Album being released in Iceland next week !

It is all very exciting at the moment, my new album Synchronised swimmers will be released in Iceland on monday and I am taking my band over there on tuesday. We will be playing Iceland Airwaves Festival on thursday and release gigs for the album both in Reykjavik and in Akureyri.
I think my dad is already planning how to scare the band with some traditional Icelandic food. Offering rotten shark is always a classic, because just the smell can make people cry, I will try to catch Sarah's face on camera if she actually tires it. ( I don't eat it, it os horrible, but won't be telling the foreign people that until afterwards, it is just too entertaining to watch ).

It has been snowing in Iceland last week, and I really hope it will be covered in snow when the band is there, Iceland looks so much more magical under a blanket of snow.

Later my darlings.
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New video diary, part 6.

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New album is mixed now !!!!!!!!!!!

I am writing this from the studio in Iceland where just finished mixing my second album with Mr Phill Brown, he is one rock..n roll grandpa. I have too many songs at the moment so over the next few days I will be choosing what songs will make it all the way to the album. It will be released here in Iceland in October but not until early 2010 in Europe.
Have also finished all the sewing for the artwork so now it just needs to be put together by Martin.

Later
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Mixing the new album.

I have been too busy to write a blog for the last couple of weeks, we have been putting the finishing touches on the new album to have everything ready for mixing this week. We started the mixing yesterday at a studio in Iceland, and knowing my luck the computer in the SSL died right before my session! Not ideal when you have flown in 3 people to work with you. So we spent yesterday trying to work around it while a team of studio engineers tried everything possible to fix it. Just before we left last night
this engineer that kooks like he could hack into banks or the white house shows up, and sadly not even he could wake up the computer. So this morning he left for England to bring back a new computer. So hopefully tomorrow it will be working like normal. So until then we will be doing some old school mixing using human faders.

Flatey, puffins and Magnus the dancer.

Flatey is a tiny island and is a part of Iceland. It has 20 or thirty cute old houses, and walking around the island feels like going back in time ( I know this because I do a lot of time travel ). Me and Alisdair played a little acoustic gig in the restaurant/hotel/play school ...... well it´s the house were stuff happens. Lots of people came to the gig, actually I didn´t realise there were that many people on the island, so we were very happy with the turnout. One of my favorite moments of the evening was when a little boy named Magnus started doing a very enthusiastic dance to my song Kongulo, we are talking moonwalking and everything. He came to see us afterwards and posed for a picture, and I promised I would post a picture of us with Magnus the tiny dance master.
Before I end this I have to say Puffins are brilliant, wanted to take one home they are so cute. But when I went to the local restaurant for dinner they were serving puffin and potatoes, that´s almost like eating a penguin, make it stop.
I DID NOT EAT MY LITTLE PUFFIN FRIENDS!!!!!!

Later
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Only a few days until I go to Iceland !

I have finally booked a ticket to go home to Iceland. I am playing an acoustic gig there with an Icelandic rock star called Bubbi, we are quite different artists so it should be interesting. He has written some great songs in his career and I am trying to pick one to add to my set. I was struggling to find a flight to Iceland for a reasonable price, because it is......... a) the middle of the tourist season, b) short notice ,c ) not the best time to pay for things in Icelandic krona's. So it wasn't looking great. I did hope that I would find the end of the rainbow where they keep all the gold, but that sadly hasn't happened yet. But I spoke to a very nice lady at Icelandair UK and she gave me a special banjo player discount ( it was looking more and more likely I would have to go on my own and I promise you, no one needs to hear my banjo solo's ).

So I want to say thank you to www.icelandair.co.uk for sorting out Mr Banjoman's flight.