In a fight between a Zebra and Clayton Blackmore who would win? The answer to this question and many more will follow.....
So yeah, Esmeraldo in Oslo for music day. Amazing. Incredible. Fufudedeo. The show at Fugazi went better than we had all expected, the place was packed and the sound was great. The other bands that played were awesome, we really enjoyed
Ila Auto and
Hiawata in particular, check them out....
Considering how hard we had worked in order to get ourselves ready for Oslo Musikkfest, you might think that a bit of a rest would be on the cards after the show was done and suitably dusted, well you would be wrong. Casa Murilo never sleeps Mr. Blackmore, you know that.
On Monday we met with our good friend and music management supremo Maren Blomstereng Berget. She is now the manager of Oslo´s hottest new band (Casa Murilo).
On Tuesday we spent some quality time with Sindre Edland-Gryt, who is now Casa Murilo´s chief graphic designer. We spent two or three hours throwing ideas at each other amidst the delightful 30´s style decor of La Boheme and thus began the process of the Casa Murilo band logo.
On Wednesday we got together with Maren again and the four of us put together a solid plan for the next few months, we are going to be very busy little boys.
On Thursday we allowed ourselves to have a day off, it was great to be able to stretch out on the sofa and do nothing but eat Wotsits watch Wesley Snipes films, how many Oscars did Passenger 57 win?
By this point we had booked ourselves into the studio on Sunday so we had a fair bit of preparation to do. Friday night was spent doing just that, listening to our music, the music of other bands and generally working out exactly what we wanted to achieve. As soon as we were set on the plan for Sunday a more pressing matter reared its beautiful head in the shape of HRH
Bård Watn . We were due to appear as (special) guests on stage with Bård during his set at the Latin American Solidarity festival on MS Innvik in Oslo, we needed to practice.....
The rehearsal at Bård´s place went well and so, at 3pm on Saturday 13th June, we were inside a small auditorium onboard a very large boat that was sitting next to the Oslo Opera house in glorious sunshine. As always Mr. Watn put on a fantastic show and had the 150 strong crowd laughing, dancing and at points, sitting in absolute silence with mouths ajar. We played two songs during our appearance, `Bendit´ and `In the Park´. People danced and clapped along and we left the irrepressible Watn to do his thing. Job done.
So, 8:45 Sunday morning we were outside the gates of Oslo´s Jewish museum waiting for the receptionist of the gay sauna to buzz us up to the studio. You couldn´t make it up. Freddy arrived soon after looking suspiciously flustered and proceeded to record all of his drums in a pounding 50 minutes, then he went to build a patio in the woods. We then set about the rather daunting task ahead of us and didn´t let up until midnight. We had some amazing help along the way from
Kai Christoffersen (Bass) and
Håkon Molller (Keys) and Håkon will now be joining the band to help out with some live shows and some more studio sessions.
Despite extreme tiredness and the effects of a bottle of Grants we pretty much skipped home, more than happy with our days work.
And here we are now, Thursday. Today we are going back to the studio to mix and master the weekends work, as soon as we have it ready you can find it
here .
On Friday we are practicing for next week´s gig at
Fugazi where we are supporting
Martin Hagfors & Lars Horntveth and then we are off to Dublin for a date with Springsteen. Upon our return we have a week until we head to Molde for
Feriefestivalen.
Casa Murilo never sleeps Mr. Blackmore, you know that.....
