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4 March 2010 Mavericks

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:

12/5,    John Dee,                Oslo              Norway
13/5     Debaser Medis         Stockholm      Sweden
14/5     Brew House             Göteborg        Sweden
15/5     Mejeriet                    Lund             Sweden
17/5     Logo                         Hamburg    Germany
18/5     Lido                          Berlin           Germany
19/5     Conne Island             Leipzig          Germany
20/5     Vienna                      B72              Austria
21/5     Munich                     59:1             Germany
22/5     Zurich                      Abart            Switzerland
27/5      Siesta festival          Hässleholm    Sweden
29/5      Maxim                     Gävle            Sweden
17/7     Tivolirocken              Kristianstad   Sweden
29-31/7 Storsjöyran festival   Östersund     Sweden
29-31/7 Emmaboda festival    Emmaboda   Sweden

More festivals will be announced soon!

Much Love

12 February 2010 Johnossi confirmed for Siesta!

The first of many festivals is now confirmed.

Johnossi will play at Siesta festival in Hässleholm, Sweden, 27-29 may.

Many more festivals will be announced soon!

7 February 2010 Whats the point straight to no 1 on Swedish Tracks!, Keep on voting!

To our Swedish friends:

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!

Kärlek

/Johnossi

30 January 2010 Whats the point on Tracks!

Here is a newsletter for our Swedish friends:

Hej!

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:

http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p3/tracks/index.asp?taskid=1

Senast måndag den 1 februari kl. 14.00.

Sprid det! Tvinga era polare, föräldrar, syskon och grannar att rösta på oss!

TACK!

Vi är inne på sluttampen av albuminspelningen. Vi fixar med dom sista grejorna nu mellan
Thåström gigen. Här kan ni se några bilder från studion:

Vi ses snart!

/Johnossi

19 January 2010 What's The Point – New Single and New Tour Dates!

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.

We are doing a Scandinavian headline tour in May:

12 Maj Oslo, John Dee
13 Maj Stockholm, Debaser Medis
14 Maj Göteborg, Brew House
15 Maj Lund, Mejeriet

European tour dates to be announced shortly!

And don't miss us supporting Thåström:

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

See you soon friends!

Much Love, Johnossi

Buy the new single on iTunes here »

Listen to the new single on Spotify here »

23 December 2009 New album, tour with Thåström

Great news!

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.

Merry Christmas everybody!!

2 December 2009 Johnossi on P3 Guld!

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 19^th 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.

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