Release party tomorrow (Saturday)

Don't forget the release party tomorrow, at Sticky Fingers (Top floor) in Gothenburg. Sticky only charge an 80 SEK fee, and for that price you get SFB, Quarterhorse, plus an opportunity to buy our brand new album and brand new t-shirts at fabulous prices. A special offer. For a limited time only. ;)

Follow this link for full details about the gig on Facebook.

Vote for Happy Factory on the radio!

(Info in English below.)

Happy Factory, ett av spåren från Facts and Fabrications är en av veckans utmanare på "Listan" i P4 Kalmar. Listan består av tre låtar och varje onsdag presenteras två utmanare. Vi behöver din röst för att ta oss upp på förstaplatsen!

Så här röstar du:
Klicka på denna länk för att få upp ett färdigt mail i ditt mailprogram som säger att du röstar på Happy Factory: skvallertorget@sr.se
eller
SMS:a "P4kalm st 4" till 722 50 (3kr+trafikavgift, 4:an står för Happy Factory)

OBS! Det går bara att rösta en gång per mejladress/mobilnr, men det går bra att rösta både med mejl och sms. ;)
Röstningen pågår till kl.18 på tisdag 2/6. Resultatet presenteras kl.11:33 dagen efter.
Besök P4 Kalmars sajt för mer info.

Tack för stödet!
/SFB

And in English:
One of the tracks from Facts and Fabrications, Happy Factory, is a challenger on this weeks edition of "Listan", a hitlist on Swedish radio. Now we need your vote to get to the top of the chart!

For your convenience, here's a link that you can click to generate an e-mail with the message "I vote for Happy Factory" already filled in: skvallertorget@sr.se

We appreciate your support!
/SFB

Remix contest!

Finally! It's time to get your act together and show us what you're made of. In short: it's time to remix Magical Machines.
In collaboration with Songbox, we're giving you the chance to remix our first single, and win some fabulous prizes. The winner will get the remix officially released through Wonderland Records, on Spotify, iTunes and Klicktrack. Plus you'll get an SFB t-shirt, the "Facts and Fabrications" album, and a signed award that you can hang right next to your gold records. Yes, it's completely made of awesome.

To enter the contest, head over to Songbox and register, then click on Current events to read the details and to find out how to download the files. Registration and participation is completely free of charge.

What are you waiting for?

The album is up on Spotify

Today is the official release date of our debut album Facts and Fabrications! This means that you can no longer listen to the entire album on Myspace. But, perhaps even better, you can listen to the entire album on Spotify, just click the badge below and crank up the volume.

We love our friends

Since we started streaming our new album on our Myspace profile (and Myspace Sweden were kind enough to promote it on their front page, thanks!!), friend requests have been pouring in. We really appreciate it, it's these things that keeps us going, knowing that there are people out there who care about our music.
It will take some time to answer all the requests, since we try to answer all your kind comments as well, but we're working on it, and all you people with Myspace profiles know how quick and convenient the system is for doing that kind of thing. Yeah, right.

Album cover art

Now that the entire album is up on our Myspace profile, I guess we should give you a sneak peek of the cover art as well. Here's the front of the cover, designed by our functional and versatile bass player Petter.

Exclusive Myspace album preview

Starting today, Wednesday the 20th of May, Myspace Sweden are promoting an exclusive preview of our debut album Facts and Fabrications. Yes, that's right, one week before the official release, what a nice surprise. :)

You can head right over to our Myspace profile and stream the album, all 12 songs. We hope you will enjoy it!

Extreme blog makeover

Well, maybe not that extreme. But as you can see, this blog is now a bit more colourful. The yellow-brown-black-white pattern is taken from a fabric called Pythagoras, designed in 1952 by Sven Markelius, which will be featured prominently on the album cover. You can read more about the fabric in an earlier post.

Don't forget: Facts and Fabrications is out on May 27th, and the release gig is on May 30th at Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg.

Intermission...

I hate to repeat an old post, but for those of you who are already sick of the ESC, or simply just avoid it altogether, here's the song that probably is the best ESC contribution ever:



Just a little Saturday entertainment for y'all. This week we'll out some more info about the remix competition, and (as soon as we're allowed) a fantastic gig later in the summer.

Get ready to remix

A while back we mentioned a contest to remix a song by fellow Wonderlander Emmon. It turned out to be a wild success, with a lot of great contributions. When the dust had settled, the one participant left standing was Australian act Parralox. You can hear their remix here: http://www.releasemagazine.net

Well, of course this means that you'll have to get a chance to remix an SFB song as well. We mentioned way back that we had something cooking, and now - to coincide with the album release - it's time to get it going. In collaboration with Songbox, we will give you a shot at remixing our single Magical Machines.

The competition will be presented on Songbox shortly, and will of course be announced here on the blog and in our newsletter as well. Btw, if you haven't signed up for the newsletter yet, now is the time to do it. Head over to Swedishforbeginners.net and sign up at the bottom of the page.

Win tickets to the release party!

Thanks to the great folks at Spotify, you can get tickets for free to the SFB release party on May 30th! Just head on over to the Spotify blog and leave a comment, and they will select the lucky winner. Read more about the details in their blog entry.

And just in case you're wondering: yes, our album will be available on Spotify very soon. :)

In the meantime, check out my favourite song on Spotify at the moment: Of Wonder and Certainty (For Lou Reed) from the album The Dreamers by John Zorn.

Release party reminder

Just a quick reminder to ensure that you don't forget about our upcoming release party, on May 30th. It will be at Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg, Top Floor, together with Quarterhorse. There's a Facebook event published, go there and sign up, and please pass the info on to as many as you can.

Tack så mycket!