News archive: Action Biker
FIVE YEARS OF FRIENDLY NOISE
In March it’s exactly five years since our first record, “Friendly People Making Noise”, was released. We will celebrate this jubilee by a whole bunch of events this Spring. It all seems interesting and fun, we think. For interviews and/or more info contact us first through e-mail: friendlynoise@gmail.com
* In March it’s exactly five years since our first record, “Friendly People Making Noise”! We will celebrate this jubilee by a whole bunch of events:
* First, on Wednesday 5 March, there will be a release party at Allmänna Galleriet for the second issue of film magazine FLM where Friendly Noise again is responsible for the musical content: Sarto will perform live, we will DJ, and videos for “Clouds in transit” by Testbild! and “I look out for you” and “ICA Lappis” by Action Biker will be shown.
* Then, on Thursday 27 March, there’s a Friendly Night at Debaser Slussen, where Testbild!, Most Valuable Players and Differnet will perform live. The same night we hope our two new records will be available for the first time: “Splendid Isolation” (FYN 068), a compilation of a selection of songs from our 2007 mp3 series, and “Hesperian Puisto”, the long-awaited debut album from Action Biker (FYN 069). Don’t miss the Action Biker interview in the new issue of Bon, issue #42.
* And that’s not all, Friendly Noise will also host a club in Stockholm with live music and DJ:s. It will be the first Tuesday every month, beginning in April, at Sugar Bar.
Other news: The three latest Friendly Noise albums are now available via Radio Khartoum’s Friendly Goods which means much much better availability in America from now on. Also, “Day for night” by The Dreamers are now distributed in Japan, through Quince!
[Action Biker, Concerts, Differnet, Events, Friendly Noise associates, Most Valuable Players, Releases, Testbild!, The Dreamers]
ACTION BIKER LIVE + LISTENTOEUROPE APPRECIATION
On Friday 18 January Action Biker will perform live, together with Paddington DC and Park Hotell, at Klubb Spark at Debaser Medis in Stockholm. DJ:s in the restaurant during the evening: Stefan Zachrisson of Friendly Noise together with our friend and Sonic writer, Johan Jacobsson.
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“Une Teinte Intense” by Testbild! has been selected by ListenToEurope Television as one of the best European albums 2007. Here’s their message to us:
“We congratulate that the album of your band has been selected among the best European albums of 2007 by ListenToEurope.
ListenToEurope is a project aimed at the promotion of the best music Made In Europe, and it connects media from 8 different European countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden).
A total of 40 albums were chosen (5 from each country) and 1 video from each album is broadcast by ListenToEurope Television.”
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And some blog attention for Friendly Noise lately:
Bibadi and Elefanten (Sonores) about MVP, BBCCHICKENROBOT about Robotboy, Home On The Fringe and Talk About The Past about our “New Year’s Eve” song, Tobydammit & Co about our mp3 releases, The Jet Set Junta about The Dreamers and Erik De Vahl, and Eliek about Testbild!
[Action Biker, Concerts, Media, Most Valuable Players, Testbild!, The Dreamers]
MORE FRIENDLY NOISE RELATED LINKS/WRITINGS/THINGS RECENTLY
Pictures from the FLM/Friendly Noise night. MVP:s recent radio interview is now available in the P3 Pop archive. Home On The Fringe is a new blog that has written lots of nice things about Friendly Noise lately, here’s some entries: (best) Friendly Noise, the inexplicable feeling of testbild!, …and i’ve got to be free, FYN 62, sjoberg vs. testbild!. Another blog that has been very supportive is Talk About The Past, here’s what they’ve been saying about MVP, Testbild!, Flow Flux Clan and Erik De Vahl. More blog attention: Beneath A Steel Sky about Flow Flux Clan and Erik De Vahl, and Sally Cinnamon about MVP:s “Rondo”. Music Is The Scenery and Hiroshima Deathmatch on Action Biker.
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FYN 60/ACTION BIKER & FLM RELEASE PARTY
New free Friendly Noise mp3 single release, by Action Biker, out now!
To co-incide with this release Action Biker will perform live - her first Stockholm concert in a year - at the release party for the first issue of FLM, a new, ambitious magazine about film (”Initierade texter om rörliga bilder och allt som hör till - spaningar, reportage och kritik”). During the night there will also be the premiere screening of Sebastian Rozenberg’s video for Most Valuable Players’ song “Rondo”, the recent Friendly Noise single. At Allmänna Galleriet, Kronobergsgatan 37, Stockholm, on Thursday 29 November, 19:00-01:00. Free entrance.
[Action Biker, Concerts, Events, Most Valuable Players]
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW
The following Friendly Noise artists are currently available for interviews, on topics such as ADHD and death:
The Dreamers
Testbild!
Enheten för musik och melodi
Differnet
Most Valuable Players
Kissing Mirrors
Action Biker
Email us at friendlynoise@gmail.com to request an interview or review copy, or for any other media enquiries.
[Action Biker, Differnet, Friendly Noise associates, Media, Most Valuable Players, Testbild!, The Dreamers]
RIP IT UP
There’s a new, very promising, two-day festival in Säffle in Sweden in July, where Friendly Noise artists Action Biker and Kissing Mirrors will perform, look at the Rip It Up website for all necessary further info!
[Action Biker, Concerts, Friendly Noise associates]
LAGA ACTION BIKERS KRONÄRTSKOCKRÖRA!
På Sonics hemsida (food recipy, in Swedish). Food bonus: “ICA Lappis” (if you listen to the lyrics you’ll know what we mean). The video was made in 2005 already, by Wreck Creative Studios, and the song will be on Action Bikers’ forthcoming debut album on Friendly Noise. At Action Bikers’ myspace page you can listen to a remix by another song that will be on the album, Keukengereis’ remix “I Look Out For You”. More: Sarah Nyberg Pergament, aka Action Biker, sings backing vocals on the song “The Strangest Dream” from The Honeydrips´ just released, really good album “Here Comes The Future” (on the Sincerely Yours label). Hanna Fahl and Patrik Lindgren from Kissing Mirrors also contributes to that record.
[Action Biker, Friendly Noise associates, Media]
NEW YEAR, NEW SITE, NEW RELEASES, NEW PEOPLE, NEW IMAGES, NEW…
When we think of the near future, the sense and colour of 2007, the fifth year of Friendly Noise, is brightly optimistic. Our website has a new design by Åsa Samuelsson, and we will be updating this a lot more from now on! We’re starting a new section of mp3 releases, premiered by Differnet and Viktor Sjöberg! In Spring there will be a new CD album by Differnet, called “Collapsing Universe”! Kissing Mirrors have signed a seven album deal with Friendly Noise, a partnership starting with the event of the release of a 7” single of two songs about death, also out some time in Spring! Later this year an Action Biker album will, finally, be released! And there are a lot of other things going on. We’ll let you know.
Most Valuable Players did some concerts together with The Embassy in December and January, both performing their own songs and as The Embassy’s backing band. Katja Ekman reviewed their Svenska Musikkklubben concert for The Jet Set Junta blog, take a look. Now MVP won’t play live for a while, until they have a whole new set of songs.
On November 4, 2006 we had a wonderful Friendly Noise night in Gothenburg at Underjorden/Koloni. Ved, Most Valuable Players, Differnet and Testbild!/Viktor Sjöberg performed their music live. Here’s a film of Viktor Sjöberg playing Testbild! (a brand new song, not available on the “Imagine A House” album!). Shot by Noctos, with Elisabeth Sjökvist guesting on vocals. Fantastic. Friendly Noise heart Viktor Sjöberg.