoked!

The mighty Eslöv (see picture) is again following us around and keeping track of us...it's a treat let me tell you.

Yesterday we played at Knaack in Berlin together with fellow Swedes Division Of Laura Lee and The Change. Awesome people, awesome bands, awesome shows and all in all, a pretty awesome evening.

Today we had to drive for 3000 hours to Innsbruck so most of this day has been sleeping, reading, sleeping, reading, listening, sleeping. Now we're here at the lovely Viaduktbögen and right back where this blog started today.

More news soon! Play it safe, keep it real, stay oldschool, fuck the law.

D.O.L.L rippin it UP!

Jerker "hotlips" Kaj

The band illustrated by Jerker Kaj.

THE Jerker Kaj!!!

The adress of tonights club.

Van-time.

Tank-Top Rulez!

Soundcheck unrules.

Time for the May tour

2009-05-19T01:19:00.000-07:00

I´m sitting hear at work and watching my students when they are having a test in math and preparing for the tour that starts tomorrow. I think it will be a really nice tour and to be back at venues where we have played before and to see some new. It will be really fun to play with Division of laura lee in Berlin.

Our tour manager Jonas "Eslöv" Eriksson has made this nice piece of tour art so you all can follow the tour and where to go.

See you on the road

//Kenta

Day 11 Duisburg to Hamburg

2009-04-18T23:35:00.001-07:00

We played with Balmorhea and we really loved their music!

Thanks Leo and Jan for letting us stay at your apartment.

Day 10, Liege to Duisburg

2009-04-18T23:24:00.001-07:00

Back at Steinbruch and having a good time.

Tiny but aggresive drummer

Day 9 Frankfurt to Liege

2009-04-18T23:16:00.001-07:00

Back in Liege and meeting our lovely friends from Honest House.

And tonight, Scraps of tape live on a boat

Day 8 Chemnitz to Frankfurt

2009-04-18T17:52:00.001-07:00

Waiting for the radio interview

We met Ralf at a bar and both him and Marcus had a t-shirt from the best band in the world!

Day 7 Berlin to Chemnitz

2009-04-18T17:38:00.001-07:00

We met Hannes from Ter Haar for a nice walk in Berlin.

Live in Chemnitz

Scraps Of Tape VS. Ter Haar

2009-04-17T01:57:00.000-07:00

This took place at the End Pilot-festival in Erfurt! We won't tell you who one, you have to watch

the whole movie!! But we were happy when we left...

fuck the world

2009-04-15T03:10:00.001-07:00

partying like it's 1908!!!

Day 6 Netschkau to Berlin

2009-04-15T01:58:00.000-07:00

Playing the post rock game.

We found Shane MacGowan and his girlfriend in Berlin

Live at Lokal

Micke, Marcus and Peter Broderick at the finlandsfärjan

Day 5 Erfurt to Netschkau

2009-04-14T12:01:00.000-07:00

The scraps crew at the van

Happy disco guy!

This was the venue the day after our show =)

Day 4 Graz to Erfurt

2009-04-13T10:35:00.000-07:00

Day 3 Vienna to Graz

2009-04-11T09:09:00.000-07:00

Kajan at the wheel, refusing to let anyone else drive

SoT passing some bumps in the road aka the alps

Lovely vegetarian buffe at Ginko in Graz

Möllan!!!

Kenta and Marcus exercising!!!!

2009-04-11T09:02:00.000-07:00

Day 2

2009-04-11T08:06:00.000-07:00

Breakfast at AzConni, so great!!

Kajan and the dog

SoT in Vienna at Fluc

We found this band at our sleeping place in vienna =)

Day 1

2009-04-08T23:27:00.000-07:00

Hey!

The first show is done and it was a great and wonderful evening! Thanks to all the nice people in Dresden and at AzConni.

Back Home!!!

2007-07-01T04:23:00.001-07:00

Hey,

sorry for the lack of updates the last couple of days but there really wasn't any time to keep blogging.

We're back home again after 24 hours of traveling and it feels great. Personally yesterday was spent just hanging out with my girlfriend and watching some tv and doing nothing. Today some more action, unpacking and washing up and just getting back
into the old everyday rythm. We really really hit it off with the You.May.Die.In.The.Desert-guys and it was really hell saying goodbye. We'll definitly hook up with 'em again to tour either the states or Europe...no doubt.

We are very honored to have been given this chance to play in Japan, which has been just amazing!! Everyone has treated us soo good and we've had some of the best times in our career as a band during this tour. We also had some tough times...trouble with finding food and getting enough sleep was the a bit rough sometimes, but it was really nothing that could put us off the good mood we were in. We'll be back anytime and everytime we can. Big BIG thanks to Kono, Chun and the Zankyo-staff!!!!

Here's some pics, this blog will probably be inactive until the next tour...we might keep writing here during the fall, when we're gonna write the new album which will hopefully be recorded during next winter/early spring.

Keep watching us at www.scrapsoftape.com and at www.myspace.com/scrapsoftape

Thanks again to everyone who came out to the shows and who took care of us. We love Japan!

/johan and Scraps of Tape

DAY 9: TOKYO

2007-06-25T07:53:00.000-07:00

Back in Tokyo again after a day of driving and shopping and after playing Nagoya yesterday!

The show last night was fantastic on our part and a little less fantastic on Y.M.D.I.T.D's part. They had some real bad luck...every time they got the flow going, something happend to throw them off completely....broken strings, nothing in the monitors and alot more. We really felt sorry for the guys because they were really going for it and giving it all they had. Tomorrow they'll shred to make up...no doubt!

It was also Brian's birthday so we had decided to give him a surprise and ended our show with singing happy birthday and giving him a few gifts. Kono had bought Brian some wonderful stuff...a pair of underwear with a tap on them and a plastic samurai-wig. He looked hilarious!!!

We met alot of very nice people after the show and hung around for a while, celebrating Brian.

Today we just slept in a bit, got up, played with some pigeons on the street then took off for Tokyo.
Here we bought some music-gear, stumbled upon our cd's in a small independent records-store and ate some awesome pizzas!

A good day all in all, but can't wait to get to play again tomorrow!!

Good night!

DAY 6/7: KOBE/OSAKA NIGHT

2007-06-23T10:58:00.000-07:00

Back at the hotel again after two amazing shows by both bands at Helluva Lounge in Kobe.
This place has the most amazing stage. Perfect small size which we love and a lightboard floor!!

We got some killer pics but none too good on my mobilephone-camera.

One of the opening acts were Nayuta, and they were just fantastic! Killer guitar a la Sonic Youth/Don Caballero mixed with battleslike harmony vocals. Do check it out!

Kenneth also found some nice new threads for little Harry Krook, the best swedish fotballer not yet born:

Most of the day we hung out at the venue, slept in and took it easy. Had a small stroll around the neighbourhoods close
to the Helluva Lounge. Here's some random pics from the day.

DAY 6: KOBE

2007-06-22T19:34:00.000-07:00

Morning Everyone!

In about 1 hour we're leaving for the Hellava Lounge in Kobe, right now most of us are probably sleeping since we didn't go to sleep until the early hours.
Yesterday we had a going away party for Magnus Lundmark (or Magnadochious to YMDITD-Brian) who's been our photographer, heavy drinker and main trouble instigator this far on the tour. Thanks for coming with us Magnus, yr welcome anytime!!

Last night's show at Drop in Osaka was a bit wierd. This city is apparantly a big hiphop-city, and all over the place where we played there was all these bad-ass hiphoppers hanging around.

The sound onstage was horrible and we couldn't hear anything at all...we kept telling the soundguy to turn up our guitars in the monitors but nothing happend. We did our best anyways and had a good time playing!!
YMDITD continue to upstage us every night energywise...they´re like 3 balls of concentrated energy just bouncing of the walls of any venue we get to!!!

It was raining all day long yesterday and we tried to do some shopping but it didn't really go to well, with some exceptions. Johan bought himself a kickass pedal-case for about 1/4th of the price back home. Equipment-wise things are improving rapidly here!! Right Brandon?

The best news yesterday tho was that apparantly, Micke is getting to attract alot of attention with japanese girls. Our beloved Boss Kono told us that there's a bit of a buzz surrounding Micke on various blogs and that people have been asking for photosession-time with Micke when we get back to Tokyo!! It's awesome!!

Hanging with the YMDITD-guys are totally awesome, we were a bit worried before the tour about touring 2 weeks with another band that we didn't know at all for 14 days, because we've never done that before. We've always gotten to tour with
bands we really admire, like Once We Were.
But things are working out a-ok and Brain, Dochious and Milk are awesome guys and fantastic musicians!! You HAVE TO check them out! -> purevolume.com/youmaydieinthedesert

Here's a few various pics from the tour. All of these are crappy mobile-cam pics but better ones are on their way! Take care!

(yeah, still haven't figured out why the pics won't be in the right direction)

oh yeah!

2007-06-21T17:49:00.001-07:00

We've also had our first van-breakdown of the tour!
The trusty old MAZDA SCRUM (which basically looks like a oversized Micro-Machine)
that the YMDITD-guys are travelling in broke down 5 mins after we left Okayama so we had to wait a while at a parkinglot in raging sun for a new car.

Day 5: Osaka

2007-06-21T17:31:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone!

in Osaka, at the hotel. It's morning and this is the 3rd time I'm writing this stuff. The web-browser automatically sets the language here to japanese so I can't understand a friggin word on here...it's all hit and miss with this. We´re also having some trouble to find the internetconnection+time to update this thing...we'll do our best!

Arrived here late last night after 7 hours of driving from Fukuoka, where we played on Wednesday. The show at decatant delax in Fukuoka was amazing and both bands were at the very top of the game!! Great surprise to us not to sell more than a few copies of "This is a copy..." but it explained itself soon enough. Apparantly most of the people at the show already had our cd's, so they bought t-shirts and our tour - cdr's instead! Kono reports that we've sold more than one thousand copies of the new album here and that the number keeps growing steadily. Fantastic news!!

After the show we had a party to celebrate the tour and to get to hang out with the YMDITD-guys for more than show/soundcheck/backstage. We've been travelling in two different cars and staying at different places up until now.

We (most of us) soon found ourselves at a karaoke-bar and there is photo-evidence of severe throatdamaging/earshattering activities.
We're having some trouble uploading pictures but we'll work it out asap.

Yesterday we went to TOWER RECORDS in Fukuoka and checked out our cd's on display and signed at greetingcard for our fans there, first time ever! After that we went and bought some strings+equipment and cursed our thin wallets because everything at that music-store was like half the price of back home. The americans weren't too impressed tho, their prices is about the same...the bastards.

Tried to cure a raging hangover in the car to Osaka...7 hours in a van designed for japanese people isn't the easiest thing in the world. The seats are way too low so we kind of sit with our knees in our faces all the time.

Today we play a club called Drop and we're hoping for a good turnout. If you're close by Osaka, come on over to the Drop-club and we'll have a good time.

Until next time!!
/j

2007-06-19T08:55:00.000-07:00

Japan Tour Day 3: OKAYAMA

The gig in Tokyo at the O-East was amazing!! There was around 800-1000 people at the show and we did good concidering that we were more or less dead from traveling for about 20 hours...
All the Zankyo bands were amazing, especially Té, Naan and YOU.MAY.DIE.IN.THE.DESERT, but there really wasn't a single bad show during the whole evening.

Yesterday we played Kyoto at Whoopees and it was real nice. We did our first really good show and saw some amazing bands. Clean Of Core and Low-Pass were amazing! We also hung out backstage for a while before leaving for our hotel.
Kyoto is beautiful by night.

Here we are with the Y.M.D.I.T.D-guys, eating indian food!

Kono and Chung picked us up at 9:30 and we went to the Rokuon-ji temple in Kyoto or "The Golden Pavilion". It's (according to Kono) the most popular and well-visited temple in Japan.

It was amazingly beautiful and we had a really nice time there.

Back at the hotel after a looong day! We played at Crazy Mama 2 in Okayama and
it was great. YOU.MAY.DIE.IN.THE.DESERT really kicked ass tonight and S.o.T did good as well.

Y.M.D.I.T.D

Today we also got the news that we'll receive a bunch of money for promotion for "This Is A Copy..." from the swedish government. Plans to do a video is under way.

Didn't have a chance to update the blog yesterday so here we are. Gonna try to update as often as possible.

Next stop: Fukuoka...see you there.

much love!
/scraps of tape

SoT In Japan!!

2007-06-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

DAY 1: TOKYO

Hey Everyone!

Scraps Of Tape are in Japan, jetlagged and overwhelmed. It's about 5 hours
until our first show here and we just can't wait!!

We're hanging out at the amazing O-East in Shibuya, Tokyo and if you're ever in
Tokyo, GO HERE! It's fantastic.
We've met a bunch of great people already, our guide and lifeline Jounji (it's probably not spelled that way and I'm not sure how to at all, that's more how it's pronounced...i think), Kono from Zankyo Records, the YOU.MAY.DIE.IN.THE.DESERT-guys which we'll do the tour with and lot's others...

We've been travelling since 04.30 (swedish time) on the 16th...done about 14 hours of flying and moving 7 hours ahead timewise, so we're really messed up now, Marcus has flown for the first time and Johan has almost lost a pair of earplane-plugs into his head.

Everything started out amazingly with us having 1400:- € of excess-weight at Kastrup Airport (PANIC!!), Johan finding a set of keys on him that really shouldn't be there and then Johan losing/not receiving his boardingpass and almost missing the first plane to Paris. The rest of the trip went ok compared to this. Well...nerves tested and everything still works...some chestpains and headaches but other than that, all's well!!!

So, this is us right now, catching up on sleep and drinking water n coffee!

So, until more news comes our way, take care!!!

love/scraps of tape

One Day To Go...

2007-04-14T00:42:00.000-07:00

So, one more gig to go before we go home, and it feels very mixed. Very sad to not play anymore for a while and very good to come home...we miss our families and girlfriends!!

Audrey - better than ever!!!!

Last night we played with Audrey at the Blue Shell in Köln. Audrey were amazing (as always) and there were alot of people at the show! We even got Audrey onstage for the song "Hands In Air" on which they sing on the album as well, millions of thanks to you girls!!!

We travelled from England two days ago, after playing Leeds and Margate. Leaving the wonderful Once We Were behind to do a few more shows around U.K and Scotland.
We went to the beach and played some fotball and ate soft ice cream in Margate before playing together with the awesome band We Are Carnivors at this gallery which was fantastic, the Pharmacy Gallery! Chris and Helen who owns it was supernice people and Oli, our promotor was just fantastic!

beachybeachbitch

We are vegetarians...:)

After the England leg of the tour it felt good to be back in Germany again, we played in Frankfurt at the amazing Clubkeller which we've played once before and had fond fond memories of. Mathias, Ralf and Raoul from Daturah took care of us just as fantastic as always and we got the so longed for Mathias-breakfast at Raouls house!

So, now we're showering and getting ready for the last day, breakfast with Audrey and
the next adventure!!!

love/scraps...

Leeds!

2007-04-09T12:20:00.000-07:00

Hey, here in Leeds. We're having two days of as there were no bookings, sad but true.
At robs place, Marcus and Uffe is preparing tonights feast, they've already burned the first things but still it smells amazing. they´re trying to top eachother all the time, being the best cook and hassling rob for better "equipment" to work with. you guys....

We've had some really nice ups and some terrible downs the last week. Being back at la Hacienda in Nossegem and playing the wonderful Le Tunnel in Metz and meeting the fantastic people in Zeró Degré and Salima and Sam of Chez.Kito.Kat, were definitive Up's!!

Having our Tenderversion showcase in Paris cancelled on us with one day's notice by the venue, and without any reasonable explanation was a REAL downer...We're really sorry if this has caused anyone trouble, we're still on the case to find out why the hell the venue cancelled it. If you have any info on this, please let us know 'cause we're tearing our hair here. We had a very wet night there instead, with some of us getting too too drunk! We wound up at a canadian bar where they had an open stage so both bands performed two songs each.

We've also had some weird things happening to us, amongst some are Kenneth breaking his bass in Amsterdam during the first song, and having to continue the show on guitar. Actually it sounded very much ok and we had tons of fun!

We also got filmed and recorded in Utrecht, you can see the whole song "Since All The Birds Are Moving, Shouldn't We" here.

We set foot on English soil for the first time in s.o.t history three days ago and we've played Taylor John's in Coventry and The Cavern in Exeter(another really wet

night) and met alot of fantastic people...as I told you we're hanging out in leeds with rob who's putting up our show here tomorrow at the Brudenell Social Club. Can't wait to get back on the stage tomorrow!!!

Love from all of us!

LIEGE!!!

2007-04-01T03:58:00.000-07:00

So, morning in Vise at Nico's place. Just had some coffee and a couple of croissants, feeling on top of the world!!
Marcus has been a bit ill the last couple of days and now Johans beginning to feel it too but no problem. We'll get over it.

You can´t sleep better than this

Yesterday we played here at the amazing Honest Rock Festival. We got on last at about 23:30 after a fantastic couple of bands had played, including Passe-Montagne, The Sedan Vault, Raymondo, We Vs. Death and more... Just amazing shows from all of them.
We did our best and I think people liked it.
Yesterday was a hard day, we started driving from Bellinzona in Switzerland at 7:30 in the morning and we were in Vise at about 17 so...a rough drive but well worth it.

The gigs in Bellinzona and Gossau were great, both preceeded with just beautiful drives thru the Swizz landscapes. Being from the flat planes of Skåne in Sweden we're just stunned by the Alps every time were around them.

Chur, Switzerland

Peter Pan, Bellinzona

Some more pics...when we can

2007-03-29T03:48:00.000-07:00

Thumbs up!

Best Friends, you friendly local heroes at Schönbrunn, Wien.

Live at AZ Conni, Dresden!

The SoT repair-anything-guide:

Take broken object.

Open broken object

Look at broken object

Do Nothing

Put broken object back together

Now it will work...it always does. Magic some might say....

Finally, internet...

2007-03-29T01:15:00.001-07:00

Hello again.

We've had a run of bad luck when it comes to getting access to the internet the last few days but finally we've managed to get a hold of it.

Right now we're in Münich where we played at Feierwerk last night. The gig was really nice and the audience was small but really into it! There was another swedish band playing at the upstairs venue (we played downstairs) called The Grand Opening and we managed to catch a glimpse of them before we went on. They were really nice and we had a very minimal breakfast this morning with them. Turns out that 2 of the guys in the band also has a project called Will Gambola Sing which might be getting on TenderVersion soon...not confirmed yet but keep your eyes and ears to the ground.

The las couple of days has been really fantastic. We've done our first gigs in Poland, Austria and Croatia and have met alot of amazing people along the way.

Bartek, our promotor in Poland was just one of them. Amazing guy, thank you B!

Scraps first ever trip to Poland were to Krotozyn, where we played the local pub. Once there we had to wait for soundcheck because Poland were playing Azerbadjan in the European Championships Qualifications. So out came the beer, the pizza and the MEGAFON!
Lucky for us Poland won with 5-0 and everyone there was happier than a kid in a candystore...we also received 2 official polish fotball-shirts...

The gig was weird, 3 official photographers were circling us all the time and taking 100's of pictures, and the crowd consisted of people rainging between 16 - 50/60 years old and the place was packed.
The very second we got of stage, on came the hiphop and dancemusic, people started to talk and drink and we didn't exist anymore. This guy decked out in a perfect hiphop outfit took his place behind the turntables and on with the disco!!!
We were dog-tired and wanted to go back to the hotel to sleep but no way, we were in Poland now and we HAD to drink some vodkas and beer. We were standing outside going "We really have to drive early tomorrow and please let's go, we have to go!!" and the reply from the barowner was "No, you have to STAY! You are in POLAND NOW!! You have to stay."
Desperate for some sleep we took one shot of vodka and some beer and then practically forced our way out of there... Any other day we cold have had an amazing night of partying but we had a looong drive the next day and really had to sleep.

The next day was Wien and we had a long drive there. Most of the day was spent listening to Logh's "North" album (which is just stunning, good work there kapitano) and sleeping in the bus.
The gig at Arena in W was also really nice, we met Andi, the promoter and some of relatives of Kenta, Martin and Daniella. Thanks for coming!!! I also did a short sologig with Tsukimono.

We also met a fantastic guy called Andrei who guided us around Wien the next morning...one of my (Johan) guitars was broken and we were to 2 different instrument stores but no luck. We also went to Schönbrunn for some well deserved leisuretime. Marcus and Kenta did an amazing feat, climbing a big hill and actually we didn't really believe them at first but there's photographic evidence so I guess we have to believe them!

We've also run across a couple of not so amazing people, like the croatian borderguards.

The first time we tried to cross the border between Slovenia and Croatia but no no...we had cd's and merchandise which aren't legal to bring into or out of Croatia since it's not part of the EU yet. We tried to reason with them but no...we either had to turn around and go back to Slovenia or just give up our merchandise (we later got to know that this bordercrossing was the worst one of them all...really strict).
We turned back into Slovenia and drove to another crossing, where we thought we might be more succesful...perhaps by asking them for help or whatever.

We told the guards straight up we were a band and that we had merch, but saying it was for promotion. They still wanted to have alook at everything and as soon as the boxes of t-shirts were on the ground "swisch"....one of the guards was taking one for himself, another guard took out marcus guitar and started to ask him what music we were playing and what tuning Marcus used and we were actually beginning to fear for some of our equipment.
More and more guards approached and in a few minutes we had given away 6 t-shirts and one hoodie...they couldn't care less about our music tho.

Well they let us go and we got in time to the gig in Varadzin.
Well there we had a great gig and we met a girl (the name actually slips all of our minds at the moment!! We're really sorry!) who wanted to come see us in Zagreb...we needed a guide so the next day we met up and drove to Zagreb. It was real lucky we had her help as we found our way in notime to SC Teatar & TD in Zagreb. There we met Brada, our promotor, who treated us like kings!!!
The concerthall was amazing and we had the best accomodation we've ever had on tour. A beautiful hotel with two big rooms and tv and everything.
On top of that we were taken to this fantastic restaurant called "Doh-Doh" and had some spectacular food. We were absolutely stuffed when we were finished and I actually thought that I was gonna puke on stage. Bring out the buckets!!!!

The gig was probably one of the best ones of our career, we played for almost 1 1/2 hour, and did 3 encores!!! There was about 100 people in the crowd and they were just amazing! We later heard that there were people who had travelled from Belgrad to Zagreb just for the gig...that's so amazing to hear...thank you!!

So here we are, in münich as I said...having a little breakfast and updating this thing...
Oh yeah, to add to the bizarre events that has happened this tour, we also got ulled over by the police yesterday. We were stopped and had to get out of the van. When the cops started to pull out the rubber gloves, I nearly wet myself...no problem tho, they just searched through our pockets and bags and then we were off again. No problem...we didn't even have any beer or tobacco on us.

Well here we are, next stop Gossau in Switzerland!!!

love/scraps

got's to love it...

2007-03-29T01:15:00.000-07:00

don't ask me why the friggin pics won't be the right way...I've been trying to get them the right side up for like 20 mins now...fuck it.

The Fall plays Manchester on the 9th...we have a day off and we're in the UK!!!
No one else wants to go but me...damn you, all of you.

love/j

Dresden morning

2007-03-24T03:12:00.000-07:00

They day after in Dresden. Last night was completely amazing with a really strong crowd and meeting alot of old & new friends!
Framestar opened the evening with a kickass tight set of punkrock, really good! Our gig was the best sofar, we're still not quite there yet but every show is getting better and better.
We played here at AZ Conni a year ago on our last tour and it was one of the highpoints of that tour, definitly. We'll come back here anytime!

SoundCheck Berlin

2007-03-22T13:51:00.000-07:00

Soundcheck Berlin, Micke kicking the good ol' ludwig around...

European Tour 2007

2007-03-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

Hello!

Right now we're on the second day of our European Tour promoting our new album
"This Is A Copy Is This A Copy" which is out now on A TenderVersion Recording. We're gonna try to keep some sort of tourdiary this tour so friends and family can see what's happening. Updates will be depending on internet availability of course.

Here's the dates:

03/21 - Fundbureau, Hamburg (GER)
03/22 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER)
03/23 - AZ Conni, Dresden (GER)
03/24 - Rozchulantyna, Krotoszyn (POL)
03/25 - Arena, Wien (AUS)
03/26 - GimNet Club, Varadzin (CRO)
03/27 - SC Teatar & TD, Zagreb (CRO)
03/28 - Feierwerk, München (GER)
03/29 - Kubus, Gossau (SUI)
03/30 - Peter Pan, Bellinzona (SUI)
03/31 - Honest Rock Festival, Visé (BEL)
04/01 - Integendeel, Nossegem (BEL)
04/02 - Café Bitterzoet, Amsterdam (NL)
04/03 - Le Tunnel, Metz (FRA)
04/04 - Divan Du Monde (TenderVersion showcase!), Paris (FRA)
04/05 - DB Studios, Utrecht (NL)
04/06 - The Cavern, Exeter (UK)
04/07 - tba, tba (UK)
04/08 - tba, Manchester (UK)
04/09 - tba, tba (UK)
04/10 - The Brudenell, Leeds (UK)
04/12 - Clubkeller, Frankfurt (GER)
04/13 - Blue Shell, Cologne (GER)
04/14 - Out Of The Crowd Festival, Alzette (LUX)

Right now we're sitting at a Smoothee Bar in Prentzlauer Berg in Berlin.
Yesterday we played Hamburg at a place called Fundbureau.
A very nice place situated directly underneat a railway,
so the trains kept thundering by over us every 5 minutes or so. The other band playing this night was a local band called Molton. They played sort of a mathy indierock with their drummer singing thru a headset...that was pretty cool since you really don't get to see that very often.
We were ok, feeling a bit old and tired since it's been almost a year since we stood on stage, save the releasegig we did in Malmö a couple of weeks ago.
Tonight we're playing a club called Schokoladen here in Berlin together with some old friends of ours, the amazing band Iona. It's gonna be so awesome to see these guys again and to hear them play. Last time we met them was actually here at Schokoladen and we both played as well. We're hoping for a similar night of awesome music and lot's of laughs!