Most songs on this site are under the copyright of Mats Karlsson. Live pics from 2002 by Lasse Thoresson [email protected] the rest is private stuff.
All songs (almost) are happy demos or taped at rehearsals. Drums on "Self Inflicted" and "Heather", Magnus Fritz. Other instruments played by myself. "Ultrabox" performed by the band Factory, recorded spring 1999. Jam 2000 is a jam from 2000, performed by "The Costanzas" which I used to be a part of, taped at rehearsals. "Criminal" performed by 220 Volt.. taken off the re-issue of "Eye to Eye", released in Oct. 2003
Mats Karlsson, Swedish guitar player/songwriter was born in Östersund in the north of Sweden. He first got intrested in music when his older brother Ulf and a cousin of theirs played him some heavy rock music back in 1972. The most exciting stuff then was Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. These bands of course made a big impression and still remain among Mats favourite bands.
Mats was always intrested in learning how to play the guitar (damn that Blackmore), and his brother Ulf started to play with friends and learned chords and taught Mats some basic stuff. Anyway, the first instrument to get a real try out was the drums! His parents finally gave in for all the nagging and gave him a small drumkit. This was around when he was 9-10 years old, before the family moved to their own house..which was when Mats was 10 and some. Known to be precise and adamant about learning things, the neighbors in the apartment building where the family lived, weren..t too sad when they moved.
After playing in several bands with his brother, Mats incidentally met up with a guy called Thomas Drevin....Thomas was visiting in Mats.. hometown at the time, and happened to stay at his sisters place, just about 1 minute from Mats' home. They became friends and penpals and when Thomas moved to Ö-sund they decided to start a band. Thomas and Mats.. main band "220 Volt" was actually formed quite soon after Thomas moved to Ö-sund. They were the founding members, and it was the beginning of a lifelong story which is still ongoing.
More to follow soon!
