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Viveka Eriksson started singing as a child on her swing in her parents back garden and found herself later singing on top of a trapeze at Edinburgh festival, with a theatre/circus company, Circo Minimo directed by Quito Paoli , all wearing red noses. Sang in a studio project with Chris Brown (worked on Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Muse,...) and Mike Vindici on Abbey road studios, London. Also very much enjoyed an evening in Hackney Empire, backing Horace Bachelor and the zeebra kitten bluesband. Loves singing in the middle of a field with goats and hippies on farms in Cornwall and on stages directly facing the sea. The guitarist Martin Bird, she met singing at Utopia studios, London. She is Swedish, lived in England for over fifteen years and in Washington DC for one year.
Viveka Eriksson Född i Borås, sjöng och spelade i ett synthband på 80-talet, Tantali Kval. Bodde i London och sjöng på ett studioprojekt med Chris Brown och Mike Vindici på Abbey road studios. Träffade guitaristen Mr Bird på Utopia Studios. Sjöng med och körade i Horace Batchelor and the zeebra kitten blues band. Vi spelade bland annat på Hackney Empire. Flyttade ner till Cornwall och bodde i Polperro, en fiskeby. Där sjöng jag i Alan Blackmore band. Hittade också en annan uttrycksmetod i kanvas och pensel. Många år senare fann mig tillbaka på svensk mark. Texter skrivs både på Engelska och Svenska.
If you would like to hear me on other projects please visit the links below
Martin Bird: martinbird
Ken Rubenstein: Sleep Will Come
Vincent Bergeron: Aux Limites
Steven Abeyta: Fin
Ron Shawler: Kiss In The Mist (Dont be kissed when gorillas in the mist)
Birdonthemoon: Birdonthemoon

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Member Since: 10/21/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/birdonthemoon
Influences: The road we walk, Nina Simone, Morrisey, Leonard Cohen, Ella Fitzgerald, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, R.E.M, Seal, Mr Bird, Ken Rubenstein, Vincent Bergeron, daily papers, radio, TV, friends, children, old people, experience, extremes, subtleties, nature, gardens, apples and other temptations, people I have met, people I lust to meet, people that left a knot in my stomach. This planet, maybe even you!
Sounds Like: A nutty emotioned expressive singer in a coloured pot. Now take a bowl of imagination, pinch of control, a spoon made of friends guitarstrings. Eat this with a baked loaf of simple everyday used words.

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Paperplane new mix

While I fly On A Paperplane In The RainIn the end I sing it wrong. That is the best line: While I fly on paperrain in a plane.A drummer from Gothenburg, Peter Mohlin, got free hands with his sticks. P...
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Sat, 17 May 2008 04:03:00 PST

Less Is More

I love you no more, I love you no less. Less is more.Base notes provided by the brilliant and magnificent british Simon Tufnail, Thank you Slyme! Unfortunately I had to cut them up. I cut ,cut and cut...
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:32:00 PST

Saturdays band-and what a band!

The gig Saturday 3 May will be great!I have two English gentlemen who has played together for 30 years, they are like Siamese twins. The communication between them is absolutely marvellous. They have ...
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Fri, 02 May 2008 08:38:00 PST

Snip! Snap!

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Posted by Laid Back Viv on Thu, 01 May 2008 05:22:00 PST

I am a garden-nurde

I am a nurd. A garden-nurd. You can sometimes find me in a gardenclub among retired old ladies, happily discussing how to prune a Wisteria, wishing I knew more latin. I am almost equally satisfied dig...
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:13:00 PST

Fin- abizarrecomplex-collab

Given an opportunity to work with some other words than mine. In a nonrythmic form, a challange with wonderful words, who can say no.Curious?Steven Abeyta read his words for the piece, I sang...
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:32:00 PST

Measure Me In Mega Bytes

Birdman put a few rounds of chords down for me to howl to. Watch out Mega bites :)
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:05:00 PST

I Am Desire

I am Desire, wherever you may be, whomever you may be. I am there. Desire for a next meal, an apartmentblock in New York City. All material things you feel you need. All levels of sexual desires.We al...
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:37:00 PST

Paid To Hold Hands

I am leaning forwards together with Martin Bird on guitar, Anders Berg on bassguitar and Peter Mohlin on drums.-I have been paid to hold hands. I will hold your hand for free, just call me....
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:19:00 PST

Peace and rest-underscore

A song by Martin Bird, this is the underscoreversion.  The vocalarrangements are mine.If you would like to hear the original version with more lovely noisy guitars, let me know and we can send it...
Posted by Laid Back Viv on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:45:00 PST