New Video: Season One Trailer

Yep! A short trailer for Season One, which will be released on double DVD May 25th:

It comes in an exclusive Digipak wrapping, and you can preorder it from our shop now.

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Midnight Mood

Dark Days At the X

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Ever since we started Jazz & Fly Fishing, I´ve been teasing the other guys in the band with a place called the X.
I´ve told them that the X is probably the best place in Scandinavia for big trout and big arctic char.
From time to time, I´ve shown them blurry pictures of happy, non-J&FF fishing buddies of mine, posing in gorgeous wilderness surroundings with huge, stunningly beautiful fish in their arms and silly grins on their faces. Just to torment the guys.

But I´ve never told the other J&FF guys where this El Dorado of fishing is located. They´ve tried all the tricks in the book to make me reveal the secret: They´ve gotten me really drunk (not difficult to accomplish), they´ve tried to bribe me (also doable), and they´ve threatened me with lawsuits and violence. But no. I´ve kept my mouth shut.

Until now. Today, I have decided to share the dirty secret about the X. And not only with the guys in the band, but with the whole J&FF community. Here it goes: The X is not one single place – it´s a codeword for several different, secret places in the north of Scandinavia. Sorry Fredrik, Tapani and Joona, but that´s the truth. There is no such as thing as the X, just lots of Xs.

The last few days, I´ve been checking out online maps a lot, trying to pinpoint the best possible locations for this summer´s J&FF expeditions. And what strikes me every time I look at a map of northern Scandinavia is how many fantastic fishing spots that still exist up there. So many Xs. And the magical summer above the arctic circle is on our doorstep. Life is beautiful.

The pictures below are from a trip to one of these Xs in late August last year. Terje Storsten (a great bass player and J&FF friend who some of you might remember as the chef in this video), my cousin Dagfinn, and yours truly. One week of mountain fishing in a pristine wilderness area. Mostly very crappy weather, even for northern Scandinavia. Lots of gorgeous fish. One monster lost, leaving me with a bleeding cut in my leg after following it down the rapids. Lots of laughs. Cold and wet. Some big fish landed. Lots of mosquitos. Good food. Good times. Summer. Soon.

Guess what…

Alright… this is what happened yesterday: (if you don’t know what I’m talking about – take a fast look at the previous blog)

The wind turned when I took my first steps in Malmö. The direction of the current switched direction at the same time, something that happens every now and then. In general, it will last only for a couple of hours or sometimes up to 24 hours until the current will switch again. This time it stayed wrong all the time!! The sea level sank at the same time, why am I not surprised. It is hard to describe what it feels like to fish, when you now you only have a certain amount of time, and that the fishing will be crap. Instead of trout, millions of horn fish invaded the area. If you want to catch sea trout, horn fish is your worst enemy.

After one whole day of cold fingers, no trout, 50 horn fish and 10.000 casts, the mental strength tend to go down a little bit. Right now I am very weak, sitting on the bus back to Gothenburg. I’m trying to hide behind the seat but it is hard when you have a guy next to you. Probably he is glancing on the text right now until he reads this sentence. I´m tempted to wright something ugly just to find out….

Anyway – I have a gig in Strömstad tonight, a small town up north along the west coast of Sweden. The gig place is situated in a very good (!) sea trout area. This means the war is not over yet. There is still hope! I wont back down that easy. Tomorrow morning I will post a very short blog including a beautiful trout that will be caught tonight between the sets. Do you believe I will catch?

Actual se cambia a la dirección equivocada, el agua baja, pescado podrido, no haytruchas, no hay energía

Der Strom wird in die falsche Richtung, geringe Wasseraufnahme, faulem Fisch, keineForelle, keine Energie eingeschaltet

Le courant est passé à la mauvaise direction, l’eau, les poissons pourris, pas de truites, pas d’énergie/ Fredrik

Traveling south

After a hectic week in Gothenburg I discovered that I had one day off. That day is tomorrow. The last week I’ve been playing as a maniac and hardly fished at all. Meanwhile, a friend has sent me a couple of pictures from his fishing sessions. The first photo came five days ago. While I was working, I received an mms. The photo showed a huge sea trout, between 4 and 5 kg. The day after same thing happened, this time three different shots on three different sea trout, weight between 2.5 and 3.5 kg. Yesterday it happened again, this time between 3 and 4 k!! The last picture was on the ugly fly he had been fishing with all the time. A fat little shrimp with rubber-legs. Tied some similar flies yesterday evening.

Tasty?

This friend, Per Oskar Nilsson, by the way an excellent guitar player, lives in Malmö in southern Sweden. I am, this moment, 21.18 in the evening, sitting on a buss with my computer in front of me. Guess where I’m going… to Malmö.

Tomorrow we’ll fish on the same spot where he caught the silver colored monsters earlier this week. Probably I won’t catch. It is to late. The weather will turn crap. I will get sick. Loose my glasses or break the rod. Maybe loose a rod and break my glasses instead. The car will probably smash also. It is always like that. Maybe not exactly like that but you get what I mean!? BUT… there is a chance! The fishing might be extremely good. For the first time of my life, I have no expectations. Lets see what happens! I will post a blog on the way up to Gothenburg on saturday. If I’ll loose my glasses, I can always ask someone on the bus to write a short blog. Talk to you later/wir sehen uns später/увидимся позже/à plus tard/回头见/te post/hasta luego! /Fredrik

Rider on the Storm

Hi! Here´s a video from the reharsals for Sorga kler Elektra, the theatre play I´m part of right now.
In the video, we see Torbjørn Eriksen, who plays Orin Mannon, performing The Doors´ 1971 rock classic
Riders on the Storm, along with some random shots from the play. The video was made by someone from the theatre (I was playing the guitar when they made it, and didn´t even notice them filming).

The premiere was last saturday, and I´m happy to say that the rewiews have been totally overwhelming.
Norway´s major theatre critics (who are not an easily pleased bunch) wrote things like “sensationally good, personal theatre”, a “theatre-jazz-jam from hell”, that the experience was “like being sucked into a dark river”, that “this is theatre at an international level”, and that it is “elegant, innovative and disturbingly beautiful”. And so on.

Good times!

PS! Release of Season One is drawing closer. Stay tuned!

One Shot

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