Dear friends! As you all know, our brand new album "Mavericks" will hit the streets last week of April, but you can pre-order it today and make sure it gets delivered straight to your mailbox (not email, we're talking physical here) day of release - plus you'll get an exclusive free download of an acoustic version of "What's The Point" recorded in our rehearsal space for free (Sweden only)
Last night was awesome - thanks to all who came and who saw the stream. We played our entire new album "Mavericks" from start to finish in front of an audience for the very first time.
Mavericks
Dead End
Houses
Roscoe
Bed On Fire
What's The Point
No Last Call
Come Along (There's A Gene)
Worried Ground
Sickness
The show was streamed via Bambuser and although the visuals aren't great you can get a feeling for the evening here.
Finally we are proud to present our brand new video for our single
"Whats the Point"! The video was directed by Mattias Johanson and is
based on the classic topic of good vs. evil... we hade a great
time shooting this video and would like to send a big shout out
to all the crew that worked so hard in getting it done- THANK YOU!!! and not to forget a big thanks to all the animals and their keepers as well.
Right now we are getting all the artwork for the album done and so far its looking fantastic. We don't want to give away too much, all we can say is that its going to be a piece of art on its own...
Meanwhile, we hope to see you when we play (hopefully) in a town near you soon
please check the tour section for the latest updates.
Our brand new third album is finally done. We have named it Mavericks.
This time the process of creating this album was really challenging, not because we had a rough time writing songs, but because we felt that we had to dig deep within ourselves in order to find a place where these melodies could grow into songs.
Most of the songs were written during a pretty confusing time last fall 2009. Throughout Sep-Oct we basically lived in our rehearsal studio .We played our instruments until our fingers bleed, constantly struggling to maintain a constant creative energy.
When the first snow hit Stockholm it was time to hit the studio. We felt that we wanted to be in total charge of the recording process, so we decided to produce the record ourselves, which we ended up doing - together with the incredibly talented Lasse Mårten.
Lasse Mårten owns the now legendary Decibel Studios in Stockholm. We'd heard such great things about this guy and his studio. After our first meeting we immediately decided to record the whole album there, with him as a co-producer and engineer.
Said and done, we moved our shit to Decibel and started working. Just the three of us. It was a period of extremely high creative energy. It was fantastic. After two months Mavericks was done.
A maverick is a person who is not afraid to go against the stream, who has the courage to break free from his or her ideas about how things should be, to face the fear and challenge it.
Mavericks is a legendary surf location in Northern California. Here, the water is cold and dark, and giant waves crush against giant rocks. A mavericks is a person who surfs his own wave. Everybody wants to be a maverick, or at least we do.
On April 30th Mavericks will be released in Scandinavia , Germany, Austria and Switzerland for your listening pleasure.
In May we'll finally start touring again, click on the venue to buy tickets:
Whats the point krossar tracklistan, rakt in på första plats!
STORT tack för att ni uppenbarligen är så många som röstat Nu är det en ny vecka och era röster är lika viktiga som alltid så sprid ordet och rösta här innan kl 14.00 på måndag!
Vi sitter just nu och lyssnar på vår nya skiva, som är helt klar, väldigt spännande!
Igår hade vi en grym start på Thåström turnén i Oslo. Nästa vecka startar de svenska gigen och det ser vi verkligen fram emot
Det glädjer oss oerhört mycket att många av er verka digga vår nya singel "What''s The Point"! Vi har aldrig haft en låt på singellistan förr - jäkligt kul att den gick in på 20:e plats.
Idag testades den på Tracks - och vi behöver din röst! Så snälla RÖSTA HÄR:
Are you having a rough time with the dark winter time? Hopefully our brand new single will bring some light to your life.
It’s called "What's the point" and is out now on iTunes in Scandinavia, Spotify and physical retailers (in Sweden). We performed the song live at the P3 Guld Awards in Gothenburg Tuesday evening – check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn8j4rrr9vA Things are going really well in the studio, the album is starting to take shape and we can honestly say that we’ve never felt this excited about new songs before. Making an album is a different journey every time and this one has been the toughest by far, but in the end probably also the best. The album is being produced by ourselves and Lasse Mårten. Everything is being done at the Decibel studios in Stockholm and we should be set to release the album at the end of April.
29 Jan Oslo, Sentrum Scene 04 Feb Göteborg, Lisebergshallen 05 Feb Stockholm, Annexet 06 Feb Stockholm, Annexet 10 Feb Lund, Mejeriet 11 Feb Köpenhamn, Stora Vega 12 Feb Linköping, Sporthallen 13 Feb Sundsvall, Sporthallen
It's now official, our third album will be released in april 2010. We've been working really hard in the studio for the last month, we're really excited to let you hear the music!
To kick of the massive amount of touring we're up for next year, we will join the legendary swedish artist Joakim Thåström for a couple of shows in scandinavia in february 2010.
29 Jan Oslo, Sentrum Scene 04 Feb Göteborg, Lisebergshallen 05 Feb Stockholm, Annexet 06 Feb Stockholm, Annexet 10 Feb Lund, Mejeriet 11 Feb Köpenhamn, Stora Vega 12 Feb Linköping, Sporthallen 13 Feb Sundsvall, Sporthallen
We will be performing a brand new track from our forthcoming album live at the annual Swedish national radio awards show P3 Guld Galan (The P3 Gold Awards) on Janury 19th next year.
The event is held at Gothenburg’s Scandiavium Arena and is aired live on radio and broadcast on
Swedish national TV later the same day.
Last year we won the category Best Group at the same awards.
We’ve just started working in the studio last week and are chipping away getting an album done for the spring next year. We’re really satisfied with the results so far and hope to get our best album down yet.
The world has lost one of its greatest talents. Michael was beyond everything. I have a feeling that he just couldnt stand the pressure anymore. He could have been so much more, he could have done so much more.
Its scary to see how the world takes care of our greatest prodigy. Praise him, raise him to the stars, accuse him, blame him, throw rocks at him for 15 years until he can't take it anymore. I guess now the same journalists who called him wacko jacko for 15 years, will call him a saint. All you haters and christian fundamentalists out there who's been giving Michael hate for 15 years, are you still waiting for the new messiah?? He might just have been the one, but you blew it! One thing is for shure, if this world will ever see another great talent like Michael, you will all be dead anyway, so i just hope that your grandgrand children will bring love instead of hate into this world.
We are happy to announce that tommorrow, Thursday, Johnossi will perform at the Peace and Love Festival i Sweden and on Saturday Johnossi will perform at the St Gallen open air festival in Switzerland.
We know this is very last minute announcements, but hopefully you'll make it to our shows anyway!
25 June Peace and Love Festival, Sweden. 21:00, Eldorado Stage.
27 June St Gallen Festival, Switzerland 16:45, Main Stage.
Yesterday was my birthday, i hate to celebrate my birthday, i always get depressed, i don't want to become older. But, this time i actually enjoyed it a bit, mostly because i finally (9th try) managed to get my driving license!
Thank you for all the kind words on the guestbook, and a special thanks to Steffi & Jassy at Johnossi support for baking this beautiful cake:
Too bad i didn't get the chance to eat it, it looks delicous!!
Tomorrow, Thursday, John will perform one song written by David Bowie and one song Written by Lou Reed, at the I LOVE NEW YORK Party at Hornstulls Strand in Stockholm.
The party is a tribute and celebration to the great city of New York! It's gonna be a fantastic evening!
I just found out that a swedish online recordshop is holding a few copys of Johnossis very first release. In oct 2004, Johnossi released Execution Song as a single on very small, no longer existing record label "Rekord Musik".
This edition was only released in 200 copys and i think at least a hundred of them were sold personally by me and Ossi when we supported the Soundtrack of our lives in Sweden at that time.
So, it's a very rare piece of Johnossihistory...
Here's a picture of the cover (sorry for the bad picturequality)
You can buy it here for only 49 swedish kr, i think they ship worldwide.
We just played our first show in Japan (Osaka) and it went swell!
We are a bit dizzy from the time change, but we feel as that nothing can stop us!. Everybody is taking good care of us and in 15 minutes we´re having dinner with the hives-guys at a classic japanese steakehouse. We´ll keep you posted!
Tomorrow we are off to Örebro (a city in the middle of Sweden) for a show, we have'nt played for a couple of weeks, so we're extra exited!
We noticed that a lot of you ask about why we don't have john/ossi speaks anymore. The reason for this is simply that we didn't like it, instead we're gonna focus on keeping you updated with whats going on in Johnossiworld, here in the news section. Now, we also have the ability to answer questions from you in the guestbook, we can't answer all questions, but hopefully most of them!
We spend a lot of time in our rehersalspace now, drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, eating food, and of course, writing new songs! It's going pretty well i must say! Hopefully we will start to record later on this year!
Here's some of my favourite things right now
My favourite band at the moment is Satyricon, i'm really looking forward to see them live in Stockholm in April! My favourite song and musicvideo of 2009 so far is this one My favourite person on the internet at the moment is this guy My favourite kind of food right now is served at this restaurant, to bad it's not located in stockholm My favourite guitar pedal right now that i don't have but perhaps will soon is this one
That's it for now, new Johnossi photos and films are coming soon!
Today, Johnossi will perform a live session on swedish national radio.
If you don't live in Sweden you can listen to it live HERE
The show is called P3 Live session and will start at 9:30 pm.
If you DO live in Sweden, HURRY UP AND CLICK HERE... ...where you will have the chance to get a ticket to see the session live in the studio at Radiohuset in Stockholm!
We are now in the middle of our Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium tour!
So far it's been great, exepct from me losing my voice due to a really bad vocalchord infection, which was thankfully temporarly fixed yesterday in Innsbruck by the help off
Dr Thomas Rainer (thank you againg, hope your daughters enjoyed the show)
He subscribed me 150 kortison pills, i took 10 of them a couple hours before yesterdays show and voila! my fucked up voice came back from the dead!
The pills didn't only help me get my voice back, it had some funny side effects to, i couldnt stop talking and the whole concert seemed very strange to me.
Anyway, now we're off to Salzburg for another higly intense Kortison show!
Oh by the way, we're gonna get som new feautures up on the website soon, so it will be more easy for us to communicate with you people, we will also start posting more pictures and home made video clips!
At 9.30 pm, friday the 15th Aug, Swedish national radio P3 will broadcast a live recording from Johnossi's show at debaser medis in Stockholm that took place in may 2008.
If you don't live in sweden, or if you prefer to listen to it on your computer, you can do it here:
On Friday August 8th, Johnossi will play outside Debaser Medis at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm as part of the "Go08" Happening.
Johnossi will enter the stage at 21.30, and it's free!!!
No money wasted on brilliant music.
Hey!
We've just confirmed a last minute gig in Stockholm!
This saturday, the 14 june johnossi will play an early gig
at a great one day festival called "Where the action is".
www.wtai.se
The festival Area opens at 12.00. Johnossi will be onstage at 14.00, so be there in time!
Two lucky winners will win a roundtrip to this years Quart Festival, in Kristiansand, Norway. (Including festival passes, and passes for the Quart Camp. July 2-5)
To enter the sweepstakes, all you got to do is this:
Go to http://www.myspace.com/quartfestival . Add yourself as a friend, and post a comment on the wall, stating which artist you want to see.
Tomorrow (march 25) johnossi will perform 2 song from their new album on swedish televison, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. It's a morning show so set your alarm clock!
The new video for "Party with my pain" is now streaming on our myspace!
www.myspace.com/johnossi
If you prefer to watch it on youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dzcBbMiIwzg
In a couple of days we will also put out some more songs from "All the they ever wanted" on our myspace.
Som ni alla vet så släpps vår nya skiva "All they ever wanted" den 26 mars, men redan nu kan du förhandsboka skivan!. Du få då hem ett signerat exemplar i din brevlåda på releasedagen!
1. 18 Karat Gold
2. Party with My Pain
3. Send More Money
4. Train Song
5. In The Mystery Time of Cold and Rain
6. Zeppelin
7. Bobby
8. All They Ever Wanted
9. Up In The Air
10. Lie Lie Die
Follow this link to see a picture of the album cover:
As you all know, our new album "All They Ever Wanted" will be released end of March. If you would like to support it - join the Vertigo.fm-Streetteam
www.vertigo.fm/streetteam and register for the "Johnossi"-Campaign. As a proper Streetteamer you're gonna be equipped with stickers, posters, online tools, ... to support us and our new album. You're gonna get all the details after you registered for the streetteam.
We are sorry but this mission is for German Fans only!
Som ni alla vet så släpps vår nya skiva "All they ever wanted" den 26 mars, men redan nu kan du förhandsboka skivan!. Du få då hem ett signerat i din brevlåda på releasedagen!
"Our second album "All they ever wanted" will be released in
Scandinavia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the last week of March.
Our new singel "Party with my pain" is now streaming on our myspace, and you can buy it on Itunes in Sweden (soon also in the rest of scandinavia).
On March 20, the song will be available on Itunes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
We will start a long tour at the end of March. Check out TOUR for more info!
Earlier today was the official world premiere of our new single "Party with my pain" on Swedish National Radio P3. If you missed it, don´t worry you can listen to it on our myspace now.
www.myspace.com/johnossi
Party with my pain will be released digitally on 13th Feb. More news about that and touring next week.
It's a long time until the summer arrives, but Johnossi are glad to announce their first summer festival for 2008.
It's the Siesta Festival in Hässleholm, Sweden 29-31 may.
The 6th of October Johnossi are going on their first tour in the US supporting Shout Out Louds. The dates and tour plan is now set and it will be a great month with alot of action! See TOUR for details.
Johnossi will also be releasing their album in US and Canada October 9th via The Control Group.
This weekend JOHNOSSI will play two great festivals, Hurricane and Southside, in Germany.
JOHNOSSI will enter the Tent scene at 11.30 pm at botn festivals.
They will also do an exlusive signing session at the Visions magazine tent at 8.00 pm (Hurricane festival) and 6.30pm (Southside Festival).
Hello UK fans! Our "Execution song EP" is out digitally on your island right now. Check it out on iTunes here
Dont forget we are coming over for the Great Escape Festival in Brighton this weekend and a London show at Spitz next week! Also please check out Tour as we have added many new festival dates. See you. OK?
During 2-4 August we will perform at the great Haldern Pop Festival in Germany. Other acts confirmed so far are bands like Shout Out Louds, Electric Soft Parade and The Brakes.
We are happy to announce that we will play a bunch of new shows in Germany, Austria (finally!) and in the U.K. Both club and festival gigs, with highlights such as the Southside/ Hurricane Festival in Germany, Camden Crawl and Great Escape in the U.K and Novarock Festival in Austria! Check all shows under Tour.
We are also finally coming back to Dresden on 6th May, (hope Ossi won't be ill this time)! It will be a late show so for those of you who are going to see Bloc Party on the same day you will probably be able to see both shows. So head over to the Starclub afterwards! Two great gigs on one night!
To celebrate the arrival of spring and the Easter holiday we will play in Helsingborg 7th April and Malmö 8th April! This is the first time we do headline shows at these two great venues, Tivoli and KB, so we're extra excited!
Hurry up and buy your ticket at ww.ticnet.se. We're so tired of this shitty winter.
To all Dresden Johnossi fans – we are very sad to say that we have to cancel the show tonight Thursday 15th February. This is because Ossi is really sick, high fever and a soar throat. We will as soon as possible reschedule the show and let you know. Tickets will be valid for the next show.
On Friday 9th February we will be hanging with our good friends at WESC in their store in Berlin. We will be signing our album (which you can buy in the store as well) and giving away some cool stickers. Looking forward to you see there. This is the address:
WESC Store Berlin
Münzstrasse 14-16 / Eingang Max Beer Strasse
10178 Berlin
Heads up people! We have now started to do some serious warm up for our upcoming German tour. Starting Tuesday 6th February. We suggest that you do the same by first buying a ticket right away and then by stretching your neck muscles and doing some knee bends. You'll need it!
We promise to play some new stuff for you as well. Munich, Bremen and Frankfurt shows are already SOLD OUT and only few tickets left for others.
Because of the strong demand from people wanting to see us in Berlin on 9th February we've now changed to a bigger venue - Lido! If you already bought tickets to Rosi's, they will also work at Lido. See you there!
Finally! Due to a strong public demand we will get back in Germany for a headline tour in February 2007. See you soon!
Buy your ticket here: www.x-why-z.eu
Some great news! Our debut album "Johnossi" was today announced as a nominee for the Swedish Grammy Award in the category "Best Rock Group". Among the other nominees we find our friends in Mando Diao. But we all know who the winner should be! The award ceremony takes place in Stockholm 30th January, 2007.
We are now back in Stockholm to gather some stregth among friends and family and to find out if Vito Corleone really was a German speaking mafia boss?
Our journey in Europe has been a true adventure and a great success. We would like to give a big thank you to everyone involved in the tour. To Stefan and Henke for getting us there on time and carrying our shit, to Mando Diao for letting us use their massage therapist, to the caterers in Austria for that lovely leberwurst and of course to all of you beautiful people showing up and making every show a great moment for us. Thank you all!!
Plans are made as we speak for coming back to Germany, Austria and Switzerland in February, so keep your eyes and ears open and we'll keep you updated as soon as we have more information.
To all our lovely Swedish fans: Thanks so much for making our tour dates last week a great success! We love you all!
Now we pack our van again to start a European tour (Germany, Swizerland, Austria and Holland) with Mando Diao. It all begins Tuesday 7th November in Hamburg.
2 November Gothenburg, Trädgårn All ages/Fri ålder
Buy tickets here
Only pre-sale to the early under 18 show. For the late Stockholm show on 4th November, you just have to stand in line! So come early! Doors at 20.00. Love Kills and The Slaves are opening up for us.
Tickets are now on pre-sale for the upcoming tour dates in Sweden in November.
Buy your tickets here:
1 November Lund, Mejeriet All ages/Fri ålder
2 November Gothenburg, Trädgårn All ages/Fri ålder
3 November, Karlstad, Arena
4 November Stockholm, Debaser Medis - UNDER 20
Only pre-sale to the early under 18 show. For the late Stockholm show on 4th November, you just have to stand in line! So come early! Doors at 20.00. Love Kills and The Slaves are opening up for us.
We are very happy to announce that we have been invited by Mando Diao as special guests on their huge upcoming European tour. Will take us through Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Holland. On the tour is also the UK band Razorlight.
It's happening! We are doing some Swedish tour dates in November! We play in Lund 1 Nov, Gothenburg 2 Nov, Karlstad 3 Nov and Stockholm 4 Nov. And we promise to play a few brand new songs! All ages shows in most cities as well!
We are also bringing some folks with us on the tour like The Slaves, Kristian Antilla and the new interesting Gothenburg band Love Kills, including Daniel Gilbert, Oskar Wallblom and Jonas Kernell.
We are sorry to say that we have to cancel our Finland tour in September. But we have to stay longer in New York than we orginally planned. We hope to come to Finland at another time.
On 1st September our debut album will be released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We will follow up the release with a German tour in October. The tour will be announced shortly. So get back and check the site regularly.
Our debut album will be re-released in Sweden on April 5. Including three great bonus tracks; "Rescue Team", "Risky Business I" and "Risky Business II".
The album will also finally be released in Norway and Finland on April 3 and in Denmark on April 24. Also for those of you living in Norway – preorder the album on CDON and get it digitally before it hits the stores.