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the 27. and all that will happen before

May always seem to attack you when you least expect it - suddenly we are drowned in good work with new singles, new webpage, new shop, new concerts, new recordings and all the other stuff that surrounds you with passive aggression. Next thursday the 27. we will play at Pumpehuset in Cph with Slaraffenklang - a mix between Slaraffenland & Efterklang - a lovely evening I suspect - actually Kasper, the singer of Efterklang often performed our song Lost Ship live with us, and Anders Boll who I introduced earlier is their soundguy - Denmark is very small...Here is a picture from our Roskilde show where Kasper is with us some years ago:



read about the concert here

and a bit about our upcoming single on subscribtion here

Ganz toll.

Who is the best?

We have a problem choosing who of us i most worthy of recording the drums for Dexter II...last sunday we spend arguing if I should play the drums



or Q, what do you think....be honest!




I personally think that I rock, but I can hear that with some more practise, maybe Q has a chance in the future...He is just trying a bit too hard, playing cool and tough!

The thing about making music and dopamine levels

My dear friend Johannes aka. Cabin Fever also has a blog about his music here. Right now his also finishing his version of Difference. Apart from being one of the most talented songwriters I know, he is also very wise and funny, a good combination I would say. A while ago he posted this graph on his blog, and boy did I recognize the feeling going through the proces of making a song:



A few weeks after he posted this I saw a great lecture on the internet about animals and humans compared, by Robert Sapolsky. About 25 min. into the lecture he started talking about dopamine rushes, when solving a task (as eg. making a song) that we humans crave and live for, and the similarity with Johannes graph was striking...

Lyrics Difference

The danish poet Morten Søndergaard made the lyrics for Difference, and here it is:
difference

hi im home from jupiter
return to noise and toys
can't trust these conditions
i have spider sprinkle on

i want to get out of this loop

hi im back from pluto
but too entangled
and time is space
a blue blue tiger

let it go and the mind too

the terms of the evening light are clear and i am you and you are me
and we are here a green green beam from a star
the night is warm as usual
so we drink the cold cold water
and walk around the house the strange, strange messy house, this
messy house

hi im back from yesterday
where everything looks quite okay
andromeda and all that
only lightyears away


I tried to call the sun
I tried to get a hold of Mars
I tried to contact Mercury
And then I tried you

Listen to our new single Difference

Presenting a new different member of the marybell bunch of songs called Difference




Soon we will add a new shop where you can choose what to pay for our version of Difference, and all the other versions of the same song, by different artists as a subscription for Different Difference. More about that later...

Gaffa and Rasmus

I made an interview for the danish music magazine Gaffa, for the june issue about education. Rasmus Weng Karlsen is a great photographer and he took some pictures for the article and some others for his blog

The pirat radioshow

Here is the radio show - very danish and cosy - in the middle you can here our new single Difference in it´s full length (not yet released)

In the radio tonight with Difference

Tonight I will talk for a whole hour about Marybell, music and stuff in our college radio Aarhus Studenterradio. You can also listen here . I think I will actually bring the new and not-even-released-yet-single Difference. So go for a ride in you old car and tune in at 98,7 FM if you still know how to....

#1 Different Difference

The idea is to make the song Difference in many many different versions that we will release as time passes - made by different artist we think is different enough to make a differet difference. Here you see Jens Mønsted working on his club-difference, and me and Q trying to be cool with the sound of the young. Boy, I look forward to compare this to the version made by Bronson Brothers. Hopefully they will be released together with our version (and maybe a couple more) in about a month or so, right here...

#1 Different Differences feat. Jens Mønsted from marybell katastrophy on Vimeo.

Presenting Anders Boll

I will continue presenting some of the most important co-creators of Marybell as a whole. I already introduces my sister and Q the famous drummer and also composer of some of the early and upcoming Marybell songs. Today I would like to start at the beginning, introducing my first Marybell collaborator Anders Boll. He is my old friend and we followed eachother at almost every concert I played for many years - with Anders as sound engineer. Before Marybell it was my youth band Baton Rouge, then a lot of touring with Tiger Tunes. But when I started making Marybell music I asked Anders for mixing and programming help and he did a lot of the early stuff eg. on the song Hip. We are actually doing new stuff together now on some of the new songs, so I´m proud to introduce this fantastic friend! He also made the first Maria Timm album with her and does sound for great acts as eg. Efterklang.

Teaser

Here is a little snippet from our newest song Difference that I told you about before - Morten Søndergaard made the lyrics and Q is playing the drums on the track. The pictures are from our last gig at Aarhus University - where Q didn´t play the drums, but took a lot of pictures as you see:

Difference Teaser from marybell katastrophy on Vimeo.

We have great plans with this song, as we invited some danish artists we know to make other versions of the song - a hole coleection of Different Differences!
We will of course get back to this later when the music is ready from Bronson Brothers, Jens Mønsted, Cabin Fever, Darling Don´t Dance, Beta Satan and hopefully more....

Gang Riot vs. Highschool Rebels

This weekend we experienced some of the contrasts of this little, yet versatile country. First up the beautiful city of Sønderborg, way south, with a little yet dedicated crowd of highschool rebels, who defied the harsh reality of the upcoming examination in school the next day, and danced the night away - remembering that the body is connected to the brain, and the brain is working better the more you dance! Saturday we played a show way east on the island of shit (sorry, but someone told me this nickname, and judging from the crowd next door at the technoparty one might agree...) at Beta, just next door to Amager Bio. We had a great concert with a wonderful crowd, but afterwards we faced reality when we went out the door, facing marching youngsters on drugs shouting hippies at us, while the police tried to remain passive aggresive - oh boy - sometimes it's hard to tell where the real province is?

last two shows for a while coming up...

We hope to see you for our last two shows for a while. This spring we will focus on making more new songs. Tomorrow we go to Sønderborghus as south as possible in Denmark and saturday we play as east as you can get (almost) at Beta Amager. We look forward to play with the full setup (A REAL DRUMMER INCLUDED) and also play some of the new songs - including Difference - the song we just finished.

silence before...

I know it´s been a while since I have been active here, but boy have I been doing a lot of exiting marybell stuff. Our first single coming up is called Difference and is finally finished after a long journey, on the road and sometimes the offroad...
It feels like it´s a whole new continent we set foot on - more clear, simple, somehow oriental, orchestral and free - eventhough the process sometimes feels very unclear and complex and the practical arrangements as well:

Soon I will give you a prelisten and we work on an exiting new way of releasing it. But much more about that later.

Tomorrow we have the honour of supporting Gus Gus at Train i Aarhus, and next week we go to Sønderborg and Copenhagen to play the last shows for a while - we need time to record...mix...and so on!

pppphewwww

Sorry Germany, thank you explosions!

One sad fact we have to face: Our german shows are postponed once again, till after summer. There is many reasons for this, that I don´t want to bore you with. But I have to say I really miss good old germany! It´s frustrating when logistics obstruct music.

But the other day helped a little bit on the frustrations: Emil and I played two songs for the opening of an art exhibition in Viborg . The exhibition is centered around a project we are a part of called Love Alley arranged by Marianne Jørgensen; a wonderful artist who once wrapped a tank in pink knitting. It´s a bit hard to explain the concept of Love Alley, but our part is a vulcano with sound. In the movieclip you can see some explosions she made in the beginning of the project outside her house... what a setting -
THANK YOU EXPLOSIONS!

MY SISTER!

Today my sisters awsome blog, read by hundreds around the world every day turns

years old. She celebrates by handing out a gift to a lucky reader. She simply has the best eye for the visual and tangible and combining the two in wonderful art. She made up the name Marybell Katastrophy, the logo, the scenography and most of the artwork throughout the years. Here is a little view of some of it:

THE ITALIAN WAY

We love the Italian way, and in these pictures you can see why:



Nice surroundings, here made by the wonderful artist Blu on the walls of the first venue in Scandicci.







admirable audience culture build by free entrance, cheap drinks and good atmosphere (of cause at the expense of fancy interior decoration and good sound gear...), making it possible to gather around 100 people for every concert. Ohhh how we could learn a little by that in Denmark.



Surprising hairstyles and a good self confidence



Room and heartwarmth for aggressive danish people occupying their rooms, beds and minds



The most beautiful nature to eat your lunch in...and get tipsy on



Good priorities in life



And all that wonderful art,



weird animals, and last but not least



pizza...and wine



We thank you and hope to return this year!

But of cause it was also good to be home again...

no. 3 best album of the decade...in Aarhus....

In the danish newspaper JP we got voted as no. 3 best album of the decade...
actually I hate all these list of best "swimmers of the decade" and so on, but the list contains a lot of good music so that of cause make me proud. I will get back to you soon with a little dairy of our Italien tour a month ago, but I´m still missing some of the good photos from the trip, hope I will get them soon.

Happy New Year!

Snow Show Tonight

Tonight we play a late snow show at Studenterhus Aarhus, in our hometown - The last show this year, together with the curious oneman show of Prins Nitram and a new, to me, unknown band called Photic. Our drummer Q is down with Influeza A, the poor kauka, so we will play our Italian Electro set....