Dave Doin' Asia

So, we had a few busy weeks with a gig at the Hultsfred festival and a gig in conjuction with the Sonisphere festival in Hultsfred (which was one of the greatest experiences we ever had. Big hand to the awesome audience!). We also attended both festivals as visitors, which means we had to drink quite a couple of brews these past weeks.

However, since we haven't been drunk ALL the time there are a few songs that have words now. At the moment I'm working on a gangster/mafia-themed song and I figure I just might need some inspiration. So if you know any good gangster/mafia movies, feel free to namedrop them in the comments below :)

The recording is coming along quite nicely. We're currently working on the vocals, but I got a cold a couple of days ago so I'm not singing that well at the moment. Instead, we're gonna put Dave in front of the microphone to track his backing vocals before he leaves for Asia on the 4th of august with no date set for his return. Let's hope he'll have a great time and that he won't be gone for too long!

Anyhoo, don't forget to namedrop mafia movies in the comments below.

Cheers,
Robert - STN

Pictures and stuff.

Hello all!

Well, we survived the Hultsfred's Festival, which is good news I suppose. I thought I would stop by and share some pictures of the event with the masses(?). We had a blast and I'll tell you, it was a really grand feeling standing on that HUGE stage, let alone playing on it! Enough babbling..








If you have any photo's or videos of your own from the show feel free to send them to us!

We have T-shirts left, so give us a shout if you would like to buy one! It's only 100 Sek + postal fee's. So what are you waiting for? If you want to know what it looks like you should check out the previous blogpost.

In other news, I have been informed that Robert is writing some lyrics! Everyone has been quite busy with other stuff so we haven't been able to put a new Video Diary up or anything - but rest assured that it is indeed coming! And we will very soon start recording some vocals! I think it will have to wait till next week though due to most of us attending the Sonisphere Festival. Lots of festivals this time time of year, but we'll be back on track pretty soon!

See you soon!
/Rickard - Stn

Merch?

How would you like that baby on a T-shirt?

Well, good news! T-shirts are inbound!

Bad news is the quantity is very limited, so you have to make yer way down to the Hawaii stage tomorrow at noon to get your hands on one. It's a real looker, I know, so they will probably sell out pretty quick. If there's any T-shirts left after the show we will let you know.

Hope to see you tomorrow!
/Straight To Nowhere

Stuff..

As you already know by now, we will be performing at the Hawaii stage at this years Hulstfredsfestivalen this Saturday. We are currently quite busy rehearsing, and tonight Robert & I will probably sit down a bit and try out some vocals on a new tune we may or may not play. So, if you want to hear something new from us you should probably stop by if your there, just to be sure. Also - we just maaay have some merch.. But you just never know.

Next week we will probably get back to the record and start producing some vocals! Interesting times. Check back soon for more. We will post here with our own impressions of the show. Hope you all will share your own thoughts with us!

See you Saturday!

/Rickard - Stn

Lyrics

I'm sitting at home in front of my computer on this extremely warm day, writing some lyrics while having a beer :) I'm starting to get the lyrics finished for one song, but it's kinda hard to pick the right words at the right place while trying to get all the stuff I wanna say out of my system. I think it'll come out just fine though...

//Robert

Status report.

Hello blog readers!

Just wanted to pop by and let you all know what's going on in the Stn camp!

First and foremost, the bass is now done! Dave did a great job. I think we all did actually. After he was done I laid down some tambourine and various percussion on the songs. We didn't have the time for eggs and maracas but that will be recorded in the near future.

After that we moved out of the studio and back to my home based studio. Let me tell you, it was a mess in the first place, stuff everywhere!



But now things are in order again. Pictures will follow at some point. While Robert has been home writing some lyrics me and my brother Henrik have been quite busy mixing some of the material, and I can tell you that it will sound awesome!

Hopefully we will start tracking the vocals really soon. In the coming two weeks we probably will be kind of busy with rehearsing due to a pretty special show we will be doing for the kids here in Hultsfred at this years festival next Saturday at noon! We will be playing at the biggest stage(!), namely Hawaii(!!), and I bet it's going to be awesome!

We will be back with more posts very soon! Until then..

/Rickard - Straight To Nowhere

Big update! + new Video Diary! *updated*

Hello there!

Today we have a pretty big update for you. First and foremost, ALL the guitars are now done! I was nagging Chris about updating the blog to let you know but for some odd reason he hasn't.. So I will be doing this post instead. It's nice to hear the songs with all the guitars as you get a better impression of how the songs will sound like in the end. And it sounds awesome! Chris & Robert have really done well. But there is a big chunk missing... And that, of course, is the bass - which we have moved on to today!



We got up to the studio quite early this morning and did some soundcheck of Dave's amp.

But before we began he put on some new strings on his preciuos Ibanez - no dirty old strings are making their way on to this album!

We feel we have a solid bass sound now, which is good! We didn't let any time go to waste so he nailed one song pretty fast. Then we took a break due to me having to do some other work elsewhere.

We will probably head up to the studio some more today and track some more bass.

In other news - we played a very fun gig on the 6th of June here in Hultsfred, which is a while back now, but we want to say thank you to those of you who showed up and supported us! Our former bass-player Petter Gunnarsson stepped in for David because he refused to skip the Sweden Rock Festival ;) So a big thank you to Petter as well. Sadly, I don't have many pictures of the event at this time, but the ones I have I will happily share!



(Photos by: Danielle Simu, except the setlist, which was shot by none other than me)
If you have any more, please feel free to send them to us! We will post them here and give you the credit! We will probably make some more show announcements soon, so stay tuned!

And now, for the thing that all of you have been waiting for.... The latest instalment of the Video Diary! In this episode.. Well, people actually get hurt, and by people, I mean Chris! So if you wanna' see some blood, join in on the fun!
(I have to stress that he did not get any serious injuries)

Hope you enjoyed. Feel free to give us a scream (or a simple hello) in the comments!

Last but not least, I thought about changing the our name and take a totally different direction with this band. Sadly I did not.. Anyway, I did make this drawing to illustrate my inner desires!

(For those of you who doesn't understand the word "Helvete", here is a quick translation: "Hell")

See you soon!
//Rickard - Straight To Nowhere