ME & MUSIC

Major influences to my music writing.

Bruce Springsteen - Or I woould have started. Thanks Bruce. Inspirational albums: Nebraska, The river, Born to run, Ghost of Tom Joad, Tracks (4 cd-box).

Joakim Thåström - All from Ebba Grön, Imperiet and his solo carrier. In my eyes, the best songwriter in Swedish lyrics, amazing.

Lars Winnerbäck - Just a lot of his songs from various albums.

Favorite music & artists.

I do like a lot, but in somewhat order of favorism.

Rock, old punk rock, pop, Irish (cetlish) music, some metal, religious, classical and 80-ties, Les miserables 2012, The Phantom of the opera and some more

Bruce Springsteen, Joakim Thåström, Nightwish, Judas Priest (old recordings), Amy MacDonald, The Cranberries (RIP Dolores), Queen, Noice, Kent.

How it all began.

I got the Born to run box as a Christmas present, and loving Bruce music, I watched The making of Born to run dvd. Something inside me just "clicked" and suddenly I realised how to write music.

Shortly after that, in 2007, I wrote my first song Älskar, and then more songs just came along, both in Swedish and in English, between 2007 - 2012 especially.

Two bands.

I felt it would be nice to play with a band.

In 2008, Haxx, my first band started, but due to circumstances it didn't work out in the end. It was me - vocals & guitar, Jan Aldervåg -guitar, Ola Högberg - bass, Magnus Ifver - drums. We did record some songs in a studio.

In 2009 i started a new band, picked up Ola Högberg on drums and a new bassist player Linus Wallin. A more harmocal band, but it came to an end as I moved out of town. I still miss those guys. But we did some recording in the studio 2010 before I moved away.

Acoustic studio session 2012.

In 2012 I booked a studio for some acoustic recording of some songs. I called Linus Wallin to assist on bass, guitar and som additional vocal. 15 songs and 3 hours studio time.

Linus knew some of the songs from before. Others I played through once for him. He got the charts and played without rehearsing them with me first, and he did a bit of improvising during the recording session.