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Hi guys!

The end of March is approaching fast and so is the release of our new album! We're very excited, indeed. We haven't even seen the finished album(s, if you count the vinyl, and you damn well better!!) yet so we're probably as excited as anyone. Holding the finished album in your hand is always the evidence that you've in fact done something with your life, haha!

On another note, as you may know we're celebrating ten years with Beardfish this year (Oh, our baby's grown up so fast!) and we want to celebrate this in a couple of ways. One thing we're trying to do right now is to arrange a tour in the late summer/fall, probably around Europe. We'd love to get something arranged for the States as well, but it's never as easy as it sounds. Another thing I've been working on is ANOTHER RELEASE!! Yes, a collection of unreleased songs, outtakes and demos. There are a whole lot of stuff that never made it onto an album and most of it is pretty early stuff at that! We had a recording session in 2002 prior to Robert joining the band, with Stefan Aronsson just recording and playing some flute (and mixing the thing of course) and another guy named Gabriel Olsson playing bass. We recorded some songs and basically none of these made it onto "Från en Plats..." for various reasons, but mainly because we'd written new material and didn't want to re-record older stuff (a common problem with our very productive quartet!). I've selected the most interesting songs from there and re-mastered them and I must say that I think it sounds really cool. We were a different band back then with different ideas, but their kind of interesting ideas nonetheless Also, there is a session that took place in our rehearsal room in either late 2003 or very, VERY early 2004, I'm not sure. These are more or less of a demo quality but I've tried to enhance the sound quality as much as I possibly can and there are some cool songs among those recordings that never reached "The Sane Day". Also there are a couple of cool versions of songs that don't sound like they do in their final version, including "The Pyramid" and "Now" for instance. We've also agreed that we would include our little (!) X-mas special in this collection. It will probably become a jam packed CD that we will print ourselves and basically sell really cheap over the web (in our non-existing webshop that we hope to get running soon!) and at our shows!

Does this sound like something you'd be interested in??

Best to you all - Rikard "MASTER OF THE BEARDFISH VAULT OF OLD RECORDINGS AND SUCH" Sjöblom