UK WE LOVE YOU!

Oh my, what a blast we had! 
The whole trip was just wonderful (yeah, the ride back and forth from Stockholm was really long...) but we have had such a beautiful time. And the show was so much more than we could ever dream of. To meet the people who have posted on our FB page, bought our CDs and T-shirts and given Nubian Rose so much love and support! It was awesome! 
Here is a picture of one of my outfits and let me say that it was probably the one who made the greatest impression:)!

Thank you HRHAOR and the people of Rotherham to make this moment a moment to remember! 

UK, we love you!

A day to remember

So, finally the day was here... The day that we longed for for so long... 

To entering The stage and meet the english audience. 

I must say, it blow me away, to see you all and hear you sing a long to our songs!
It almost took my breath away
hopefully this is the great start of a long love affair between Uk and Nubian Rose! Thanks for making this day a day to remember!!!

 / Sofia

Preparation

Today we´ve been to a music store and Christer has checked out the amps that he will bee playing on this weekend. And so to say try it out. 

And now, while I´m blogging he is changing his strings on two of his guitars. 

So I guess he is pretty much ready to go on stage:) haha. 

Tomorrow are we heading for Rotherham to meet up with the other guys of Nubian Rose, who´s flying in tomorrow. And later we´re going to have a rehearsal. It feels great to be able to tune in the band for Sunday. And do one last rehearsal before the gig. 

But I can assure you, WE ARE READY!!!

A fancy Goodnight

So, we crossed the water and now we're on English soil. As we came over we where thinking on staying at à classic Bed n' Breakfast, but what happend?!? We ended up at a fancy hotel overlooking the sea! Not bad! I will give you pictures tomorrow.

Goodnight England!
We're so happy to be here!
Can't wait to play for you!!!

On our way

So, finally we're on our way to England! While listening to Manic Street Preachers we're crossing Danmark on our way. This time it's me, Sofia who writes. I can't tell you how much I've longing to play for you, meet you, have a great time with you, you guys who give Nubian Rose so much love and support! Thank you!!! It's finally time to meet some of you. And the question is, are you ready?!?

A PROMISE IS A PROMISE

We promised to write something on the blog every day up until the Hard Rock Hell festival this weekend. Tonight is was hard to get it done. It can be something like brushing your teeth at night, it's always something you feel too tired to doing, but it feels great when it's done... :)
Anyway, we are leaving tomorrow, or me and Sofia is leaving tomorrow. )The rest of the band are flying in on Saturday.)
 A lot of things to get ready, so that's why it felt like I didn't have time to write, but a promise is a promise.
The topic of today has been stage cloths. A very cool and great designer in LA was going to do some stuff for me. She promised to send it in time for our UK-trip. Did she do it??? NO, of course not. She went under ground and took my money with her. Hopefully I get a refund, but I wouldn't count on it...
So now I had to have something else made. I was desperate, had an idea and actually got it done. Now I have a cool vest with snake skin and red leather out on a jeans vest. It feels like a little bit of NWOBHM, but just a little bit more exclusive, maybe Judas Priest -82 meets something that Randy Rhoads would wear. Well, I don't know if you agree, but that's what I think anyway. I'm pleased and ready for the UK. Who of you are coming to the festival? It will be exciting to meet you!

Rock on,

//Christer

THE PERFECT SETLIST

Working with the setlist for the show in England och Sunday, thousands of possible ways to do it. You want to open with a BOOM! But you don't want to open with your most popular track, or do you? What if half the crowd is at the bar buying beer, or waiting in line to get in? Should we open luke warm just because of that?!? Hell no! We will start at the top!

Ballads, important for dynamics, but energy killers if used wrongly. We need to work up the sweat and then take it down with some sensitivity. What if we get some sweaty, long haired men to cry, that would be cool! :D It won't happen if the ballads come to soon in to the set.

New songs?!? Yes, we have some great songs we are eager to share with all of you, but when would be proper to put them in to the set? "Tuff guys don't dance" is a party song and it should definitiv work... The sing along in "All your love" would suit the English who sing like crazy on every football game.... "Higher & higher"... a melodic champion made for the arenas, early or late in the set...?!?

The SET LIST, such an important thing, if you do it right you can spin any show. Wrongly made it can be a disaster...
To give something away, Nubian Rose will start with "Get Ready". We hope you enjoy it.

ONE WEEK TO THE UK DEBUT

It’s been ages since anyone wrote anything here on the blog. It’s just to much work to keep everything updated. We are mainly focusing on our Facebook page and that’s work enough… J Anyway, I try not to whine so much… This is a perfect time to start up the blog again and hopefully keep it somewhat updated from now on…

This is HAAAPPY times! One week from now we are playing our debut gig in The UK, or m aybe I should say debut gig outside of Sweden, as a matter of fact. If you have missed it, we will be playing the Hard Rock Hell festival in Rotherham next weekend. It seems like it’s sold out, I don’t know how many people that actually means, but someone said around 4-5000! I don’t know, it’s better to keep the expectations down, so even if it’s 1000 people, or even 500, it will be a blast.

One year ago, our album were done, we had no record deal, nobody knew that we existed, we thought we had some killer song recorded, but had no idea how well it’s was going to be accepted around the globe. Now we are soon to play the main stage at a major British rock festival! Crazy cool! J

Tomorrow we will have our last rehearsal on Swedish ground. We have rented a place in Sheffield on Saturday to freshen up our mind, but tomorrow will be were everything has got to be decided. Stage show, different arrangements we have been working on, setlist shouldn’t be changed after tomorrow.

We have our four new songs, they are recorded and were supposed to be released around the time of this festival, but we decided to wait. Anyway, we have four new amazing songs that we are dying to share with you all. I don’t know if it’s smart to play all four in a one hour set, where most of the crowd might not even have heard us before… Or have they…? Will they sing along in the songs, or will they be at the bar ordering the first beer of the day? Will anyone be ready for some new material? We think so, or we hope so and can’t help ourselves. We need to play these songs, or at least a few of them. Are you eager to hear some new songs England? J

Sofia and I will take the car and drive to England. Why not just fly? Well, for one, I need to bring FOUR of my guitars and I really want to play on my own Marshall JCM 800 and that would kill me to pay over weight for all that.

We will leave on Wednesday already, just to take our time, maybe stop in London for some last minute stage cloth updates. It will be a nice road trip. Great music on the stereo, a lot of Tesla, which is my favorite newly rediscovered band, together with Talisman. Great warm up’s since Jeff Scott Soto and Tesla are playing at the festival. Those two gigs are the ones I will NOT miss, I hope I get to see a lot more shows, but those two are my “must see”.

Okay, that’s it for now. We are going to update this blog a lot more. Hopefully we will also get our Youtube channel up and running soon. I guess it will be “No sleep ‘til Rotherham”… J

/Christer – Nubian Rose