THE BLOSSOM - 08-08-27 THE BELL - 08-08-24 THE BOXER - 08-08-24 - 08-08-22 BE UNDRESSED AND READY MY ANGEL - 08-08-21 Possible recording spot for the next album? What do you think? 21 - 08-08-21 THE RAIN FISH / 217 KM. OUT REALLY SOON! - 08-08-21 September 1st the new seven song EP "THE RAIN FISH / 217 KM" is released. Go have a listen in the shop section and pick a copy up if you like it. Handmade cover by me and my father. Good quality crafting! Best / B 60 HOURS - 08-08-20 THE VESSEL - 08-08-19 THE HOME - 08-08-18 THE MOVING - 08-08-17 MOLNET - 08-08-16 BERGET - 08-08-15 DRINKING COFFEE GETTING PAYED. - 08-08-14 - 08-08-13 IKK NUBB - 08-08-11 Just came from the print shop today with all the bits and pieces for the EP. Looks really nice. Of course I miscalculated some of the parts so I had to do some additional cutting and fitting. Hehe. Humle had some salad meanwhile. LOU REED. ALBUM 3. SONG 2. - 08-08-10 Seems I have a new design of my web page. What you see to your left is the so called Rainfish It rains when it cries. Do not upset it. Treat it good like any other person, animal or plant. Be kind. Be good. Walk slow and drink a lot of water. B THE HUNTER - 08-08-07 THE FEIND - 08-08-06 Nice show last night. Thanks everyone for showing up. Mixing done for the EP(It´s rather turned into a mini album). Nice day at work. Many Trettiokronorsgummor. Jonas is here visiting. He feeds Humle in the morning. RECORDINGS - 08-08-04 Recording for the fish EP due out early sept. Making progress. I like it alot. So nice to actually do something and not just work all the time. tjo! RAIN RAIN RAIN - 08-08-04 DO YOU? - 08-08-03 Old lady: Would you mind giving me a hand getting out of the car? Björn: Sure thing. I´ll give you a steady grip(grips lady steadily). Old lady: Oh. You´ll have to let go there for a second. I just dislocated by elbow. Happens all the time. KONTIKI 5/8 - 08-07-30 Tisdagen den 5:e Augusti spelar jag på Kontiki tillsammans med Hajen. Dörrar 18:00 och banden börjar 20:00. Femti spänn i dörren. Kom förbi. Hört att dom har en trädkoja? ZEPPELIN / HUMLE - 08-07-30 RAT IN THE HOUSE - 08-07-26 Came home last night and there was quite a scene taking place. People curled up in bed hitting walls with hammers trying to scare off the little fucker. Bought a trap after breakfast. Jammed my hand in it. It won´t catch it. Didn´t really hurt. QUIETLY HAPPY AND DEEP INSIDE 12" - 08-07-24 Me and Mattias just finnished the cover for the vinyl release of QHADI this afternoon. Think it´ll look awesome! Also: the EP is coming along just in time for the dates in september. New stuff. Fun! RAIN FISH - 08-07-22 FLOOR FILLER. - 08-07-20 BACK AT WORK... - 08-07-18 SUMMER - 08-07-16 It rained. I took a picture. I read in a book. I built a good for nothing machine. !!! - 08-07-16 . - 08-07-15 Haruki Murakami makes me so happy. I feel alive reading him. Also: My Best friend [film] City - Alessandro Baricco [novel] Peel Slowly And See - Velvet Underground [cd-set] AUTUMN/HÖST/HERBST - 08-07-08 Hey guys and gals. A few new things in the so called pipeline. 1. Band dates cancelled in august. No funny festival, no nothing. Sorry about that. Just didn´t work out. 2. I´ll be coming down in September with ms lovelyness and play a bunch of shows solo. Dates will be up when everything is confirmed. 3. A vinyl edition of Quietly Happy And Deep Inside will be out in September just in time for the tour and the swedish release of the album. The vinyl comes with a whole new cover. I´ll meet up Mattias(mattiasg.se) next Thursday and do it. It´ll be good! 4. A limited edition EP with five new songs will be ready in time for the dates in September with a beautiful cover drawn by my father. The EP will also be available through the shop after the tour in CD and MP3 format. 5. As a little teaser/count down of the swedish release of the album I have asked eleven friends to cover/remix a track each of the song from the album. I´ll release them here one at a time shortly before the release. And I can tell you there are some good things going on in the minds of these guys! 6. I hit a raindear with the car. Drive carefully. Don´t hit raindears. Yours truly / Björn HOLIDAY - 08-06-12 Tour was great. Thanks for all that. I´m off for a while. Taking some time off. Hopefully be back with some new stuff by the fall. But right now it´s work work work. Don´t let the man get you. Love B POETS DYING - 08-05-12 Free download of second single available now at Tomt Recordings together with a real nice video shot by Sam Smith with excellent help from Semiotext and Emily Brown. B FOUR DAYS IN... - 08-05-11 ...to the tour and things are great. In Leeuwarden in Holland now where we are playing in lailas flat tonight. Food smells great and the weather is practically summer. Good good good. We have had a few days now of wonderful shows, people, football, sun and gas station snacks. Great trip it is. The band is, as always, the best company and the two newcomers Jacko and Martin are great to say the least. It is gonna be an amazing tour. Hope to see you all somewhere along the way. Richard Cheese!!!!!!!! B NEW SHIRTS - 08-05-05 New shirts just printed on the terrass. Loads of different shirts with two prints. 4 DAYS. - 08-05-05 !!! - 08-05-02 UPDATES - 08-05-02 Sick as a dog. Hope I´ll be better soon. I have to. Holland dates finally confirmed. Much due to my lack of time/effort. Check shows section. Exact times for afternoon shows in stores and stuff will be up in a few days to. Check back. [drawing by Mattias Gunnarsson] ALTARNATE NAMES - 08-04-29 Jarl Jan Bjarne Bjarle Nalle? [courtsey of Maj Medrén] !!! - 08-04-28 Soon we come down. Until then. Reglar: 200 x 8 100 x 4 Hönsnät: ca 16 kvm Spånskiva: 7 kvm COPENHAGEN - 08-04-25 In Copenhagen for a few days working. I call it working. Guess it it. I don´t know. Staying with a few friends in a really nice house outside of the city. Not doing too much. We might take a drive to Louisiana tomorrow and have a look. If the weather is nice. Other than that I am mainly just sitting here trying to figure out stuff about the tour. I am quite excited to come down to Europe again. We´re playing quite a few shows this time. And with the full band it should be really really nice. Looking forward to seeing you all so soon again. Love!B FRIEND INTERVIEW - 08-04-14 Met up with good old friend Thomas Denver Jonsson the other day for a cup of coffee and we made a short, very unpretentious interview for his blog. Go have a look. And be sure to check out the Denver stuff. Real goodie!!! DNVR VS KLNHNZ FREE DOWNLOAD FROM TOMT RECORDINGS! - 08-04-12 Oioioi! A little treat from Tomt Recordings for you all. One of the tracks from the new album is up for free download. Just right klick the title and get it! The Quest for your Heart NEW SITE! - 08-04-04 New site is up with loads of juicy stuff for you pleasure. Album is released and the tour for May is all booked and we´re ready to go. Five weeks left and we´re autobahn maniacs again. See you then oh lovely germans!!! /Björta DIGITAL ALBUM - 08-04-04 Ohoi boys and girls. The new album is available digitally already now over at Tomt Recordings. Check back for an exact releasedate for the "physical" album. Best !B ALBUM OUT! - 08-03-24 Ohoi ladys and gentlemen. The album is out. It took a while, but it´s sitting here right beside me on the table so I guess it must be true. It is such a great feeling getting a physical realization of all the work I´ve put into it. Available through my new label Devilduck Records. Get it and we´ll all meet up in Ger/SWI/AUS in May ok! Love B !!! - 08-03-17 Just sitting here having a few smokes and reexploring this thing called myspace. It´s really quite amazing. Haha. I have been listening to so much great music today. Just randomly strolling down the big old www highway. There are so many great songwriters and musicians out there I go all crazy. Favorites today: Little Pebble, Naomi Roper and A Perfect Friend. Ladies and gentlemen. Sleep tight! B STYLESPION.DE - 08-03-17 An interview can now be read at stylespion.de if you´re interested. It´s about housing and design I guess. Quite strange. But also nice. Check out the dump of a house I live in! FROGBONE SALAD - 08-03-16 Recording sessions with Kid Ikarus for the upcoming split tape. Hold on! HOME AGAIN FROM SCOTLAND - 08-03-09 Scotland was really nice! Thank you Alan for having me over. And Anna, Stacey, Richard and a bunch of others for just being genuinely great people. Thank you to the guys buying me pint after pint of Guinness at the 13th Note. I think I probably gained a good five pounds! A few more updates while I´m at it: Quietly Happy And Deep Inside will be out in Sweden on the Take One More Take label on the 15th of September. So hold on until then. Conrad aka Kid Ikarus aka Mr Froggi Records is right now sitting on my sofa. We´re working on some recordings at the moment that will eventually result in the third tape in the citically acclaimed(Yeah right!) Bone Tape Series. Out sometime before the summer on Froggi Records and also digitally on It´s a Trap(Is that ok Avi?). Three shows have been booked for the end of this month together with Winter Took His Leif and Cedarwell. Last thing before Mr Neave goes home to Wisconsin. Kom förbi you ladies and gentlemen! European tourdates for May are slowly coming together. I have posted most of them already, but a few changes and additions are probably to be expected. Check back. Finally. The Departed [film] Björn Runeborg - Dag [novel] Peter Nilsson - Ljudet från kosmos [pseudoscience] AC Hum - Electricity [song] See you! / B LAST MINUTE SCOTLAND DATES - 08-02-27 On sunday I head out to Scotland for a bunch of shows. Dates to the right. Head to the left. Come by. BONUS: There are some wonderful pictures from the show at Stereo Wonderland in Cologne to be found HERE! Photos taken by Stephanie Schorre. Thank you! QUIETLY HAPPY AND DEEP INSIDE, OUT MARCH 20TH! - 08-02-17 From March 20th everyone in Germany, Switzerland and Austria can pick up the brand new album in a decent records store. I am excited. I hope you are too. It´s a fine album. Love / Björn HOME AGAIN - 08-02-05 So. We´re all wonderfully tired and have great big german colds. Thanks alot! It was, as always, a true pleasure coming down playing. The company of Erik and Susanna was great and we´ve met so many nice people on the way. Some old faces, some new. All great. A few links with some videos and stuff: Hamburg TV station Yoomee.tv made an intervie/live session with me and Erik(Susanna was sick unfortunately). You find it HERE! And mainstage.de made some videos of the show in Berlin. You find them HERE! and also one HERE! New album in due out on March the 20th, and we´ll be coming down with the full band in early May. So I´ll see you all then. best / Björn [photo: Kai Müller] COPENHAGEN SHOW BOOKED - 08-01-18 Ohoi. One additional show has been booked in copenhagen for the first of february. Be sure to pop by! B COPENHAGEN SHOW BOOKED - 08-01-18 Ohoi. One additional show has been booked in copenhagen for the first of february. Be sure to pop by! B BIS BALD! - 08-01-13 Oioioi! Leaving for Malmö tomorrow and the first show of the tour. Then it´s Germany and on we go. See you guys along the road. Oh ja, ziemlich frisch! 2007, OVER AND OUT. + VIDEO! - 07-12-22 CLICK YOURSELF TO YOU TUBE >>> Year is almost over and it´s time to look into the next one. I have only great expectations. We start off with our tour already in January. It´s me, Winter Took His Life and Cedarwell going to Germany(always!), Switzerland, Luxembourg and France. We´re releasing a split mini album featuring three songs each and we´re gonna tour in a special way. We will not be performing our songs as solo artist but as one group instead. Three guys on stage throughout the whole show. So we´ll be helping eachoter out in performing the songs. A really grande little lo-fi orchestra indeed! Be sure to pop by if you get a chance! So, that´s that. In March we release the new album. First one in a real long while and I am pretty darn excited. The album is good and I love it. Hope you do to. Plans on a 2-3 week tour through Europe with my six piece band have been made, I´ll let you know when I have more details about that. In the meantime, I wish you a very pleasant Christmas. As a small gift I recorded a new track at my kitchen table earlier this evening, so pls watch it. It´s kinda good. Haha. Love you! Björn ALBUM RELEASE! - 07-12-12 I posted the master last night. Don´t want to tell you too much at present, but the plan is that the album QUIETLY HAPPY AND DEEP INSIDE will be out in Germany, Switzerland and Austria in March next year. A little celebration in the meantime: Go to my myspace profile to listen to the three tracks I´m contributing with on the Sing Out mini album mentioned below. Yes! NEW RELEASE JANUARY 2008 - 07-12-01 SPLIT MINI ALBUM SING OUT! TOGETHER WITH WINTER TOOK HIS LIFE AND CEDARWELL RELEASED JANUARY 2008! Three songs each, all wrapped in a nice little digipak with cover art by Sara Jonsson released on Take One More Take Recordings. Available through the TOMT Webshop 15th of January and of course through us on tour! Dear friend Christopher Clark is an amazing artist. Go HERE to check out his work. TOUR. EUROPE. JANUARY. 2008. - 07-11-20 That´s pretty much all you need to know at the moment. The rest is silence. I will put up dates here when all the shows have been confirmed. Booking all the shows myself this time, and I can tell you one thing. I realize now why it´s worth every cent haing Björn at Under The Stars, Me! do it. He does it properly. Props to you Björni! EUROPE - 07-11-14 We have plans for you again. Cos we love you. Soon. Check back soon. - 07-11-13 The first snow fell today. It didn´t stay long. Two hours. But it sure was pretty with a clean white city. SWITZERLAND - 07-11-05 Back again. Tired. Beat. At work. Hate it and love it. Hard to decide what to do with my head. I´ll get back to you with some nice pictures from the trip soon. Thank you B - 07-10-24 - 07-10-22 HAR DU JOBBET I GRUVE? - 07-10-19 What do you know? !!!!! SWISS DATES! - 07-10-17 Notting Hillary Comic Zoo (Semiotext/Björn K./Paper Pilot) P.S. Thank you all you lovely swiss people who have been getting in touch trying to help me out. You have no idea how much stuff like that means to me. We´ll do a proper livingroom tour soon. Promise! TOUR IS OVER AND SO AM I - 07-10-04 Hey everybody. Thank you for coming to all the shows last week. We all had an amazing time for sure. Tired as hell and sick as a dog I´ve been spending most of my past week under a blanket in my bed with Haruki Murakami and peppermint tea just thinking of the wonderful days we had. A more proper little diary of the tour will be up as soon as we´ve sorted out the pictures. But I would already now like to thank a few people who made the last two weeks something really special. Björn. Iris. Johannes. Anne. Chaykan. Denise. Andi. Frank. Fred. Conrad. Lisa. Marc. Tobi. Daniel and his band. Carmina. Christian. And loads more I´ve probably forgotten. A few videos have been posted at youtube if you feel like watching a bunch of swedish freaks on stage for a couple of minutes. Tredje Långgatan 26, Live in Hannover 2007-09-21 Diana, Live in Bielefeld 2007-09-22 Also I found THIS when browsing through the youtube site. Some guy in Berlin who has the good taste to skate to my music. I thank you! Last but not least the second tape of the bone triology is finally here. It´s out on fabulous Froggi Records and will be available for free download here and at It´s a Trap sometime next week. It´s a split tape together with Winter Took His Life. Four songs each with a wonderful cover by Mattias Rolund. Buy a copy right away. 100 copies only and we´re running out! "Bloodbone / Home Alone 2" is the title. Let´s stay in touch! Love you / Björn HÄSSLEHOLM! - 07-09-22 Oi. Sista minuten-spelning bokad. Perrong 23 i Hässleholm, lördagen den 29:e September. Show up! Jag spelar med bandet och det gör The Book of Daniel ocksa. Pussar fran Bielefeld!B WE´RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE GERMONEY! - 07-09-19 We leave tonight. See you all soon down in the best country on earth! Foto: Mattias Dellmo NEWS UPDATE SEPT. - 07-09-11 Ohoi! So. A few new things are happening in the near future. Here we go. 1. The tour is coming up soon and to celebrate the return to Germany me and Susanna of Winter Took His Life have decided to put out a split tape with four songs each on wonderful Froggi Records in Berlin. A limited edition of 100 copies with nice covers will be available at shows and later on also through my homepage. The whole tape will also be released as an mp3 album and available for download at Avi´s wonderful casa: www.itsatrap.com 2. There will be a tour diary updated daily at www.itsatrap.com too. Me and the band will send Avi some postcards from the different places we go to. Tell you a bit about the sights. Check it out! 3. Before the show in Hamburg on the 28th me and the band will perform a few songs live on a balcony close to the venue. The video will be up for viewing already the same evening at www.balconytv.de 4. The show at Pustervik is now on saturday. Me sure not to miss it. The Book of Daniel is playing aswell and ovbiously it will be amazing. 5. New shirts are printed and ready for the show. Please don´t hesitate to place an order directly through me if you, heaven forbid, are not able to pop by a show. Prices are: 15 Euro | 150 SEK | 20 USD including shipping. E-mail me. Ok. I think that´s it for now. Over and out!B PIGBONE 3000, THE SECOND COMING - 07-08-31 Conrad and me have been sitting all night at my kitchen table and we´re very happy to tell you that the Pigbone 3000 tape is now in stock again! WTHL/KLNHNZ SPLIT - 07-08-30 Me and Susanna of Winter Took His Life will put out a split tape just for the tour in september. So be sure to pop by one of the shows and pick one up. Three songs each and a wonderful cover by Mattias Rolund, all released on the lovely Froggi Records. Yeah! KIDDO - 07-08-28 Show up! - 07-08-13 Jag har idag mixat den tuffaste låten jag någonsin gjort. Fullt jävla ställ. Olis boom box formligen glödde av överansträngning och jag spräckte ryggen på min kavaj i en kort men jävligt intensiv regndans på Tredje Långgatan. Jag saknar flickan med håret. Det har börjat växa ett litet träd på vårt tak och kanske kanske kommer hon bli förtjust som ett litet barn över de spröda nästan genomskinliga bladen. B DINNER HONEY! - 07-08-07 BEDARÖ BITTER... - 07-08-07 ...är det godaste jävla öl som har bryggts. Gå till Rover på Andra Långgatan och njut en öl i gott gott sällskap. Fy fan va gott. / Franz von Fitzenstrahl SKATE OR DIE - 07-08-05 Blades of glory! PUSTERVIK - 07-08-02 O! Lördagen den femtonde September spelar vi tillsammans med The Book Of Daniel på Woody West, Pusterviksbaren. Kom, för då blir det allsång och hålligång. B SBG 2007 - 07-08-02 TOUR SEPTEMBER - 07-07-25 All the dates are now booked and we´re ready to go! Check them to your right and be sure to meet up with us on the way. Winter Took His Life will be supporting us on a few of the shows and Susanna also plays in the Kleinhenz band. The new band: Susanna Brandin: Vocals + Guitar Christian Kleinhenz: Bass Per Börjesson: Keys + Vocals Stefan Holmber: Guitar Daniel Petterson: Drums We´re gonna try to make as much noise as possible! Thank you / B SÅ! - 07-07-11 Kålle (eller hur fan man nu stavar hans namn) var nere på stan och skulle till att köpa sig en hatt. Min hatt är gammal och sliten och jag behöver verkligen en ny en. Tänkte han. Sagt och gjort. Han gick in i närmsta hattbutik och sa till kvinnan i kassan: - God dag, jag skulle gärna vilja köpa en ny hatt. - Visst, det går bra. Vet ni vilken storlek ni behöver? - Nej, tyvärr. Men jag har huvudet med mig om det kan vara till någon ledning. COMPETITION TIME OVER - 07-06-03 Hey. Competition time is over and I will send out the cd´s this coming week. As for the entries I will have to pick Anne´s painting as some kind of winner. Although she totally missed the point her picture is awesome. Of course it is, it´s of me! And now it´s sitting on my wall. Thank you Anne! SPRINGFEAST 2007! - 07-05-22 My newly found wonderful friend Mattias threw a part at his house last saturday that was something really really special. I thank you Mattias. And Sara for a wonderful morning on those stairs. FLANELL!!! - 07-05-18 TIEGO NILO PEDRASSA CARLHOLT - 07-05-16 PICTURES HAGATEATERN - 07-05-16 Pictures from the show at Hagateatern together with Winter Took His Life and Cedarwell up right here HAGATEATERN - 07-05-08 The show at Hagateatern was so nice. Nice people came and we played a lovely show. At least I had a great time. As usual Mattias and Kristofer ended up in my kitchen with a few iPods and a few drinks. Here some pictures from the Justin Timberlake session! And the morning after. Photos: Mattias Dellmo - 07-05-08 ... - 07-05-06 Oi! Tired. Drunk. Happy. Koffe och jag har dansat. Ja! Yrsa är världens jävla sjukt sötaste! Spelningen var bra. alla var fina. Jag sträckte nån typ av muskel. Jag har en halv pava brännvin på fickan. Ha kul! TWO SHOWS - 07-05-02 Last minute booking for show on friday in Jönköping playing together with amazing Loney, Dear. Bongo Bar at 8 PM. Show up! + The wonderful night that the show with Eric and Susanna is bound to be. We´ll all help eachother out performing our songs. Should be good! SUNDAY NIGHT. - 07-04-30 Hej. Tack för helgen. Har varit verkligt trevligt. Spelningen på Jord ikväll kändes väldigt bra och det var trevligt att ni alla kom. En kort tacklista. Christian Stefan Susanna Drama Johannes Daniel Adam Yrsa Sara Elina Eleonor Joel P-O Olis Lassus Lunkan Elin Hjälmen Pizzan Hanna Eric Jonte Jakob Koffe Michael Daniel Kalle Dan Anders Ola Homestead / B [bild:pär kjellén. sjukt fin!] OPPIGÅRDS? - 07-04-28 SHOWS: MIC, Vänersborg [solo] 28/4 20.00 + Daniel Seestrand Jorg, Göteborg [band] 29/4 19.00 + Daniel Seestrand Bongo Bar, Jönköping [band] 4/5 20.00 + Loney, Dear Hagateatern, Göteborg [solo] 5/5 20.00 + Winter Took His Life & Cedarwell Köm bört! PAPA! - 07-04-26 This guy is now a father. Believe it or not. Congratulations!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL SPRINGTIME! - 07-04-24 NEWS. - 07-04-22 Hey. Sitting in my tiny room drawing, smoking, surfing and scratching the back of my leg that is itching a bit from earlier when I tried setting fire to my leg hair. We´ve been rehearsing pretty much with the band lately and I had some time off from work so I´ve been doing what everyone does with time off. I´ve been drinking, sleeping, walking and sitting in cafés with friends. Also I have been eating a shitload of popcorn in the sofa. What is new is me and Pete Thompson have recorded a bunch of songs that we hope to release somehow as soon as possible. Just need to find a good place. It will be the long awaited follow up to Pigbone 3000 and the title this time is simply Pigblood. Cos there´s really nothing useful to pigblood is there. Other than that we have the shows coming up next week and a few additional ones to be comfirmed further ahead. The new band sounds great and consists of a number of talented players from the city of Gothenburg. Can´t wait to bring the beautiful lot on tour down in germoney. I made a new press of the sold out Trans Pony album so they´re there to be purchased again. I got 20 copies extra and I am right now working on a little competition, so check back in a while and take the opportunity to your very own copy of the album. Payed only with hard hard brainwork. hehe. That´s it for now. Love B PIGBLOOD - 07-04-22 New split release coming up with Pete Thomson following up the tiny success with Pigbone 3000. Soon in a store near you! ÅHHHHHHHH - 07-04-22