Skin Sofa @ Hard Rock Cafe Oslo, 5. September 2013

'nuff said  :-)   Be there!  :-)

Skin Sofa on 30 March in Ås, and on 1 July in Innsbruck Austria!

Another two Skin Sofa gig ahead! One, on 30 March, from approx 20:00, at Bugge'n in Ås.
The other, on 1 July, at Weekender in Innsbruck! Yes it's true, we're coming there again!!

A Skin Sofa video!!!

It's on youtube!

More Skin Sofa stuff: http://www.skinsofa.com

Skin Sofa moving ahead at full speed!

Massive Skin Sofa activity! We played two very successful gigs in Austria (Innsbruck and Kufstein), bought band gear, got our CD, had a photoshooting, shot a video (coming to youtube soon - meanwhile, look at clips from the Kufstein gig!), and another gig ahead at "Kroa Absolutt Hyggelig" (Fagerstrand, Nesodden) on 11 August! Yee-haw!

Several gigs ahead

In addition to the Magneten gig on 9 March at 21:00, Skin Sofa will play at the Emergenza Festival, in Revolver, Oslo, on 8 March. The event starts at 19:00, we'll be on stage at 21:00. On 16 March, we'll play at the Innflytningsfest of Realistforeningen, in Vilhelm Bjerknes Hus on Blindern Campus, Oslo - guess when?? Yeah, at 21:00 ... easy to remember! Just avoid making plans at 21:00 in general, from now on, to be able to see our gigs :-)

Skin Sofa at Magneten, 9 March 2012

Skin Sofa plays @ Magneten (Torshov, Oslo) on 9 March!! Come alone, bring a friend or friends, bring your girlfriend or your boyfriend, your wife or your husband, a bunch or the family! Reserve the night, board the Skin Sofa flight!! :)

Two upcoming Skin Sofa gigs!

Skin Sofa plays at the Battle of the Bands in John Dee, Oslo, on 27 November. The whole event starts at 18:00, and we need you to come and vote for us! :-)

On 9 December at 21:00 we'll play at the legendary Elm Street Rock Cafe in Oslo, as a support act for the release concert of Kongefamilien - this is one of the last gigs before they shut down the place!

I'm looking forward to seeing you there!

Emergenza: we made the first round!

Yee-ha! Skin Sofa passed the first round of the Emergenza Festival band competition, which means that we'll get to play in John Dee, Oslo, on 15th of April. Come there and vote for us! :-)

New recordings

Recently, I was in the studio with Jostein and Viktoria, to record two of her songs. Since this happened in only one morning, we ended up doing an almost live recording, with practically no fixes afterwards. The first two songs on the VOGS page ("Without a reason" and "The birds") are the result.

Also, the Skin Sofa gig in Skuret is just ahead - Wednesday 24 February, evening. Apparently Skuret streams their concerts live via their website, maybe you can see us play from your home, via your browser!

Some gigs ahead!

With VOGS in Garage on 9 February, with Skin Sofa in Skuret on 24 February, and Skin Sofa again at the Emergenza Festival in the 17-20 March time period (exact day to be determined)

UiO computer science is doing great and Santa is a punkrocker, also in China!

Okay, one by one. First of all, as I keep telling everyone, I'm proud and happy to be a part of the University of Oslo's computer science institute. I had the impression that things are just great there, but now it's officially confirmed: the University of Oslo reached position 65 in the worldwide "Shanghai ranking", and computer science reached position 49, next to Politecnico di Torino and TU München. Wow! :-)

Skin Sofa has updated its myspace page for Christmas! Check it out, to listen to the Christmas song that we made, Santa is a punkrocker! Listen to the whole song because there's a surprise part towards the end!

Finally, today, we received the folder for a CD that will be released in China... check it out:


We're song number two.

Gig announcement

I'll play with my punk band "Skin Sofa" on Friday 25 September 21:00, in Konows Gate 67B (motorcycle club room, in a big grey building which was once called "den gamle postgarasjen"), Oslo. To get there with public transport, take bus 34 or 70, e.g. from Jernbanetorget, to stop "Kværner". Don't be disappointed that we only play 6 songs - there will be around 4 bands playing this evening.

... and 5 of the songs will work really well because we just recorded them for a demo this weekend, in "bark studio"! Stay tuned for an update, we'll have music on our myspace page soon!

A general update

I've been a bit lazy with blog updates recently, but a lot of things happened - so I figured I'd just give a general quick update here: I moved to a new flat in Bogstadveien, Majorstuen (or -a), which is a nice but somewhat posh area. Frognerparken and Slotsparken with the royal castle are within 10 min walking distance, and it's another 10 minutes to the harbor. I spent some time with IKEA stuff, well, and also their staff, and got quite fed up with them. My living room looks like an IKEA show room now - all I need to make it perfect is one of these fake TV's. Seriously, I'm in urgent need of some contrast. Some plants and pictures maybe... Matthias (Erasmus student) helped me a lot with it all, thanks! He also showed me Sognsvann, which fascinates me - actually I think I can reach this place faster from my home here via subway than I can reach Lanser See from my home in Innsbruck (via car). As you can probably tell, I'm still extremely fond of Oslo - actually more and more, as I discover new things here all the time. And for everything I see and experience, I'm thinking about how our baby girl is going to like it all... well I'm sure she'll love it! Although she's going to see winter first, and watching "30 days of night" (on my iPod, in the subway) got me a bit scared about that :-)

There's some news on the musical front, too. I started to play with a punk rock band called "Skin Sofa", working towards a short gig on the last weekend of September (yeah, right, a gig already). That's good fun. I also jammed with Mark, which was great - I hope we can set something good up together, like a real band! and hopefully I'll get to play with Viktoria soon, too, her music sounds very interesting to me. Things are getting quite international, musically: a guy from Australia, a girl from Russia, and a truly Norwegian punk rock band (sure, I'm Norwegian too :-) but give me some more time to learn the language... btw, thanks to Matthias, I started to watch Norwegian movies with Norwegian subtitles now, and it takes me something like 2 1/2 hours to watch a 1 1/2 movie because I stop and rewind it all the time. Oh well... it's fun nevertheless).

Well, that's about it. Life's great, I'm happy, and I hope you're happy too!