Hey there folks!
Rehearsal today, the last one in a couple of weeks actually. We´re all moving to different cities to spend the autumn but we just got ourselves a new rehearsal space in Orebro, so we will be back in town every now and then...
Just found a text about the idea behind The Happy Hippo Family Collective that later on went to become The Happy Hippo Family Band. It is quite fun reading because the ideas behind it feels so fuzzy and naive, yet still so true. Written in 2006, now presented officially for the first time, Here it is:
We love to dance. We love pop. We love to sing along with a bottle in our right hand. Those three things made us start this band. Well, actually, this is not a band..., It is more of a musical collective. A group of close friends, where a friend brings another friend, and so on. Few of us are skilled as musicians, fewer have good command of an instrument, but what is the point? Popmusic is all about feelings. We all have feelings. We feel when something is swinging, we feel when three simple words make a good line and we feel when something totally sucks. We use those feelings to express ourselves in a way that we want to. The thought of popmusic is a though of happiness, and the only assignment this band will try to accomplish is to make people feel that happiness. To make people dance and sing along. To meet. To talk and discuss pop, bands, songs, lyrics and sexual intercourse, maybe over a cold beer or a cup of coffée. This is our way to hold a rehearsal, and as long as we have fun and enjoy the life in a band, we will continue to rehearse this way.
Rehearsal today, the last one in a couple of weeks actually. We´re all moving to different cities to spend the autumn but we just got ourselves a new rehearsal space in Orebro, so we will be back in town every now and then...
Just found a text about the idea behind The Happy Hippo Family Collective that later on went to become The Happy Hippo Family Band. It is quite fun reading because the ideas behind it feels so fuzzy and naive, yet still so true. Written in 2006, now presented officially for the first time, Here it is:
We love to dance. We love pop. We love to sing along with a bottle in our right hand. Those three things made us start this band. Well, actually, this is not a band..., It is more of a musical collective. A group of close friends, where a friend brings another friend, and so on. Few of us are skilled as musicians, fewer have good command of an instrument, but what is the point? Popmusic is all about feelings. We all have feelings. We feel when something is swinging, we feel when three simple words make a good line and we feel when something totally sucks. We use those feelings to express ourselves in a way that we want to. The thought of popmusic is a though of happiness, and the only assignment this band will try to accomplish is to make people feel that happiness. To make people dance and sing along. To meet. To talk and discuss pop, bands, songs, lyrics and sexual intercourse, maybe over a cold beer or a cup of coffée. This is our way to hold a rehearsal, and as long as we have fun and enjoy the life in a band, we will continue to rehearse this way.
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