Video from the recording of my new album.

Here is a link to a video from the recording of the new album. Rubber ducks, woolly hats and lots of guitars.

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Kónguló !

The first single of my second album will be released on the 1st of June in Iceland and on the 21st of June for the rest of the world. It is called Kónguló ( Icelandic word for spider) and is written about the French man called the human spider, you know the one who climbs really high buildings without any safety equipment or anything. He is very cool stops on the outside of the 82nd floor and drinks coffee with the people that are on the inside.
I want him to be in my video for this song, I also want to climb a building in the video.... need him to teach me the tricks.

If you know him, please ask him to get in touch.

Later my darlings.

xxxxxxx

Chocolate overdose !

I haven´t written a blog for too long now. But there is a good explanation for this. It is hard to write a blog when you are in a chocolate coma. Easter does that to you, and my challenge was big this year, I had Icelandic and English easter eggs to finish. But easter is over now so it is no longer acceptable to have chocolate for breakfast. (Not that it has stopped me in the past.)
New album getting closer and closer to being ready every day, and I am really enjoying playing the new songs in my live set.
If you want a little preview of some of the new songs there are some little clips on youtube that people have recorded at recent gigs. ( But I would recommend you just show up to a gig yourself if possible. )

Oh and I also found out that barbecuing in glittery pink heels shorts and a winter jacket is a pretty good look, you should try it next time you make some burgers.

Lots of kisses

xxxxx

Hafdis

London gig !

I played a " comeback " gig in London on wednesday. Sounds a bit funny calling it a comeback when I am only on my second and have not even been away for a year ( and the reason why I haven´t been playing is because I was writing the next album ). But somebody called it a comeback, so a comeback it is. Anyway, it probably makes me sound all mature and stuff.

Gig was great full of people who were excited to hear the new songs, so we played them half new stuff half old favorites. One woman was only excited about hearing Fucked up mind or Hometown hero and passionately tried to convince everyone they needed to be played, but the rest of the audience wanted to hear Diamonds on my belly so she was out numbered. I plan to play these songs for her at a future gig, don´t like seeing people upset.

Bertrand took some lovely polaroid style snaps at the gig, and after seeing them I might consider actually putting some sort of hooks on the Hafdis sign. The whole white messy tape on the wall looks a bit plus minus. Pretty happy about the sawing though.

Here is a link to some reviews of the gig.

http://londonist.com/2009/03/live_review_hafdis_huld_electro-aco.php
http://www.musicomh.com/music/gigs/hafdis-huld-2_0309.htm

Pictures from the Switzerland gig.

A lovely swedish girl called Sara Burkhard sent me some pictures from the gig I played in St Gallen in Switzerland last month. Thought I would share them with you. (c) Sara Burkhard, www. poorboysontheroad. ch)

A strange english man wanted me to sign is bum cheek !

It´s true, I said no, not unless you give me a very long pen, not going close to your behind mister. Someone found a longish pen and I signed his lower back/ bum cheek. Maybe that is a tradition is Portsmouth, who knows, and who am I to break the rules. When in Rome.....

Apart from bum signing, Portsmouth gig was lovely, first gig with the full band playing songs from the new album so we picked a very cosy venue, The Cellars in Eastney. Everybody very friendly there, and barman gave me a Rachel crisps, we liked that.

Rachel was playing with us for the first time, so thanks darling.... she is a proper english rose like Sarah, soon I will have an army of english roses. Steve is not an english rose though, he is more chips and beans kind of man, still very english. And Alisdair Mr banjo man probably wouldn´t think it was cool if I called him an english rose either.

Someone wrote a blog about The Cellars gig so instead of me telling you more about it, I will steal one of the pictures and then put a link to the blog. ( Does it count as stealing if I am borrowing a picture of me ? )

http://howmarvellous.blogspot.com/2009/02/hafdis-huld-last-nights-gig-prize.html?showComment=1235732040000#c7644071458152866538

Saw me first very english pantomime.

Hello everyone.

I went to Kings cliffe village hall to watch my very first pantomime this weekend. It was wonderfully homemade and apparently had all the proper characters in it, ( for those who don´t know, there needs to be an older man dressed as a woman, and a girl playing a boy, don´t ask me .... ). The boy played by a girl always gets the pretty girl in the end, and the woman played by a man tells rude jokes and touches her/his boobs a lot.
Then all the people in the audience kept shouting at the actors, and disagreeing with them, you would never see that in an Icelandic theatre so it took a bit of getting used to, but by the end I was screaming " it´s behind you " like a proper english rose.

xxxxx