Yesterday we went to Bethnal Green and partied like librarians. My new Bananarama/Byrds-style punk band played, but before that I joined King Of Cats on drums. I hope to be a part of his future arena rock touring band.

I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Years Eve! I went to Leeds and sat around in the studio when T.O.Y.S recorded their new EP. It is totally bloody awesome. Just saying. 2012 will be amazing.

When I got in from my fifth hour of riding around Hyde Park yesterday, a very exciting box was waiting for me! My colleague thought it was a bomb and had to open it, but it wasn’t, it was my Christmas single Live from Hendon Cathedral! Yay!

Pick up your own copy on Saturday, at Librarians Wanted birthday party with Wake The President, Evans The Death, T.O.Y.S and a lot of other exciting guests and friends (including me). And also:
”DJs: LISA BOUVIER (Awesome Swedish songstress) + AJ MILLER (that tall sunglasses-wearing one outta T.O.Y.S) + us librarians if we haven’t overdosed on cake.”

So don’t miss it! It will be the night of the year, that’s for sure! I promise some Bruce, some Meat Loaf, and loads of Swedish indie pop!

If you can’t come, feel free to tell me and I’ll give you a single anyway. Or listen + download it on my SOUNDCLOUD!

 So, while I’ve been sulking in north London for a couple of months, I also managed to join a band. It’s Adam John Miller’s solo project The Medusa Snare! I’m very excited. Mostly because I get to play the drums! Me! Drummer! I wanna buy red glowing drumsticks and pour glitter over my snare drum!!! But mostly I want to take new band pictures, because I think we will look awesome together. I wish I could find a picture with all four of us somewhere, but it’s always someone missing!

Until you hear us and our new songs live, you can listen to the old ones on Spotify. And like us on Facebook or Soundcloud or whatever. We are everywhere in the social media world!!

Oh yeah, and world’s best Trev released a song with us with his Odd Box Single Club just a couple of weeks ago!

A couple of weeks ago I tried to convince people that Phil Collins had killed someone. I was, of course, terribly wrong and Phil, I’m sorry! I’m sure you are against violence and murderer and everything. I had the wrong Phil, obviously. I ment Phil Spector, and that made me think of possibly the best Christmas album of all times, A Christmas gift for you… I got inspired!

It’s been a couple of years since I recorded a Christmas song, so I decided that the world definitely needed two Lisa Bouvier Christmas songs in order to survive this holiday. Without killing anyone on the bus 326, me and my piano made it to Hendon Cathedral and met up with Henry Western’s Trio for some Christmas jamming. It turned out quite good.

The bestest of the best, Håkan, made lovely artwork, Adam pressed record and his friend from Leeds (the name will come to me…) mastered the whole thing! Now it’s only about waiting for the CDs to return from the printers (YES it is a CD, I thought about releasing it on Betamax and/or in a teabag but this time it’s quite normal CDs).

BUT! It’s not Christmas yet, it’s autumn. So you’ll have to wait a bit. Here’s a picture of me on a bench instead.

So, dear people, when I’m not riding or shouting at people to push their heels down or playing piano at weddings or dreaming about being on tour, I sometimes go to Hackney and join the collaborative music project that is The What I Wanted To Do’s.

 The rules are simple, but not easy. We get together (and with ”we” I mean anyone who wants to so feel free to come around), we bring all instruments we own, we write an album (ten songs) and record it. All in a couple of hours. Sometimes it’s really good, sometimes it’s more amusing than good and sometimes it’s actually awful. But mostly it’s good.

Since I’ve got a throat infection, I got to play the drums (=cardboard boxes and bottles covered in plastic bags) on quite a few of the tracks, but I do sing some Tom Waits inspired vocals on some of them. This is my favourite song from this album. I told people I wanted to do a drunken bar song, and then I told them I wanted it to be called ”Tomorrow’s on me” and five minutes later, an awesome song was born.

Tomorrow’s on me

I’m really happy to be a part of this, because people involved in this band are so nice and talented, it’s amazing. And I get to play all the instruments I know and some I don’t know, which is good for my shattered personality and the ”I want to do everything” side of me.

We are now 3 min from 24 hours of music. So if you’ve got 24 hours to spare, feel free to have a listen.

It’s been a long time since I wrote here, mostly because I don’t have Internet and also because I’ve been busy doing things in the real world. But now I’ve got two weeks off work, an Internet connection and some interesting things to tell. Or maybe not so interesting, but at least more interesting than the horses I’ve been hanging out with the past few months.

My first excitement when I got online again was to discover that Indietracks is on it’s way. I know there is a cold winter between me and my favourite indie holiday, but I bet the thought of it will keep me warm. It made me think of the song I wrote and then performed at Librarians Wanted a couple of months ago. And, it appears I’ve got a good reason to start practicing it again… Hm…. secrets secrets but I will let you know and it will be exciting.

Anyway. Until then, see me and Matt rocking our faces off to this little tune. I wrote the song, Matt played all the instruments cause he is the bestest. This makes me think back to when it was warm and I didn’t have to work all the time and we could go on exciting mini tours.

Every year until we die

The best thing about playing at the best club in the world – Librarians Wanted – is not, as you might think, the brilliant bands you get to play with, or the lovely cupcakes they make you, or the crazy fistpumping dancing to your favourite songs and you favourite-songs-to-be (even if all those things are all good). The thing that really distinguish these hot librarians from other promoters is the backline/stage times/info mail you get. I don’t know any other club where you actually get happy about reading stage times. The messages you get is always so full of happiness, excitement and care and love for the music, and it just fills me with pride to be a part of this wonderful indie scene. I wish I could send as much love back to them with this post (or with anything I do), but I guess it takes a proper librarian to be able to do that. I post a pic of when I tried to teach them how to ride at Indietracks instead.

Anyway.

I’m gonna begin this beautiful club night and launch party for my favourite band Moustache of Insanity’s debut album ALBUM OF DEATH! I’m dead (!) excited. I promise to make Love Yummies From Hell (it’s a cake, by the way), sing more or less in tune, dance like Thom Yorke and bring my best friend Matt to play the bass and press ”play” on his Ipod for me. If you promise to be there by 8, buy a vinyl covered in blood (maybe you’ll get a message I wrote, yay!) and work on your fistpumping in front of the stage. Deal?

(and regarding the song I promised in my last post; my computer ate it. TWICE! But third time is a charm and I’ve only got vocals left to do so maybe I’ll get there. Eventually)

I don’t know why I do this! I keep saying yes to things and then I feel bad for not doing them for ages and when I finally get around to do them, it’s too late. That’s why I decided to make this latest commitment official, just to add some more pressure on myself and maybe actually get something done? It might be a good plan, it might be a catastrophy, we’ll see!

A couple of days ago, me and my friend Mark Zonda from Tiny Tide had a little conversation about love, summer and music (nothing new there…), and then he invited me to join this collaborative summer music project called Plato’s Summer Stars. A brilliant idea, where a group of musicians get together online and create something. I accepted. It seemed like a good idea at the time, now I’m not sure anymore.

Until I actually write a song, listen to a cover me and Stars In Coma recorded some time ago. It’s quite summer-ish. It reminds me of a mixtape we had in the car back in the 90s. All good.

ROSE GARDEN

My life is nowadays all about horses and also folding cassette sleeves. Me and Tom are preparing for our next brilliant Fika releases, it’s going to be almost as awesome as last time. If I can manage to bake all the delicious cakes properly. Last time I failed the swedish dreams, but the beer cake was the best thing I’ve ever baked in my life. Mm beer cake.

Anyway. If you want to know what we are up to, please join the mailing list. We won’t spam you. We promise only to send interesting information (like, which cakes we will bring to Indietracks), indie pop downloads and pictures of cute animals (like ponies, like this one!).

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Just look at this beautiful, beautiful blog post about our cassettes! If I would write a review about myself, I would probably write something like that (only slightly worse grammar I guess). It’s written by one of the lovely members of Give It Up’s (their drummer speaks really good swedish and their singer is probably the cutest in the world when she’s tipsy!).  I’ll bake you a cake next time I see you, promise!