... Sad news!  I ended my last Blog with these words : I´m back on top in June. It seems though as destiny wants to test me/us to the limit.  Last night Røed-Farm, Magic Pie´s recording & rehearsal Studio burned to ashes. Kim our guitar player woke me up at 07:00 this morning with the sad message. Ironically as late as last Monday we filled the place up with our gear to start rehearsing for the up-coming gigs. In just few minutes it is all gone,- drums - amps - instruments and some personal belongings as well - all up in smoke. (See video here >> )

Luckily all of our recordings are on safety-copy stored elsewhere.  Without that fact we would probably just have buried ourselfs and "died".  There is always a light at the end of the tunnel - remember! Yes, we will have to finish an already heavily delayed process in another studio, but that is a minor problem. What again is worse is that we can´t prepare ourselves for the first concerts to come. So March 31st in Moss and April 2nd in La Coruna is definitively off. It will take a lot of time to find and replace the right instruments.  To quarrel with the insurance companies and to re-program all keyboard and guitar computers & effectes. And we were so close to finish!  Damn !  I´m gonna meet the guys this afternoon ( crisis-meeting ) and I am not looking forward to that, at all.  If we don´t support one another 100% now - and together hold the spirit going, there is of course a chance that this was the drop that filled the cup.  But I am gonna do my best to make sure that we come even strengthened out of this horrifying situation. It will be tough, but it can be  done. Life must go on - right. And at least no-one got hurt or injured in the flames.

Okey girls and boys ; Up with the smile and the happy thoughts!  The new CD "The Suffering Joy" will be just fantastic once we get it finished. Even the cover is almost done and that will be pure Art,- I´ll tell you... Geniously created, by a world-wide recognized designer Thomas Ewerhard, it is something we thought we only could dreame of. But it´s there - like shaped out of my hopes and expectations.  I don´t know about you guys, but I sometimes buy a CD just because of the cover,- and ours is just like that... a real eye-candy, emotional as well as beautiful and curious. Oh, I can feel I am already a step away from tonights incident. And it does me good to put this down in writing. So sorry though that I make you my victims. Can you cope with that...please !

If you think that I have been silent for a long time and that I am not as busy as I tend to be - then you´re half-right.  So much of my time has gone to this project and it has taken a fair deal of my creativity as well as strength. But soon it is all gonna be worth the while. And it better,- my bank account is hurting a lot and I must go back to my active life soon...now...oh shit - as much as I was enjoying this period.

I said that life goes on...well here´s a strong proof : I have become a grandfather to a baby boy. Yahoo !!!  Destiny can be mercyful - as well.  I was in Barcelona two weeks ago when my oldest daughter called me up and said she was in premature labor and was being taken care of at the hospital. The day after she gave birth to a little boy,- two months early he was - and eager to face this strange world of ours. This was and is a critical situation, but now, two weeks later, it seems like everything is going according to plan and that he is doing just fine. He is of course the most beautiful creature on earth and I am the proudest grand-dad there is. Compared to a new life, tragedies like tonight´s become small and will be soon forgotten. I just hope that we don´t get any more delays because of this.

 I have said it before and I say it again : I know that The Suffering Joy is not something all of you will like, well at least not in the beginning. But I urge you to give it a chance and I am sure it will grow on you, so to speak.   I know already that it will make me mighty proud for as long as I live...

Gotta go and do that meeting - Wish me/us luck !

Mucho love - Eirikur