Sleeping

It's 9 pm and an exhausted band is laying half dead in their beds at Radisson hotel in Stockholm.

The weekend was fun but really tiring. We started filming as the sun rose and ended when it set. Between dusk and dawn we drove around in a borrowed Volvo duett from -68, shooting millions of video scenes.


The old car was really beautiful, but the comfort wasn't the best. It was almost as if the tailpipe was inside the car, power steering wasn't invented in the 60s so you really had to work hard in the bends, and the seat belts stuck while you had them on so that you couldn't move an inch (if they worked at all). So by the end of the day we were high on gas fumes, all stiff in the arm muscles and motion sick from the bumpy rides, but then that's the charm with old cars.
I must admit I missed Adde! (see below) :)




This morning we set the alarm on 5 am, again! to take the train to Stockholm where we are staying this whole week to write new music. Today we have been working with Staffan Hellstrand, which led to a song that we are quite satisfied with. We have just listened to the recording we did by the end of the writing session, and it feels really good. Maybe we will record it when we start at Tambourine September 15.
Staffan is very talented and a great songwriter, and the combination Calaisa/Hellstrand felt good. I don't think we ever wrote a song that fast before, one that is also good.

Tomorrow we are going to Lilla Essingen to write songs with Tobias Fröberg. Our expectations are high because we have heard what Tobias has done before. Hopefully we will go home to Malmö with a few more good songs.

Friday

Yesterday we went to Tambourine Studios to meet with Per Sunding after a long summer vacation, and to start planning this fall's work in the studio. We listened to the songs we have worked with during the summer, and got to hear Per's view on them.
Per always has a lot to add to our music, and it's no nice when someone from the outside, who's opinions you trust, comes and gives your songs and your sound a new dimension.

Today we are getting ready for the first real video shooting day, tomorrow. We have shot some scenes from the live performance in Ängelholm, but tomorrow we will start with the storyline.
Unfortunately we start at 6 am! Not the ideal time for a musician, used to work late at nights... so tonight we are going to bed early... maybe.

Sisters in Arms

For our Swedish fans

Kom till den mysiga medeltidsstaden Jakriborg och var statist i vår nya video!
Vi ska spela på gatan Söndagen den 7 september mellan 13.00 och 16.00, och behöver en stor publik som tittar på oss.


Hoppas vi ses!

All over again

We are kind of tired of getting our hair done wearing loads of makeup and posing in front of the camera in wind and rain for hours and hours.
It might sound all glamorous and fancy to do a photo shoot, and it is for the first 2 hours, but then when you re-dress for the 7th time and put on some lipstick for the 20th time it's not so much fun any more.

What I'm saying is, yesterday we had to go through the whole process again because the weather was simply too much to handle last time, so we went to Larsson & Lange to get our hair done, we went to Makeup Store to get some makeup on (have you heard this before?) and we stuffed all our things in the car and started driving around to different locations.



First of all we had the locations we couldn't do last time, but then off course, ambitious as we are, we thought we might as well do some more setups while we were at it, so we went to a place where they create the poles for the wind-power stations and took some pictures there. Bengt was kind enough to help us all the time and show us around the place.

At 10 pm we could finally pack up and go home. This time it wasn't with a feeling of dissatisfaction, but rather with a feeling of pride, that we had done a great job.
Hopefully you will see the result in our new website soon.




It has to be mentioned that Anna, on her birthday last week, got a brand new-old car! It’s a red Volvo 740 from -88, and its name is Adde Malmberg, named after its former owner Adde Malmberg.
Adde, meaning the car, is now considered a member of Calaisa, and I guess he will be involved quite a lot in Calaisa’s traveling in the future.

Pictures from the photosession yesterday.

Yesterday we did the photo shoot we have been planning for a while... or at least half the photo shoot. When we had two setups left the rain strated pooring down and we had to call it a day, to continue another time. The pictures we took before the rain came, felt good though.

Bekka from Larsson & Lange

Aida from Makeup Store






Annika and Emelie from Ninii












Carolina Zanders helped us documenting the session



Daniel Andersson photographer

The TV-show that led to a beer that led to Ninii

Early this year we were guests in the talk show ”Robins” in Malmö. After the show we, Robin and some other people from the production, went to Tempo for a beer.
A few beers later Robin mentions that he has a sister, Annika, who designs clothes here in Malmö, and that we should check her out.
That off course fell out of our minds for some time, but then 2 weeks ago we started talking about it again amongst ourselves and decided to check her out. We found out that Annika is a super talanted designer, who makes very cool clothes, so we called her to se if she was interested in working with us.
It turns out she was, so now Calaisa and Ninii is a fact.

We called our friend and great photographer Daniel Andersson, we called Makeup Store, we called Larsson & Lange, and now we have a perfect team for a successful photo shoot. The locations are set, the clothes are tried on and matched together and we’re back at the hairdresser for a freshen-the-hair-up, and tomorrow we shoot.

For the last photo session we went to Dublin, and met the stylist, the makeup-guy and the hair-girl for the first time on the same morning the pictures were being taken. We never tried the clothes on before and we didn’t know any of them.
They did a great job, and it’s nice to have other people book everything for you, in a way, but it’s even more nice to know the people you are going to work with and to have seen the locations and the clothes so that you feel comfortable in it.

We are very much looking forward to tomorrow!

As you might have noticed the old website is down and we’re working on a new one. According to the meeting with Mubito (who does the site) yesterday it could be opened in mid September. In the meantime you will have to stick with the blog, myspace and facebook.
When the new site comes though, it will be fantastic!