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SCRAPS OF TAPE/SOLANDER 2009 European Fall Tour

Hello friends, foes and loved ones!

We're in Halle again! A long day of sailing/driving from Malmö (we got up at 05:00 in Malmö)

and we're finally here. Soundchecks are well under way and we're waiting for food.

Everything has been great so far except for our van. we ordered a 9-seat van but the "original" van got busted up in a car-accident before we had the chance to get it and we got another one.

This one has a DVD-player+TV in it (we already watched Edward Scissorhands and 2 episodes of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) and that's kick-ass but there's one downer. It only has 8 seats.

It gets a bit crowded at times and we're working on a better solution as we speak and I'm sure it'll all work out great. The other thing with the van is that is has died on us two times so we've had to use all the muscles we have in this 9-people strong crew to push the goddamned van started.

We tried it a little while ago and it started again as if nothing ever happened but it's still a bit worrying. Well well...what would a tour without mishaps be? No, not a real tour at all, right Once We Were?

A funny thing is that the last time we had real trouble with a van it had the same green colour as the van we're using right now...so a word of advice, never book or use DARK-GREEN vans.

No pics yet...but soon soon!

Big BIG thank you to everyone who came out to the show in Malmö last night. We had a great great time and we're really thankful for everyone showing up and paying us and especially Mikael their respects. It means the world to us!!

And to everyone who's thinking about going to our shows on this tour and haven't decided yet. COME ON OUT! As announced before it's Mikaels last tour with us so if you want to see this amazing drummer and original member of Scraps Of Tape play with us this is your one shot!!!

He's off to thousands of other and better projects and we're honored to have had him as a member for all this time.

Fun fact: Micke started out as a bass-player in SoT, and then one day Marcus met Kenta at a left-wing-party meeting and asked him to join the band, and on the next rehearsal Micke shows up and get's the order: "Oh by the way, your the drummer now". So without ever having played the drums "for real" in a band he was suddenly our drummer. Well...he has made a GREAT fucking job...we're getting crippled here...it's like losing a limb.

Much much much love from all of us!

johan+scraps of tape

Home!

Back home again!

We arrived back in Sweden around 16:00 hours local time last night, said goodbye and went to our separate dwellings with a super exciting amusement tour behind us.

Personally I had to get in a car and drive for 3 hours to Gothenburg before I could relax and I'm just back home after the first day back at work, dead-tired and already have my sights set on the sofa tonight.

We want to thank everyone who made this tour possible and so much fun. It was an honor to be back in Japan and play and BIG BIG thanks to everyone in the audience who came to the shows. We had some of the best ones ever!!

Extra big thanks to the Shapes-guys: Gav, Rich, Stevie.

You are amazing musicians and even better persons.

You made this tour 200% super exciting amusing! We miss you so much already.

Big picture-update soon!

/j

TOKYO O-EAST!!!!!

Live video:

We're wiped out, but here's a video from tonight. Enjoy. Thanks to everyone to who came out...tonight was pure magic!

/johan + scraps

Morning in Tokyo!

Hey hey,

just woke up here in Tokyo and we still have some time before our taxi comes to pick us up for O-East. We just found out that the show is sold out and that means an audience of approximately 1500 people! Tonight is going to be crazy.

(Nagoya)

(Nagoya)

(Nagoya)

(Nagoya)

(Guitarmy madness Osaka)

(Guitarmy madness Nagoya)

(Té madness.

Kono-San in the middle!)

(Kajan madness.

A little walk and some coffee. PERFECT!)

(Shapes madness Nagoya)

(Junki + Kawai!)

(tour-bus madness)

(karaoke madness)

Japan 2009 Osaka, Nagoya

Hello.

It's about 4 - 5 in the morning and we just arrived in Tokyo aft

er a all-night drive from Nagoya.

We played at Club Quattro last night and in my

book it was one of our best shows ever!

(above: Nagoya)

We've been in Japan since early friday where

we met up with the Shapes-guys and Junki at Nar

ita Airport. Felt good and strange to recognize the airport and also to not feel so lost and overwhelmed as we all did last time. We are much more prepared this time around and it is really making a big difference.

The shows this far has been really fantastic and the whole Zankyo Festival is such an impressive arrangement. Once again we're blown away by the many many great bands that is on Zankyo's rooster and it's just a pleasure to watch every band perform.

(Above:Osaka)

There has been about 12 bands each night and every band plays for about 30 mins, except Zankyo-leader Kono's band Té who finishes of every night with spectacular performances. Hands down one of the best live-bands I think I've ever seen.

SHAPES

Above:Before Live Mayhem

Below: After Live Mayhem

Shapes are also a fantastic band, technical, well-played, well-written balls-to-the-wall music from the first note to the last. Awesome guys too

! It feels really nice to have a fellow european band with us, since sometimes the language-barrier is too hard to cross.

Luckily we have our dear guide and tour-manager Junki who is doing and amazing job so we're not completely lost.

(above: Junki)

Tomorrow we're gonna play at the great O-East again and that is going to be massive!! Last time was crazy!

Here are some pictures, we'll upload more during (if we can find the time) and after the tour!

Lot's of love to everyone, loved and missed ones back home and to all the great fans who come to the shows!

(above: Nagoya)

/johan + scraps

Japan 2009!

Hey Everyone!

It's about 24 hours 'til we're in the air heading for Japan for the second time. We're super-fucking excited about this since last time was one of our best tours ever!

We've been a band for nearly 10 years now and we've had the luxury of travelling all over some parts of this great earth and meeting amazing people. We started out in a garage in a small small town in the south of Sweden and now we're spread across the land but still manage to meet up in Malmö to play and record. It's been one hell of a ride so far...we've gained and lost friends and we've hated each other at times but it's still about the most important things that our music centers; Expression, love, anxiety, jubilation, friendship.

Things are changing within the band and we'll make stuff official soon and we still have this Japan-tour and later this year a tour of Europe to blast through first before anything big occurs. You should really try to come out and see us this time tho...take that as a warning and a good advice!!!

Grand Letdown was released in Japan on 090909 and the japanese version contains 2 bonus tracks, "Drink Forever" and "Golden Times". You can get a hold of a copy through Zankyo Records.

We're so happy to be back on the road again, let's all make this fall, the fall of 2009, really count together. Show up and show your love...we will give 200% at all times. That's a promise!

Love /scraps