Daddy’s Girl
This week’s song is a bit tricky to explain… So let me try to explain the inspiration behind it, maybe that makes more sense. All along I promised myself not to preach to you guys, except about the music business…
July 25, 2014
The Importance of Failure
I wrote a post on “Why do we fail” awhile back. This got me thinking of failure bit more and this started the digestive process in my head which often leads to these blog posts. In the traditional sense we…
Tell My Darling
This week I am in Bondeno in Italy as you read this 🙂 We are about to start this summers tour with Sliotar, and the first show is on 19th of July in Bundan Celtic Festival, a wonderful festival in…
The Purpose of a Singer-Songwriter
I’m sitting on the stage in the Porterhouse. It’s only 45 mins to Sliotar‘s Saturday night set. I’ve set up my equipment and I am strumming my guitar, just for myself. The house sound system is on and playing whatever…
Do we “Judge” too fast?
And another summer week flies by faster than F16 😀 As you might know I took few days off last weekend, and I must say I was in need of it. So this week I was hoping to be working…
What they tell you should do…
They tell you to write a hit song, something catchy , something that people will remember. Make it a love song, a happy song, a party song. They tell you to record the song in the best studio in town,…
How would Johnny Cash do it?
By now it is no secret that I am a quite big Johnny Cash fan. If you grew up in the western world, Johnny Cash is pretty much as well recognised name in music as Elvis or the Beatles. So…
City Lights
This week’s song is my favourite type of songs, story song. It started only as a riff, but soon found its home in a set of lyrics I had been half working on for a few weeks and it all…
Sunny Summer’s Day
Last week was a bit of a milestone for me, 25 songs and two albums since the beginning of the year! Well… I set out to do much more, but still getting that far did feel quite good 🙂 So…
Passenger, Whispers
Michael Rosenberg, better known as Passenger, is no newcomer to the music business. “All The Little Lights” exploded him into the awareness of the general music public, and deservedly so. But those who thought he might be a new to…
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