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The Grand Mal Consortium

About Me

GMC formed in the small Swedish town Järna. Under the influence of Palace Brothers and beautiful landscapes we recorded a few songs in an old barn and started to do live gigs. Months turned to years, some families were created and others were dissolved, but we continued to play small gigs at bars and cafés and after a while we had a band. The next step was to record an album. Figuring that since we are almost everybody from Västerbotten in the north of Sweden we best go there to record. We relocated to an old school house owned by a friend of ours. We recorded for a week and it´s a week that will stay with us forever. The Ep we recorded(”thegrandmalconsortium”(WGCD002) turned out pretty decent to. Released in early 2005 it made some impact on the internet and our gigs become more frequent and bigger. Some more time passed. Babies arrived and life was lived. Then, in early 2006, the opportunity to buy an old Hotel in the small, sleepy town of Vindeln, Västerbotten appeared. We bought it and built a recording studio in the basement. We named her Marta-Lis after the previous owner of the hotel. There we recorded ”…and the night will walk a dead one once again EP”(WGCD001).During this recording session the idea of releasing one EP every six month were born. We prefer to keep things simple with casual recording sessions where you can vary band settings, format, instruments and so on. Publish it on the internet and keep doing small and big shows, go fishing and spend time with the family. Studio Marta-Lis gives us that opportunity. GMC makes relevant music and we will remain relevant for some time to come. Good for GMC, good for You and good for the future of Swedish music. GMC embodies the idealism, the melancholy, the wild mood swings and the universal love of a beautiful pop tune that lives in all of our hearts. You are hereby invited. GMC

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Member Since: 22/12/2005
Band Website: http://www.grandmal.se
Band Members: morgan tjernstrom; vocals, piano and guitar (songwriting). johan stromgren; guitars and mandolin (songwriting). hans blomberg; bass and engineer. sibbe fant; drums. elsa blomberg; vocals. (sometimes we are fewer and sometimes more, but this is the setup on most of our recordings) + peter hermansson; piano, rhodes and per nordmark; drums, percussion (march2007session)
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Record Label: westerbotten grammofon

My Blog

may/june

we have mostly been fishing.so our instruments are all wet and out of tune. but fortunately there are some tunes buzzing in our heads. see yougmc
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:48:00 GMT

march/april

hello friends.gmc have been in wintersleep so deep and nice we have been unable to get our stuff together and do something useful. morgan bought a big house in the northern inlands far from civilisati...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:15:00 GMT

februari

hello freunde!gmc have been planning alot, mostly fishingtrips but also a little music have been made.see you soon
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:51:00 GMT

januari

hola amigos!a new year is here, with pre-elections i US and new TV-shows to care about. celebrety and fan blogs to read and new music to listen to.GMC have been partly busy with writing new music and ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:47:00 GMT

december

merry, merry christmas!this month we have actually been recording a little bit. one new song where recorded in marta-lis and it´s quiet good. all we need to get is more time to do it really good. as a...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:45:00 GMT

november

this time friends!johan turned old this month and morgan went down to sthlm to celebrate the occation. after a nice weekend it is decided that our fullength album to come must take larger amounts of t...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:49:00 GMT

october

hej vänner! hola amigos und guten tag freunde!october have been planning for albumrecording, planning for fishintrips, planning for life and planning in general. if you cannot do anything practical, l...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:29:00 GMT

september

hello friends!morgan weeps, because the fish wont bite... and johan have been busy with tomidas...so working with our new album is slower than slow. plans are made to enter marta-lis in early november...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:33:00 GMT

august

hello dear summer friends!august has been track&fields, work, fishing and thinking about fishing. a little bit of drinking but mostly fishing.this weekend, the first in september, we play a gig in...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:50:00 GMT

july

dear friends on the internet.summertime is here but no summer in sight. some serious fishing will be done in westerbotten this month. hopefully some recording and the autumn will see the best album ev...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:10:00 GMT