Here’s another take from the acoustic set on the release party. “Trip Trip” in quite a different version from what you’ve heard before, I’m sure.

If you’d like to compare you can listen to the original song on the debut album.

That’s pretty much how I feel now. We’ve been workin’ our asses to the bone to say at least and we’ve been scraped on all our money and savings to get it out. But the feeling now, is somehow wonderful mixed with emptiness.

This weekend that went by we had the release-party at Mejeriet and it was a pleasure to meet all our fans and friends. We are truly blessed, to have such nice friends. And it was a pleasure to showcase all the new songs, and it was kinda cool to showcase some of our older songs and songs from other artists that has set their marks into our soul in an acoustic set. I hope you enjoyed it, I was kinda nervous to play an acoustic set, cause it’s so far from what we use to play.

Here’s a song from the acoustic set. (filmed by Jerry Giertz) House Of Pain from Faster Pussycat

Yours Truly! / Stuff

Today it’s August 27th which means graduation day for our naughty child “The World of Voodoo”. Ten tracks we hope will take you on a rock n’ roll adventure  you want to experience again and again.

We hope to see you at tonight’s release party where the band will play the album from the start to the end. There will also be an acoustic session earlier in the evening and more surprises. And everyone will get a “The World of Voodoo”-CD.

For those of you who can’t make it, we’ve made the album available everywhere (well almost…):
On our music page you can see the options if you’d like to download it, order a CD or maybe a beautiful T-shirt.

It’s also available on Spotify, on Itunes, on Amazon, on Soundcloud and a bunch of other places. Your choice. If you want it any other way just tell us and we’ll do our best. We’ll even mail you the album if need be.

Let’s start the journey:

If you like to read press releases, here’s one in Swedish and one in English.

We’re steaming it up a bit with a new free song from “The World of Voodoo” to listen to. You can download it too by right-clicking the link. Later tonight we’ll add another song. Here’s “The New Stone Age”:

The New Stone Age

The atmosphere was thunderous today in the rehearsal room, as I met the band a couple of hours ago. They had just received a letter (you know, a snail mail), where the label threatened to postpone the release of “The World of Voodoo”!

The reason for this seemed to be that the band is handing out CD:s to everyone at the release party on Saturday, for free. And the label want their share.

- They can have their share alright!!!, Maniac boomed.
- 80% right? And they will have their 80%…out of nothing, he said with a grim smile on his face.

He got more and more agitated, walking around the room, shouting some sentences I don’t really want to translate here. Suddenly he stopped and said slowly:

- I can tell you. NOTHING comes between us and our fans! NOTHING! Get that?

He picked up a bunch of papers that was lying on a chair and held them up in the air:

- This is the contract with the label. I think you should give it back to them…

And he started to tear the pages apart. Since it was 200 pages or so, he was quickly joined by the others, giving him a hand with the tearing and tossing. Especially 3B seemed to be enjoying the drill, as he said it reminded him of the good days in school.

5 minutes later, the contract was in shreds. Maniac shoved most of the thousands of small pieces of paper in a bucket, opened a can of beer and poured the contents in the bucket.

- Here, take it to the label, he said. There will be a release party, no matter what. It’s all in our own hands, hahaha.

As usual I had to try to fix things, so I went over to the record label, and met with one of the executives (he wanted to be anonymous, if I were to write the story).

- Well, I can tell you that the contract is quite clear about this. I know it by heart and on page 143, paragraph 246d it clearly says….

I stopped him, muttered something about the contract and pointed at the bucket.

- Haha, do they really think it’s that easy, he said calmly. We do live in a digital age, and ripping some signed papers apart won’t help you. We have a special department for this and with their modern methods they glue this contract to one piece again, in no time.

- And how long will that take?

- Well, normally I’d say a couple of weeks, as with normal bands. But normal bands don’t pour beer over their shredded contracts, so let’s say a month.

- But then the release party is over?

- Yes I know, but then they will have to undo it.

- Undo it? How?

-We have our methods. For example, we can confiscate all images, video clips and sound recordings from the party. And if there’s no evidence left, it didn’t happen. Hahaha…

After this last statement I left the building, leaving the executive laughing behind me. I’m sure we will hear more about this later on, but for now I’m satisfied that the party on Saturday is on, no matter what.

/a tired manager

Well, to get in the mood for Saturday, we’d better serve you something more from the album. Here’s the third song from “The World of Voodoo”: “In Touch With My Demons”.

Enjoy!

In Touch With My Demons

(Right-click to download the mp3)

Here’s the fifth part, presenting “Liquor”.
You can watch part 1-4 on our video page.

Back when we were writing the first album I was heavily into soul music (still am) and especially Joe Tex. I was fascinated by the groove of the song Have You Ever and tried put that feel into our song Tellin’ Lies. A true case of missing the mark, but check them out! There’s definitely some similarities to the riffs, wouldn’t you say?

Hats off to you, Joe!

 
Just a few days now to the “The World Of Voodoo” release party and that song “Tellin’ Lies” will re-surface in one of our live sets that night, but in a totally re-arranged version (largely thanks to The Rock who really got a knack for picking things apart and putting them back together again)

Well, we’ll play all the new stuff as well of course Can’t wait ’til Saturday! /Bedlam

And the fourth part is ready, ie. the ramblings about the fourth song on the album; “Say Hello to My Bullet”.

The other parts in the series you can find on our video page.

Finally I’m friend with all technical stuff. I’ve been strugglin’ hard to get things to work the way that I want them to work. So I can put back the clip of the week now again.

Here’s a clip that I shot when we we’re rehearsing for the releaseparty we’re going to have the 27th of August at Mejeriet in Lund. It contains Maniacs solo in”Liquor”, which has been extended for this night only.

Before I stop writing I want to highlight our streetteam which is being led by Axel Slipknot, he’s doin a terrific job!

Yours truly! / Stuff