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silverdrop

I drown myself in love songs just for you...

About Me

Silverdrop came alive on the Portuguese island Madeira late 2005. Bjørn Skjeslien moved there to focus on writing songs and curing his heartache but only found cheap booze,constant sunburn and new girls to mess up his head before he met Dieter Pereira and showed him some of his demo..s that he recorded with X-Queen of The astronauts in 2004. The two of them got together a band with Helder Goncalves, Antonio Santa Clara Gomez and the passionate Hector Teixeira. It was supposed to be a one off thing but continued into a strange adventure that ended up in the release of ”Kraka-Boom!” late 2006 a year after they started to rehearse in the middle of a banana plantationIn 2007 Silverdrop moved to the lovely village called Akkerhaugen in Norway. The year included several line up changes, odd gigs and big money problems but in the summer 2007 Silverdrop released their best work so far with the single "Drown her" with "Dig her grave" as a b-side. The songs were recorded with HP Gundersen at Gjøa studio in Bergen. A very special recordingsession with a very special man.In May 2008 Silverdrop played two gigs at the legendary Cavern club in Liverpool and in the summer they played at the Indietracks festival in Derbyshire. They were also made demo of the week by the Seattle based ” Indiepages” wich gave them lots of cool attention in the U.S and lead to airplay on different radiostations across the U.S and the song ”Drown her” has appeared on three different compilations released in the U.S this year.If you would like to buy an album you can go to www.bigdipper.no or send the band a message here on myspace. You can also order the very special handmade wallpaper single that now includes ”Drown her”,”Dig her grave” and ”Isabelle” here on myspace.Silverdrop August 2008

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/15/2006
Band Members: BJØRN SKJESLIEN-lead vocals MARIUS JOHANSEN-electric guitar & bk vocals DIETER PEREIRA-bass & bk vocals ØYSTEIN ODDEN-drums & bk vocals LINE KÅSA-Piano & Bk vocals THOMAS HELGASETH- bass & Bk vocals
Influences: Tuliphonium, Marjit Vinjerui, Hawanni, X-Queen of the astronauts, The Boring, Yoreyolk, Line KÃ¥sa, Uniforms&Dropouts, Trancend, Jesucks, DD Peartree and lots of others.
Sounds Like: World Visitor Map
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Recording new songs and another concertreview from indietracks

This weekend we started recording some new songs. The titles for the songs are "Monica" and "Ruby Anette", probably you will hear them on a radiostation close to you soon! We have also started to reco...
Posted by silverdrop on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:55:00 PST

1699 friends

The last two months has been great for us on myspace and also in real life. So many new friends and contacts have been made and most of them seems to be great people! We would love to tell you about a...
Posted by silverdrop on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:42:00 PST

Indietracks concert rewiev

Author: Intellectual Tortoise        &nbs p;    Happy days with the preacher man in the Church!!!On of my many highlights of the recent Indietrac...
Posted by silverdrop on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:31:00 PST

Indietracks, new people and sunny days

We had a great time at the Indietracks festival and in Derby where we stayed for two nights.  Saturday started off with our dear friend Marjit Vinjerui playing on one of those old train...
Posted by silverdrop on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:55:00 PST

Liverpool, Cavern club and International popoverthrow

Silverdrop are back in Norway after three wonderful days in Liverpool and two amazing nights at the legendary Cavern Club.  The night life in Liverpool isn..t to bad either, Silverdrop would...
Posted by silverdrop on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:21:00 PST

Reykjavik!

Wednesday the 5th of November Silverdrop will be playing at a place called Organ in Reykjavik! We are really looking forward to this gig, it certainly looks like an awesome place! Check them...
Posted by silverdrop on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:47:00 PST

1401 friends

That is alot of friends to have on the internet but myspace is nice, people are cool and we get to talk to people we never would have met otherwise. You just have to check out : Best kept secret tape ...
Posted by silverdrop on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:36:00 PST

Demo of the week and plans

Last week Indiepages( www.indiepages.com )chose Silverdrop as demo of the week. This Seattle/Washington based consept does lots of great work in different ways so we are really excited that they gave ...
Posted by silverdrop on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:09:00 PST

What`s up?

It might seem like Silverdrop are doing nothing at the moment for those of you that are kind enough to follow us on regular basis. That`s not entirely true, there are big plans beeing made and a bunch...
Posted by silverdrop on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:59:00 PST

New songs

Finally we have some new songs to show you and personally we think it`s the best Silverdrop has ever done. The two songs "Drown her" and "Dig her grave" was produced by the fantastic HP Gundersen (Son...
Posted by silverdrop on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:31:00 PST