Looptroop Rockers

Fel­low friends. The Rock­ers have been nom­i­nated in the dance/hiphop/soul catagory @ the 2009 Grammy Award in Swe­den. Make sure to vote for them HERE!

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!

(PS. You gotta vote for nr.1, 2 and 3.. So make sure to vote for our boy Chords as well! It’s in Swedish, but it says — vote for three acts, leave your e-mail adress. You’re get­ting a mail back from the Grammy Awards with a link. Click the link to con­firm your vote!   Peace / ´preme)

Yours Schumi.

@ Babel! Ålder 13 år och uppåt!

Jonas from Den­mark got some new ink done..

Yeah!   / Supreme LTR

The year was 2000, we were going to do a show at the Roskilde fes­ti­val in Den­mark — and we had huge expec­ta­tions. ‘Mod­ern Day City Sym­phony’ had dropped in April that same year and we had been build­ing a buzz on the scene since 96 really — and now we were ready to hit the big stages!

The crowd was ready too! There were a lot of peo­ple in the tent that night, and although there were other hiphop acts from Swe­den and the US — I think Pet­ter and I know MC Serch from 3^rd Bass were there — I felt like most peo­ple were there to see us that night. If that’s true or not is of course hard to tell, but that was our hon­est feeling.

Any­way, there were a lot of delays on stage that night and since we were play­ing last we were get­ting a bit wor­ried when every­thing was get­ting pushed fur­ther and fur­ther back. It’s clas­sic that things get delayed on a hiphop night, and back then was noth­ing dif­fer­ent. A Dan­ish group I don’t want to remem­ber the name of had prob­lems with their dat player (!), and instead of let­ting them pay for their incom­pe­tence with their own stage time we — as the last act — were get­ting pun­ished. Then Mc Serch had soooo many things to say to the crowd and the clock was tick­ing… and ticking…

Finally it was our friends Timbuk’s and Spotrun­ners’ turn to go on stage — and after them we were sup­posed to play. Most of the peo­ple had left because the hour was mad late. And then the stage man­ager dropped the bomb on us: we wouldn’t be allowed to do our set because they had a cur­few and the police were very strict.

We lost it! Espe­cially me and Embee who came this close to start­ing a fight with the stage man­ager (this was before we had Schumi as a tour man­ager to han­dle these kind of sit­u­a­tions for us) — and we are def­i­nitely not the fight­ing kind! Apart from feel­ing like the whole crowd had been there to see us we had also been camp­ing in the camp­ing area of the fes­ti­val for three days in mud and rain and shit and cold just to do this show! So we were absolutely furious…

Then Tim­buk heard about it and brought us on stage towards the end of his set to let us do two or three songs. That’s when I got a spray can from some­one in the crowd and wrote our opin­ion about the festival’s treat­ment of us on the front drop on stage (see pic below). So the guards rushed on stage and dragged me off, but I got back some­how and we at least did ‘Long Arm of the Law’ as I recall.

After that we left the whole cir­cus mad as hell. This was the same year when peo­ple died at the big stage at the Pearl Jam show. So we vowed to never come back to this awful fes­ti­val (note that I had been com­ing to Roskilde ever since 93 and I loved it), but I was back again in 2002. And since then I’ve been there every year. It’s a hate love kind of thing.

Mar­tin Ringstrand took the photo:

I went on a solo mis­sion to Wro­claw in Poland last week to do a show at the One Love Sound Fest. Well, together with Dj Large, Schumi and Vladi of course. We did some new songs and a lot of old stuff. It’s always hard to do a solo show, but we had a good time like we always do in Poland. Peace to Kuba and the East West Rock­ers and the peo­ple at Hala Ludowa! And peace to www.looptrooprockers.pl for some of the pics.

Not the most fit­ting spon­sor for a reg­gae fes­ti­val I must say…

But I had my own, root­i­cal, energy drink spon­sor, so I was cool.

The crowd was large.

But I had Dj Large by my side, so I was cool.

This last week I’ve been doing tour­manag­ing for Tim­buktu & Damn! in Swe­den and on the Viking Line ferry to Åland.. It’s been pretty hec­tic but also real cool. Schumi is on the job this week in Nor­way and then I’ll be back the fol­low­ing week, before we tour with LTR in Decem­ber! Right now I’m just going to lay low for a few days..

Our back­line pro­duc­tion is amazing.

Big C from Juju Rec! Doing it big, mak­ing it happen..

After the Viking Line trip, we arrived back in Stock­holm. Got up at 03.10 to do a morn­ing TV show at Swedish TV 4.. Phuu..

This is a take over! Remove yourselves!

Peace / Supreme LTR

Yeah, Pete Philly & Perquisite will join us in Malmö at Babel and in Århus at Train! We will open for them in Enschede, Gronin­gen and Ams­ter­dam.  Check the tour­dates.   Dou­ble Trouble!

Klipp den nya Tim­buk här! Go Go Go!

En High 5 & 1 Falafel!

Peace / Supreme LTR

Yes­ter­day I saw FC Barcelona beat Real Val­ladoid (6–0!!) at Camp Nou in Barcelona. Even though I’m not the biggest sports­fan, I love see­ing live games.

Samuel Eto´o scored four times in the first half, amaz­ing! Gud­jon­sen and Henry did what they came to do and the home crowd was cel­e­brat­ing! Good vibes..

Peace! / Supreme

Got To Be A Way (Feat. Cun­nin­lyn­guists) is now avail­able on iTunes. Click here!