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Pipas's blog/ Nov 2006
A Taste Of Pickles And Honey.
24 Nov 2006 02:06 pm 5
hello from tartu! here we are at the Rock &(or) Roll club. yes, they named it after. A cold drizzly friday night in beautiful southern estonia, wandering through the stately wooden house lined streets with our copilots Harries & Pias (and guardian angels Tauno and Armin, without whom..). Last night was amazing - we went to see a photo exhibit about bedouins, had coffee and an interview with Marko in the Moscow lounge, rocked out with Pia Fraus & HH, and our biggest fan in finland turned up and nearly joined us on stage. Afterwards we chomped on estonian garlic rye bread until the small hours of the night. A whole bucket of it. Tonight's treat: pickles with honey. Very…
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Disappearing shows.
23 Nov 2006 12:54 pm 3
Greetings from Tallinn! We took an incredible nap this morning on the ferry from Helsinki. Best sleep in our lives? This city is so beautiful & dramatically lit the buildings cast shadows on the sky. We're very sad to report that the shows in Kiel and Leipzig this next week won't be happening for reasons beyond our control. But Hamburg and Berlin are still on, and we can't wait! Adios.
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More Than Ampel
20 Nov 2006 06:07 pm
our second time in copenhagen and our second time with ampel. such a good time. hanging out with them again, hearing and seeing them play (with an extra guitar too). the 101 year old violin! laura k. showed up. so long since we'd last seen her as she moved back to copenhagen a while back. but lucky for lupe she's moving back to london next year. maybe they will make their movie, "us", now! :-) goodnight! here we come varberg! Read or write comments! Radio Helsinki!
19 Nov 2006 07:53 pm
we'll be on radio helsinki from 18.30 finnish time / 16:30 uk time on wednesday 22 november. they broadcast in the internet (www.radiohelsinki.fi)!!
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17 Nov 2006 02:15 pm
with extreme happiness we can announce that the lovely people of ampel have set up a show in copenhagen on monday, november 20th at kastelsvej 44. woo hoo! thank you! Read or write comments! The Malmö Dept.
17 Nov 2006 02:11 pm 2
dang! we're here at the venue/hotel (all in one, you really can't believe how nice it is to step from your room down a few steps and around a corner to where you're playing. vertical integration to the max!), retro. daniel and josef met us a the bus station (touring sweden by bus is fun!) and we settled down here. so nice to be stationary for a little. erik came by for an interview for student radio. and now lupe is sleeping over there. thinking about what to play for the show... thinking about breakfast tomorrow! and sleeping a little later!
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Kalmar non-kalamity!
17 Nov 2006 01:47 pm 1
at long last, four years after our first trip to kalmar for mitt basta liv, we returned and actually got to see the town for real and spend quality time with patric and famille and lina. as a bonus! it was the first day of swedish christmas candy (vegan too). like little fluffy clouds of chewy sweet goodness. we played later that evening with the sugar plum fairies who are a teen pop rock sensation, perhaps, in sweden. a strange but fun show! there were towels backstage with a little pipas sign next to them. and another missed opportunity for onstage smoke. the sugar plummers busted out the smoke. i wish we'd known. regrets! regrets! regrets! we danced around after…
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Sweet gamla stan.
15 Nov 2006 06:49 pm 1
tonight we are staying in the most incredibly haunted looking office in Stockholm's Gamla Stan.. on a little courtyard called something Fredag's something.... haunted i tell you.. The show was so much fun--- again, some haunting, the poltergeist of a hum coming through and overpowering us all, with awe.... too short here, too short. our hearts will remain in sweet gamla stan with the bells for a long time! too many drink tickets. we lightweights. so we're having some cheer with our friend jyrky in the red curtained backstage. i don't think i can finish this g&t even if someone dares me though. falling asleep prontito.
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New and old friends.
12 Nov 2006 11:16 pm
Can you hear it? it's about time we storm outta Fort Hamilton Park and follow the thunderbolt... tick tock tick tock kaboom.. just one more day. Pidg just made all the t-shirts while i did nothing but contemplate what picture to use for an entry on... an a-z of bands we'll be playing with. that's the most exciting part of touring! so if you look at the tags you'll see we start in Stockholm with Stackars Lajka & Tam Tapir , neither of which we've ever seen live but we can't wait as we love their names (and songs. and their pirate and marker cover art). Yeah, you got it, a lot…
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Sleep = Shut Up
07 Nov 2006 08:35 pm 2
our dear friend michael green put together this video for our song 'sleep = shut up' and now it's time to put it online officially. hooray! apologies to michael for not getting it out there sooner. it's been lurking on google video but i just kept forgetting to link it up all proper like: Sleep = Shut Up Video. it's lovely 16mm film! wow.
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We could be hiros.
04 Nov 2006 01:07 am 2
Contrary to popular opinion, pipas is not a group formed of people who don't ever leave their houses until around 5 in the afternoon thereby wasting the whole day's worth of sunshine for the sake of staring at their computers in case a new red dot appears on the mail program in the dock. nah. we go out! we take long walks to help pump blood into our gnawed fingertips. we feed the cat and run out the door to let some fresh air in.. occasionally, we even go to a show. it helps that a lovely friend at killrockstars helped us out tonight-- otherwise i'm sure we would have been too, um, busy to catch their cmj showcase, featuring… Read More
The photo shoot.
02 Nov 2006 12:04 pm 1
Like our new tour van? Yesterday was one of those incredible days of autumn in new york - warm, bright, and full of running around doing.. pretty much nothing, other than posing against various strange urban backdrops - empty baseball fields, pools with keith haring murals, haunted brownstones, and deserted diners by the hudson river -- for our friend legendary photographer Glen E Friedman, who definitely made us work it! we should have stretched before, done some mini pilates. i can't believe he's so good he even called me (lupe) on the 1 fake smile i did all day. we were starving. my stomach in pain from all the laughter. he's a funny guy! Everyone's… Read More
Additional show in Finland!
01 Nov 2006 10:01 am 6
Things to do on the boats from the seaside of Turku, Finland, on Saturday 25 November: "Go on board and enjoy the sea trip with its interesting intermediate stages. During the trip you may find comfortable lodging, enjoy the dark archipelago bread and smoked Baltic herring, take part in different kinds of events or just relax by the glittering water and follow the flight of the seagulls. Swing by Dynamo later in the evening for some fun with Pipas & Action Biker , courtesy of Les Yper Sound Club !"
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