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About Me

I (Andreas) had been trying to get Ulf to understand that he had absolutely nothing to lose, he and I just had to make music together. After about six months of me constantly talking about it, he caved and we recorded new versions of some old songs of mine, one of them was "assholes". Shortly after that session we did our first gig. It was at a party in an old outhouse. We werent sure about wether or not there was electricity in the building, so Ulf suggested I shold bring my megaphone. Instant success! Happy with our newfound confidence we wrote some new songs together, recorded them and wrote more songs and did several more gigs. By then we both thaught that something needed to be done about the naked frailty of just a banjo and a voice, we needed an electric guitar. The persuasion of Jonathan was over in under a week, and what a band we are now! The sound is not yet fixed and propably never will be but Im getting more and more certain that weve found something really good...
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Music:

Member Since: 2/1/2006
Band Website: Homepage in the making...
Band Members: Ulf Wederbrand-Banjo, guitar and engineering. Jonathan Claesson-Electric guitar. Andreas Bergerson-Vocals, megaphone. Martin Olsson-Drums, percussion.

Influences: Everything from punkrock to piaf and more. We all enjoy "16 horsepower" and Tom Waits, but that is maybe obvious. Me and Jonathan is more into punkier and faster metal than Ulf who listens a lot to Neil Young. But in general we enjoy a very broad spectrum of music, if it is good we like it, simple as that! Ok, heres some examples: iggy pop-the stooges-deep purple-howling wolf-saul williams-david eugene edwards-ani difranco-death from above 1979-nirvana-bob dylan-at the gates-entombed-johnny cash-che guevara-aung san su chi-sepultura-sonic youth-patti smith-ac/dc-bring the war home-stereo total-and you will know us by the trail of dead-joakim thstrm-velvet underground-nina simone-silverbullit-union carbide productions-jon spencer-timbuktu-svenska akademien-led zeppelin-black sabbath-missy elliot-no doubt-the kills-white stripes-samuraj cities-motrhead-cornelis vresvijk-the opposition-mono-beck-le tigre-emir kusturica-allan edwall-Dead Kennedys-People who do bad things-People who do good things-the clash-pj harvey-...
Sounds Like: before you die...
Record Label: Book us!!! Contact: [email protected]
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Even more radio!

This sunday you can listen to the brand new song "yesterdays news" exclusively on THE DOWNLOAD SHOW on www.oldhamcommunityradio.com We will also record a live session for them soon. This is a really g...
Posted by before you die... on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:01:00 PST

New songs on the radio!

Eureka! We did it at last. 4 new songs recorded in two nights. As always we needed a push from someone outside of the band to go and actually put some music to tape, this time it was Andy at Dandelion...
Posted by before you die... on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:26:00 PST

Words of comfort

Yes, we´re still here. Many things has happened since last time I wrote. we´ve evolved into one of the best live acts i Gothenburg (if i might be so bold). Now we are trying to find the time to p...
Posted by before you die... on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:36:00 PST

Making it stick...

After some time in hibernation, the body that is "before you die..." opens its sleepy eyes and stares inte the promising future. With some new songs and a lot of newfound attitude we´ll now enter "St...
Posted by before you die... on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:15:00 PST

Oj oj oj oj oj oj...

I´m writing this tired like a man who neglected sleep for a few days. But i have my reasons. Monday and tuesday night was not only the first days in ages that we played together, we played together a...
Posted by before you die... on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:17:00 PST

The German campaign.

Well, as the winter pass, so does our lives. And we dont like the idea of passing into the category of  "good bands that noone heard of" without trying. So we try abroad! The idea is to play Malm...
Posted by before you die... on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:17:00 PST