Welcome to my annual end-of-the-year chronicle. Here I reflect on the passed year, the media I’ve consumed, the trips I’ve made and other personal stuff. Blogging My first focus is this blog: Stray Bullet. This year I have published 9 posts. Six of the posts were concert reviews and three of the concerts were abroad.... Continue Reading →
Where The Bands Are (Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather, 28 April, 2022)
Brian Fallon’s concert in Pustervik, Gothenburg was originally scheduled for 26.04.2020, as a tour to support his then newly released album Local Honey. The concert has then been postponed twice due to the pandemic and on Thursday (28.04.2022) the time had finally come for the show. Along for the ride Fallon had brought Jesse Malin... Continue Reading →
Media Overload 2020
In this end-of-the-year review I’m going to reflect on the passed year, a year that has been characterised by a nasty virus that has made us reevaluate and rearrange our lives. I'm going to talk about the media I’ve consumed, the trips I've made and other personal stuff. I'm starting with my own blog Stray... Continue Reading →
Turn it up, turn it up …(Brian Fallon ‘Local Honey’)
As you may have noticed, today I’m launching a new feature; album reviews. All album reviews are, from now on, titled Turn it up, turn it up … and will include album reviews of singers/bands that I find interesting, starting with Brian Fallon’s Local Honey, which was released on March 27, 2020. Fallon was supposed... Continue Reading →
Where the Bands Are [COVID-19 and postponed shows]
As the coronavirus disease continues to spread (the disease now reaches more than 40 countries), live event organisers are forced to cancel or postpone more and more events. Large conferences, sport events and major concerts are affected. They all face the same problem: Is a public gathering worth the risk of spreading the new coronavirus?... Continue Reading →
2018 Media Overload
In this entry I'm going to reflect on 2018 and the media I've consumed, starting with a glance at my own blog. It has been almost a year since I published the very first (title) post "Stray Bullet" (January 23rd). Since then I've written 64 blogposts and although it's still a quite small and insignificant... Continue Reading →
Where the Bands Are (Brian Fallon and the Howling Weather, 14 June, 2018)
Gaslight Anthem's frontman Brian Fallon's solo career started, when the band decided to take an indefinite break in 2015. The first solo album "Painkillers" was released in 2016 and it was quite successful. Last time Brian Fallon was in Gothenburg in December 2016, I didn't particularly like the show to be honest (though the reviews... Continue Reading →