A West Side Fabrication

Just a short statement from this weekend, since Trästockfestivalen is over and out for this year. Seven of our acts, as you probably know, did appear this year, among some other plus 70 acts. All seven handle it very well, truly, with an extra plus for Tikkle Me and Blue Eyed Blondes. And of course I don´t want to brag about it, but it sure looks very good indeed on the West Side Fabrication horizon.

This forthcoming weekend, Thursday the 22nd until Saturday 24th, will the annual Trästockfestivalen be held in our hometown Skellefteå. The best none entrance fee festival in the kingdom of Sweden. And as always, besides loads of other great acts like Moneybrother, Markus Krunegård, Hästpojken etc etc, you can also see a bunch of West Side acts perform. This year´s West Side rooster on Trästock is: Stolen Deer, Mattias Alkberg, Blue Eyed Blondes, Bedroom Eyes, Väärt, Tikkle Me and last but not least Amber Oak. So if you have the opportunity, be there!

Just a short notice. Yesterday I finally got to hear the first taste from Amber Oaks forthcoming debut album, with a release sat in fall. And I can promise, it sounded really cool. So please stay tune for more information.

Summer and everything is slow, but you just wait, soon its August and then we´ll kick start again.

Congratulation to us but even more to Väärt, since their beautiful first song to radio “Hemlängta” (from their damn cool debut album “Sommarfågel) has been play-listed by the Swedish national radio P3. If I say I like their music, it´s just an understatement. And by the way, if you like, watch their video here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXS6SAHlXIA&feature=player_embedded#!

Since I have talked so much about our latest family member Väärt, I thought I might as well ask them a couple of questions so you all got a chance to know them a little bit better. So here we go;

First of all who are you answering these questions, and what´s your roll within the band?

My name is Pär I. Poromaa, I´m singing, writing and making a fool of myself

Talking about the band, why do you call yourself Väärt, what´s the story behind that name?

We had some problems figuring out a good sounding name that would capture us coming from the far north of Sweden. Therefore, we asked our good friend David Wäyrynen, who is a author, to come up with a name that would suit us. He gave us a bunch of names, and Värt, with a single Ä was our favorite candidate. We put in an extra Ä in Väärt and voila, we had us a name!

And what about music, how do you like to describe Väärt´s music?

It´s like a potpurri of our personalities. Alas, a mixture of Johans catchy guitar melodies, my melancholic lyrics, Loves ambient sounding beats and Fridas virtuosity with her violin.

Do you have any role models when it comes to music, anything that the whole band can stand behind?

No, not really. We like everything from finish tango, 90´s rap, folksingers to desert-blues.

Last but not least, what is your future plans, what can we expect from you?

We want to have some fun in the hot laponian sun!

Our best sold item during this last month on e-music is in fact “Hand-In-Hand Grenade” with Bedroom Eyes, which feels great when I think about his upcoming album release later this year.

Other new (quite new) releases who are top spotted on our e-music best sales list are “Your missing piece” with Amber Oak on second spot, “A/B-long time no sound” with Breather on seventh and on ninth place Stolen Deers “And then you left”.

Will be interesting to see if Bedroom Eyes also top the far most used down-load service namely iTunes.

This week is the week when Väärts truly awesome debut album “Sommarfågel” will be released. Get it from a store near you or use this link below and get it from our own web-shop at a very decent price.

http://shop.textalk.se/en/article.php?id=395&art=4154690

As said earlier this coming week, on Tuesday, we have a new release for all you alternative pop lovers namely Mount Avalanche´s four track debut EP “Swing it low”. Therefore, just to get to know them a little bit better, I have asked them a couple of questions, so here we go;

First of all, who are you and what´s your roll in the band?

I´m Tim Hukari and I´m the singer and songwriter in Mount Avalanche.

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Next week its time for a new debutant to show their face. Talking about Mount Avalanche and their four track EP “Swing it low”. More information will come soon, very soon indeed.