“Play it again Sam” is one line from the movie Casablanca I think. And I am not sure if I even have seen the movie. But this text should not be about Casablanca it will be about music.

Music is something that I found important I really like to listen to music and to found new groups and artists. Concerts and festivals are really great too! Music can make me happy, calm and balanced. Unfortunately I’m not so musical talented but I wish that I could play guitar or piano. Maybe I can learn sometime?

My first memory containing something that has to do with music is when my little sister was new born and I wanted to sing for here at BB (maternity ward) but my parents deny me because I was singing to loud. Presumably she had woken up from her sleep if I not had been stopped. From that point I think I more or less has listen to music what I can remember.

When I was five I listen to Carola (a Swedish artist that has a long history I not will describe here), when I was 12 I listen to NKOTB (New kids on the block, a boy band.) Then I don’t really know what I listen to the years after that, but when I was 16 or so I started to listen to older music like The Beatles. So then I was stuck in the 60’ and 70’ music and still are, I also listens to a lot of singer/songwriter music like Rosie Thomas, Ryan Adams, Christan Kjellvander, Ed Harcourt, Nick Drake and many more. I listen to rock music and also a lot of Swedish music. And many of the Swedish bands/artists are from my hometown Umeå. Like The Perishers, David Sandström, Deportees and The Facer.

I’m going to try and list some great music (for me at least)

Newest record for me

Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now.

I heard it ones this summer when I went a course on Sätergläntan, than I forgot about it and for a month ago or so I remember it again. Since that I think I have listen to it at least every second day. I love it!

Some of my favorite records

Weeping Willows – Broken promise land
Lars Winnerbäck – almost everything but to pick one record. Söndermarken
Ryan Adams – Cold roses
Isolation years – Cover the distance

Some immortal tunes I really like

David Bowie – Life on mars
Sammy Davis Jr – Mr Bojangles
Gary Jules – Mad world
Queen - Bohemian Rapsody

My first cd

Michael Jackson – Dangerous

Christmas present in 1992, I got my first stereo with CD player that year. Now I haven’t listen to it for years and years. But I remember the video to Black and white, with the faces that changed.

My first lp

My first LP, and I have to point out that I don’t own more then three I think, was a record for children with songs. I think that the lp can be found on my parents attic. Wooffisarna och lill-babs.

Lill-babs is an artist from Sweden how is loved by the people (read: the older ones) and Wooffisarna was two bears or something like that. From what I found on internet the lp was recorded the same years as I am born, 1980.

latest concert

Laleh on Droskan